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 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)

November 13th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM 

Depth and Delay: Burial as Medium in Medieval China

Jeffrey Moser (Brown University)

Kent Hall 403

October 30th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM 

Erotic Novellas as an Early Modern Reading Tradition: Emotion, Materiality, and Literacy

Xiaoqiao Ling (Arizona State University)

International Affairs Building 918

October 2nd, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM 

High-Performance Performance: Digital Technologies in Contemporary Chinese Theatre

Tarryn Chun (University of Notre Dame)

Kent Hall 403