Gene Luen Yang, “Why Comics?”
Gene Luen Yang, author of the acclaimed graphic novel American Born Chinese will present”Why Comics?” on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 4 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library. Yang is the latest novelist to visit the Libraries as part of the popular Graphic Novel Speaker Series, which in the past has brought in Harvey Pekar, Phoebe Gloeckner, […]
Yu-Han Chao Reading
Yu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. Her poetry collection, We Grow Old, is available with The Backwaters Press and her short story collection, Passport Baby, is forthcoming with Rockway Press. Her prose and poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Cream City Review, Zyzzyva, and many other venues. She received her MFA from Penn […]
Mapping J-Theory
A rare and historic occasion, bringing critics AZUMA Hiroki and MIYADAI Shinji together in dialogue with North American scholars for the first time outside of Japan, with meetings at the Association for Asian Studies (Chicago, March 29), the University of Texas (Austin, March 30), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, April 1), and Penn State […]
Andrew Leonard
Journalist and author Andrew Leonard (Salon.com) will be speaking on “How the World Works: From the economics of Star Trek to China and Back Again,” from 4:15-5:30 pm on Thursday, Sept 24 in 111 Chambers. On Friday Sept 25 he will be speaking as part of the “Careers in Asia” series from 12:20-2:00 in 113 […]
Global Asias in Historical Perspectives
In Os Lusiadas, the 16th century Portuguese national epic, Luiz Camões’s poetic hero, Vasco da Gama, dreams up a meeting with two old men who foretell the Portuguese imperial destiny in India. Personifications of the rivers Ganges and Indus, the spent senility of South Asia serves only to highlight the youthful confidence of Portugal, conqueror […]
Asian Film Series: Kung Fu Hustle
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 […]
Asian Film Series: Lagaan: Once upon a time in India
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 […]
Asian Film Series: Sukiyaki Western: Django
Talks and Symposia
The French Exotic, 124 Sparks, 12:30-5:00, March 19, 2010. Featuring Christopher Bush (Northwestern University), Stephanie Tsai (Tamkang University/Cornell University), Richard Fogarty (SUNY – Albany), and Chris Reed and Jennifer Boittin (both from Penn State University). Careers in Asia talk, April 9, 2010, featuring Stephen Greer (author of Starting from Scrap: An Entrepreneurial Success Story). Early […]
“Sustainable Asia: Challenges and Opportunities,”
“Sustainable Asia: Challenges and Opportunities,” the 2010 conference of The Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies! The age of localization and globalization compels us to ask and seek answers to the questions of sustainability across many fields. This year’s conference features sessions and papers that expand our understanding of related issues, informed by a geographically […]