EVENTS ARCHIVE

FALL-WINTER 2005-06 EVENTS

May 11 , 2006

CAS co-sponsored Film: Oxhide

Special Guest: Filmmaker Liu Jiayin to appear in person.

Oxhide
2004, China (110 minutes)
in Mandarin w/English subtitles

Thursday, May 11, 2006
7:00 pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100

The multiple prize-winning feature Niupi (Oxhide) is an extraordinary tour de force by 23-year old Liu Jiayin, who shot it in CinemaScope in the 50 square meters of her family apartment--playing her own role while her parents played theirs. The film, however, is entirely scripted and designed with unflinching rigor. Liu staged 23 static shorts and kept her small DV camera in claustrophobic proximity of her subjects, often showing only parts of their bodies with an on-screen conversation. With a sure hand and a mundane-yet-lyrical inspiration, Liu reinvents the kammerspiel for the one-child families in coontemporary China - Red Cat.

"The directorial debut by 23-year-old Chinese fillmmaker Liu Jiayin proposes radical questions of the basic concepts of film. Twenty-three fixed shots transmit the most trival moments of her family's life in a small apartment. And it works well." - FIPRESCI 2005

"Through the lens, I saw our life. I couldn't describe it otherwise. My home is only fifty square meters. But the screen ratio is Cinemascope. It is my family through my eyes; narrow, depressive, dim and warm. No other people appear in the film except the three of us. The whole movie took me fourty days to finish. During those days, once I came back from school and my mom was back from the factory, and my dad was back from the shop, we would shoot the movie. Most of the scenes were shot during the middle of the night. This story continues in real life." Liu Jiayin, from the Director's Statement.

For more information, visit the Film and Video Center at UCI.

May 18, 2006

"The U. S.-China Foreign Exchange Controversy: The View From China " Dr. Li Yang Thursday, May 18, 2006, 7:30 p.m. Social Science Hall100

Dr.  Li Yang

Dr. Li Yang is the Director General & Research Fellow at the Institute of Finance & Banking at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).  He holds a B. A. in Economics from Anhui University; an M.A. in money and banking from the Department of World Economics from Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University;  and a Ph.D. in public finance from The People’s University of China (Renmin Daxue) in Beijing, also one of the top universities in China.

In 1998 to 1999 he was an invited visiting scholar at Columbia University.  He has served as Director General of the Finance Research Center at CASS, the Deputy Director General of the CASS Institute of Finance and Trade, and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the People’s Bank of China (China’s central bank).

He has also held positions on the Chinese Financial Market Development Committee of the Pacific Economic Corporate Committee and on the Executive Committee of the China Society of Public Finance, as well as serving as Deputy Chief Secretary of the Academic Committee of the China Society of Finance and Banking.

Dr. Yang is the recipient of numerous awards for his written work, including the Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2001 given by CASS;  in 1992 he was named one of “The State Outstanding Specialists with Remarkable Contributions to the Country,” an honor which was awarded by the State Council (China’s cabinet).

Dr. Yang is the author of 16 monographs on topics such as security markets, urban housing reform, capital markets, and financial globalization, and has produced over 300 essays and working papers.

PARKING - Please enter the Social Science Parking Structure at Campus Drive and Stanford. A Parking Attendant will be on duty at the kiosk. Charge is $8.00.

For additional information, please contact the Center for Asian Studies (949) 824-3344 or email scushman@uci.edu

May 21 , 2006

CAS Sponsored Chinese Music Gala: The Splendor of the Great Wall: An Enchanted Evening with Chinese Music and Dance

Oscar ZC Zhang
International Opera Artist

with the UCI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Tucker and the Irvine Chinese Chorus

Sunday, May 21, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Irvine Barclay Theatre

Ticket Prices: $100 / $50 / $40

For more information, see flyer (PDF file)

April 26 , 2006

CAS Co-Sponsored Music Event: Traditional Music Today: P'ansori

Chan E. Park
Assistant Professor
Ohio State University

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall, UC Irvine

Free and Open to the Public

P’ansori is a musical form where a solo performer sings a story accompanied by a puk, a barrel-shaped drum.  The program consists of a lecture of about 50 minutes, a p’ansori demonstration that lasts 5-10 minutes and a mini-workshop of about 30 minutes.  Professor Park discusses the Korean musical heritage as part of Northeast Asian traditions, underscoring Korea’s distinct areas of cultural convergence and divergence.
 
Please contact Shirley Field at 949-824-4281 or safield@uci.edu for directions.

Click here for flyer.

April 20, 2006

CAS Co-sponsored Lecture : The Blue Tin Trunk: Archiving Women's Lives

Uma Chakravarti
Historian
University of Delhi

Thursday, April 20, 2006
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
300 Krieger Hall

Uma Chakravarti is a historian and activist, and authored The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism Oxoford UP, 1987; Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai with Kali For Women, Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens, Stree, Kolkata, 2004, and co-edited From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender, published by the Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Shimla in 2000 and Shadow Lives: Writings on Widowhood, published by Kali for Women, Delhi in 2001.

Uma Chakravarti has also been part of collaborative academic and democratic interventions on community strife and the complicity of the state in violence against particular segments of society, and has co-authored an oral history of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots titled The Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation. Her most recent involvement in this capacity has been with the International Initiative on Justice for Gujarat, an international feminist Tribunal that heard testimonies of survivors of the Gujarat carnage of 2002 whose report was published in December 2003.

Co-sponsored with the UCI Women's Studies Program and the History Department.

April 7, 2006

Southeast Asian Interest Group Panel: The Dynamics of Social Capital: Improving Environmntal Policy in Southeast Asian Cities

Professor Amrita Daniere
Professor of Geography
University of Toronto

Professor Lois Takahashi
Professor, Department of Planning
UCLA

Friday, April 7
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Social Ecology I, Room 225

For more information about this seminar and other upcoming seminars related to Southeast Asia please check the group's website.

March 30, 2006

CAS Co-sponsored Faculty Workshop : The Political Psychology of Religious Nationalism

Catarina Kinnvall
University of Lund, Sweden

Thursday, March 30, 2006
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Social Science Plaza B, Eckstein Common Room, 5250
A light lunch will be served

Professor Kinnvall will discuss examples from the 2002 Gujarat massacre in India to anti-Muslim sentiments in the West in light of the war on terror and Islamic fundamentalism.

Jointly sponsored with The UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, International Studies, Religious Studies, Program in Political Psychology, UC Irvine Difficult Dialogues Project, Conflict Resolution Program, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies.

Please RSVP to Sandy Cushman scushman@uci.edu or 949-824-3344

March 8 , 2006

CAS Co-Sponsored Talk:"Law, Sexuality and Feminism in India: Post-gender politics in the 1990s "

Nivedita Menon
Reader, Department of Political Science
University of Delhi

Wednesday, March 8, 2006
12:00 noon to 2:00
Krieger Hall, Room 300E

This talk is co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, the Center for Asian Studies, and the Center for Law, Culture and Society

For more information, contact Danielle McClellan, Academic Coordinator, Women's Studies &  Asian American Studies ( 949-824-8582 or mcclelld@uci.edu)

March 3-5, 2006

CAS Co-Sponsored Conference:  Gender Politics and Women’s Biographical Tradition in China

March 3-5, 2006
Inn at Laguna

This is an international and interdisciplinary conference to study the history of Chinese women’s biography. Originally canonized in 32 BCE, the Chinese repertoire of women’s life stories has been continuously supplemented, reconfigured, and re-appropriated in various textual forms over the succeeding centuries and up to the present day. As a crucial index of normative and cultural change and a barometer of the shifting contours of prescriptive femininity in China at different historical junctures, this body of biographical texts affords us a vital entry point for retrieving the (albeit highly mediated) historical experiences of Chinese women. We seek to understand the precise sets of norms and conventions whose repeated citations through these biographies construct the collective meanings of women and men as categories of identity. We intend to refine and develop analytical tools that address the cultural and historical specificity of the Chinese tradition.

The conference brings a range of analytical angles and an array of historical and regional expertise to bear on the complexities, depth, and breadth of the Chinese biographical tradition. Historians will be engaged with archival works that unearth the largely unrecognized wealth of material used in the textual and visual productions of these biographies. Literary scholars will discuss issues related to specific narrative modes and conventions of representation. Art historians will shed light on traditions and deviations in visual depictions of exemplary women.

The conference is generously funded by ALCS/CCK, UC Pacific Rim Program,
the Center for Asian Studies and the Humanities Center at UC Irvine.

For more information, contact Hu Ying (huying@uci.edu)

February 24, 2006

Talk:  When and Why is Illegal Immigration a Security Threat?

Kamal Sadiq (CAS)
Department of Political Science
                         
Friday, February 24, 2006
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
777 Social Science Tower

Presented by The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Cindy Ordoñez with any questions at 949/824-6410 or cindy@uci.edu

February 23 , 2006

CAS Panel: Funded Graduate Student Presentations IV

Center graduate students who received CAS funding last summer will report some of their findings. All CAS members are encouraged to attend.

Wai Kit Choi (Sociology)
Marie Adams Dolembo (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Ting Jiang (Sociology)

Thursday, February 23, 2006
2:30 to 3:30 pm
Social Science Plaza B, Room 5206

February 23 , 2006

CAS Co-sponsored Lecture: Globalized Domestic Work and Female Representation in Contemporary Women’s Films in the Phlippines

Roland B. Tolentino
Professor
University of the Philippines Film Institute

Thursday, February 23, 2006
11:00 a.m. – 1 p.m.
137 Humanities Instructional Building

Co-sponsored with the Asian Cinema Studies Group, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of Film and Media Studies.  

For a flyer with more details, click here.

Post-event message from Bliss Cua Lim:
"I wanted to take a moment to thank you for making possible Roland Tolentino's wonderful, productive lecture and visit yesterday.  Pedagogically and politically, I think that Roland's project on the cinematic mythology of Overseas Filipino Workers is really vital and eye-opening for students; this is a truly important cultural-critical intervention. Also, the really vibrant discussion that followed, with faculty from East Asian, Comp Lit, and FMS and students from various Asian cinema classes was I think very thoughtful, engaged, and energetic."

February 15, 2006

CAS Co-Sponsored Colloquium: Why has the Ruling LDP Stayed in Power so Long in Japan?  Democratic System Support and Electoral Behavior

Aiji Tanaka (CAS Visiting Scholar)
Professor of Political Science
Waseda University

Wednesday, February 15
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
SSPB 5206

A light lunch will be served.  Please RSVP by Monday, February 13th
to Carole Nightengale at cnighten@uci.edu or 824-2904

February 15, 2006

CAS Co-Sponsored Concert Event: Junoon

The Center and the Department of Anthropology will host Junoon, a Pakistani rock band, an event that includes a talk and movie preceding the evening concert.  The schedule is as follows: 

Talk:  Salman Ahmed, Musician and member of Junoon
“Music and Religion in Pakistan Today”
1:00 to 3:00 pm
SSPB, Room 4250 (Anthropology Department Library)

Film screening:  The Rockstar and the Mullah
3:00 to 5:00 pm
The movie will be followed by a discussion with the audience

Concert by Junoon
7:00 pm

Salman Ahmad is a 21st Century musician who has woven his talent, ethnic traditions and life experiences into a musical force for healing and reconciliation.  A Pakistani American raised in Rockland County, NY, Salman has fused traditional musical forms, Sufi poetry, “classic rock sounds” and hot guitar licks into the sound of South Asia’s most successful pop group, Junoon. 

For more than 10 years Junoon has filled stadiums across India, Pakistan and all their diasporic communities across the globe. Junoon has waged a campaign to unify a subcontinent in the throws of conflict as it grows and redefines its future; and the junoonis, as their fans are called, have thrown off the constraints of political borders and divisive and religious intolerance to rally to this message.

For those of you who love world music, Infiniti and the many other CDs released by Salman Ahmad and Junoon should go to the top of your “must have” list.  Junoon which is Urdu for “passion,” creates music that is a marriage of traditional form and contemporary application; and like so much of the best of folk traditions, the music’s
joyous energy is dedicated to messages of social justice and peaceful empowerment.  The exotic rhythms and melodies, evoking Sufi ritual dance traditions, inspire even old folkies to get up and boogie.  For more information go to their website: www.junoon.com.

Post-Event Message from Karen Leonard on Junoon

When the Pakistani rock band Junoon came to UCI on February 15, CAS and the Department of Anthropology co-hosted a luncheon and talk by Salman Ahmad, the band's lead singer, who spoke informally from 1:30 to 3 pm about his life and the band's history.  Born and brought up to age five in Pakistan, Ahmad later lived in the US, where he completed high school, but he returned to Pakistan for a medical degree from Lahore's King Edward Medical College.  He joined Pakistan's first pop band, Vital Signs, and then left medicine to found Junoon, South Asia's biggest rock band, in 1990.  He was a wonderful speaker and almost twenty people attended his talk.  We hope to invite him back, along with others, for a Music for Peace program.

November 18, 2005

CAS Panel: Funded Graduate Student Presentations III

Center graduate students who received CAS funding will report some of their findings to the CAS community. All CAS members are encouraged to attend.

Stephen Chung (East Asian Language and Literature)
Titus Chen (Political Science)
Duy Nguyen (Comparative Literature)
Tsui-o Tai (Sociology)

Friday, November 18, 2005
1:30 to 3:30 pm
Social Science Plaza B, Room 5206

November 17, 2005

Film Event: Films of Kimi Takesue

Special Guest: Filmmaker Kimi Takesue to appear in person.

Summer of the Serpent
2004, US (27 minutes)

Heaven's Crossroad
2002, US (35 minutes)

E=NYC squared
2005, US (5 minutes)

Introduction by Glen Mimura of UCI Asian-American Studies. A short question and answer session with the director will occur between the films.

Thursday, November 17th, 2005
7:00 pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100
(Tickets: $5 / $4 UCI staff and faculty / $3 students)

For more information, visit the Film and Video Center at UCI.

November 15, 2005

CAS Co-sponsored Talk: Non-Profit Work in Vietnam

Le Ly Hayslip

Tuesday, November 15
12:00 noon
Cross Cultural Center

Le Ly Hayslip is author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace. She has founded East Meets West, and Global Village Foundations, organizations dedicated to rebuilding Vietnam and establishing world peace. She will be signing books and talking about her non-profit work in Vietnam and others parts of South and Southeast Asia.

November 10, 2005

CAS Co-sponsored Film: A State of Mind

2004, North Korea/United Kingdom (in English and Korean with English subtitles)
Directed by Daniel Gordon

Thursday, November 10th, 2005
7:00 pm
Humanities Instructional Building Room 100
( Tickets $5 / $4 UCI staff and faculty / $3 students)

Co-sponsored with The Film and Video Center at UCI

Introduction by CAS member Chungmoo Choi, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature

For further details, please visit the Film and Video Center at UCI.

November 3 , 2005

CAS Regional Dinner Seminar: Japan

The third regional dinner seminar will honor CAS member Robert Garfias. Professor Garfias is the recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun from the government of Japan. The dinner will include a presentation by Professor Garfias

Asian Music Traditions in Transition: My Observations of a Half Century

Thursday, November 3, 2005
7:00 to 9:00 pm
University Club Library, UC Irvine

For reservations, please follow this link to our invitation. For more information, please contact Sandra Cushman at scushman@uci.edu or 949-824-3771.

November 3 , 2005

CAS Co-sponsored Talk: “Jihadi Terrorism in Thailand: The Crisis in the South"

Robert Albritton

Thursday, November 3
12:30-2:00 pm
5206 SSPB

Co-sponsored by the UCI Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD).

Event includes lunch. Please RSVP to Carole Nightengale of the CSD

October 27, 2005

Talk:  Overview of US-Vietnam Relations

Michael W. Marine
U.S. Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:30 am
Cross-Cultural Center Conference Room

Presented by the Cross-Cultural Center

During his visit to UC Irvine, Ambassador Marine plans to provide a general overview of the state of bilateral relations, including the Vietnamese Prime Minister's historic visit to the U.S. in June, Vietnam's preparation to become a member of the WTO, and next year's APEC summit in Hanoi, which President Bush will be attending. He will also explain the U.S. Mission in Vietnam with regards to promoting mutual understanding through public diplomacy outreach, assisting Vietnam to combat HIV/AIDS and avian influenza, military cooperation and promoting human rights and religious freedom. The Ambassador is also interested in addressing the concerns of the community and listening to their feedback.

October 27, 2005

Film Event: Films of Kim Soyoung

Special Guest: Director Kim Soyoung will appear in person.

Koryu: Southern Women/South Korea
2000, South Korea (in Korean with English Subtitles)

I'll Be Seeing Her
2003, South Korea (in Korean with English Subtitles)

Thursday, October 27th
7:00 pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100
(Tickets: $5 / $4 UCI staff and faculty / $3 students)

A discussion will follow the screenings.

For more information, visit the UCI Film and Video Center.

October 6, 2005

Seminar: “Smart Growth or Dumb Growth in China: Transportation and Urban Development Choices in the World's Fastest Growing Large Economy"

Michael Woo
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California

12:30-1:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Social Ecology I, Room 306