Past Events
The Art & Craft of Brush & Calligraphy
Lecture/De monstration by Eishi Sakuta, reknown Japanese calligrapher
1:00 pm
Saturday, April 28, 2007
McCormick Auditorium, Norris Center
The Tradition & Academic Research of Tea Ceremony
Lecture/Demonstration by
Richard Milgrim, master ceramist
with A.D. Moore, and master tea instructors
Shozo Sato, Joyce Shosho Kubose, and Yoshie Soko Akiba
6:00 pm
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Ryan Auditorium, Tech Institute
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Northwestern University
The Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Presents:
Koryo Saram
The Unreliable People
The McCormick Tribune Center Forum
Thursday, May 10, 2007
6:30 - 9:00 pm
A special screening with invited guests:
Meredith Jung En Woo (Executive Producer)
Y. David Chung (Co-director, producer, co-writer)
Synopsis
In 1937, Stalin began a campaign of massive ethnic cleansing and forcibly deported everyone of Korean origin living in the coastal provinces of the Far East Russia near the border of North Korea to the unsettled steppe country of Central Asia 3700 miles away. This story of 180,000 Koreans who became political pawns during the Great Terror is the central focus of this film. With political scientist and executive producer Meredith Jung-En Woo and cameraman Matt Dibble, Chung traveled to film the survivors of he deportation and their descendants who still live in Kazakhstan today. Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an “unreliable people” and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees’ history of integrating into the Soviet system while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet Union. Today, in the context of Kazakhstan’s recent emergence as a rapidly modernizing, independent state, the story of the Kazakhstani-Koreans situated within this ethnically diverse country has resonance with the experience of many Americans and how they have assimilated to form new cultures in our world of increasingly displaced people.
Sponsored by the Program in Asian American Studies, Program in Asian and Middle East Studies, Department of History, Department of Political Science,The Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies
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Naoko Shibusawa, Assistant Professor of History Brown University
"A Transpacific No-No Boy: The Treason Trial of Tomoya Kawakita"
12:30 November 22, 2005 Harris 108
Naoko Shibusawa: Unlike traditional diplomatic historians, I am more interested in the culture that creates and sustains US policy rather than what the policymakers had to say to each other. My work, therefore, has been cultural rather than strictly political. The question that animates my teaching and research is: How have policymakers gotten public consent for their foreign policies? In my forthcoming book, America 's Geisha Ally ( Harvard University Press, 2006), I examine how Americans were able to accept a racial enemy so thoroughly vilified during World War II as a valuable, reliable, "junior ally" during the Cold War. I argue that this was possible through three, interlinked naturalized hierarchies-race, gender, and maturity--and demonstrate this through chapters that discuss postwar Japanese students in the US , the Hiroshima Maidens/ Moral Adoptions program, the treason trial of a Nisei, Hollywood films, and other media outlets. My next project will focus on Japanese American Nisei in Occupied Japan .
Lok Siu -- Chinese Diaspora in Latin America (Stanford Ph.D.; assistant professor at NYU, Anthropology and Asian Pacific American Studies)
Thursday January 12, 2006
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Joint Speaker Series
Charles Hayford Monday, April 24th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm , University Hall Room 101
"What's So Bad About Chop Suey? Eating Chinesely in America ."
If "you are what you eat," and Americans eat chop suey, then it follows that Americans are chop suey. But "chop suey" is many things: a dish to eat which some people kind of like but others think is too horrible to even try; an icon in Chinese-American cultural history (think of the song "Chop Suey" in the musical "Flower Drum Song"); a put down term for (somebody else's) cultural inauthenticity; a cultural fraud that impedes an understanding of Chinese culture; a mischievous diversion which leads away from Chinese cuisine. .... the list of meanings goes on. But few people know much about the history of the dish, its role in American history, or how Chinese-American entrepreneurs developed the idea of "eating Chinese" as a way to turn racist stereotypes into good business.
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Stuart Sarbacker Monday, April 24th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm , University Hall Room 101
"A Slice of Life: Yoga and the 'Pizza Effect'"
The Anthropologist and Religionist Agehananda Bharati coined the expression "the pizza effect" to express a conception of the cyclical process of cultural flow, especially with respect to the traditions of India and their Euro-American counterparts. This concept is particularly well illustrated by the transformations and permutations of the theory and practice of yoga that emerge in the cultural exchange between India , Europe , and the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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