@UIUC: Globalization, Culture and Self (w/ EALC presenters) (1 May; 2090B FLB)

In case you missed this in the EAPS Weekly Bulletin, next week Leona and Sangsook are presenting papers from a seminar called "Globalization, Culture and Self."

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Tuesday, May 1
Globalization, Culture and Self
12-2 pm Room 2090B FLB

CY CHIU, Poshek FU and Freeman Fellows Keli DIAO, Huixia LIU, Wensong LIU, Sufeng SONG, Volette WANG, Zhi-Xue ZHANG announce a noontime presentation of student work from their spring seminar "Globalization, Culture and Self."

This course engaged scholarships from different humanity and social science disciplines for the purpose of exploring important historical and cultural issues facing Greater China ( i.e., China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia) today. The goal of this course was not to provide answers to the questions, but to question the answers. The goal was for this learning process to broaden and deepen inquiry into the intricate interrelations of globalization, culture, and the self in Greater China.

Presenters:
Leona Middleton: Japanese television dramas and identity formation in Chinese communities
Grace Yan: Representations of Chinese Landscapes in Beijing 2008 Olympic Campaign
Melody Chao: Model minority: A media-nurtured stereotype
Eric Dalle: Positioning identities: Shan Sa's The Girl Who Played Go and the Sino-Francophone
Dong Han: Copyright and freedom of expression in China
Emily Johns: Female arts in contemporary China
Sangsook Lee-Chung: Changing Perspectives of Chinese Diaspora and Chinese Identity
Michael Parris: Ways of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love

@UIUC: Women Out/In Japan: Performance and Roundtable Discussion

Don't miss this exciting event here on campus!

Feminist performance artist Tari Ito and jazz musician SwingMasa will perform "Rubber Tit" in the Heritage Room at ACES Library (the octagonal building on the south quad) on Monday 9 April at 4:00. The performance will be followed by Q&A with the performers and then a roundtable discussion on female genders and sexualities in Japan with the performers as well as Elise Edwards of Butler University, our own Karen Kelsy (Head, EALC) and James Welker (PhD student, EALC).

Graduate students wishing to join Tari-san and Masa-san for lunch on Monday should contact James.



SwingMasa’s Reflections on Her Performance:

What it means to be “me” and the message of my jazz music, “Don’t Kill”:
My performance is for the recovery of “myself,” the me that is shrinking in this era of backlash and the rise of conservatism.

Tari Ito’s Reflections on Her Performance:

In the course of my daily life in Tokyo, I must face both the entrenched sexism and compulsory heterosexuality of this society. Even as I act with the hope of contributing to the visibility of lesbians, ultimately I cannot escape the feeling that I am being ignored. So—positively and with a big heart—I choose to toy with a giant rubber tit. I choose to pursue my sexual fantasies to my heart’s content. I chose the tit—a part of the body possessing a dangerous universality—with a consciousness of tits being something everyone is able to express strong feelings about, of tits being very political.

Events: Celebrating Protest (Mar-May)

A number of talks on Japan and protest will be given up at U Chicago over the next two months, including a few after the end of our semester here, making them very doable. For a full list of the talks, read the full post or click here.

Thursday, March 29 6:00pm
Why I Went to Iraq…Three Years Later
Noriaki Imai, student environmental and peace activist
Stuart Hall 105, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave.

Tuesday, April 3 6:30pm
Rubber Tit: A Joint Performance by Performance Artist Tari Ito and Jazz Saxophonist MASA
Cloister Club, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.

Friday, April 20 7:00pm
US Premiere of Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan
Hitomi Kamanaka, documentary filmmaker
Film Studies Center, Cobb Lecture Hall 307, 5811 S. Ellis Ave.

Thursday, May 3 4:45pm
The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit Opposing the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq
Michiko Nakajima, Lawyer
Pick Hall 105, 5828 S. University Ave.

Wednesday, May 9 5:00pm
Colonialism, Militarism, and the Political Economy of Transracial Adoption
Emi Koyama
Pick Lounge, Ground Floor, Pick Hall, 5828 S. University Ave.

Friday, May 11 12:15pm
Intersex at the Intersection of Queer Theory & Disability Theory
Emi Koyama, Director, Intersex Initiative
Conference Room, Center for Gender Studies, 5733 S. University Ave.

Thursday, May 17 4:45pm
Japanese Education and Society in Crisis
Yoshifumi Tawara, Sec. General of the Children and Textbooks Japan Network 21
Pick Lounge, Ground Floor, Pick Hall, 5828 S. University Ave.


presented by
the University of Chicago
Sponsored by:

Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies,
the Human Rights Program,
and the Center for International Studies
with the following cosponsors for some programs:

Center for Gender Studies
Committee on Cinema and Media Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Art and Politics in East Asia Workshop
Environmental Studies Program
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Public Interest Law Society
Middle Eastern Studies Students Association

Talk: (re)claiming the lost object: the construction of screen memories in Tsai Ming-liang’s films

a talk by
E.K. Tan

Thursday, Jan. 25
Lucy Ellis Lounge
1080 FLB
5:10-6:40 PM



This presentation examines how internationally acclaimed Malaysian-Chinese
director Tsai Ming-liang’s films, The Hole (1997), What Time is it There? (2001),
and Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) adopts the genres of musical, French New
Wave, and martial arts to denaturalize narrative coherence and arouse the
audience’s curiosity in locating the significance of these indifferent forms to the
films’ overall presentation. As a result, the presentation posits that Tsai casts
denaturalizing objects such as Chinese musicals from the sixties, Truffaut’s The
400 Blows and martial arts classic Dragon Inn as screen memories to distort and
disguise the anxiety of rootlessness experienced by the director, a culturally-
displaced Chinese diasporic filmmaker. The casting of these screen memories is
on the one hand the screening of metonymical links for the audience; while, on
the other, the screening of the origin of past memories from the audience.

EK Tan is a graduate student in the Program for Comparative and World
Literature, where he works on modern Chinese literature, Asian American
studies, Southeast Asian studies, postcolonial theory, diaspora, psychoanalysis
and film theory. He is currently finishing his dissertation, entitled I Write
Therefore I Am: Aestheticization of Loss and Displacement in the Literary and
Cinematic Works of Southeast Asian Chinese Diasporas.

@UIUC: Teaching Asia Brown Bag Series

In this series, UIUC faculty will introduce their syllabi, their evolution and goals to begin a reflective conversation about the teaching of Asia.

This week Prof. Alexander Mayer will talk about teachingEALC/RLST 132: Introduction to Zen

Mon. Oct. 16, 12-1 pm
International Studies Building 101
With light refreshments (=free light lunch)

@UIUC: Marco's Disseration Talk (EAPS Asian Disseration Series)

Marco will talk about his dissertation

The Center of Experience and its Philosophical Import:
A Dialogue between Ancients and Moderns

October 9, Monday, International Studies Building 101, 12-1 pm
With light refreshments

@UIUC: Korea Workshop: South Korean Media/Technology Today

The Rise and Decline of Militarized Modernity in South Korea

Guest: SEUNGSOOK MOON (Vassar College)

Discussant: Josie Sohn

Thursday, September 28, 3 – 5:30pm
Foreign Language Building, Lucy Ellis Lounge
Dinner will be served; Please RSVP to eaps@uiuc.edu by Sep 25

For more info, visit EAPS.

@UIUC: Teaching Asia Brown Bag Series

In this series, UIUC faculty will introduce their syllabi, their evolution and goals to begin a reflective conversation about the teaching of Asia.

This week Prof. BOB TIERNEY will talk about teaching CWL 190: Classics of Non-Western Culture II

Mon. Sept. 25, 12-1 pm
International Studies Building 101
With light refreshments (=free light lunch)