Transnational Asia Speaker Series (TASS)

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Through the generosity of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation and with the support of our faculty, the Chao Center for Asian Studies hosts a number of distinguished scholars annually for guest lectures that are free and open to the public.

Upcoming TASS speakers include:

November 8, 2024, 4 pm CT | Humanities 117 and via Zoom - Andy Schonebaum, University of Maryland
Classifying the Unseen: Curiosity, Fantasy and Common Sense in Early Modern China

Previous TASS speakers include:

October 4, 2024 - Susan Hwang, University of California, Santa Barbara (recording available)

March 28, 2024 - Christopher T. Fan, University of California, Irvine (recording available)

March 1, 2024 - Vernadette Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley (recording available)

October 25, 2023 - Allison Alexy, University of Michigan (recording available)

April 5, 2023 - Sonya Lee, University of Southern California (recording available)

March 29, 2023 - Josen Masangkay Diaz, University of San Diego (recording available)

January 27, 2023 - Kathlene Baldanza, Penn State University

September 15, 2022 - Victor Seow, Harvard University

April 8, 2022 - Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University

March 8, 2022 - Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University (recording available)

February 25, 2022 - Ismail F. Alatas, New York University (recording available)

October 25, 2021 - Daniel Katz, University of Houston-Clear Lake (recording available)

October 15, 2021 - Juli Qermezi Huang, University of Edinburgh (recording available)

April 1, 2021 - Nerissa Balce, Stony Brook University (recording available)

March 15, 2021 - Anthony Acciavatti, Yale University (recording available)

November 5, 2020 - Tansen Sen, New York University, Shanghai (recording available)

October 9, 2020 - Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen (recording available)

September 18, 2020 - Monika Zin, Leipzig University (recording available)

October 10, 2019 - Mark W. Frazier, The New School for Social Research

September 26, 2019 - Janelle Lamoreaux, University of Arizona

April 10, 2019 - Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California

March 28, 2019 - Wen-Fang Mao, National Chung Cheng University

September 13, 2018 - Anne Blackburn, Cornell University

March 1, 2018 - M. Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University

October 2, 2017 - Barbara Mittler, University of Heidelberg (additional lecture)

April 13, 2017 - Todd A. Henry, University of California, San Diego

October 20, 2016 - Kenneth Swope, University of Southern Mississippi

April 15, 2016 - Valerie Hansen, Yale University

March 17, 2016 - David Germano, University of Virginia

February 12, 2016 - Louise Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison

December 3, 2015 - Shu-ching Shih, Author

October 8, 2015 - Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside

September 21, 2015 - Anjali Duva, Author