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Snow<\/strong> (PI, Honors College)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>David DiValerio<\/strong> (History and Religious Studies)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Xin Huang<\/strong> (Women&#8217;s &amp; Gender Studies)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aragorn Quinn<\/strong> (Global Studies)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lia Wolock<\/strong> (Communication)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Xin Yu<\/strong> (History)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity uwm-c-hr--center\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-past-events\">Past Events<\/h1>\n\n\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/event\/midwest-japan-seminar\/\">Midwest Japan Seminar<\/a><br \/>Seminar and Workshop (April 4, 2020)<\/h6>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Participants in this one-day conference will workshop in-progress papers by three scholars of Japan: Elizabeth Lublin (Wayne State University), Robert Tierney (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), and Hilary Snow (51ÁÔÆæ Honors College).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/event\/collaboratory-event-brigid-vance-divining-the-past\/\">Divining the Past: Dream Encyclopedic Knowledge in China<\/a><br \/>Lecture with Brigid Vance (October 25, 2019)<\/h6>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Professor Vance asks what happens to dreams after they are dreamed? How was such knowledge about dreams disseminated in China? What was the value of earlier knowledge about dreams in the Ming dynasty? This talk traces the legacy and cultural import of dreams and dream divination from the Song (960-1279) through the Ming (1368-1644) dynasties by examining a dream encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/event\/youth-for-nation-culture-and-protest-in-cold-war-south-korea-critical-east-asian-humanities-collaboratory\/\">Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea<\/a><br \/>Lecture with Charles Kim (April 26, 2019)<\/h6>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Historian Charles Kim (University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison) came to campus to discuss the\u00a0April 19th Students\u2019 Revolution that occurred in 1960 in South Korea. The talk was <a href=\"https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/youth-for-nation-culture-and-protest-in-cold-war-south-korea\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">based on Kim&#8217;s recent book<\/a>, offering a cultural explanation of this landmark event, rooted in post-WWII and Korean War statist rhetoric and media that encouraged student protestors to emulate the\u00a0anticolonial resistance movement of March First (1919).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/japanese\/past-events\/lecture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Human\u2019 in History and Biology<\/a><br \/>Distinguished Lecture by Julia Adeney Thomas (April 5, 2018)<\/h6>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The Critical East Asian Humanities Reading Group hosted this special lecture in association with the\u00a0World History Association &amp; 51ÁÔÆæ Asian Studies Distinguished Lecture series. 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