Annual Nealis Lecture

The Nealis Lecture is the marquis Asian Studies lecture of the year. The annual lecture, open to the public, delves deeply into themes relevant to the study of Asia presented by prominent scholars of Asia.

Past Nealis lectures:

• 2025 “Unraveling the North Korean Enigma: Nuclear Missiles and the Deepening DPRK-Russia-China Nexus,” by Yangmo Ku, Norwich University
• 2024 “Japan’s Hiroshima: The Making of Memory,” by Kevin Murphy, Professor Emeritus, Saint Joseph’s University
• 2022 “Sensing Religion in South Asia,” by Leah Comeau, University of the Sciences
• 2021 “A Lockdown within a Lockdown: The Advancement of Settler-Colonialism in Indian-Occupied Kashmir,” by Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College
• 2017 “Eve of a Hundred Midnights,” by Bill Lascher, Journalist
• 2016 “Persianate Ties Between China and India,” by Rian Thum, Loyola University, New Orleans
• 2014 “Keeping it All Under Control: Mastery of Oneself and the World as Taught in India’s Mahabharata,” by James Fitzgerald, Brown University
• 2013 “The Privilege of Protest In India’s Contentious Public Sphere,” by Jolie Wood, Allegheny College
• 2012 “Shadows of the Future: The First Anglo-Afghan Wars,” by Antoinette M. Burton, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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