The Life Cycle of the Sacred: Manichaeans Artifacts and their Curious Preservation at Buddhist Archeological Sites across Medieval East Central Asia

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
CCA Seminar Room 6051, Rutgers Academic Building-West Wing

the presentation focuses on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th centuries along the eastern part of the Silk Routes.

Crossings: Transnational Feminist Solidarity for Peace in Korea & Beyond

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Friday, October 13, 2023
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Friday, October 13, Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall (4th Floor)

Join us for a screening of Crossings (2021), a film documenting a group of international women peacemakers on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to call for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.

Works in Progress: SASP Lunch Seminar – Pritha Mukherjee

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

Please join us for a discussion of Pritha Mukherjee’s chapter.

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series – Possession: “Burial of the Order”

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall (4th Floor) 169 College Ave New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States

Please join IRW for the second event in its 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series on the theme of “Possession.”Professors Jane Jin Kaisen (School of Media Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), Suzy Kim (Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers-New Brunswick), and Alexandra Chang (Art History, Rutgers-Newark) will discuss “Burial of this Order” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 12th, at the Alexander Library Teleconference Room/Lecture Hall on the College Avenue Campus.

Juliana Hu Pegues, Space-Time Colonialism Book Talk

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Friday, October 6, 2023
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
New Brunswick. 15 Seminary Pl + Zoom

lobal Asias is honored to invite you to a book talk on October 6th with Juliana Hu Pegues on Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements.

A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri

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Monday, September 18, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Academic Building, College Avenue, Room 2400

The Writing Program at the Rutgers English Department is pleased to present Writing, Language, Identity

Welcome Social and Research Briefing

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
AB West 6051 15 Seminary Place

Welcome our new Co-Director, Haruko Wakabayashi (ALC), and the new members of our Advisory Committee: Hieu Phung (ALC), Jesse Rodenbiker (Geography), and Martin Manalansan (WGSS).

LIU SHIMING: Life Gives Beauty Form, Panel and Reception

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick NJ

The retrospective by the renowned modern Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming is the largest U.S. showing of sculptures made over Shiming’s 60-year career to date, including 27 works that are being exhibited for the first time in the United States. Liu Shiming (1926–2010) was one of China’s first modern sculptors, embracing a range of styles and approaches that expressed the dynamic traditions and philosophies of and through a changing country and world.

Talk: Prof. Emily Yeh, Geography Speaker Series

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Tillet -264, Livingston

Prof Emily T. Yeh discussing how the Chinese government's efforts to eradicate pikas on the Tibetan Plateau conflict with Tibetan pastoralists' views of the animal as a "hungry ghost" related to the land's fertility.

APIDA Graduation, Saturday, May 6, 1-3pm, Livingston Hall

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Saturday, May 6, 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Livingston Hall

Join the Asian American Cultural Center for a historic event – the first APIDA graduation hosted at Rutgers!

“Global Asias and the Anthropocene” Symposium

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Friday, May 5, 2023
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Conference
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

the conference is to think through the geographies of the Anthropocene, with a particular emphasis in how the flows and exchanges that emerge from Asia and its diasporas can help better define approaches both conceptually and methodologically.

APIDA GALA and Leadership Awards, Busch Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 1-3pm (Hosted by the AACC)

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Busch Student Center, Multipurpose Room

APIDA GALA and Leadership Awards, Busch Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 1-3pm (Hosted by the AACC)

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: SOUTH ASIA & BEYOND

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events

Asian, African, Middle Eastern Studies Interest Group (AAMESIG)/ACRL/ALA* invites you to a virtual research forum titled Digital Humanities: South Asia and Beyond featuring three prominent speakers, Dibyadyuti Roy, Deepthi Murali, and Elizabeth Lhost who have worked on a variety of important and creative South Asia related digital humanities projects. They will discuss their process of engaging with community, digital tools and methods to facilitate interdisciplinary scholarship within or across a broad range of concepts and the challenges of conducting a Global South focused DH project.

Dr. Albert L. Park: Extracting Nature in Colonial Korea, Korean Environments Lecture

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Academic Building West Wing Seminar Room 4052 , 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ

How was human authority over the non-human world emphasized and strengthened during the Japanese occupation of Korea through agricultural science? What scientific mechanisms of mediation emerged and altered the rhythms and patterns of nature, especially in conditioning the potential energy of nonhuman life? What is the relationship between science and imperialism in the modern world? This presentation examines the intersection between the capitalist modernization of agriculture in colonial Korea, the pathways of science to extract and reconfigure colonial bodies and landscapes as a way to align them with new systems, and the meaning of destruction on the Korean peninsula. It looks at these themes through a reading of The Suwŏn Agricultural Experiment Station, which was one of the largest agricultural stations in Imperial Japan.

Suzy Kim: Among Women across Worlds (2023) Book Launch

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Sunday, April 9, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
AB 6051, 15 Seminary Place West

An archaeology of forgotten movements and ideas that became the foundations for those that have come to define the present era.

Conference – Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias

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Friday, April 7, 2023
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Event Type: Conference
Alexander Library, Pane Room

Explore the power of photography to reshape ideas of time and identity across Asia—from Vietnam to Korea—and compel new visions of a decolonial future.

Opening Ceremony for APIDA Heritage Month, Livingston Hall, Hosted by the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC), 7-9PM

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Friday, April 7, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Livingston Campus Center, Livingston Hall

Opening Ceremony for APIDA Heritage Month, Livingston Hall, Hosted by the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC), 7-9PM

Conference – Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination

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Thursday, April 6, 2023
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Conference
Alexander Library, Pane Room

Explore the power of photography to reshape ideas of time and identity across Asia—from Vietnam to Korea—and compel new visions of a decolonial future.

Jainism Lecture – Jeffery Long: “Relativity Within and Without: Anekāntavāda in the Context of Jain Practice and its Implications for the Philosophy of Religion” (in person and on Zoom)

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Thursday, March 30, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library 169 College Ave Lecture Hall on the 4th Floor

In this presentation, Dr. Jeffery Long will discuss a set of philosophical conceptions from the Jain tradition of India and explore the relevance of these concepts to contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science.

The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Room 6051, Academic Building, 15 Seminary Pl., New Brunswick

Drawing on his book, The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dr. Chris Suh will explain how inter-Asian relations shaped US policy toward Asian Americans and Asian Americans’ political struggles in the United States.