Tactics & Theories for a Global Asias Praxis

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Thursday, September 12, 2024
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ

Join Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks for a discussion on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship.

(Un)archived: Photography Against/Along the Grain of Absence in Global Asias

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Friday, April 26, 2024
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Colloquium
Rutgers University – New York University

The Developing Room, a photography working group at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, announces its eighth graduate colloquium in collaboration with the positions: asia critique journal and New York University.

“Sustainability Inverted: How environmental policies turn into the control of people in Southeast Asia”

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Thursday, April 25, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Room 6051, Academic Building-West 15 Seminary Pl, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Dr. Jin Sato is a professor of development studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo.

Unlearning Caste: Teach-in about Ambedkar Jayanti

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Friday, April 12, 2024
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Graduate Student Lounge (behind Panera)

Join us in a conversation about caste followed by collective artwork, poems, songs, and Desi food!

After Wars: South & Southeast Asian Diasporic Arts and Performance

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Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event Type: Performance
Alexander Library Teleconference/Lecture Hall (TLH) 403 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

South and Southeast Asian diasporic artists and performers share decolonial, diasporic, and queer approaches to the arts. Includes a student-led conversation with featured performers.

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series, “Death, Mourning, and Gendered Afterlives”

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building 162 Ryders Lane New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States

Prof. Jyoti Puri (Sociology, Simmons University), Prof. Elyse Semerdjian (History, Clark University), and Prof. Asli Zengin (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick)

Freedom Inc. Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

This book explores the contraction of what it means to be free in post-liberalization India, examining how global capitalism has exacerbated existing inequalities based on traditional femininities and masculinities, while also creating new hierarchies.

Body Techniques and Everyday Tools: Infrastructures and Cultures of Food across the Indian Ocean

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 4040 15 Seminary Pl New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States

Krishnendu Ray received his Ph.D. in Sociology from SUNY Binghamton in 2001. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Delhi University, India. 

Networks of Exchange: William E. Griffis and the Meiji Collections at Rutgers, Cornell, and Beyond

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Friday, March 8, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Rutgers University–Newark, 185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ

This workshop brings together librarians, archivists, and scholars from Rutgers, Cornell, and associated Meiji-era American archives to introduce the unique contents and contexts of their collections.

Slavery and Its Medieval Abolitionisms: China Contrasted to Europe

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Academic Building–West, Room 6051, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Dr. Wyatt examines how historical records of abolitionism are often obscured by their contexts, yet still reflect efforts to end slavery.

“Vulnerable Beauty,” A Signature on the Soundstage Event featuring acclaimed poet, essayist, and novelist Ocean Vuong

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library, Teleconference/Lecture Hall 403 Rutgers University–New Brunswick 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling poetry collection, Time is a Mother (Penguin Press 2022), and The New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019), which has been translated into 37 languages.

Philosophies of Nonviolence

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Friday, February 16, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:15 PM
Event Type: Conference
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Korean Letters from the Griffis Collection

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Thursday, February 15, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

The Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection are divided into two parts: letters from missionaries and letters from Japanese and Korean political figures. Newly available and accessible through this collection, these letters develop a multifaceted history of early American missionaries in Korea, the Korean independence movement, and Griffis’s views on Korean culture.

The Japanese Military Comfort Women: My Experiences and Struggles in the Reparation Movement as a Zainichi Korean-Japanese

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Thursday, February 8, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Dr. Yamashita, a survivor of the Japanese military “comfort women” system and a Zainichi Korean-Japanese scholar, shares her personal experiences and scholarly work on the reparation movement.

Rutgers-Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific Program

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and Global Asias: A School of Arts and Sciences Initiative will be hosting 16 university students from Ritsumeikan, Kyoto, to join our classes at Rutgers University-New Brunswick for 4 weeks in February 2024.

Book Talk: SASP Lunch Seminar: Divya Cherian (Princeton)

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion

Please join us for a discussion of Divya Cherian’s new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in 18th Century South Asia

Global Asias Dissertation Workshop: Sara Kang (Harvard), “Operation Relax: R&R Centers and Japan’s Korean War

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Friday, November 3, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Type: Workshop
Zoom

“Operation Relax: Empires of Sex in Japan, South Korea, and the Asia-Pacific (1945-1995)” examines the development of a military system that exploited Asian women’s reproductive labor for the purpose of recuperating soldiers from battlefield trauma

Ecological States: A Book Forum

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Friday, October 27, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Zoom

Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society.

Timothy Oakes, “Global China and Infrastructure Power”

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion

Darren Byler, “Terror Capitalism: Producing the ‘Terrorist-Worker’ in Northwest China”

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Thursday, October 19, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Zoom

In this talk, Prof. Byler will be drawing on key ideas from his recent book “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City,” published by Duke University Press in 2022.