Events and department seminar series
Our research events and seminar series invites leading experts on East Asia from around the world and aim to provide a setting for intellectual debate, sharing ideas and collaboration.
Department seminar series
Our departmental seminars are open to anyone who has a keen interest in East Asia whether you are an academic in the field, a student or a member of the public who would like to learn more about the region. Our seminars aim to provide a setting for intellectual debate, sharing ideas and collaboration.
Future events
| Time and Date | Title |
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| Thursday 16th February |
Introducing Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of Korea's Hiroshima Chair: Lecturer in Korean Studies School of East Asian Studies The University of Sheffield Speaker: Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Faculty of Music University of Toronto |
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| Monday 20th February |
The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze’s Time-Image Chair: Lecturer in East Asian Studies School of East Asian Studies The University of Sheffield Speaker: Reader in Film and Media Philosophy Department of Film Studies King’s College London |
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Past events
| Time and Date | Title | Booking and further information |
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| Tuesday 20th December |
Public Roundtable discussion: Hopes and Fears: the potential for solidarity in the Uyghur and Chinese diasporas after ‘Zero-Covid’ protests. Chair: David Tobin (Lecturer in East Asian Studies) Speakers: Ting Guo 郭婷 (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) Örkesh Dölet ئۆركەش دۆلەت, aka Wu'er Kaixi 吾爾開希 Rahima Mahmut (Executive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, UK Director of the World Uyghur Congress, translator, artist, activist) Kabir Qurban (Human rights activist, teacher, CEO of Jokabir Productions) Chenchen Zhang (Assistant Professor in International Relations, Durham University) |
This event has now passed. |
| Thursday, 1 December |
Cynicism and Contemporary Chinese Comedy Films Chair: Lecturer in East Asian Studies School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield Speaker: Dr. Bruce Lai PhD in Film Studies King's College London |
This event has now passed. |
| Tuesday 22nd November, 4-6pm | Making tradition relatable: Kutani Ware in the Modern Era | This event has now passed. |
| Tuesday 15th November, 4-6pm | Tradition and Modernity in Kaga Yuzen Dyeing | This event has now passed. |
| Friday 11th November |
Reimagining East Asian Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro’s Multilingual Media Persona Chair: Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies The University of Sheffield Speaker: Assistant Professor Academy of Film Hong Kong Baptist University |
This event has now passed. |
| Friday 28th October | Peace and Unification on the Korean Peninsula | This event has now passed. |
| Friday, 14th October |
From the Sublime to the Marvellous: Cultural Translation from The Grandmaster to Shang Chi Chair: Lecturer in East Asian Studies, School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University |
This event has now passed. |
| Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:00 |
North Korea, A Country Left Behind from the International Development Assistance Chair: Dr. Sarah Son (The University of Sheffield) Speaker: Dr Sojin Lim, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities, Language & Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) |
This event has now passed. |
| Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:30 |
Forced Migration Policies in East Asia Chair: Speaker: Naoko Hashimoto, Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. |
This event has now passed. |
| Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:00 |
What does a SEAS PhD (Japanese Studies) do if not become a proper academic? Chair: |
This event has now passed. |
| Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:00 | Korean Language Panel Discussion and Q&A - Korean Language Education | This event has now passed. |
| Friday 4th February 11:00 - 12:30pm |
Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo Chair: Dr. Jamie Coates (The University of Sheffield) Speaker: Dr. Thomas Baudinette (Macquarie University) |
This event has now passed. |
| Friday 11th February 15:00 - 16:30 |
Great Walls (2020, 28min) Film Screening and Discussion Chair: Dr. David Tobin (The University of Sheffield) Speaker: Prof. William A. Callahan (The London School of Economics and Political Science) |
This event has now passed. |
| Friday 3rd December 11am-1pm |
Re-examining Bruce Lee's Kung Fu Persona in the Cyber Frontier: An Aural-based Approach |
This event has now passed. |
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Friday 26th November 16:00 - 17:30 |
Researching Ethnic Identities in Contemporary China: Roundtable Discussion Chair: David Tobin (University of Sheffield) |
This event has now passed. |
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Friday 9th July 2021 13:00 - 14:30 |
Affective Fan Communities, from Japan to the UK by Mana Kamioka, Keio University and Dr Georgia Thomas-Parr, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield |
This event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the seminar here. |
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Friday 25th June 2021 13:00 - 14:30 |
Body Cultures and Masculinities in Japan by Christopher Tso, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge and Carolin Becke, PhD Student at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield |
This event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the seminar here. |
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Friday 11th June 2021 13:00 - 14:30 |
SEAS Seminar Series: Postage Stamps as Historic Documents: The Semiotics of the First Post-Liberation Issues by Professor James H. Grayson. Emeritus Professor of Modern Korean Studies, SEAS |
This event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the seminar here. |
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Friday 28th May 2021 13:00 - 14:30 |
SEAS Seminar Series: Music, South Korea, and the Global Cold War |
This event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the full seminar here |
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Thursday 17th December 2020 12:00 - 13:30 |
Watching North Korea from the Sky: Geospatial Mapping in Human Rights Monitoring |
This event has now passed. |
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Tuesday 1st December 2020 12:00 - 14:00 |
National images of East Asia: From popular music to national stigma By Dorothy Finan, PhD student, School of East Asian Studies and Dr Kristian Hauken, Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies, School of East Asian Studies |
This event has now passed. you can watch a recording of each presentation at the links below Critical perspectives on the “global” success of J-pop and K-pop idols The “Comfort Women” Issue Japan’s Changing Stigma Management Strategy |
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Friday 13th November 2020 12:00 – 13:30 |
Steering Eldercare Service Development in China By Dr Christina Maags, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Sheffield |
This event has now passed. Watch a recording of the presentation here |
To view all of our current and past events, please visit our Eventbrite page