“Translating Calligraphy,”Abé Markus Nornes, University of Michigan: Talk at the Comparative Literature Luncheon
Calligraphy and cinema have an intimate relationship in East Asia. Indeed, the ubiquity of the brushed word in cinema is one element that actually ties works in Korean, Japanese and Sinophone Asia together as a regional cinema. On first glance, cinema and calligraphy would appear as radically different art forms. On second glance, they present […]
Monsoon Wedding (directed by Mira Nair, 2001)
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India. This film is part of the Center for Global Studies South Asian film series.
Fire (directed by Deepa Mehta, 1996)
Sita (Nandita Das) and Radha (Shabana Azmi) are two Indian women stuck in loveless marriages. While Sita is trapped in an arranged relationship with her cruel and unfaithful husband, Jatin (Jaaved Jaafei), Radha is married to his brother, Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a religious zealot who believes in suppressing desire. As the two women recognize their […]
What is Asia?
Earth (directed by Deepa Mehta, 1998)
It’s 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence. This film is part of the Center for Global Studies South Asian film series.
Asian Studies Seminar
Asian Studies Invites you to a Seminar on The Relevance of Gandhian Values in a Changing World: A Text-Based approachSpeaker: Prof. Nandita Mohapatra, Nehru-Fulbright Scholar, 2015-2016
Water (directed by Deepa Mehta, 2005)
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of […]
Utopias on Display: Visions of Past and Future in Modern Japan (A Global Asias Workshop)
Throughout the modern period and continuing to the present day, displays of the products of Japanese culture and industry, from high art to public infrastructure, have performed a dual role: promoting idealized images of Japan to international audiences, while educating the Japanese public about what the country can and should become. Exhibits of Japan have […]
Indian Oceanologies
View the Indian Oceanologies conference website! Indian Ocean studies’ (re)emergence since the 1980s has offered approaches for going beyond the nation-state, dismantling boundaries between area studies, and a way of thinking about global, pre-colonial, and colonial worlds as connected histories. The study of the contemporary Indian Ocean has just begun to play a part in […]
A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympics History
Please join us as journalist Seth Berkman, born in Seoul and raised in New Jersey, discusses his new book. Based on his experiences while on assignment for the New York Times at the 2018 Winter Olympics, he chronicles the debut of a Korean national hockey team that drew players from both sides of the 38th […]