Asia Lecture Series
Upcoming Lectures
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)
Past Lectures
Asia Lecture Series Fall 2023
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