Global Asias
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
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.
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.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association.
Noriko Ochiai (Curator, Edo-Tokyo Museum) has been working on the archives of Katsu Kaishu at the Edo-Tokyo Museum and the Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum. Yukako Otori (Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) is a specialist on late 19th-early 20th century U.S. history with a focus on childhood and immigration.
Rui Kohiyama (Professor, Department of International Relations, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) is a specialist on the women’s foreign mission movement in North America and female missionaries’ work in Japan from the late 19th – early 20th century.
An archaeology of forgotten movements and ideas that became the foundations for those that have come to define the present era.
The Half-Life of Sovereignty: North Korea and Solidarity Movements of the Decolonizing World, 1958-1976, considers histories of cultural production that emerged out of engagement between North Korea and South-South solidarity movements.
We invite you to join us for a virtual conversation with Dr Akshaya Tankha, Forsyth Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
A talk by Professor Keiji Nakatsuji examining whether Japan has re-emerged as a reliable global security ally in the post–Cold War era.
A two-day event featuring a film-screening and a lecture.
Filipino Time explores how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations.
In this workshop, students will share their New Year’s greetings in 2023 by drawing a picture of the Korean traditional word ‘Subokdo’ (meaning longevity) on top of gold leaf.
“Talking Books” is an open session during the Institute that will feature three authors discussing their newly published books.
We will have a chance to hear about our graduate students’ work in progress!
Over three one-day symposiums spread out over the fall semester, participants will engage with artists and academics on questions related to the pedagogy, aesthetics, and politics of comics from our three regions.
Dr. Charu Gupta, Professor of Modern India in the Department of History at the University of Delhi, will be visiting and presiding over a number of events this week.
