Spring 2008 Events
"'The Global War on Terror', Geopolitical Boundary Narratives, and Border Fencing in India and Bangladesh"
Reece Jones, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin at Madison January 14, 2008, Monday 2:30 PM Toy Lounge, 4th Floor Dey Building The border between India and Bangladesh in the region of Bengal was created in 1947 with the partition of British India. Despite the religious justifications for the partition, the populations along the border speak the same language and follow similar cultural practices. The border remained open and lightly guarded for its first fifty years of existence, which allowed many social and economic connections to be maintained across the border. However, in the past five years, India has unilaterally fenced and securitized the entire 4000 km border. Drawing on ethnographic research with residents of the Bengal borderlands, Reece Jones analyzes the boundary narratives from the ‘global war on terror’ that are used to justify the border fence and examines the consequences the strict patrolling of the borderlands has on the lives of local populations in terms of social, economic, and political connections across the border. In the conclusion, Jones emphasizes the importance of geopolitical boundary narratives in the categorizing and ordering processes of modernity. |
Chinese Acupuncture by Professor Fuchun Wang Changchun University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Thursday January 17, 2008 6:30 PM Hanes Art 215 All are welcome! Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies For more information, contact Ms. Yi Zhou, yizh@email.unc.edu |
Faces of Change: Documentary Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Thursday, January 24 5PM - FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1015 The Carolina Women's Center is pleased to present the North Carolina premiere of Faces of Change as part of the Twenty-Seventh Annual MLK Birthday Celebration. This powerful documentary features grassroots activists from different corners of the world who go behind the camera to find a voice denied to them because of their social, racial, gender, or ethnic background. Director Michele Stephenson armed five activists with cameras and sent them to explore their commuities in Brazil, India, Mauritania, Bulgaria and the United States in preparation for the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. These unique video dispatches relay the stunning commonalitiesof the participants' histories and experiences. Discussion with the filmmaker to follow. For a full schedule of MLK week events, see http://www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk. Co-sponsored by the Carolina Women's Center, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, African Studies Center, Center for Global Initiatives, Curriculum in International and Area Studies, Curriculum in Women's Studies, University Program in Cultural Studies, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Institute for African American Research, Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Sonja Hanes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. |
Modernist Encounters: Rachel Bluwstein and Avraham Shlonsky on the Pages of Musaf Davar |
The Prose of Testimony: H.N. Bialik in the City of Slaughter |
Jan 30 - FedEx Global Education Center Jan 31 and Feb 1 - Carolina Club University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FREE REGISTRATION Peking University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
"Hong Kong-Owned Factories in Thailand: Labor Relations and Practices"
Friday, February 1st with Dr. Kevin Hewison, Director of the Carolina Asia Center and Professor in the Department of Asian Studies This presentation will be held in Saunders 220 between 3:30 and 5:00 pm, with refreshments starting at 3:15 pm. |
| Salvage Cinema: Memory, Reconciliation, and Irony in the Films of Second-Generation Mizrahi Immigrants |
Hmong Nite: A Cultural Experience
Feb. 9, 7-8:30pm, Stone Center OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND FREE! As refugees from SE Asia following the end of the Vietnam War, the Hmong have developed various communities throughout the U.S. Come learn about their culture through dance, music, fashion, and current social issues. Admission is FREE! Sponsored by the Hmong Student Association of Carolina and the Carolina Asia Center. |
Beyond the Border of North Korea - A UNC-CH and Duke Event - Feb 17-19 Sunday, Feb. 17 Monday, Feb. 18 Tuesday, Feb. 19 *Attending both Part 1 and Part 2 is strongly encouraged. |
MAO’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A MAOIST APPRECIATION AND CRITICAL EVALUATION A Talk by Raymond Lotta Thursday, March 27, 3:30 PM Gardner Hall, Room 105 The conventional story line about Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76) is one of chaos, senseless violence, and mass persecution. In a provocative lecture, Raymond Lotta will argue that this narrative massively distorts the real goals, character, and remarkable achievements of the Cultural Revolution. Viewing this revolution in historical perspective, Lotta will also address real shortcomings and problems of the Cultural Revolution. Raymond Lotta will show that the Cultural Revolution was a “revolution within revolution” that involved millions of people in intense debate and struggle over the direction of society…that led to more popularly-based governing structures…and that resulted in innovative and empowering changes in the health care and educational systems and other social institutions. Lotta will address challenges involved in creating an emancipatory socialism. He will explore some of the problems in how the Cultural Revolution approached issues of art; intellectuals in the revolutionary process; dissent; and questions of class, class background, and the search for the truth. Anyone interested in the history of the Chinese revolution; the lessons, positive and negative, from the Cultural Revolution; and the prospects for creating a just and liberating society--should be provoked and stimulated by this talk. Raymond Lotta is a political economist and author of America in Decline and Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism. He has appeared on Book TV, the BBC, and Pacifica Radio. His writings have been reviewed in Foreign Affairs and China Quarterly. |
Audit Cultures: Neoliberal Governmentality, Socialist Legacy or Technologies of Governing? Dr. Andrew Kipnis, Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, will speak for the UNC Anthropology Department's colloquium series on Monday, March 31st. This paper analyses the social process of performance audits in a variety of cases in China, other postsocialist nations and an American workplace with Chinese immigrants. Though the processes share many commonalities, the ideological evaluations of the processes by the people involved are often diametrically opposed to those by anthropological analysts. The Chinese workers often describe the performance audits as “socialist”, while the anthropological analysts tend to see them as a form of “neoliberal” governmentality. This paper uses these contradictory evaluations to develop a critique of the governmentality school’s definition of neoliberalism, especially as articulated by Nikolas Rose. Building on the comparative analysis of the performance audit cases, it concludes with a call for a more classic anthropological approach to the study of audit cultures. |
2008 SPRING LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM Underling Invited Speaker: OTHER TALKS "Variations in Sonority Rankings: Gliding of Fricatives" "Plural Markings in Classifier Languages" "Generic Singular Definite Nominal Phrases in Spanish: A Notional Account" "Teaching Spanish Phonetics: A Pedagogical Approach Based on Markedness" "Nascent Futures in Hungarian" "Discussion on the Use of the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle in Chinese" Direct questions and comments to: The Spring Colloquium is sponsored in part by the Graduate and Professional Student Federation of UNC. |
Asian Studies Senior Honors Colloquium Wednesday, April 9, 6-8 pm, in New West 219 A presentation of original thesis research by seniors graduating with honors. Asian Studies students who have won other awards and distinctions throughout the past year will also be recognized. Refreshments will be served. Presenters and topics include: Catherine Adamson: International Dykes: Identity and Community Among Queer Gaijin Women in Tokyo Liz Carter: Revisiting the Wei Hui Phenomenon: Textual and Contextual Analysis Tabitha Disher: Drumming Up Memories: Postwar Trauma and Identity in Borchert, Dazai, Grass, and Kurosawa Katie Lawhon: Anne of Green Gables: Romanticizing and Constraining Girlhood in North America and Japan John Rudd: Latent Modernity: Butterfly Literature and the Shanghai Literary Community Sara Schooley: Little Mosque on the Prairie: An Antidote to the Negative Image of Muslims? Jim Wilson: Perspectives in Chinese Intellectual Circles: An Introduction to the Intellectual Debate around the Property Rights Law |
The Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute presents
A Conversation on Tibet 7:00-8:30pm, Monday, April 14, 2008 -Social Sciences 136, Duke University West Campus
with: Gang Yue, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu/~yuegang/ Tashi Rabgey, Director of Contemporary Tibetan Studies Initiative, University of Virginia http://www.virginia.edu/deallc/documents/T.Rabgey.pdf Scott Savitt (Duke ’85), former foreign correspondent in Beijing for Los Angeles Times and United Press International [And possibly: Losang Rabgey, Emerging Explorer at National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/losang-rabgey.html ] moderated by Ralph Litzinger, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology; Director, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University http://www.duke.edu/~rlitz/
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The Feminist Movement in Jordan: Success and Failures
A Lecture by Dr. Rula Quawas April 15, 5:00 pm This event is made possible by the generous support of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, the Center for Global Initiatives, the Curriculum in American Studies, the Curriculum in International Studies, and the Department of Asian Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as Duke University. |
A Korea-US Symposium on Race, Culture and Policy April 18, 2008 Co-sponsored by the Latino/a Studies at Duke University and Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at Kyung Hee University Questions should be directed to Myoung Ah Shin; <mashin56@hotmail.com> |
Franco/Arab Cultures Today: Developments, Dialogues, and Challenges The goal of this conference is to initiate a dialogue between the fields of Francophone and Franco-Arabic Studies in Europe, in the former French colonies and mandates, and in the US. In what ways and to what extent have these disciplines come into contact with one another over the past three decades: literature, cinema, music, and visual arts? What intellectual, pedagogical, ideological and cultural frameworks have shaped comparative scholarly inquiries into these disciplines? Our objective is to better understand the current state of scholarship into Franco-Arabic cultures, and to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to reflect upon the intersections, challenges and future of Franco-Arabic and Francophone cultures. For a full event program, visit http://www.unc.edu/francoarabic/index.html |
"Creative Culture & Creative Commons: Web 2.0 in China" Monday, April 21, 2008 For additional information, call 684-2604 or visit www.duke.edu/APSI Sponsored by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Department of Asian and |
Chinese Traditional Instrument Ensemble to Perform at UNC
April 25, Friday, 7:00 PM, FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Fedex Global Education Center Nelson Mandela Auditorium The NC-RTP Chinese Traditional Instrument Ensemble, comprised of 13 musicians originally from China, will perform on a variety of traditional bowed-strings, plucked-strings, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The hour-long performance will be preceded by an introduction by Ms. Zhixin Lin and Dr. Li-ling Hsiao. For ensemble information see http://www.duke.edu/~xchun/My%20band.htm. Sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center and the Department of Asian Studies. For more information contact Robin Visser rvisser@email.unc.edu or Li-ling Hsiao hsiaoll@email.unc.edu |
New Korean Music – Eun Il Kang and Haegumplus - Remembering the Future
4pm, Sunday, April 27, 2008 Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University Adults – $15 Tickets are available through the Duke Box Office. You may purchase them at the Bryan Center or online http://cam06.auxserv.duke.edu/peo/default.asp Type in “Korean” or “Haegumplus” in the search filed in the upper right for online purchases. Haegumplus is a hybrid fusion group that performs with traditional Korean and western instruments. The group is led by Ms. Eun Il Kang, known to be the pioneer of "cross-over music" with the Korean traditional instrument called the haegum. Kang is known for her international performances with world renowned artists, such as Bobby McFerrin, Luciano Pavarotti and the Yoshida brothers, to name a few. Haegumplus' performance raises the bar in fusion sophistication. The concert will be followed by a Q&A with an ethnomusicologist specializing in Korean music. This concert is presented by the Korea Foundation, with support from the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Korea Forum at Duke University, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development, the Center for International Studies, the Department of Asian & African Languages and Literature, and the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute. Contact Cindy Carlson at he Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at cindy.carlson@duke.edu or 668-2280 with questions. |
THROUGH THIS LENS: "Full of Grace" by Ami Vitale Now showing through May 6, 2008 Special artist's reception with informal gallery talk presented by the artist Thursday, March 27, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. From the conflict in Kashmir, India, to the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, to the sands of Egypt , Ami Vitale's award-winning images capture the moments of beauty and strength of spirit of people living in desperate situations and savage climates. Admission is FREE |
Memories of the Mountain, Calling of the Sea - Formosa (Taiwan) Aboriginal Songs and Dances Taiwan (Formosa) was the homeland of the Austronesian people. These Taiwanese performers of this magnificent indigenous cultural heritage will evoke memories of the mountain and calling of the sea from their ancestry and present you with a stunning tapestry of exceptional songs and dances from their unique repertoire. A show is for the entire family to enjoy and appreciate! |
Last updated: 2 May 2008