The Triangle East Asia Colloquium (TEAC) will be held Saturday, April 30, in Withers 331 on the NC State campus. This year’s theme is “Recent Trends in the Study of Science and Technology in East Asia”. Please RSVP to jonathan_ocko@ncsu.edu … Read more
Tomiko Yoda is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. She received her Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford in 1996. Professor Yoda’s research focuses on modern and pre-modern Japanese literature, literary history, … Read more
(Akira Kurosawa, 1952, 143 min, Japan, Japanese w/ English Subtitles, Black & White, DVD) In Akira Kurosawa’s critically acclaimed drama, Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his … Read more
Kären Wigen, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University will visit the Triangle on March 18th, 2011, at the invitation of Duke’s Asian/Pacific Studies Institute. At noon on March 18th, Kären will participate … Read more
Artist Yuriko Doi will speak, conduct a workshop and give a demonstration on “Kyōgen,” or classical Japanese comic theater, Feb. 21 and 22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public events will be in the … Read more
This year’s annual Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) will be held at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this weekend, January 14-16, 2011. Detailed conference information can be found on the SEC/AAS website, including the program of events. … Read more
This year’s annual Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) will be held at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this weekend, January 14-16, 2011. Detailed conference information can be found on the SEC/AAS website, including the program of events. … Read more
Professor Simon Partner, from the Department of History at Duke, will present a talk drawn from his current project on religious practice in contemporary Japan. He will describe some of his experiences in search of the spiritual meanings of the mountains … Read more
Professor Simon Partner, from the Department of History at Duke, will present a talk drawn from his current project on religious practice in contemporary Japan. He will describe some of his experiences in search of the spiritual meanings of the mountains … Read more
Morgan Pitelka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and an Adjunct Associate Professor of History at UNC. His research focuses on the history and material culture of the long sixteenth century (or what is often called the … Read more
