Asian Film Series: Lagaan: Once upon a time in India / February 4, 2010 at 6:00 pm; Feburary 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm
The next film in the Asian Film Series, co-hosted by Asian Studies and the Palmer Museum of Art is coming up! Director Ashutosh Gowariker's blockbuster Bollywood hit Lagaan: Once upon a time in India was nominated for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. In this energetic and cinematically gorgeous film, villagers oppressed by high land taxes rise up in revolt against their British colonizers, gambling the survival of their town on their ability to gain victory in that most brutal of sports—cricket. Introduction before and conversation after the Thursday, Feb 4 screening will be hosted by Sumita Raghuram, associate professor of labor studies and Asian studies.
The final film in the series is Sukiyaki Western Django (February 18 2010 and February 21, 2010). This and all films in the series screen in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
Asian Film Series: Kung Fu Hustle / January 14, 2010 at 7:00 pm; January 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm
The Asian Studies Program and Palmer Art Museum present Kung Fu Hustle, director Stephen Chow's hilarious send-up of 1940s Shanghai gang culture. The film is an immaculately choreographed martial arts extravaganza in which two rival syndicates battle for control of Pig Sty Alley. Will the neighborhood's local heroes—Coolie, Tailor, and Donut—be able to save the day? Be ready to laugh your heart out as you watch them try. Discussion after the film on Thursday hosted by Alex Huang, assistant professor of comparative literature and Asian studies.
The upcoming films in the series are Lagaan (February 4, 2010 and February 7, 2010) and Sukiyaki Western Django (February 18 2010 and February 21, 2010). This and all films in the series screen in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
Upcoming Events
French Exoticism, March 19-20, 2010. Featuring Christopher Bush (Northwestern University), Stephanie Tsai (Tamkang University/Cornell University), and Richard Fogarty (SUNY - Albany).
Careers in Asia talk, April 9, 2010, featuring Stephen Greer (author of Starting from Scrap: An Entrepreneurial Success Story).
Early Texts workshop, May 17-18, 2010.
About the Program
Welcome to the Asian Studies Program at Penn State.
Asian Studies offers undergraduate majors in Asian Studies, Chinese, and Japanese, and minors in those same fields. We also offer four semesters of Korean and Hindi.
Asian Studies offers dual-title PhD degrees in a number of fields. These interdisciplinary degree programs will draw on programmatic strengths in East and South Asian history, East-West compartative literature, religious studies, comparative politics, political economy, the literature and history of the Asian diaspora, comparative colonialism and ethnicity, and historical and cultural linguistics. If all goes well, we hope to begin enrolling students in Fall 2010. Please check back here for updates.
Our award-winning, widely published faculty have research interests in a wide variety of fields, including Islam in China, the Ryukyu Islands, the architecture of the Indian city, Mughal political culture, East-West comparative literature, Confucian philosophy, contemporary Asian American fiction, medieval Japanese Buddhism, the history of Empire, the politics of democratization, and more. They come from a wide range of disciplines, including Applied Linguistics, Art and Art History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, History & Religious Studies, International Affairs, Labor Studies & Employment Relations, Political Science, and Women's Studies.
Information on this website may change rapidly over the course of the 2010-11 academic year. Please check for updates before relying on its content.
