Asia Lecture Series
Upcoming Lectures
The 2025 Asian Studies Program Annual Lecture Series continues this fall with a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Lhost (UCLA Library) on Monday, November 3rd. More details will be provided soon on the lecture topic.
Past Lectures
Asia Lecture Series Fall 2023
Monday November 11, 2024, 2 pm in the University Center Signal Mountain Room:
Dr. Arsalan Khan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Islamic Piety as Sovereign Transcendence in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan"
Based on Dr. Khan's recent monograph The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Asia Lecture Series Spring 2022
Playfully Recomposed:
Thinking about Modern China through the Soybean
A public lecture by Dr. Jia-chen Wendy Fu of Emory University
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm EST
Annual Asia Lecture Series
“Global Compassions of Care: Women, Medicine, and Nursing in Colonial Korea”
Professor Sonja M. Kim
Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 5:00-6:00 PM EST, Zoom
Lost Histories: Japan’s Colonial Peoples and World War II
Public Lecture on the Battle of Okinawa by Dr. Kirsten Ziomek
Sponsored by the UTC Department of History and College of Arts & Sciences
Wednesday, January 15, 5:00 PM
Becoming Taiwanese: Religious Festivals and Ethnogenesis in Colonial Jilong
A lecture by Dr. Evan Dawley, Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College
Friday, April 5, 11:00 AM