East Asian Studies Center 50th Anniversary Conference 

The East Asian Studies Center celebrates our 50th anniversary with a conference on the role of East Asian Studies in the 21st century. Full abstracts and speaker bios can be found at the links to speaker pages below.

Please register by Friday, February 28.

Schedule 

8:30 AM     Registration opens
9:00 AM     Welcome
9:30 AM     Paul Pickowicz, University of California, San Diego
                 "Very Close Encounters: Modern China at the Grassroots"
10:30 AM   Mari Noda, The Ohio State University
                  "Everybody Gotta be Someplace: Contexts are Always Serious"
11:45 AM   Lunch and Speaker Panel
1:30 PM     James Millward, Georgetown University 
                  “‘China’ as Polylith: A New Paradigm to Reflect the Diversity and Pluralism of Polities on                          the East Asian Mainland”
2:30 PM     Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University
                   "North Korea and the United States in the Past, Present and Future"
3:50 PM     Meow Hui Goh, The Ohio State University 
                  "Debunking Ir/relevance: Story-telling Early Medieval Chinese Literature in the 21st                                 Century"
4:50 PM     Michael Puett, Harvard University 
                  "Dispositions, Rituals, and Human Flourishing: Theories from Classical China"
5:50 PM     Conclusion