October 5, 2010
On Monday, Oct. 4, nine Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in Southern India performed an opening consecration ceremony of sacred dance and chanting in the Emerson Gallery atrium before beginning their creation of a sand mandala of compassion. This ancient tradition is a reminder of the Buddhist concept of impermanence.
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January 14, 2010
Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi has been elected the 2010 vice president and the 2011 president of the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia (SAHSA), a group soon to be an affiliated society of the American Historical Association (AHA). Although there has been a caucus of historians of South Asia for some time in the AHA, the founding of SAHSA nearly three years ago marked a significant change in the visibility of South Asia within the discipline's premier professional organization.
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November 3, 2009
Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori gave an invited talk, “The
Benshi as a Modernist: Tokugawa Musei and Psychological Films of the Early Twentieth Century,” at SUNY Binghamton on Oct. 30. Omori focused on the golden age of benshi, or silent film live narrators, who performed during the 1920s, an era that also saw the rise of modernist movements in Japanese art and literature.
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September 23, 2009
Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin gave a workshop on CFL Classroom Elicitation and Teachers' Questioning Strategies at Arizona State University on Sept. 18. The workshop was jointly sponsored by ASU's Chinese Language Flagship Program, the ASU Chinese Program, the ASU Confucius Institute, and the Chinese School of Greater Phoenix Area.
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August 22, 2009
Anna C. Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, has published
a book review of Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s translation of
Hoshruba: The Land and the Tilism in the
Annual of Urdu.
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August 11, 2009
Anna C. Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, has authored a video-based Turkish language learning module for a three-year Department of Education International Research and Studies Program grant.
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May 15, 2008
Chris Vasantkumar, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, delivered a paper titled "Merely (About) Minzu?: Marginal Han, Whiteness Studies and the Symptoms of Social Difference in Contemporary Northwest China" at the first Critical Han Studies Conference at Stanford University April 25-27.
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