Book Panel and Celebration: The Idea of Indian Literature – Preetha Mani (AMESALL) in conversation with Charu Gupta (Delhi U), Samah Selim (AMESALL), and Dean Rebecca Walkowitz (English)

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Thursday, November 10, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place

Dr. Preetha Mani (AMESALL) in conversation with Prof. Charu Gupta (Delhi University), Prof. Samah Selim (AMESALL, Rutgers) and Dean Rebecca Walkowitz (English, Rutgers) about her new book. 

Charu Gupta, “Registers of Caste: Reflections from Teaching and Research” (co-sponsored by Global Asias)

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Monday, November 7, 2022
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place

The Program in South Asian Studies invites you to join us for a special public lecture with Professor Charu Gupta, the University of Delhi.

Talk by Hieu Phung, “Experiencing Mega-drought in Eighteenth-Century Đại Việt (Vietnam)” (organized by the Cold War Asias working group)

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Friday, November 4, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Academic Building West 6051, 15 Seminary Place

Come join us for an exciting talk and discussion with our newest faculty member, Hieu Phung, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, on “Experiencing Mega-drought in Eighteenth-Century Đại Việt (Vietnam)”

Asian American Studies Minor Info Session – Wed, Nov 2, 6pm at the AACC

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion
AACC, Livingston Campus, 49 Joyce Kilmer Ave. Piscataway, NJ

Explore the politics and history of Asian-descent peoples, including East, South, Southeast, and Southwest Asians within the United States and in the Americas.

Talk by Dr. Elli Kim (Library of Congress), “North Korean Advertising in the 1950s-1960s: Bargaining Socialist Modernity between State and Citizens”

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place

This talk highlights North Korean advertising as a constitutive part of the public discursive sphere, where the idea of “bargaining” and “branding” shaped what it meant to be a socialist state and citizen.

Virtual Screening of Leo Plunkett’s award-winning documentary Our Mothers’ Land (2020)

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Friday, October 28, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Online (Zoom)

Virtual Screening and Discussion of Leo Plunkett’s award-winning documentary Our Mothers’ Land (2020)

APIDA Grad Student Social Mixer at the Asian American Cultural Center

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Friday, October 28, 2022
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
AACC, Livingston Campus, 49 Joyce Kilmer Ave. Piscataway, NJ

Dr. Risa Toha, “Rioting for Representation” – Rutgers International Institute for Peace Invited Lecture

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Online (Zoom)

Join the International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University, Newark, the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, and NYSEAN for a book talk with author Risa Toha.

Japanese Doll Exhibition and Opening Event: “Akiko’s Dolls: The Story of a Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivor” – Alexander Library

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Pane Room, Alexander Library

Join us in celebrating Akiko-san’s 100th Birthday and the opening of the exhibit! We will be joined by her friends who will share her stories with us.

Kalki Subramania at Asian American Cultural Center – Mon, Oct 24, 6-7:30

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Monday, October 24, 2022
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Asian American Cultural Center

Global Anti-Caste Thought Working Group – First Reading Session

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Friday, October 21, 2022
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Hikaru Fujii (University of Tokyo), ““Everything in the World Is Doubled”: English and/as Translation in 21st Century Asian Writers’ Anglophone Fiction” (in conjunction with SAS’s Year of Languages)

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library, Pane Room

Join us for a talk by Hikaru Fujii, Associate Professor, Department of Contemporary Literary Studies, The University of Tokyo.

Talk by Chung To, “The language of AIDS stigma in China,” Alexander Library, Pane Room (sponsored by ALC)

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Sunday, October 16, 2022
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library, Pane Room

In his talk, Chung To will discuss language issues surrounding AIDS stigma in the context of his efforts to raise awareness of AIDS among the public through organizing exhibitions and launching media campaigns.

Exploring Japanese Cultural Heritage Collections with AI Workshops (Rutgers University Libraries)

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Thursday, September 15, 2022
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Rutgers University and Durham University UK will be holding two joint workshops to investigate how AI can be used to help us make sense of our archival collections, especially those that relate to Japan in Meiji Period (the late nineteenth century). Both events are in-person only