FOH Events

FEB 2023:

Hidetaka Hirota (Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley)
on the patterns of Japanese migration that affected labor immigration and the development of US immigration policy

FEB 2022:

Lon Kurashige (Professor of History and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California) 
on the racism narrative and the politics of memory on the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2

OCT 2021:

Gordon H. Chang (Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University)
on Chinese workers building the western portion of the transcontinental railroad

MAY 2021: 

James Romm (Professor of Classics, Bard College)
on the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite infantry corps comprised of male lovers

APR 2021: 

Harold Cook (Professor of History, Brown University)
on European interest in Chinese medical texts during the 17th and 18th centuries

FEB 2021:

Elizabeth Cobbs (Chair of American History, Texas A&M University)
on women serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War I

NOV 2020: