Spring 2020 IAAS Lecture Series

The Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series presents five lectures this spring semester. Please join us to hear from these visiting experts.

Monastic Wealth in Qing China’s Buddhist Inner Asia Professor Lan Wu, Mount Holyoke College Wednesday, February 5, 1:15 pm Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street  Manchu Archives and the Cartographic Knowledge of the Northeast in the Huangyu Quanlan Tu Professor Kicengge (Chengzhi), Otemon Gakuin University, Japan, and Visiting Research Scholar at EALC Harvard University Wednesday, February 12, 1:15 pm Room S153*, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street   Abodes of Alien Ancestors: Buddhist Geography and Genealogy in 18th-Century Beijing Professor Wen-shing Chou, Hunter College, CUNY Wednesday, March 4, 1:15 pm Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street  This Time It Will Be Different: Chinese State Discourse in Xinjiang, 1936-1957 Dr. Joshua Freeman, Princeton University Monday, March 23, 2:00 pm* Room S153*, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street   Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet Dr. Lobsang Yongdan, University of Bonn Wednesday, April 1, 1:15 pm Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street   * Please note unusual room location or time.