Past Events
April 1, 2021
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
In this talk, Dr. Christopher B. Patterson (GRSJ) will explore how video games as a global commodity expose the presumptions separating “North America” and “Asia” in the traditional senses of isolation, origination, and presumed distance. He will focus on the most &ldquo…
March 24, 2021
POSTPONED: Disability and the Distorted Body on the Ancient Roman Comic Stage
This event has been postponed and will be listed with a new date and time in the coming few weeks. Thank you for your interest, and please email us for more information, or return to this page to learn more by the end of March. The times when Plautus, the most well-preserved Roman comic…
March 17, 2021
Worn Words: Engaged research-creation and stories of ordinary words
Film screening and talk This event included a screening of Borderstory, a 24-minute film on the word 'border,' followed by a discussion of its production process as a form of research creation. Watch the film on Vimeo: Humanitarian communication is notorious…
March 11, 2021
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Repatriates By Dr. Jana Lipman
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Repatriates, by Dr. Jana Lipman After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In her talk, Dr. Lipman will tell us the story of what…
March 2, 2021
Writing the History of a Non-Event, or How I Studied the Mass Disappearances of 1965-66 in Indonesia
Disappearances are meant to be non-events. Many thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia in 1965-66 were secretly executed. Those responsible destroyed the evidence, claimed the event never happened, and enforced a silence upon it. How can historians study this kind of non-event? How should…
February 24, 2021
Slavery, Indigenous (Dis)possession and the Grotian Imaginary: Rereading Hugo Grotius
In this lecture, Dr. Stelder will present a postcolonial re-reading of Hugo Grotius’ Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty and The Rights of War and Peace, with a focus on how Grotius’ construction of the “colonial difference” structures his…
February 10, 2021
Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India
Professor Radha D’Souza’s address focuses on state violence against women in India. India is widely perceived to be the most populous democracy in the world. Its progressive constitution puts classical liberal rights including equality, non-discrimination, right to life and…
February 8, 2021
Interdisciplinarity in historical research, by Dr. Christopher Lee
Interdisciplinarity in historical research, by Dr. Christopher Lee The third event of the Graduate Student Seminar Series on the advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary research. In the seminar series, intended for IHRC graduate student members, IHRC's…
February 3, 2021
Putting a Face to Captivity in War in the Ancient Roman World
Thousands of people were trafficked as a result of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean (c. 300 BCE - 100 CE). These individuals are mostly recorded in ancient sources in numerical form alone—as tallies of prisoners taken after the sack of a city or the coin generated from their sale…
January 28, 2021
Made in Asia/America: Designer and Scholar Workshop: public talk "Nanoscale: Visions of Smallness-Centered Games Practices"
Made in Asia/America: Designer and Scholar Workshop Nanoscale: Visions of Smallness-Centered Games Practices, public talk by Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka By de-centering game studies’ discourse from Western perceptions of games to the intersections of Asia and Asian America, Made…