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April 2023
Screening and Talk of AKUTAGAWA: Modern Tales Retold in Traditional Japanese Puppetry
AKUTAGAWA is a stage portrait of Ryūnoske Akutagawa, influential modernist Japanese short story writer and author of Rashōmon. Told through stunning traditional Japanese and contemporary puppetry and an amalgam of five of his short stories (Rashōmon, Hell Screen (Jigokuhen), The Dragon, Toshishun and Kappa), AKUTAGAWA is a lush, visual exploration of the process of artistic creation. AKUTAGAWA is a collaboration by Japanese fifth generation master puppeteer Koryū Nishikawa V and puppeteer Tom Lee. Screening (1-3:30 pm): In-person only | Talk (3:30-5…
Find out more »The Earth Performance: Reenactment
For more information, please visit this link. On Saturday, April 22nd, Canal Projects is pleased to host a reenactment of Seung-taek Lee’s acclaimed Earth Performance (1989-1996). Co-produced with Governors Island Arts, Canal Projects is thrilled to be presenting the first US based iteration of Lee’s iconic Earth Performance, a work which mobilizes art as a sensory shared visual language that urges collective caretaking of our planet. The reenactment will be led by the collaborative duo, Korean-American artists: Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh.…
Find out more »Narratives of Civic Duty – A Book Talk by Aram Hur
Speaker: Aram Hur, Assistant Professor, Truman School of Government and Public Affairs; Co-Director, Institute for Korean Studies, University of Missouri Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University A 45-minute talk followed by Q and A, based on Dr. Hur’s recent book from Cornell UP, Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Studies of the WEAI). Dr. Hur’s book focuses particularly on the Koreas and Taiwan. This event is…
Find out more »Chinese Connections at Columbia: Untangling Mysterious “Dean Lung” Stories and Century-long Chinese Imagination
Speakers: Wu Huanyu, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Moderator: Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University The zoom lecture in Chinese language is intended to untangle the mysterious “Dean Lung” stories and examine century-long Chinese imagination in a larger backdrop of China-U.S. relations. The clarification and demystification of “Dean Lung” Chinese identity and stories through anthropological and sociological approach will shed…
Find out more »K-Waves (Hallyu) in the U.S.
Speaker: Young A Jung, Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George mason University Moderator: Seong Uk Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean Religions and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University Starting mid-2010s, Korean popular culture began to circulate outside Asian vicinities and expand its global fandom to the West, including South America, Europe, and the Middle East. The global expansion of the Korean popular culture fandom is mainly due to the advancement of streaming…
Find out more »China’s Rise, the War in Ukraine, and the Transformation of the East Asian Regional System
School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 707, New York, NY 10027 Show Map Speaker: Marcin Grabowski, Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations and Politics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University As a China specialist based in Poland (and formerly a visiting scholar at WEAI), Professor Marcin Grabowski will discuss how Eastern Europeans are analyzing the impact of China’s rise and the war in Ukraine…
Find out more »History and Development of the Library of Congress Tibetan Collection
Speaker: Susan Meinheit, Tibetan and Mongolian Specialist, Asian Division, Library of Congress Moderator: Kristina Dy-Liacco, Tibetan Studies Librarian, Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University With a career spanning 47 years at the Library of Congress, Susan Meinheit has had a pioneering role in the development, management, and conservation of the Library of Congress' vast Tibetan collection, one of the largest in the world. From her first LC position as a library clerk, it was through her area and language expertise -- combined…
Find out more »Film screening and discussion: The Shepherdess of the Glaciers
Register The documentary The Shepherdess of the Glaciers follows Tsering and her flock of goats and sheep over the course of a year in the Gya-Miru valley in the Far Northern Mountains of Ladakh, India. Tsering at 50 is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her herd, and the youngest in her village to drive her 350 goats and sheep in this region of the Himalayas, located between 4,000 and 6,000 meters above sea level. Surrounded by this dry and desolate…
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