BU East Asian Lunch Series 2005-2007

Starting in Fall 2005, Professors Eugenio Menegon (History, BU), Robert Weller (Anthopology, BU) and Joseph Fewsmith (Political Science and International Relations, BU) have been co-organizers of a monthly East Asia Lunch Seminar Series open to BU faculty in East Asian Studies. All speakers are BU faculty.

Presentations have included the following topics:

• September 30, 2005:  “Deliver Us from Evil: Confession, Good Death, and Salvation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Chinese Catholicism.” (Prof. Eugenio Menegon, History)

• October 28, 2005: “Of Shrines, Hooligans and Atomic Bombs:  The History Issue in East Asia.” (Prof. Thomas Berger, International Relations)

• November 18, 2005: “Summoning Confucius:  Inside Shi Lu's Artistic Imagination during the Cultural Revolution.” (Prof. Shelley Hawks, College of General Studies).

• December 9, 2005: “A Yen for Asia?  Japan's Role in East Asian Regionalism.” (Prof. William Grimes, International Relations)

• January 27, 2006: Roundtable on the Prospects for Asian Studies on Campus.

• February 24, 2005: “Gendering China? Mei Lanfang's Visit to Japan, May 1919.” (Prof. Catherine Yeh, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)

• March 24, 2006: “Preservation and Invention: Japan's Imperial Museums in the Modern Period.” (Prof.  Alice Tseng, Art History)

• April 28, 2006: “Cafe Society in Japan: Urbanities of Space, Time and Coffee.” (Prof. Merry White, Anthropology)

• September 29, 2006: introduction of new faculty; presentation of the new “Asian Studies at BU” website and of AS programs to AS faculty

• October 13, 2006: “Yoshiya Nobuko and the Japanese Family in the 1930s-1950s.” (Prof. Sarah Frederick, Mod. Lang & Comp. Lit.)

• November 3, 2006:   “Speaking from Silence: Two Deaths.” (Prof. Rob Weller, Anthropology)

• December 8, 2006: “Muslims in Diaspora: Bangladeshis at Home and Abroad.” (Prof. Nazli Kibria, Sociology)

• February 2, 2007:  "Music Education Policy and National Identity Among Japanese Adolescents." (Prof. David Hebert, CFA, Music)

• March 2, 2007: “Hypersexed Youth and the New Muslim Sexology in Java, Indonesia.” (Prof. Nancy Smith- Hefner, Anthropology)

• May 4, 2007: “Researching Bali: Tracing a Life” with musical  wayang performance. (Prof. Brita Heimarck, CFA, Music)

• September 27, 2007: “Discovering the World: Early Travel Narratives by Indian Women.” (Dr. Sunil Sharma, Mod. Lang. Comp. Lit.)

• October 18, 2007: “Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) and the Modern Fate of Chinese Literati Culture.” (Prof. Qianshen Bai, Art History)

• November 8, 2007:  “What Makes a Nun: Ordination and Adoption in Japanese Buddhism from the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century.” (Prof. Gina Cogan, Religion)

• December 6, 2007: “Diaspora Networks and Economic Reform in China and India.” (Prof. Min Ye, International relations)