2024 Peter L. Lee Endowed Lecture in East Asian Culture and Civilization

Posted: April 19, 2024

By: Asian Studies and College of Arts and Sciences


Thursday, May 2, 4–6 p.m.
Oberto Commons (Sinegal 200)

You are cordially invited to attend the 2024 Peter L. Lee Endowed Lecture in East Asian Culture and Civilization. This year’s lecture, titled “East Asia in a Larger World: Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Globalizing Middle Ages,” will be delivered by Professor Hyunhee Park, Ph.D. (Department of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, the City University of New York). 

Dr. Park is an accomplished author, having written Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia (Cambridge 2012) and Soju: A Global History (Cambridge 2021). Her research has focused on the historical cross-cultural contacts between East Asia and the Islamic World, especially in the areas of Sino-Islamic interactions during the Mongol Empire and broader aspects of global history. 

A reception will start at 4 p.m. and the lecture will be between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Learn more at Peter L. Lee Lecture Program 2024.