The official establishment of MEARC
12 -- Executive Lecture
His Excellency Mr. Kyoji Komachi, Ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands
"The Future of Asia as Seen by a Japanese Diplomat"
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5 + 7 -- MEARC Seminar
Bret Davis (Loyala College, USA) and Prof. Graham Parkes (University of Hawaii, USA)
"Dialogue and Appropriaton: The Kyoto School as Cross-Cultural Philosophy" (PDF)
24 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Glenn D. Hook (White Rose East Asia Centre, UK) and Dr. Hiroko Takeda (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Risk, Self Responsibility and the Governance of the Japanese Population" (PDF)
31 -- MEARC Current Events Briefing
Dr. Stefan Landsberger (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
"Searching for Its Rightful Place - Chinese Foreign Policy Today"
7 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Carol Gluck (Columbia University, USA)
"Past Obsessions: War and Memory in the Twentieth Century" (PDF)
21 -- MEARC Seminar
Richard Calichman (CUNY, USA)
"'Overcoming Modernity': The Contradictions of Representing Japan" (PDF)
22 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Sue Townsend (University of Nottingham, UK)
"The Intellectual Principles of the New Japan”: Miki Kiyoshi and the East Asian Cooperative Community"
(PDF)
27 -- Executive Lecture
Siebe K. Schuur (Embassy of the Netherlands to China)
"China's Booming Economy: Challenges and Pitfalls" (PDF)
12 -- Executive Lecture
His Excellency, Mr. Jong-Moo Choi, Ambassador of Korea to the Netherlands
"Korean-Dutch Partnerships in a Globalizing World" (PDF)
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2 -- Executive Lecture
Her Excellency Madam Xue Hanqin, Ambassador of the PR China to the Netherlands
"China's Road, China's Role" (PDF)
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22 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Warren Sun (Monash University, Australia)
"Hua Guofeng and the End of Mao’s Cultural Revolution" (PDF)
26 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. King Kwun Tsao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
"Comparing Anti-Corruption Policies in Hong Kong and Mainland China"
(PDF)
13 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Vienna University, Austria)
"Is East Asia a European Invention?" (PDF)
20 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Ya-pei Kuo (MEARC, the Netherlands, and Tufts University, USA)
"Creating the National Symbol: Confucius Worship, Civil Ritual and the Modernizing State, 1901-1911" (PDF)
27 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Tze-ki Hon (MEARC, the Netherlands, and State University New York Genesco, USA)
"A Renaissance or a French Revolution: Visions of Nationalist Modernity in Early Twentieth Century China" (PDF)
3 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Viren Murthy (MEARC, the Netherlands)
"Ontological Optimism and Cosmological Confusion: Zhang Taiyan’s Early Critique of Tan Sitong’s Renxue"
(PDF)
10 -- MEARC/VICI Workshop
Prof. Laura Hein (Northwestern University, USA)
"Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995" (PDF)
11 -- MEARC/VICI Workshop
Prof. Laura Hein (Northwestern University, USA)
"Why are the Military Comfort Women such Powerful Figures Now when They Were so Powerless Then?" (PDF)
17 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Frank Stern (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Imagining the Jews: The Shoah in German and Austrian Cinema after 1945" (PDF)
18 -- MEARC Workshop
Prof. Laura Hein (Northwestern University, USA)
"Imagination without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility" (PDF)
24 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Rüdiger Frank (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Will Europe’s Past Be Asia’s Future? International Relations Theory, Area Studies and Security in Northeast Asia" (PDF)
25 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Lung-chih Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
"Representing Colonial Modernity in Taiwan: Goto Shimpei and the Formation of Japanese Colonial Discourse, 1902-1905" (PDF)
1 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Eun-Jeung Lee (Universität Halle, Germany)
"Fanatic Freedom or Hope of an Asian Community? Japanese and Korean Discourses on Korean Wave in Japan"
10 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Julia Strauss (SOAS University of London, UK)
"Land Reform and Regime Consolidation in Jiangnan and Taiwan, 1950-1953" (PDF)
12 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Sun Ge (China Academy of Social Studies, China)
"On how One Enters History, the Case of China and Japan"
12 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. On-cho Ng (Penn State University, USA)
"What Was New Script (Jinwen) Learning?" (PDF)
21 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. R. Bin Wong (UCLA, USA)
"Chinese Public Finance as Politics and Administration: some Historical, Comparative and Global Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Challenges" (PDF)
28-30 -- Conference
Prof. Axel Schneider (MEARC, the Netherlands) and Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna, Austria) - organisers
"Post Cold War Historiography" (Word)
(VICI/MEARC/University of Vienna)
29 -- Conference
Dr. Tak Wing Ngo (MEARC Member, the Netherlands) - organiser
"Rent Seeking Politics in China"
(Leiden University/MEARC)
3 -- Conference
Dr. Curtis A. Gayle (MEARC, the Netherlands) - organiser
"Proletarian Culture and Resistance in Pre-War East Asia" (Word)
(Leiden University/MEARC)
3-5 -- Conference
Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna, Austria) - organiser
"New Perspectives on the Great Leap Forward"
(University of Vienna/MEARC/City of Vienna)
Dr. Kiri Paramore (MEARC, the Netherlands) - organiser
East Asian Studies Seminar Series
(MEARC/Departments of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden)
21 -- Conference
Dr. Tak Wing Ngo (MEARC Member, the Netherlands) - organiser
"Crony Capitalism in Asia"
(MEARC/Leiden University/University of Amsterdam)
20 -- Conference
Prof. Chris Goto-Jones (MEARC, the Netherlands), Prof. Glenn D. Hook (White Rose East Asia Centre, UK) and Dr. Hiroko Takeda (University of Sheffield, UK) - organisers
"European Roundtable: Symbols, Images and Knowledge - Shaping Japanese Historical Memory"
(White Rose East Asia Centre/MEARC)
8 -- Public Symposium
Prof. Daokui Li (Tsinghua University, China)
"The Emergence of Chinese Economy: Challenges, Prospects and Trends"
(Leiden University/MEARC)
23-25 -- Conference
Prof. Yen-Zen Tsai (IIAS, The Netherlands) - organiser
"Confucianism among World Religions; a Dialogue with Tu Weiming"
(IIAS/MEARC/Leiden University, Department of Chinese Studies)
4-7 -- Conference
Prof. Axel Schneider and Dr. Viren Murthy (MEARC, The Netherlands) - organisers
"The Writing of History in 20th Century East Asia: Between Linear Time and the Reproduction of National Consciousness" (PDF)
(VICI/MEARC/LUF/IIAS/CNWS/CCKF)
22-23 -- Conference Dr. Tak-Wing Ngo (MEARC Member, the Netherlands)
"International Workshop on Rent Seeking Politics in China" (PDF)
(MEARC/KNAW/LUF/CNWS/IIAS/Leiden University School of Management)
