Maxwell School Events Calendar

East Asia Program Events

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  April 21, 2026, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 340-E

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

  April 17, 2026, 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 009

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Japanese conversation skills!

• David Robinson | Rethinking Chinese Diplomacy: A View from Northeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century

  April 17, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join David M. Robinson from Colgate University to uncover the real story of Ming diplomacy; where immigrant envoys braved danger to shape 15th-century Northeast Asia.

• Young and Restless in China: The Rise of a New Generation of Migrant Workers

  April 03, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Xiaoshuo Hou (Skidmore College) explores the institutional and individual processes that lead to an increase in informal employment and the clustering of day laborers in major cities in China.

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  March 24, 2026, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 340-E

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

  March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 009

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Japanese conversation skills!

• Book Talk | The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping

  February 26, 2026, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Drawing on an array of new documents and interviews, Joseph Torigian (American University) tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, father of China’s President Xi Jingping.

• Korea Working Group Launch

  February 23, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join the conversation and help shape this new initiative to advance the University's growing partnerships with Korean academic institutions.

• The DMZ as Technologized Soundscape: K-Pop & Other Sonic Entanglements in the Demilitarized Zone

  February 20, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  Joowon Park, chair and professor of anthropology at Skidmore College, will analyze the role of technology in shaping this militarized area and the human experience within and outside the DMZ.

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  February 13, 2026, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 340-E

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• The Pulled Punch and the Sheathed Blade: ‘Her Story’ (2024) as a Feminist Stand-Up Film

  February 06, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This talk explores how the movie “Her Story” (Hao dongxi), borrows not only the quick, verbal wit of stand-up, but also its risky politics of “punching up” in a censored environment.

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  January 27, 2026, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Lyman Hall, 115-B

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• Zhou Dynasty Miniature Bronze Vessels

  January 23, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Sheri A. Lullo of Union College will discuss her theory that these miniature bronze vessels were crafted as adornments for the deceased as signifying markers of identity in death.

• Supporting Disability Rights Scenarios: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Law from China

  January 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  East Asia Program Moynihan Graduate Student Grant awardee talk with Mercy Renci Xie.

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  December 02, 2025, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Shaffer Art Building, 221 D

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• Korea Working Group Launch

  December 01, 2025, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 209

  This initiative is designed to foster collaboration, interdisciplinary scholarship and joint projects, and position us for upcoming funded research opportunities in the new year.

• Bridging the Divide: US–China Dialogue in a Changing World

  November 20, 2025, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Syracuse University faculty invite students for an open conversation on the shifting dynamics of U.S.–China dialogue.

• Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

  November 13, 2025, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 009

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Japanese conversation skills!

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  November 11, 2025, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Shaffer Art Building, 221 D

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• Defining China: State, Nation, and Sovereignty in the Long Twentieth Century

  November 07, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Mara Du examines how China, Chinese nationalism and Sino-foreign relations have been shaped by the multifaceted concept of guo—a term that meant “dynastic state” but is now defined as “nation-state.”