A free series of film screenings and seminars by guest speakers and colleagues in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Studies. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jia Tan Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Jia Tan (The Chinese University of Hong-Kong) entitled 'Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Paul Kendall Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Paul Kendall (University of Westminster) entitled 'Ordinary Life within an Extraordinary Project: Demystifying the Third Front'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Loli Kim Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Loli Kim (University of Oxford) entitled 'Interpreting Korean Film Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm for Korean-English Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Paul Kreitman Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Paul Kreitman (Columbia University) entitled 'Nature and Sovereignty Conservation in Japan's Ocean Borderlands'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Heyryun Koh Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Heyryun Koh (University of Würzberg) entitled 'Iconography of the Contemplating Buddha Figure in East Asia'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Ian Gow (RESCHEDULED) Join us in-person for a seminar by Professor Ian Gow (University of Edinburgh, The Japan Society of Scotland) entitled 'Scots and Japan: First Contact 1613-1623'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Ikuya Aizawa Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Ikuya Aizawa (University of Nottingham) entitled 'English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Japanese Higher Education'. This talk is in partnership with the Japan Foundation. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Konstantinos Tsimonis Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis (King's College, London) entitled '15 years of COSCO in Piraeus: Investment Embeddedness and the Question of Chinese 'influence''. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Joseph Seeley Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia) entitled 'Water, Ice, and "Bandits": Yalu River Border Security through the Seasons, 1910-1945'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Bingchun Meng Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Bingchun Meng (London School of Economics & Political Science) entitled 'A Tale of Two Cities: AI, Development and Imaginaries of future'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: An Jong Chol Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr An Jong Chol (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) entitled 'Who Should Inherit the Right of Ancestor Worship in South Korea? Property for Ancestor and Gender Issues'. Asian Studies Seminar Series: Caroline Astell-Burt Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Caroline Astell-Burt (WAXBaby Productions) entitled 'Translation of Bodies: performance work of a professional puppeteer inspired by Japanese otome bunraku'. This talk is in partnership with the Japan Foundation. Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations.Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh This article was published on 2024-08-13
