Previous Events

Kite Festival

May 7, 2022

Belt and Road Initiative Symposium

April 29, 2022

Speakers:

• President Luis Guillermo Solis
  President of Costa Rica, 2014-18
  Director of Kimberly Green Latin American & Caribbean Center
  Florida International University
• Yuan Wang
  Columbia-Harvard China & World Program Fellow
• Robert Ross
  Professor of Political Science, Boston University
  John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
• Ye Min
  Pardee School of Global Studies
  Boston Univesrity

Grant K. Goodman Lecture

Aesthetics of Co-Conjuring: Toward a Decolonial Nuclear Criticism

April 21, 2022

Presenter:

Lisa Yoneyama
Professor of East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies
University of Toronto

Prelude: Asian Classical Music Initiative Conference

April 8-9, 2022

Keynote Speaker:

Chen Yi
Lorena Searcy Creavens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor
UMKC Conservatory

CEAS Book Talk

Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics

March 10, 2022

Moderator:

• Keith McMahon 
  Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures

Speakers:

• Hui Faye XIao
  Professor & Chair, East Asian Languages & Cultures
• Ping Zhu
  Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics

John Dardess Research Forum

February 25, 2022

Educator Workshop

Teaching Korea in the Heartland

February 17-18, 2022

CEAS Book Talk

February 15, 2022

Moderator:

• Yan Bing Zhang
  Professor, Communication Studies

Speakers:

• Hui Faye XIao
  Professor and Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Hyunjin Seo
  Oscar Stauffer Professor, & Associate Dean
  School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Lunar New Year Celebration

February 4, 2022

Business in East Asia Symposium

November 12, 2021

Moderator:

• Melissa Birch
  Associate Professor & Director, International Programs
  KU School of Business

Presenters:

• Chang Hoon Oh
  William & Judy Docking Professor
  KU School of Business
• Sheldon Moss
  Attorney at Taiyo, Nakajima & Kanto
  KU Alumnus, Ph.D. Pharmacology & Toxicology
• Sam Billen
  Owner of Primary Color Music
  KU Alumnus, M.A. Education/ESL

Global Asia Speaker Series

Articulating the Zainichia Korean and Korean American Conversation

November 11, 2021

Presenter:

David Roh
Professor of English
University of Utah

The Role and Responsibility of Global Citizens; Architecture of the World in the 21st Century

October 22, 2021

Presenter:

Mieko Ikegame
Former Director, UN's Office of Under Secretary General & Special Advisor on Africa and Special Advisor of the CEO of African Union Development Agency-NEPAD

Global Asia Speaker Series

The Inter-Asian Travels of the Global White Snake

October 21, 2021

Presenter:

Liang Luo
Professor of Chinese Studies
University of Kentucky

China Town Hall

October 19, 2021

Moderator:

• Raj Bhala
  Brenneisen Distinguished Professor of Law
  KU School of Law

Presenters:

• Jiakun Jack Zhang
  Assistant Professor of Political Science
  University of Kansas
• Michael Beckley
  Associate Professor of Political Science
  Tufts University
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
  Visiting Scholar
  American Enterprise Institute

An Evening of AAAPI Composers Work

Presented by KU Asian Classical Music Initiative

October 16, 2021

Pre-Concert Presenters:

• Mo Zhou
  Opera Director
  University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Forrest Pierce
  Professor of Music Composition
  University of Kansas
• Yi-Yang Chen
  Assistant Professor of Piano
  University of Kansas

Harvest Moon Festival

September 21, 2021

Program:

• Welcome
• The Tale of the Rabbit and the Moon
• Classical Japanese Poetry, Maggie Childs and John Marvin
• Moon (Tsuki), John Lytton on shamisen
• Chuseok, Hannah Oh
• Moon Over the Ruined Castle (Kojo no Tsuki), Jasmine Flower (Mo Li Hua), My Country Home (Furusato), Yuka Naito and Erin Wood on harp
• The Tale of Chang'e and Hou Yi
• One Summer Day, Isaac Jambor on piano
• Look Up at the Stars in the Night Sky (Miagetegoran yoruno hoshio), Ayumi Nobuko vocals and Yuka Naito on piano
• Misty Rain, Wanwan Cai Dance Group

Global Asia Speaker Series

The UN's Global Fight against Human Trafficking in Japan

September 9, 2021

Presenter:

Lieba Faier
Associate Professor of Geography & Gender Studies
UCLA