East Asian Studies Program

Adrian Bennett: "Young J. Allen in 19th Century China: Advocate of Christianity and
Western Ideas But For What End?"
Brown Bag Talk, 12 noon, White Hall 200

This talk is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition, “China on My Mind: Young John Allen’s Journey From Emory to Shanghai”

Adrian Bennett is Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University, Department of History. He will discuss Young John Allen, an Emory graduate who went to China as a missionary in 1859. Allen found himself in Shanghai at a time when the church was unable to send him funds, so he supported himself by working in journalism and other secular fields in addition to preaching. His personal papers are housed at Emory and are the subject of an exhibition at Emory’s Oxford College.

Please bring your lunch. Cookies & sodas provided. This talk is co-sponsored by The East Asian Studies Program. For more information, call the Department of Religion at 404-727-7596.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

6:00pm-7:00pm
Music Department (Burlington Road Building), Room 108

Lecture-demonstration: Chinese Classical Music Traditions
Featuring:
Yang Chun (erhu, two-stringed bowed fiddle)
Zheng Wei (guzheng, sixteen-stringed plucked zither)
Yu Lixing (dizi, transverse bamboo flute)

For more information please contact Professor Tong Soon Lee, 404-727-6445, or via email at tslee@emory.edu

Monday, February 18, 2008

"China's Place in Law's World: China and the Making of Modern International Law"
Teemu Ruskola, Emory Law School
Brown Bag Talk, Noon, ICIS, Room 108, RSVP mshocke@emory.edu

February 28, 2008

"Japan's 19th Century Revolution: Rethinking the Meiji Restoration"
Mark Ravina, Department of History, Emory University
Brown Bag Talk, Noon, ICIS, Room 108, RSVP mshocke@emory.edu

Monday, March 3, 2008

"The Chinese Invention of Early Modern Warfare: Guns and Gunpowder in East Asia"
Peter Lorge, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Brown Bag Talk, Noon, ICIS, Room 105, RSVP mshocke@emory.edu

"Shaolin and the Origin of Chinese Martial Arts"
Peter Lorge, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
4PM, White Hall, Room 111

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

China Night: In Celebration of the Opening of the Confucious Institute in Atlanta
White Hall, Room 208
6:00-9:00 p.m.

Emory Chinese Music Ensemble and Students from Chinese 102, Chinese 202,
Chinese 203, Chinese 302, Chinese 402

Sponsored by: The Confucius Institute in Atlanta, The Chinese Program, REALC,
Department of Music, and East Asian Studies

Refreshments will be served. For more information please contact: REALC, 404-727-1804

March 19, 2008

The Confucius Institute of Atlanta - Official opening
Sponsored by: Atlanta Public Schools, Nanjing University, and Emory University

March 24, 2008
Korean Buddhist Culture, Daepung Deomgak Seunim, Dean Korea Nalanda Buddhist Academy
7:00 p.m. , White Hall 101
Reception following the talk

Sponsored by REALC, The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Co-sponsored by East Asian Studies Program, Department of Religion and KUSA

Monday, March 31, 2008

"Population Policy and its Consequences in Early Modern Northeast Japan: Lessons From the Past"
Kiyoshi Hamano, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of History, Emory University
Brown Bag Talk, Noon, ICIS, Room 108, RSVP mshocke@emory.edu

Thursday, April 3, 2008

"The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in Late Qing China."
Joan Judge, York University in Toronto
ICIS, 1385 Oxford Road, Room 108, Noon. Please RSVP to mshocke@emory.edu

Monday, April 7, 2008

"Queer Japan: Texts and Context"
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
1-3:00 p.m.

A seminar featuring Mark McLelland (University of Michigan/University of Wollongong, Australia), Jeffrey Angles (Western Michigan University), James Welker (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign), and Julia Bullock (Emory University).

In recent years, the emergence and development of queer theory has posed profound challenges to Western cultural paradigms of gender and sexuality that rely on strict binary distinctions between feminine and masculine, hetero and homo, and even female and male. While Japan has been largely excluded from this scholarship, consideration of Japanese cultural norms dramatically illuminates the extent to which such discourses are contained by and produced through highly contingent cultural and historical specificities.

Gender and sexuality in modern Japan have been constructed according to a very different set of assumptions regarding where to draw the line between “normal” and “perverse.” Understanding what it means to be “queer” in Japan therefore provides an instructive contrast to queer theoretical methodologies that have developed out of an exclusively Western cultural and political context.

Jeffrey Angles documents the way that Japanese urban landscapes of the 1920s and 1930s offered prewar Japanese citizens an opportunity to evade regimes of heteronormativity through the experience of “curiosity-hunting.” Mark McLelland's presentation demonstrates that Japanese dating customs were newly constructed in the immediate postwar period according to "modern" American models of heterosexual display, highlighting how artificial, culturally inappropriate and queer acts such as kissing appeared to people at the time.Julia Bullock’s paper explores the uses that straight women authors have made of homoerotic tropes in literature, effectively queering the Japanese canon from within. James Welker further troubles the distinction between hetero- and homo-erotic narratives as well as lives, emphasizing the many ways in which images of male homosexuality, including “boy’s love” comics, have been enjoyed (and deployed) by female readers with various desires and orientations.

Sponsored by the following departments: REALC, East Asian Studies, Women’s Studies, The Office of LGBT Life

Monday, April 7, 2008

Jeffrey Kinkley, St. Johns University
4:00-5:00 p.m., White Hall, Room 112
" Recent Chinese Novels and Films about Official Corruption: Is This Realism?"

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
“Contemporary Korean Politics and Law-making: Democratization, Education, and the Rights of Women”
Eun Young Lee, M.P. Korean National Assembly
4:00 p.m., REALC 207 (1707 N. Decatur Rd, Next to CHI and across from the Law School).

Eun Young Lee is a member of parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea and serves on the Education Committee. She has been a leader in the area of human rights and anti-corruption, is a former director of Korea Women link and the Korean Institute for Women, and is a professor of law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. For more information contact Pamela Kindred at pkindre@emory.edu

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Filipe Castro
"Computers and Shipwrecks, The Pepper Wreck Reconstruction as a Virtual Hypothesis."
White Hall, Room 110, 4-5.30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

"Taipei, Beijing, and Washington, D.C.: A Dynamic Triangle"
Dr. Chan Lien, Former Vice President of the Republic of China and Honorary Chairman of the KMT

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Harland Cinema, DUC. Emory University, Atlanta, GA
This event is co-sponsored by The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning and
the East Asian Studies Program. For more information about this event, contact The Halle Institute at 404-727-7504.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Henrique Leitao
"Through Seas Never Traveled Before: The Art of Navigation in the Age of Discovery."
White Hall, Room 103, 4 - 5.30 p.m.

"Japan, Moving Towards a More Advanced Knowledge Economy, and the Future of Cross-Pacific Cooperation"
White Hall 207, 3 : 00 pm- 4:30 pm
Coffee and registration at 2:45pm, Reception following event

Why Study Japan Now?
Some may ask ‘why Japan’, whose economic development in the 90’s was labeled “a lost decade” and whose neighbor is the growing giant China. In fact, those circumstances only emphasize the importance of U.S.-Japan economic, political, and cultural relations.

Introductory Remarks : Santa J. Ono, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives & Deputy to the Provost, Emory University

Commentator: Tom Oku, Chief Representative in Washington DC, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Moderator: Yukio Tada, Chairman, Center for Professional Exchange
For more information please contact: Justin Manger (202) 429-8680, manger@sunrockinstitute.org

Supported by the Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership and the Nissho Iwai Foundation, in collaboration with the World Bank Institute and the Office of the Provost at Emory University

Japanese Film Festival
Emory University, White Hall, Room 205, Free and open to the public -* Films are inappropriate for children 17 and younger.

Sponsored by The Consulate General of Japan, East Asian Studies Program, and Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture, and Film Studies Program

October 4: Udon (2006)
Follows the relationship between an aspiring comic and his stubborn noodlemaker father. Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro and starring Yusuke Santa Maria and Manami Konishi. 134 min. In Japanese with English subtitles.

October 11: Supa no onna (Supermarket Woman) (1996)
A new supermarket opens, threatening Goro's business. When he runs into Hanako, a woman he hasn't seen since high school, she immediately begins to berate the store until Goro tells her he owns the place. He gives her a job as his head cashier in an attempt to turn his business around. Directed by Itami Juzo. 127 min. In Japanese with English subtitles.

October 16: Tampopo (1985)
A pair of truck drivers happen upon a decrepit ramen noodle shop and attempt to help the owner turn her business into a paragon of noodlemaking. The main narrative is interspersed with vignettes about people's relationship with food. Directed by Itami Juzo and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto and Ken Watanabe. 114 min. In Japanese with English subtitles

October 11, 2007
5:30 p.m. Emory University School of Law, Tull Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 1301 Clifton Road
A Testimony of a Surviving WWII Japanese Military Sex Slave

Ok-Sun Lee, 81, was among an estimated 200,000 girls forced to serve Japanese soldiers as sexual slaves from 1937 to 1945. Some of these "comfort women" were as young as 15 years old. Ms. Lee will give her account of being kidnapped and forced to leave her family. She will also give an update on the passage of H.R. 121 – the ‘comfort women’ resolution. This bill called on the government of Japan to recognize and apologize for the mistreatment and enslavement of over 200,000 ‘comfort women’ by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces.

Sponsored by Korean Undergraduate Student Association

October 12, 2007
Michael Walsh, Assistant professor, Religion, Vassar College.
"The Intimate Religious Life of the Nation: Visions of China in Colonial Missions."
12:00-1:00 p.m
Location: TBA

October 15, 2007
Dr. Wang Ning, Qinghua University, China
"Toward 'Glocalized' Orientations: A Report on Literary and Cultural Studies in China"
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
White Hall, Room 111

Sponsored by: Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture, East Asian Studies, and Comparative Literature

October 12th-January 15, 2007
"China on My Mind: Young John Allen's (1836-1907) Journey from Emory to Shanghai"
Exhibition, Emory Libraries, 2nd Floor
Woodruff Library

The work of Emory College graduate Young John Allen (1836–1907), a missionary, journalist, translator, publisher and educator, is the subject of “China on My Mind: Young John Allen’s Journey from Emory to Shanghai.” The display of letters, journals, photographs, rare books, writings and artifacts celebrates Allen’s achievements as a mediator between East and West. It also recalls Emory’s long-standing ties to China, Japan and Korea.

For more information please contact Lea McLees, 404-727-0211.

October 16-December 15, 2007
"Cartooning for Peace: The Responsibility of Political Cartoonists"
A public exhibition of the cartoonists' work will be on display at the Schatten Gallery. See http://halleinstitute.emory.edu/sub-cartooning.htm for more information.

October 19, 2007
Techung with Sonam Lhamo and Tsering Phuntsok
A Concert of Traditional and Contemporary Tibetan Music
7:30pm-9:30pm
Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall, Please check www.dalailama.emory.edu for ticketing information.

October 30, 2007

Junko Oba, Weslyan University
"Shamisen and Shamisen Music: A Form of Japanese Aesthetics and Beyond
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Department of Music, Room 108
1804 North Decatur Road
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Prof. Tong Soon Lee, tslee@emory.edu

Junko Oba, Wesleyan University
"Music & Migration: Traditional Music Festivals and Brazilian Identities in Japan"
5:15 - 6:30 p.m.
Department of Music, Room 108
1804 North Decatur Road
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Prof. Tong Soon Lee, tslee@emory.edu

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Chinese Language Film Festival: "Chunking Express"
6:00 p.m.
Math and Science Building, E208

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Chinese Language Film Festival: "Bear Hug"
6:00 p.m.
White Hall, 112

East Asian Studies Brown Bag Series: Rui Magone presenting: "The Charisma Factory: Max Weber on the Chinese Imperial Examinations"
Noon.-1:15 p.m., ICIS Room 108
Please RSVP to martha.shockey@emory.edu

Chinese Language Film Festival: "The Rhythm of Wulu Village"
6:00 p.m.
Math and Science Building, E208

The festival is sponsored by the New York Taipei Cultural Center, The Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture Department and The East Asian Studies Program, Emory University. These events are free and open to the public, light refreshements will be served.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

East Asian Studies Brown Bag Series: Lianying Shan presenting: "Between Empire and Home: the Counter-Discourse to the Rhetoric of a New Beginning in Early Postwar Japan."
Noon-1:15 p.m., ICIS Room 108
Please RSVP to martha.shockey@emory.edu

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Kellee Tsai, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins Universiity: “ Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China”

Organized by/Sponsored by Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)
Time:11:30am Building: Tarbutton Room: 120A
Co-Sponsors: ICIS, Department of Political Science, the Hightower Fund
Politics & Development: An ICIS Seminar Series

Co-conveners: Professor Richard Doner, Political Science & Professor Bruce Knauft, ICIS & Anthropology
What factors allow or impede socio-economic development? What role do politics and political institutions play in sustaining or improving human well being? These questions are addressed in the Fall 2007 ICIS graduate seminar, "Politics, Governance, and Development." In conjunction with this seminar, a range of invited speakers will make public presentations as well as participate in evening seminar discussions. By design, public presentations articulate with the interests of co-sponsoring social science departments and with the potential for future development studies programs in Emory College.

For updated details concerning the events above, please contact the ICIS staff liaison Art Linton at alinton@emory.edu or the co-sponsoring department. Mr. Linton can provide details concerning the ICIS seminar class schedule, syllabus, and reading list.

Co-sponsored by the Hightower Lecture Fund. Speaker events are free and open to the public.

December 5, 2007

East Asian Studies Brown Bag Series: Hyunah Yang presenting: "Finding 'the Map of Memory': Testimonies of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Survivors"
Dr. Yang is visiting scholar at the Emory School of Law College of Law from Seoul National University
ICIS, Room 108
Noon-1:15 p.m.
Please RSVP to martha.shockey@emory.edu