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MEDIA COVERAGE OF JUNE 29, 2007 EVENT
Washington Post Article
THE COURSE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE INTELLECTUALS: AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM COMMEMORATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSIRY OF THE ANTI-RIGHTIST CAMPAIGN |
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I am pleased to report on what turned out to be a highly successful event funded in part by the Center for Asian Studies. The event, held on October 13, was, as noted in my initial request, a forum for two highly respected, award-winning authors from Korea and their translator. One of the authors is a visiting professor at UCI. (I mention this because her residence here both lightened the financial burden and speaks to the caliber of visitors we have been able to attract to this campus)
The two guests, Ch'oe Yun and Ch'oe Su-ch'ol, read excepts from their recent work in Korean, which was then read in English translation by Bruce Fulton, who is a professor of Korean literature at the University of British Columbia and who was responsible for taking this movable literary feast to three or four other venues in North America.
We had thirty people in the audience from all over the campus and a very good time was had by all.
Report by Ted Fowler, Chair, East Asian |
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Christopher Dobrian (Professor of Music) served as sound and music advisor to the Yonsei Media Art Project (YMAP) in Seoul, Korea in October. Funded by the Korean government, the YMAP group prepared a multimedia performance and a report on the state of digital arts and media for presentation in November.
Dobrian's composition "Mannam (Encounter)" for daegeum (Korean bamboo flute) and realtime interactive computer system was performed by maestro Jong Jin Hong at the International Computer Music Conference in New Orleans in November. |
Announcement of Two
Exchange Programs
Last fall the Center for Asian Studies established exchange
programs with two universities abroad: one with Peking
University in China and one with the Graduate School of Law,
Kobe University in Japan. Each year each of these institutions
will host 12 months of visits by a maximum of two scholars
each from UCI. In the event that there are two visitors
per university, they must split the 12 months between them. If
there is only one visitor, that visitor may stay up to one
year.
The Center invites applications from graduate students
and faculty (with a priority for graduate students) to
spend (in usual cases) six months or, at a maximum, up
to one year at either of these universities (the duration
will depend upon the plans of the two selected visitors
in each case). Students' home departments will determine
the number of units to be received upon their return home.
For full details, read this PDF
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FAR EAST FACULTY MEETING
The Far East faculty of CAS met Monday, May 14 to discuss ways of
improving UCI's chances for a FLAS grant when the next application can
be submitted, in the fall of 2009. Dorie Solinger summarized the
problems according to the three external reviewers in the fall of 2006,
and the fifteen faculty in attendance made the following suggestions
(in addition to a possible pairing up with UCSD, developing a robust
evaluation procedure, and enhancing the library's holdings).
People should teach more East Asia-related courses. Hires are needed
in areas where we lack faculty, primarily a Koreanist in Social Sciences,
but other possibilities as well. An East Asianist should be hired in Art
History now that Judy Ho is retiring. Create MA-level or advanced
undergraduate-level cross-disciplinary (probably team-taught) courses on
East Asia. Courses with a thematic focus could include more
East Asian material, especially graduate classes. The titles of existing
courses could be changed so they better reflect their East Asian
content. People who have some knowledge of East Asia but who are not
presently part of the Center should be approached to get them to
become part of the proposal: their courses could be included, they could
retitle their courses to reflect their East Asian content. |
CAS GRADUATE STUDENT REPORT ON THEIR RESEARCH
February 23, Friday, at 2:00 pm in SSPB 5206, five graduate students who received funds from the Center for Asian Studies for their research reported on their use of the funds. Humanities faculty, and faculty in general, were in short supply, the former because of job talks in their departments. We heard stimulating reports from Neha Vora in Anthropology, Jennifer Liu and Wensheng Wang in History, Kim Icreverzi and Duy Nguyen in Comparative Literature. Natalie Newton, Anthropology, did not make it because of a friend's serious accident, but she submitted a report later. All of these students are doing exciting work, and written reports of their use of CAS funding are on file in Sandy Cushman's office SSPB 5237 or you may access their reports by clicking on their respective names. |
Announcement of the
Southeast Asian Interest Group Seminar Series
Last fall the Center provided
initial funding for a new Southeast Asian Interest Group,
currently comprised of four of our CAS members (Victoria
Beard, Tom Boellstorff, Kamal Sadiq, and Charels Wheeler).
The group is excited to announce its first seminar on April
7th. Please mark your calendar. Prof. Amrita Daniere (Geography,
University of Toronto) and Professor Lois Takahashi (Planning,
UCLA ) will present a paper entitled: The Dynamics of Social
Capital: Improving Environmental Policy in Southeast Asian
Cities. (Full details are accessible on our Upcoming Events
page.)
For more information about this seminar and
other upcoming seminars related to Southeast Asia please
check their new website. |
LISA MITCHELL TALK
Lisa Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, gave a wonderful talk titled "THE APPEARANCE OF AFFECT: Death and the Making of Linguistic Passion in Southern India" in the Anthropology Library on February 13, 2007 at 3:30pm. She spoke about southern India, where people have felt so passionately about language since the mid-20th century that some were willing to sacrifice their lives in its name by fasting-unto-death, dying as martyrs in police confrontations, consuming poison, and using kerosene to self-immolate. She showed, by placing these events in historical context, that this kind of passionate relationship to language has not always existed, and that the "Andhra Movement" as it was called, was the first successful movement for a linguistically defined state in independent India, several years before the All-India Linguistic States Reorganization redrew the map of India on linguistic lines in 1956. |
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APPLICATION DUE BY NOVEMBER 15, 2006
Please contact Sandy Cushman, SSPB 5237 (949-824-3344) scushman@uci.edu or
Alicia Sanchez, Humanities 200B Krieger Hall (949-824-2865) asanchez@uci.edu for information and application. |
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The Happy Hour at Ted Fowler's house Friday evening, Nov 17, was a great success, as some twenty people ate, drank, and chatted merrily about things Asian. Those attending were a good mix of faculty and graduate students, and we will hold more such events in the future, especially after the University Club resumes its popular Friday Happy Hours. |
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