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5 x 10 CAS Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors Dialogue/Networking VIRTUAL Event

Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 4:30pm
VIRTUAL

5 x 10 CAS Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors Dialogue/Networking VIRTUAL Event
CAS Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors can help you get on the right road to success!

Registration Required:
 
5 x 10 Professional Growth and Success
 
First-Year and Transfer Students 
Learn about interdisciplinary majors & minors within the College of Arts and Sciences through dialogue and networking with faculty in chat rooms for each of our programs. 
 
Our Programs include:
Africana Studies
Asian Studies
Cognitive Science
Environmental Studies
Film and Documentary Studies
Global Studies
Health, Medicine, and Society
Jewish Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
 
 
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Yesterday's Tiananmen, Today's Hong Kong

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 4:30pm
Virtual
Asian Studies Program and the Department of International Relations Efron Speaker Series
 
Yesterday’s Tiananmen, Today’s Hong Kong
Victoria Tin-bor Hui
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame 
 
VIRTUAL EVENT: Join Professors Lee and He - https://lehigh.zoom.us/j/95964075663
 
Hui will narrate Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom and democracy through two protest slogans: from “Today’s Tiananmen, Tomorrow’s Hong Kong” in 1989 to “Today’s Tibet/Xinjiang, Tomorrow’s Hong Kong” in 2020. For three decades, Hong Kong people have struggled for democracy so as to preserve their preexisting freedoms. Chinese leaders, on the other hand, have tried to make Hong Kong safe for the Chinese Communist Party. International observers once believed that all was well in Hong Kong so long as Beijing did not roll out military tanks. This view missed the fact that the Tiananmen crackdown carried sub-military elements, especially outside of the capital city: the use of security agents to beat people to death in the city of Chengdu, the fomentation of “riots,” the narration of “the truth” about security forces and protesters , and the use of patriotic education and censorship to create “Tiananmen amnesia.” These are the same tactics that Beijing has deployed in Hong Kong in 2019-20.  
 
Victoria Tin-bor Hui is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and her B.SSc. in Journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hui studies contentious politics and Hong Kong’s democracy movement. She has testified at Congress and written for Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Democracy, Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, The Diplomat, and other channels. Hui’s core research examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of “China” in the long span of history. She has published War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe, “The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights,” “Cultural Diversity and Coercive Cultural Homogenization in Chinese History,” “Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion?”, “The China Dream: Revival of What Historical Greatness?”, among others. 
 
 
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Asian American Film Series - The Farewell

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 5:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
THE FAREWELL
2019/Lulu Wang/100 min.
 
In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there’s a lot to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she left as a child, her grandmother’s wondrous spirit, and the ties that keep on binding even when so much goes unspoken. WithThe Farewell, writer/director Lulu Wang has created a heartfelt celebration of both the way we perform family and the way we live it, masterfully interweaving a gently humorous depiction of the good lie in action with a richly moving story of how family can unite and strengthen us, often in spite of ourselves. [Synopsis © A24]
 
Free and Open ONLY to Lehigh students/faculty/staff
 
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
 
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Asian Culture Celebration

Monday, March 2, 2020 - 4:00pm
Lamberton Hall, Great Room

Asian Culture Celebration - It's the Year of the RAT!

Join us for a celebration that includes calligraphy, JPOP Dancing, Tea Ceremony and much more!

Asian food and prizes.

All are welcome.

For more information:
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Narrow Fairways: Getting by and Falling Behind in the New India

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 4:30pm
Chandler Ullmann Hall, Room 216
India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country’s informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately eighty percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite maintain that the poor need only work harder and they, too, can become rich. The results of this ambitious ten-year ethnography at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore shatter such self-serving illusions. In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis
combines participant observation, interviews, and archival research to show how social mobility among the poor lower-caste golf caddies who carry the golf sets of wealthy upper-caste members at these clubs is ultimately constrained and narrowed. The book highlights how elites secure and extend class and caste privileges, while also delivering a necessary rebuke to India’s present development strategy, which pays far too little attention to promoting quality health care, education, and other basic social services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.
 
Patrick Inglis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He teaches and writes on labor, inequality, and global development. His first book centers on the lives of poor and lowercaste caddies who carry the golf sets of members at exclusive clubs in Bangalore, India. In addition to ongoing research on poverty alleviation at an English-language boarding school outside Bangalore, he is also developing a new project on the attitudes and dispositions of elites in Mexico City.
 
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Asian Studies, Humanities Center and Global Studies.
 
 
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Asian American Film Series: Saving Face

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:15pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
SAVING FACE
2004/Alice Wu/97 min.
When 48-year-old widow Hwei-Lan Gao (Joan Chen) informs her less-than understanding father she's pregnant, he banishes her from Flushing until she remarries or proves Immaculate Conception. With nowhere else to go, Hwei-Lan moves in with her grown daughter, Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a Manhattan doctor who doesn't want a roommate, especially since she's met Viv (Lynn Chen), her sexy young lover. So Wil does what any dutiful child with an expectant, unmarried mother on her hands would do: she proceeds to set Hwei-Lan up with every eligible bachelor in town. [Synopsis © Screen Gems, Inc.]
 
Free and open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
 
Co-sponsors: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Asian Studies
 
 
For more information:
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Building Home Away from Home

Sunday, December 8, 2019 - 2:00pm
Lehigh University, Global Commons Room, Williams Hall, 31 Williams Drive. Bethlehem, PA 18015
 
Buiding Home Away from Home - Join us as we learn from each other, from experiences of building a community and explore what it means to build a home away from home.
 
Click for more info & RSVP here: https://buildhomeawayfromhome.eventbrite.com

The Lehigh Valley-JAJAJA, with support from the US-Japan Council, and Asian Studies Program at Lehigh University is hosting a summit to highlight our community of Japanese in America, Japanese Americans, and Japanese Aficionados in the region. Attendees will hear from a panel of local representatives as well as participate in a customized workshop facilitated by the esteemed speaker, author, and professional development coach, Shawn Kent Hayashi.
 
Doors open and check-in: 1:30 pm
 
Program: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
 
Parking: Parking is available at the Zoellner Arts Center (420 E. Packer Drive)
 
Summit Agenda:
- Part 1: Portraits of Japan in the Lehigh Valley
 
Moderated panel of 3 local representatives
- Part 2: Community Building Workshop
             Facilitated by Shawn Kent Hayashi
 
What to expect:
Summit will be conducted in English but spoken Japanese is welcomed. Summit program will be printed bilingually (English and Japanese). Q&A portions can be in English or Japanese and translators will be able to assist.
 
- This is a family-friendly event (5yrs old +). Let us know if you're bringing young children and we can make accommodations.
 
- This event is ideal for young adults (middle-school to college students)
 
- Light refreshments and Japanese appetizers will be provided
 
This program is made possible by the funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the U.S.- Japan Council.
 
For more information:
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Wong Kar Wai's Soundtracks: Music, Bricolage, Representation

Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 4:30pm
LUAG Lower Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center

Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Music Department, Asian Studies, Film Studies, Humanities Center, and LUAG

Wong Kar Wai's Soundtracks: Music, Bricolage, Representation
Giorgio Biancorosso
University of Hong Kong

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Japanese Film Series: Proof of the Man

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 4:30pm
Neville Hall, Room 003
PROOF OF THE MAN
1977/Jun’ya Sato/132 min.
A mystery like no other, Proof of the Man spans two continents and 40 years going back and forth between Tokyo and New York. When a black American visitor to Japan is killed in 1977 the murder investigation uncovers embarrassing and deadly secrets that go back to the Occupation Army of the late 1940’s. A mixture of top Japanese and American film stars join together to solve the crime, going only on two clues… The words “Straw Hat” and a volume of poetry dating back to 1947.
[Synopsis © Kadokawa Entertainment]
 
OPEN ONLY TO LEHIGH COMMUNITY
 
Co-sponsors: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Asian Studies
 
For more information:
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Asian Studies Fall Social

Monday, November 4, 2019 - 4:30pm
Williams Hall, Room 070
Asian Studies Travel Grant recipients will be  sharing their experiences.
 
All are welcome
Light Refreshments Served
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more information:
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Lunchtime Recital- Autumn Ballad at Midnight

Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 12:15pm
LUAG Lower Level Zoellner Arts Center

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Satoyama and Hakka Children's Songs in Taiwan

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 4:30pm
STEPS 280

Asian Studies Program and Music Department

Satoyama and Hakka Children’s Songs in Taiwan

Luo Ai Mei (PhD, CUHK) Research Fellow, Asia Culture Center
Gwangju, South Korea
 
Introduced by the United Nations in 2010, the Satoyama Initiative is a cultural-ecological project implemented in different countries to revitalize farming areas negatively affected by industrialization and globalization after WWII. A variety of related art projects have  also   been   launched   as   part   of   this   initiative. Focusing on a Hakka children’s song project in Taiwan between 2012 and 2014, I  explore  how music mediates the reconceptualization of the environment as a way to revive rural landscapes.
 
I begin by reviewing how the Meinong township  in southern Taiwan, where the children’s songs were produced, confronted the crisis of rural development under influences of the global economy, Taiwanese industrial policy, and  population  movement.  I  will  then examine how  Hakka  children’s  songs  reconfigure an imagination of space and place in relation to satoyama. Through various musical gestures, these children’s songs reshape the rural as liveable, tangible, and renewable resources as they build upon Hakka local knowledge to emphasize the interconnectedness of human and nature.
 
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Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 4:30pm
Maginnes Hall, Room 102

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Japanese Film Series: HAFU

Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 4:30pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270

HAFU (2013/Megumi Nishikura/85 min.)With an ever increasing movement of people between places in this transnational age, there is a mounting number of mixedrace people in Japan, some visible others not. “Hafu” is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixedrace Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan. The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation. For some of these hafus Japan is the only home they know, for some living in Japan is an entirely new experience, and others are caught somewhere between two different worlds. [Synopsis © Hafu Film] Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff Co-sponsored by MLL/Asian Studies Japanese and English with English subtitles  

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Japanese Horror Film Series: Cure

Friday, April 26, 2019 - 4:00pm
Lewis Hall, Room 270
In the tradition of SEVEN and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS comes this genuinely spine-tingling horror/thriller from one of Japan’s most talked about filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Set in and around a bleak, decaying Tokyo, a series of murders have been committed by average, ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions. Following the only link—a mysterious stranger who had brief contact with each perpetrator/victim—detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho from SHALL WE DANCE and WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE) places his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the wave of inexplicable terror. [Synopsis © Home Vision Entertainment] English subtitles.
 
OPEN ONLY TO LU FACULTY/STUDENTS/STAFF
 
 
For more information:
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