WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar:
Dr. PULFORD, Ed
‟Anthropology and History of NE Asian borderlands, socialism and post-socialism, indigenous groups”(6/29・7/4・7/13)
Speaker
PULFORD, Ed (Lecturer, University of Manchester)
Language
English
Prospected Audience
Undergraduate, Graduate, Researchers, Faculty members, general audience
Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
Registration
Registration is not required to participate.
Seminar 1: The Nanai/Hezhe people and China-Russia relations since the mid-nineteenth century
Outline
Far from the capital cities and political centres of the vast Chinese and Russian worlds, the lives of indigenouspeople living along the Amur River reveal much about the nature of each polity over time. Drawing on myresearch over several years and on both sides of the Russia-China border, in this seminar I will show how theexperiences of indigenous Nanai (Russia) and Hezhe (China) in spheres including material culture, religion,art, language and education over the past 150 years offer new perspectives on relations between these vast states.
Date & Time
June 29, 2023（Thu.）10:00 – 12:00
Venue
Building#19 3F Room#309, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Seminar 2: Migration, settlement and the state in northeast Asia: Cross-border perspectives from the 1840s to today
Outline
Northeast Asia remains divided as a region, particularly compared to other transnational spaces such as Southeast Asia or the EU. A lack of formal regional integration is often reflected in academic institutions where, despite bordering one another directly, China, Russia, Korea and Japan are often studied in distinct Area- or Language-based departments. Much of this division is a result of disputes over historical contact and conflict, yet particularly when it comes to histories of migration and settlement there is much that cross-border study can reveal about similarities between the neighboring regions of Northeast China, the Russian Far East, and Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture. In this seminar I will show how cross-border study of the parallels between experiences of settlement in these regions over the past century and a half offers new insights into particular regional practices of statehood. Bringing notionally divided locations together in this way offers a means of framing “Global History” in a highly localized way.
Date & Time
July 4, 2023（Tue.）14:00 – 16:00
Venue
Building#19 3F Room#309, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Seminar 3: Identity and Opportunity among Transnational Chinese Minorities in Asia
Outline
China’s increased political, economic and social importance worldwide in recent decades has motivated recent social scientific interest in two China-connected research areas. Alongside outward flows of capital, people and ideas embodying ‘global China’, also attracting attention have been developments within the PRC where minority populations confront a state uncompromising on ethnic pluralism. Absent from these agendas, however, have been Chinese minority, i.e. non-Han, communities beyond the country’s borders. This is striking since such groups are positioned exactly at the intersection of the PRC’s shifting geopolitical and ethnopolitical stances, negotiating both challenges and opportunities these present. This seminar will discuss preliminary findings from an ethnographic and textual project which focuses on three communities living in regional hubs neighbouring China: Dungans/Hui in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Zhuang/Nùng in Hanoi, Vietnam and Chosonjok/Chaoxianzu in Seoul, South Korea. Exploring questions of identity and opportunity among these groups, the project aims to shed light on intersections between changing ideas of ‘Chineseness’ within and beyond China, and on shifting Asian regionalisms.
Date & Time
July 13, 2023（Thu.）10:00 – 12:00
Venue
Building#19 3F Room#309, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
