Summer 2023

YPR | Arts and Asian Americans in a Changing Society
6/2/23 | Yellow Peril Redux

YPR | "Fred Korematsu's Fight Against Yellow Peril, Then and Now"
6/2/23 | Dr. Karen Korematsu (Founder & Executive Director of the Fred Korematsu Institute)

Fall 2023

CEAPS Speaker | "Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment"
10/27/23 | Paul Christensen (Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology)

CEAPS/IGI | China & the World Series: "Taiwanese Perceptions of US Credibility in the Taiwan Strait"
11/29/23 | Wen-Chin Wu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica)

YPR Roundtable: US-China Relations & Higher Education
11/30/23 | Yellow Peril Redux

Spring 2024

CEAPS/IGI | China & the World Series: "Who is Us: The Globalization of Innovation and Challenges to Assessing Technological Dependence"
3/1/24 | Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)

Brown Bag | "Unquiet Qing: The Course of Lovesickness in the Modernization of Chinese Literature"
3/28/24 | Ziyun Liu (Minzu University of China) & Yuefan Wang (EALC, UIUC)

CEAPS Speaker | "BTS as Icons of Koreanness"
4/2/24 | Heather A. Willoughby (Ewha Womans University)

CEAPS/EALC Speaker | "The Metamorphosis of the Rural World in Sun Li's (1913 - 2002) Literary Words"
4/5/24 | Tonglu Li (Iowa State University)

Fall 2022

Brown Bag | "Poetics of Resentment: Feeling History in Mid-Twentieth-Century Chinese"
9/23/22 | Eliot Chen (EALC, UIUC)

CEAPS/EALC Speaker | "Gagaku: A Brief Introduction and Thematic Cultural History"
10/13/22 | LeRon Harrison (Independent Scholar/Musician)

CEAPS Speaker | "Teaching and Assessing L2 Pragmatics: A Computerized Dynamic Assessment Perspective"
10/21/22 | Tianyu Qin (University of North Georgia)

Brown Bag | "The Transition from Dao Learning to Literary Learning"
12/5/22 | Ting Cheng (VASP Scholar)

Spring 2023

YPR | "When Did East Asians Become Yellow?"
4/14/23 | Michael Keevak (National Taiwan University)

YPR | "The Yellow Peril and the Law"
4/28/23 | Sabrina Shizue McKenna (Associate Justice of the Hawai`i Supreme Court)

YPR | "The Power of Personal Stories: From Home Film to Educational Tool"
5/12/23 | Myles Matsuno (Filmmaker)

Fall 2021

Brown Bag | "Has NATO Overcome Discord Among its Members?"
9/10/21 | Jin Seog Kim (VASP Scholar)

CEAPS Speaker | "The Global White Snake as Digital Activist Project"
9/16/21 | Liang Luo (University of Kentucky)

Brown Bag | "Conceptualization and Operationalization of Speech Fluency: Implications from the Macro and Micro Approaches"
9/24/21 | Xun Yan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Brown Bag | "Turbulent Streams: Producing Japan's Modern River Regime"
10/8/21 | Roderick Wilson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

CEAPS Speaker | "Enacting and Experiencing Fat Stigma: Stories from Japan"
10/15/21 | Cindi SturtzSreetharan (Arizona State University) 

CEAPS Speaker | JACS Series: "Racing to the Bottom? The Effect of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Collective Labor Rights"
10/29/21 | Yujeong Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Brown Bag | "Voting for Nostalgia Authoritarian Legacies and Political Behavior in East Asia"
11/5/21 | Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell (PhD candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Midwest Forum on Chinese Literature & Culture | "Hei Ying's Pagan Love Song"
11/11/21 | Andrew F. Jones (University of California, Berkeley)

Brown Bag | "The Role of IT in the Election: The Fieldwork Report of the Election in Virginia 2021"
11/12/21 | Sri Nuryanti (Indonesian National Research and Innovation Body)

CEAPS/IGI | Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US Series: "How Might Transitional Justice Lead to Community Restoration"
12/3/21 | Chungmoo Choi (University of California, Irvine)

Spring 2022

Brown Bag | "Policing Domestic Violence in Northeast China: Pro-mediation Policies and A Gender- and Family-Based Morality"
2/11/22 | Wenqi Yang (Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Brown Bag | "Mediation and Grassroots Governance in the People's Republic of China"
2/17/22 | Lingxiao Zhou (Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Brown Bag | "Gender and Memory: Shang Jinglan and Her Garden Writings in Seventeenth-Century China"
3/11/22 | Yuefan Wang (Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

CEAPS/EALC | Kang Lecture Series: "Binomes, Idioms, and Tetrasyllabic Poetry in Light of Paleography"
4/14/22 | Zhi Chen (Provost of UIC (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College) in Zhuhai)

Kang Endowed RT | "Reading and Reception of Canonical Texts in East Asia"
4/21/22 | Zhi Chen, Zhi Chen, Gergana Ivanova, & Minsoo Kang

CEAPS Speaker | "War and Development: The Legacy of Unexploded Ordnance on Rural Cambodia"
4/15/22 | Erin Lin (Ohio State University)

CEAPS/EALC | Kang Lecture Series: "The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic: Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book"
4/22/22 | Gergana Ivanova (University of Cincinnati)

Fall 2020

Brown Bag | "The Relationship Between Yuan Shikai and China's Modern Journalism"
8/25/20 | Lu Gao (VASP Scholar, Renmin University of China)

Brown Bag | "Narrative Style in the English Rendition of Marginal and Interlineal Comments Embedded in Feng Menglong's Gujin Xiaohuo"
9/1/20 | Ximeng Lang (VASP Scholar, Wuhan University, China)

Brown Bag | "Renewable Energy and the Challenges of Land Use in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Indonesia and the Philippines" 
9/17/20 | Sean Kennedy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

CEAPS Speaker | IL-IN Consortium Speaker: "Hong Kong Identity and Migration Past, Present, and Future"
9/24/20 | Gordon Mathews (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CEAPS Speaker | IL-IN Consortium Speaker: "Subject Preference in Chinese Relative Clauses: Elicited Production Data from L1-English Learners"
10/22/20 | Nozomi Tanaka (Indiana University)

CEAPS Speaker | Global Korea: "BTS and ARMY: A Case Study of Transcultural Fan Activism and Accountability"
12/10/20 | Candace Epps-Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Spring 2021

CEAPS Speaker | "The Roles of Language Teachers and Technology in the Age of the New Normal"
2/12/21 | Takako Aikawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Brown Bag/EA Studies RT | "Madness as a Curable Illness: Legal Justice and Medical Authority in Qing China (1644-1912)" & "Women in the Eighteen-Century Jiangnan Region: Commercial Publishing, Recipes, and Everyday Knowledge of Herbal Medicine"
4/9/21 | Yujie Pu (Ph.D Candidate, UUIUC) & Xinge Zhang (Ph.D Candidate, UIUC)

CEAPS/EALC | Kang Lecture Series: "China and the Conditions of Spatial Revolution: The Birth of the Twentieth Century"
4/21/21 | Wang Hui (Tsinghua University)

Guest Artist | "Soboku-e 'Innocent Paintings': the Art of Artlessness and Mindful Art Journaling"
4/30/21 | “Mew” Lingjun Jiang (University of Chicago)