7 Thursday
WUN/China Today
Vulnerability to Environmental Change: Linking Local Cases with Global Models
Evan Fraser (University of Leeds)
11 am-1 pm, G-58 Foreign Languages Building

11 Monday
New Trends in the Japanese Consumer Credit Industry
Takeshi Mori (Konan University)
Noon-1 pm, 101 International Studies Building

14 Thursday
WUN/China Today
Globalization, China and Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema
Poshek Fu
11 am-1 pm, G-58 Foreign Languages Building

15 Friday
STIP/China Today
Chinese Environmental Policy and its Historical Roots
Peter Perdue (Yale)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

18 Monday
Asian Dissertation Series
Corporeal Colonialim: Managing Women’s Bodies, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Korea
Jin-kyung Park (Communications)
Noon-1 pm, 101 International Studies Building

19 Tuesday
AEMS Film
The Blood of Yingzhou District
7 pm, 386 Armory

21 Thursday - *Cancelled*
STIP
The Rise of Genomics in Japan
Joan Fujimura (University of Wisconsin)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

25 Monday
Teaching Asia
EALC 397 Diplomatic History of Korea
Jacques Fuqua
Freeman Fellows Conference Room, 912 S. Fifth St.

29 Friday
Korea Workshop
The Vanished Women of Korea: Beyond the Anonymity of Historical Traces
JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University)
1-3 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

3 Monday
China Today
Investigating the Relationships between China and its Main Trade Partners
Min Gong (Freeman Fellow, Xiamen University)
Noon-1 pm, Freeman Fellows Conference Room, 912 S. Fifth St.

4 Tuesday
EAPS Arts
Totebags, Teeshirts, and Tableware: The Domestication of Hokusai’s “Great Wave”
Christine Guth (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum)
5:30 pm, Krannert Art Museum Auditorium

5 Wednesday
EAPS Arts
Collecting East Asia
Gallery Conversation and Book Discussion of Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan
Christine Guth (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum), Lee Wonsik (Kinki University), Anne Burkus-Chasson, participants in Fall 07 Collecting East Asia course
5:30 pm, Krannert Art Museum

6 Thursday
STIP
Starting a Biomedical Research Institute in Korea
Ook Joon Yoo (KAIST)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

7 Friday
Korea Workshop
Title tba
Young-gyung Paik (Johns Hopkins University)
1-3 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

11 Tuesday
China Today
EAPS-EALC Graduate Certificate in East Asia Presentations
Wanju Huang (Curriculum and Instruction)
Hua Qin (Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)
12-1 pm, 101 International Studies Building

12 Wednesday - CANCELLED
STIP
International ‘brain circulation’ and technology entrepreneurship AnnaLee Saxenian (University of California-Berkeley)
4 pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

13 Thursday
EALC/China Today
In Search of Law in China
Stanley Lubman (University of California-Berkeley)
4 pm, Law Building, Room D

14 Friday
Korea Workshop
Through Autobiographical Writings: Gender and the Field of Publication in Colonial Korea
Kyeong-hee Choi (University of Chicago)
1-3 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

27 Thursday
STIP
An Overview of Korea’s Science System
Sanghyun Kim (Harvard)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

28-29 Friday-Saturday
Asian American Studies
South Korea’s Education Exodus (Chogi yuhak): Risks, Realities, and Challenges
For more information see: http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/EducationExodus

3 Thursday
STIP
The State of Japanese Science and Technology
Ed Lincoln (New York University)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

7 Monday
Teaching Asia
SOC365/EALC365 Contemporary Korean Society
Shin-Kap Han
12-1 pm, 101 International Studies Building

9 Wednesday
Film Screening
Ikiru
3:00 pm  
The Virginia Theatre
203 W Park Ave
Champaign
Free

10 Thursday
STIP
Science and Technology Policy Making in Korea
Yongrak Choi (KORP)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

10 Thursday
Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film Festival
The Hyperbole of Youth (Chongchun Ssangkokson)
7-9 pm, 160 English Building

11 Friday
Korea Workshop
Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film
Jinsoo An (University of California-Berkeley), Chung-kang Kim
1-3 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

11 Friday
Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film Festival
A Petty Middle Manager (Samtung Kwachang)
7-9 pm, 160 English Building

14 Monday
China Today
Language and Culture: Ethnic Humor
WANG Qinling (Freeman Fellow, Southwest University)
Noon-1pm, Freeman Fellows Conference Room, 912 S. Fifth St.

17 Thursday
EALC
Terayama Shuji and the Dramatization of Revolution
Steven Clark Ridgely (University of Wisconsin)
4 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

17 Thursday
STIP
Korean Biochemistry
An-Sik Chung (KAIST)
1-3 pm, 607 Institute for Genomic Biology

18 Friday
Korea Workshop
Title tba
Janet Poole (University of Toronto)
1-3 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

22 Tuesday
EALC
‘Kissing is a Symbol of Democracy!’ The US Occupation and the Creation of a Culture of Romance in Japan 1945-52
Mark McLelland (University of Michigan)
4 pm, G-17, Foreign Languages Building

28 Monday
Asian Dissertation Series
Essentialist belief of race: Its implication to social categorization and intercultural processes
Melody Chao (Psychology)
12-1 pm, 101 International Studies Building