EVENTS ARCHIVE

FALL-WINTER-SPRING 2007-2008

Co-sponsored Event with
East Asian Languages and Literatures

Japanese Cultural Showcase

Saturday May 10, 2008

1:004:30pm
HIB 100
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Shaly Vijayam
Dancer and Master Teacher of Bharata Natyam

Bharata Natyam Performance

April 24, 2008
3:00 pm
Nixon Theatre

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Post-show discussin and reception

Co-sponsored Event with

Southeast Asian Interest Group, Department of Sociology, and Department of Planning Policy and Design

Professor Nancy Peluso

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCBerkeley

Thursday, April 24, 2008

12:30-1:30 pm

Social Ecology I, Room 112
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Gender, Connectivity, and Change in the Gulf Arab (GCC)

April 18-19, 2008
States, Organized by graduate students Neha Vora (UCI) and Attiya Ahmad (Duke).
Co-sponsors: Center for Asian Studies, Center for Ethnography, Department of Anthropology, Department of Women’s Studies, International Center for Writing and Translation, Working Group in the Middle Eastern and African Studies, UC Humanities Research Institute.

SSPA 2112

Co-sponsored Event with
Department of History

April 14, 2008
Dr. Dilip Menon

Reader in Modern Indian History at Delhi University

Lecture:

"A Local Cosmopolitan: Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe for Kerala c. 1930"

2:00pm - 126 Krieger Hall

Hwang Oak SOH

Lecture and Exhibition of Korean Dress for men and women

Wednesday April 9, 2008
Noon, Humanities Institutional Building (HIB 135)

RSVP by April 4, 2008
Sandy Cushman 949-824-3344
scushman@uci.edu

Mark Selden

Center for Asian Studies and Department of Sociology

Talk
War Atrocities, Historical Memory, and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific: From Nanjing to Abu Ghraib

March 25, 2008

12:00 noon-1:30 pm
SSPB 5206
RSVP by March 21, 2008
Sandy Cushman 949-824-3344
scushman@uci.edu

In his lecture to over 30 faculty and students in SSPB 5250 at noon on Tuesday, March 25, Mark Selden, distinguished author and editor of the e-journal Japan Focus discussed the controversies that continue to swirl around the Nanjing Massacre, the military comfort women, and other Japanese military atrocities rooted in the Asia Pacific War. He then juxtaposed what the Japanese army did to a number of high profile war atrocities committed by American soldiers in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq in an effort to understand the myopia and resistance to recognition and acceptance of their actions on the part of perpetrators. This resistance may be traced above all to nationalism or national pride, but it is also the product of interstate relations. It is not the exclusive property of a single nation. Rather, it is a global phenomenon, albeit one whose consequences are notably acute for certain nations. A question raised throughout the talk was what explains the fact that Japanese denial and refusal to provide compensation to victims has long been the subject of sharp domestic and international contention, while the United States has faced relatively little criticism or recrimination for its denial of atrocities?

The talk sparked a lively discussion on signature moments in modern warfare that continued after the formal end of the talk at 2 pm.

This talk was co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the Department of Sociology.

Rural China: from Late Imperial to Contemporary

Saturday, March 8, 2008

126 Murray Krieger Hall

UCIrvine

January 6, 2008 

   A Concert of Yamato Gaku

Social Science Lecture Hall at 3:00 pm  Admission is Free

With the kind assistance of the Japanese 'Ministry of Culture, the Center for Asian Studies is happy to present a very special concert of Yamato Gaku by several masters of that tradition. Yamato Gaku originated in the 1930's with important support of Baron Kishichiro Okura, a successful businessman, as an attempt to create a new Japanese music fitting the modern age.  While frequently such attempts to guide the direction of culture misfire, Baron Okura sought the assistance of the major musicians of the Nagauta, Kiyomoto, Kato bushi, etc. traditions and the result was a new music strongly rooted in established traditions but of great musical significance. Several musicians forming an ensemble of Japanese string, wind and percussion instruments and vocalists will perform and explain several compositions of this genre.

China Event
November 9, 2007

"Writing in and Writing about Modern Chinese Cities"

Krieger Hall 126 1:30-5:00

This event is loosely linked to a day-long workshop on "Rethinking China and Europe: Connections and Comparisons" sponsored by UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies that will be held on November 10 at UCLA and that will also feature Robert Bickers and Ruth Rogaski

Public Event

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CAS GRAD STUDENT REPORTS
Graduate Students recently given awards by CAS for their research in Asia or on Asian topics reported on November 2 and 7, 2007 to each other and interested others about their work. The presentations and discussions were excellent.
The following students, with department and topic given, reported November 2:
Seo Young Park - Anthropology
'Korean and Migrant Factory Workers in Dongdaemun Market'
Tsui-o Tai - Sociology
'Child Poverty in Taiwan: an Internatinal Perspective'
Jennifer Liu - History
'Nationalism and Guomindang Policy on Secondary Education in Southwest China and Taiwan, 1937-1960
Michael Cronin - East Asian Languages and Literatures
'The City in the Japanese National Imaginary'

On November 7, six more students reported:

Lien Vu - Anthropology
'Film Production in Viet Nam's Contemporary Cinema Industry'
Tiffany Hong - East Asian Languages and Literatures
'Contemporary Japanese short fiction, novellas, and novels (Murakami Haruki)'
Neha Vora - Anthropology
'Expressions of belonging and non-beloonging among Indian Expatriates in Dubai'
Erica Vogel - Anthropology
'Ambiguous Legibility: Peruvian Migrant Workers in South Korea'
Titus Chen - Political Science
'Implementation of the Rule of Law and Western Participants in China's legal-judicial reform'
Huili Zheng - East Asian Languages and Literature
'Research - 17th and 18th Century Intellectual and Philosophical Issues'

Co-sponsored Event with

International Center for Writing and Translation

Global Conversations:

"A Festival of Marginalized Languages"

October 24-26, 2007

"Global Conversations: A Festival of Marginalized Languages" will celebrate conversation among and between languages. The conference will feature scholars, writers, performers, practitioners and activists who are involved in and passionate about the languages with which they work and live.  We will be focusing on examples of the revival, restoration and visibility of languages and cultures in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. We see this conference as an opportunity to reflect on how we can encourage conversation among and between languages in scholarship, activism, literature, teaching, and performance. We are coming together in order to be in conversation with one another and to be encouraged to go forward in these areas.

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The Group for the Study of Early Cultures

Brown Bag Lunch

Friday, October 19, 2007

12:00-2:00pm

HIB 137

Michael Fuller

"Theorizing Literary History and the Problem of Song Dynasty Poetry"

Drifting Amidst Rivers and Lakes
will be available on the Early Cultures website

Co-sponsored Event with

East Asian Languages and Literature

Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society

October 12-13, 2007

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With the generous support of the Center for Asian Studies, The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures hosted the 2007 meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society on October 12 and 13, 2007. Thirty-four scholars and fifteen graduate students coming from as far as Columbia Univerity and Hong Kong Baptist University attended the two-day conference. The twenty-eight papers (seven by graduate students) ranged from discussion of the technical language in the early Confucian text, the Spring and Autumn Annals, to Persian translations in the 10th Century, to woodblock illustrations in Ming dynasty popular texts. At the concluding banquet, outgoing president Jonathan Pease delivered a talk exploring the pleasures of reading poets who survive for posterity by having written just one highly popular poem.

Co-sponsored Event with

Southeast Asian Interest Group and Department of Planning Policy and Design

Professor Michael Douglass

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Thursday, October 11, 2007

12:30-1:30pm

Social Ecology I,

Room 112

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