Department of Asian Studies, The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and Confucius Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem are honored to invite you to the department seminar series - Revolutionary Moments in Asia.

Our schedule for the Fall Semester 2021:

November 10: Prof. Yuri Pines - China’s first revolution? The birth of the total state (4th-3rd centuries BCE)

November 24: Prof. Danny Orbach - Lost in Translation? The Strange Military Revolution of Modern Japan (Hebrew)

December 8:  Prof. Gideon Shelach-Lavi - The Horseback Riding Revolution and its Dramatic Effects on the History of China and Mongolia (Hebrew)

January 5: Prof. Paul Barclay (Lafayette College), Imperial Japan's Forever War, 1895-1945 - Online lecture

 

Our schedule for the Spring Semester 2022:

March 9: Dr. Yang Shen, A Place for the Freedom of Thought? On the Position of Ma Yifu, a Revolutionary Conservative

March 23: Dr. Evgenia Lachina, Martial arts as a boundary-marker between military and civilian identities in North Korea 

May 11: Dr. Tami Groswald Ozery (Moderator), Prof. Jacques deLisle, Dr. Marcia Don Harpaz, Prof. Arie Kacowicz, Panel discussion - China's rise & world order

May 25: Dr. Rotem Geva,  India and Palastine-Israel: Comparative History and Trans-Nationality of Partition (Hebrew)

June 1: Prof. Brendon J. Cannon (Khalifa University), Japan’s aircraft carriers and the revolution in Asia's power distribution

June 22: Mr. Nathan H. Ledbetter, Local Matters: Perceptions of Global "Military Revolutions" from a Japanese Case