Fall semester 2024 CEAS lectures

Fall semester 2024 programming for the Center for East Asian Studies will feature talks by alumni, a panel on the impact of the presidential  election, and lectures about Chinese politics, Japanese literature, Korean popular culture and more.

The alumni returning to campus to give lectures include:

  • economist Nicholas R. Lardy, who received his B.A. in economics at UW-Madison in 1968 and is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute on International Economics, speaking Oct 24 on China’s economy.
  • social scientist Meeryoung Kim, who received her doctorate at UW-Madison in 2001 and is now a professor at Daegu University in Korea, speaking Nov 19 on aging in modern Korea.

CEAS faculty Judd Kinzley, Louise Young and David Fields will offer a panel discussion Oct 29 examining the impact of the U.S. presidential election on East Asian Politics.

Other distinguished invited speakers will include:

  • John Fitzgerald, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, “Chinese Communist Party Nationalism,” 4 pm Sept 25, at the Law School.
  • Jennifer Lee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies,” 6:30 pm Oct 1 at the Elvehjem Building.
  • Cemil Aydin, UNC Chapel Hill, “Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Afro-Asian Thought,”4:15 pm Oct 7 in the History Department.
  • William Fleming, UC Santa Barbara, “Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese fiction in early modern Japan,” 4 pm Oct 15 in Ingraham Hall.
  • Pil Ho Kim, Ohio State University, “Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and popular culture in globalizing Korea,” 4 pm Nov 19 in Ingraham Hall.

Center events can be found on this website’s Events Page, and through the Center’s Facebook Events Page.