Thinking East Asia

Thinking East Asia (TEA) brings together colleagues and postgraduates with a shared interest in East Asian history, covering early modern and modern China, Japan, and Korea. Our research areas include intellectual history, environmental history, migration, and the history of science and medicine. We are engaged in understanding East Asia within its broader global, connected, and comparative frameworks. Over the years, we have organised seminars for external and internal speakers as well as workshops. We have welcomed visiting fellows from the Academy of Korean Studies, Harvard University, and Ohio State University. Our activities involve collaboration with academics from departments across the university, as well as centres and institutes including the Centre for Nineteenth-century Studies, the Centre for Global Understanding of Environment, Science and Technology (GUEST), the Centre for Comparative Modernities, the Centre for Comparative Chinese Studies, the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, and the Institute for Medical Humanities. We work closely with the Durham University Oriental Museum as well as the collections at the Palace Green Library. 

Staff

• Dr Sare Aricanli
• Dr Adam Bronson
• Dr Chris Courtney
• Dr John Lee
• Dr Nicholas McGee