Global Asias
Speaker: Moinak Biswas Professor of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Minako Ota is a Japanese artist trained at a traditional school of classical Japanese painting techniques. Minako is currently teaching at Rutgers University.
A conversation with authors on their new books
Speaker: Arissa H. Oh, Department of History, Boston College
This talk explores the dynamics of state–society relationships in the global arena, focusing on how migrant-sending states, especially China, engage with their diasporas.
Join Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks for a discussion on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship.
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.
Dr. Jin Sato is a professor of development studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo.
Join us in a conversation about caste followed by collective artwork, poems, songs, and Desi food!
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Wyatt examines how historical records of abolitionism are often obscured by their contexts, yet still reflect efforts to end slavery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
