As part of the Université Paris Cité’s commitment to global engagement, creativity and critical knowledge and research, the Paris Graduate School of East Asian Studies is organizing a series of lectures by international scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The series highlights the wide-ranging intellectual interests and innovations of prominent scholars in the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on the East Asia and flows of ideas, people, institutions, and texts across linguistic and national borders.

Lectures 2024-2025

The lecture series Current Research on East Asia 2024-2025 will take place on one Thursday each month, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM.

Thursday september 12th

Thursday september 12th

Moderator : Gilles Guiheux

Xinyuan Zhang
Yokohama National University

The Political Economy of Soybean in East Asia
Abstract : East Asia is the region with the most ancient history of soybean cultivation and consumption. In this lecture, I will discuss the changes in soybean demand in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China, since the 1960s from the perspective of food regimes. By comparing the trade structures of soybeans in these East Asian countries, I will elucidate the factors and historical developments that led China to become the world’s largest importer of soybeans. This comprehensive analysis will also provide insights into the dynamic interplay of local and global economic forces shaping the global agri-food system.
Thursday september 26th

Thursday september 26th

Moderator : Ken Daimaru

Naoko Shimazu
University of Tokyo

Visualising Diplomacy in Cold War Asia
Abstract : What does privileging visual sources mean in studying diplomacy and diplomatic history? How do we do this? In this presentation, I share my collaborative experience in leading an interdisciplinary team of scholars (historians, international relations, art historian, media studies, photojournalist) to consider what it means to engage meaningfully with visual materials as a key to unlocking some of the explicit and implicit symbolic meanings embedded in them. Examples are drawn from the forthcoming edited volume, Cold War Asia: A Visual History of Global Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press), including Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Yugoslavia, among others.
 
Thursday october 10th

Thursday october 10th

Moderator : Marie Gibert-Flutre

Sebastian RUMSBY
Université de Birmingham

Topic: “Aspirations to move up Vietnam’s social ladder: from religious transformation to transnational migration”
Abstract: The ‘will to improve’ is arguably the ideology of international development and is rooted in the modernist belief in progress. In late socialist Vietnam, this will to improve has become a hegemonic aspiration for upward social mobility, shared by very different groups of people and leading to varied outcomes. This lecture explores how the thirst for development is manifested in two cases, based on ethnographic fieldwork: (1) Christianisation of the Hmong ethnic minority in the Northern highlands, and (2) irregular labour migration from North-Central Vietnam to Europe. By comparing the similar and divergent experiences of these two marginalised groups within Vietnam’s broader socio-economic transformations, we can gain a greater understanding of the nature of forces driving change in contemporary Vietnamese society.
 
Thursday december 5th

Thursday december 5th

Moderator : Marie Gibert-Flutre

Edyta ROSZKO
Research professor in Social Anthropology, Chr. Michelsen Institute

Topic: “Vietnamese and Chinese fisheries and militia in the common maritime space of the South China sea”

 

 
Thursday january 30th

Thursday january 30th

Moderator : Marianne Simon-Oikawa

Rosina BUCKLAND
Curator of Japanese Collections, British Museum

Topic: “The splendor of modernity: towards a history of Meiji arts”

 

 

 
Thursday, march 6th

Thursday, march 6th

Moderator : Béatrice L’Haridon

Kelsey GRANGER
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Topic: “Women’s contributions to material life in the Tang dynasty”

 

 

 

 
Thursday, march 20th

Thursday, march 20th

Moderator : Florence Galmiche

John LEE
Durham University
Topic: “Kingdom of Pines: state forestry and the making of early modern Korea, 1392-1910”
 

 

 

 

 

 
Thursday, march 27th

Thursday, march 27th

Moderator : Florence Galmiche

Julien DUGNOILLE
Senior lecturer in Anthropology, University of Exeter

Topic: “Two dogs with one stone? Urban markets and the dog meat trade in South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic”
 

 

 

 

 

 
Thursday, april 10th

Thursday, april 10th

Moderator : Gilles Guiheux

Carles BRASO BROGGI 
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Topic: “Comparison between the Spanish Popular Front and the Chinese United Front in the period 1936-1939”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inscription details

No registration needed, these lectures are open to everyone and available in two formats.
The conferences are only in English.
In person: Léon Vandermeersch Room – 481C, 4th floor, Building C, Grands Moulins – 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris
Online: Zoom link >

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