talks

We are pleased to organize a reading seminar in cooperation with Prof. Wenkai He,where we will discuss his book Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China on April 4th at 10:00 AM.

Professor Hilde De Weerdt will deliver a keynote lecture titled Mobilizing Chinese Information and Media in Early Modern France: How the History of Information Can Inform Global Conceptual and Intellectual Histories of Governance and Infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Prof. Hilde De Weerdt, Dr. Sander Molenaar and Wangzhi Xi presented in a workshop titled Annotating, Analyzing, and Aligning Historical Texts and Images with COMARKUS and IMMARKUS at Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Columbus, Ohio on March 16, 2025.

Dr. Sunkyu Lee will present her paper titled Walls, Warfare, and Welfare: The Social and Political Dynamics of City Wall Reconstruction Along the Northern Frontier at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Columbus, Ohio on March 14, 2025.

The ERC Project “Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History” and the KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group organized a presentation and discussion with Prof. Covell F. Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School).