Viet Thanh Nguyen: Writer at Rutgers Reading Series

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room 126 College Ave New Brunswick, NJ 08901 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.

William E. Griffis & Katsu Kaishu: Reading the Letters from the Griffis Collection and the Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum

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Thursday, March 23, 2023
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Alexander Library, Pane Room

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.

Wakamatsu Shizuko: The First Graduate of Ferris Seminary and a Progeny of RCA/Rutgers Efforts in Japan

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Alexander Library, Pane Room

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.

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

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Thursday, March 9, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place

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

Eilin Perez: “The Half-Life of Sovereignty: North Korea and Solidarity Movements of the Decolonizing World, 1958-1976”

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Friday, February 24, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place

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.

Pan Asian Lunar New Year, Hosted by the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC)

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Friday, February 24, 2023
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Livingston Campus Center, Livingston Hall

“These Memorials Cannot Be Called A Political Project”: A Virtual Conversation with Dr Akshaya Tankha

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Friday, February 10, 2023
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Online (Zoom)

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.

Lecture by Keiji Nakatsuji (Ritsumeikan University), “Has Japan Finally Become a Reliable Ally?”

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Friday, February 10, 2023
4:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library, Pane Room

A talk by Professor Keiji Nakatsuji examining whether Japan has re-emerged as a reliable global security ally in the post–Cold War era.

Encountering Queer China through Film and Fieldwork

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Alexander Library, Pane Room

A two-day event featuring a film-screening and a lecture. 

Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (2022) by Allan Punzalan Isaac

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place

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.

Korean Gold Leaf Art Workshop “Subokdo” with Su Young Lim, PhD

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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Event Type: Workshop
Zimmerli Art Museum

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 Event

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
5:00 AM - 7:00 AM
Event Type: Book Talk
Online (Zoom)

“Talking Books” is an open session during the Institute that will feature three authors discussing their newly published books.

Research Briefings – Reports from our Graduate Student Working Groups

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Friday, December 2, 2022
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Event Type: Discussion
Online (Zoom)

We will have a chance to hear about our graduate students’ work in progress!

AMESALL 2022 COMICON: South Asia

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, CAC

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.

Week with Charu Gupta

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Friday, November 11, 2022
8:00 AM
Event Type: Public Events

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.

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.