February 19th, 2026, 6:10 - 7:40 PM 

Availability and Censorship of Short Stories in the Qing: Marvels New and Old (Jingu qiguan 今古奇觀)

Margaret Wan (University of Utah)

Kent Hall 403

February 27th, 2026, 4:15-5:45 PM

Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City (CCH sponsored book talk)

Song Nianshen (Tsinghua University)

Kent Hall 403

April 2nd, 2026, 6:10 - 7:40 PM 

Cybernetics of Influence: Set Design in the Age of Television

Bao Weihong (University of California, Berkeley)

Kent Hall 403

April 17th, 2026, 10 AM-5 PM

Ghosts of the Present: Nationalism and the Sinitic Cosmopolitan in the Medieval South

Conference

Kent Hall 403

April 30th, 2026, 6:10 - 7:40 PM 

“All Men Are Strangers”: The Failure of Peripatetic Rulership and the Birth of the Private Self

Tian Xiaofei (Harvard University)

Calder Lounge (Uris Hall)