CTA Day: Maritime Asia

The Committee on Teaching About Asia will hold its annual CTA Day on March 19, 2020 at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. The theme of this year’s event is “Maritime Asia.”

Schedule:

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast with Coffee and Tea

9:00 – 10:00 CTA Business Meeting

10:00 – 10:15 Break and continued registration

10:15 – 11:15 “Merchants, Pirates, Missionaries, and the State in Maritime Asia” – Eugenio Menegon, Boston University

11:15 – 12:15 “Japan and Whaling” – Noell Wilson, University of Mississippi

12:15 – 1:00 Lunch

1:15 – 2:00 “Maritime Archaeology in Asia: Plumbing the Depths of History, Trade, and Politics” – Robert E. Murowchick , Boston University

2:00 – 2:45 Panel: “Ties that Bind” – Anne Prescott, Director, Five College Center for East Asian Studies