Penn Center For East Asian Studies Newsletter
2006-07: Issue no. 32, May 4, 2007The CEAS Newsletter weekly notifies East Asianists in our region of events and opportunities of interest. Notices appear under six headings:
- University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events
- Regional East Asia Events
- Employment and Internship Opportunities
- Fellowship and Award Opportunities
- East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries
- Conferences and Workshops
send them to proberts@sas.upenn.edu.
* Indicates notices appearing here for the first time.
(I) University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events
* At the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology
Free Afternoon Program:
Everything you wanted to know about Mongolia – from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire to Mongolia's place in the world today.
Thursday, May 10, 2007, 2:00pm-5:00pm, Penn Museum Rainey Auditorium
3260 South Street
For additional information: 215-898-4890 or visit www.museum.upenn.edu
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* May 12—July 1, 2007, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
Hitoshi Nakazato: Print Series
Celebration of this artist Master Printmaker and veteran curator at the Arthur Ross Gallery, who has worked and taught for forty years at GSFA and the School of Design.
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* The Global Interdependence Center presents
Asian Texas: Kazakhstan - Health & Oil
Wednesday,May 23, 2007
On May 23rd, find out about the big changes going on the world's 9th largest nation.
What's new in health care and oil as the country sheds its Soviet legacy and becomes a major player in world oil markets?
Dr. Graboyes plans to spend mid-May in Kazakhstan, working with health care professionals. He'll report back on what he sees and what it could mean for the US.
GIC Luncheon
Asian Texas: Kazakhstan - Health & Oil
Featuring Dr. Robert F. Graboyes, a health economist whose work revolves around the question, "How much is a less-than-100% chance at life worth?" He is also Director of Language Across the Curriculum at the University of Richmond. He teaches full-time at UR and part-time in masters and doctoral programs at the Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Virginia medical campuses. Previously, he served as Africa economist at Chase Manhattan Bank (New York City) and as manager and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He holds degrees from Columbia University (M.Phil, Ph.D), Virginia Commonwealth University (M.S.H.A.), the College of William and Mary (M.A.), and the University of Virginia (B.A.).
Where & When:
Federal Reserve Bank of Phialadelphia
Ten Independence Mall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1910
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
11:45AM-2:00PM
$25 for GIC members, students & academics; $35 for non-members
(II) Regional East Asia Events
* Princeton Lecture on Chinese Buddhist Art
ZHANG Zong,
Institute for the Study of World Religions
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing)
Informal lecture (in Chinese)
on the Three Stages Sect (Sanjiejiao)
in Chinese Buddhist Art
Sponsored by:
Buddhist Studies Workshop
Monday, April 30, 4:30 p.m.
1879 Hall, Lounge
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* Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 1, 2007 - July 22, 2007
“I splashed ink without inhibition, as my hand led me.” --Ike Taiga
This exhibition marks the first time an exhibition in the United States focuses on the eighteenth-century masters of painting, poetry, and calligraphy Ike Taiga (1723–1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727–1784). Bringing together key works from both Japanese and Western collections, it offers American audiences a look at over 200 exceptional and rarely seen screens, handscrolls, hanging scrolls, and album and fan paintings by the two artists. Among them are designated Japanese National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties, several of which will be seen outside Japan for the first time.
For further information see http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/special/108.html
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* WEI JINGSHENG ON CHINA: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND BEYOND
Saturday, May 5, 2007
9:45 - 11:00 a.m.
National Constitution Center
525 Arch Street, Philadelphia
This lecture is free and open to the public but reservations are
required. Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the National Constitution Center.
Wei Jingsheng is China's best-known activist for democracy and
human rights. The most prominent participant in the Democracy
Wall movement of 1979, Wei was imprisoned for more than a
decade because of his writings. After a brief period of freedom
during which he resumed his writings and pro-democracy activities,
he was again imprisoned and later exiled in 1997. Mr. Wei has
received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award, the National
Endowment for Democracy Award and many other awards. He is
the author of "The Courage to Stand Alone -- Letters from
Prison and Other Writings," which includes a collection of
essays he wrote on toilet paper while in jail. His writings
from the Democracy Wall have been widely published,
including in "The Fifth Modernization" -- a collection
that takes its title from Mr. Wei's most famous essay, an
eloquent call for human rights in China.
RSVP 215 732 3774, ext 303 or lux@fpri.org
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* Chinese for Families Event
Fun for the whole family!
Saturday May 19 3-6 pm
Chinese Opera Society
Monkey King & Cross Roads Inn
Chinese Dance, Music & Stories
Crafts, Vendors, Parade & Food
Tickets
$20 per family
$15 per couple
$10 per adult
$5 per child
DVDs $15
Tickets available online at
www.ChineseForFamilies.com
200 West Main Street
Trappe, PA
St. Luke's Church
www.ChineseForFamilies.com 610-716-1854
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Philadelphia: Japan Group II... The group for folks interested in Japanese arts and culture.
Our activities for the winter/spring season:
Sunday, May 20 Japanese House & PMA guided tour of "Masters of the
Brush" Members $20 Non-members $25 Meeting at 11 AM
Sunday, June 3 NYC to the Met and Japan Society Members $40 Non-
members $45, Pick-up time same as above.
If you are interested in joining any of these activities please contact
Shirley Luber at luber@lubergallery.com or call 215-545-4975
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* Wutaishan and Qing Culture Conference
May 12: 9am-4pm; May 13: 9am-12pm
Rubin Museum of Art
Auditorium
150 W. 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Sponsored by the Rubin Foundation
with additional support from Columbia's Weatherhead East Asian Institute,
the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and The Felix Chen Research Award of Southern Methodist University
The sacred mountain Wutai Shan, the abode of the bodhisattva of wisdom Manjusri, has played a fundamental role in the East Asian Buddhist imagination for nearly 1500 years. Over the course of this time not only has it been a nexus of pilgrimage, cosmological conceptualization and cultural exchange, but it has also been the focal point of various religio-political discourses. And the concatenation of these forces undoubtedly reached one of their apogees during the long reign of the Manchus, who were not only portrayed as emanations of the bodhisattva of wisdom, but also fostered the folk etymology of their ethnonym as in fact deriving from Manjusri. Yet, while this project of symbolic appropriation is now common knowledge, less is known about how it affected the inherently transnational nature of this site. In other words, an important unanswered question is: how did the various discourses during the Qing actually engage, shape and influence the practices and conceptualizations of the constituents of the Qing empire? Moreover, how did innovations or transformations on the margins impact the imperial center? The aim of this conference is to employ the historical importance and transnational nature of Wutai Shan in order to attempt a re-evaluation of Qing culture.
In conjunction with this conference the Rubin Museum of Art is presenting a related exhibition: Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain (May 10 – October 16, 2007) which primarily utilizes the RMA's permanent collection to explore this mountain as a site of transnational pilgrimage where the interaction between the Chinese, Manchus, Mongolians and Tibetans fostered a multiculturalism endemic of Himalayan art. This is reflected in the diversity of objects in the exhibition coming from Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, and China, including paintings, sculptures, masks, book covers and features a six-foot wide woodblock print, a panoramic view of Mount Wutai filled with temples and miraculous visions. See also: http://www.rmanyc.org/Exhibitions/index.cfm
For more information, please contact the co-organizers, Professor Gray Tuttle ( gwt2102@columbia.edu) or Professor Johan Elverskog ( jelversk@smu.edu )
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/wutaishan-conference07.html
www.cbs.columbia.edu
http://www.rmanyc.org/Exhibitions/index.cfm
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* THE ASIA PROGRAM OF THE WILSON CENTER PRESENTS:
Beyond the Divide? Sino-Japanese Relations and the Implications for the United States
Monday, May 7, 2007 3:30 P. M. - 5:30 P.M. 6th Floor Auditorium
Speakers:
Michael Yahuda, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics and Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Jing Huang, The Brookings Institution
Amy Searight, George Washington University
Alan Romberg, The Stimson Center
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* Washington DC: “The Six Party Talks and the Shifting Dynamics in Northeast Asia”
From: Robert Litwak, Director, Division of International Security Studies; Robert Hathaway, Director, Asia Program; and Joseph Pilat, National Security Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Topic: “The Six Party Talks and the Shifting Dynamics in Northeast Asia”
Speaker: Michael J. Green, Japan Chair and Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University
Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room
Woodrow Wilson Center in the Ronald Reagan Building,
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line)
For directions see the map on the Center's website at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Please bring a photo ID and allow additional time to pass through a security checkpoint.
This meeting is part of an ongoing series that provides a forum for policy specialists from Congress and the Executive, business, academia, and journalism to exchange information and share perspectives on current nonproliferation issues. Lunch will be served. Seating is limited.
(III) Employment and Internship Opportunities
(IV) Fellowship and Award Opportunities
* New Fulbright Scholar Awards in Hong Kong
Recipients of these new awards will work with Hong Kong universities as they
prepare for a transition from a three-year undergraduate program to a four-year
undergraduate program in the 2012-2013 academic year.
Grantees will be part of a team that will be coordinated by the Hong Kong -
America Center (HKAC). The team will work with all of the Hong Kong
universities. Each grantee will also be affiliated with one of Hong Kong's
tertiary institutions where the grantee will consult with colleagues and the
committees that have responsibility for developing the general education
curriculum and courses for the new undergraduate program. Grantees will also
teach one course in their area of specialization.
Applicants in all disciplines are welcome to apply. They should have experience,
preferably in a leadership role, in the development of a university or college's
general education curriculum or first-year program. They should also have
experiencce in developing interdisciplinary courses and in organizing and
presenting faculty workshops on effective modes of teaching and learning.
Familiarity with outcomes-based evaluation, curriculum alignment and online
teaching strategies will be an advantage. Applicants will be expected to be
active team participants and be willing to engage in a dialogue about
curriculum development with their Hong Kong colleagues. All grantees will be
expected to produce a chapter for a published anthology on general education
based upon their experience in Hong Kong.
Grants are for 10 months and will start in late August 2008. The awards will be
offered in the subsequent three Fulbright Scholar competitions. Approximately
four to five awards will be offered in each competition.
With support from the U.S. Department of STate, the awards are made possibly by
a generous grant from Po Chung, a Hong Kong businessman and entrepreneur, and
the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
For further information, visit www.cies.org or contact: David Adams at
dadams@cies.iie.org or 202.686.4021
(V) East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries
Penn-in-Seoul, Korea
Program Profile: For students interested in East Asia, Korea, international relations, and business.
Program Dates: June 21 – August 11, 2007
Internship: July 17 – August 10
Language Requirements: Classes conducted in English. Non-Korean-speakers encouraged to complete a pre-departure "Survival Korean" language course.
Note: some internships require a knowledge of Korean.
Curriculum Requirements: Students to register for the 2 CUs, both courses offered. Upon completion of courses, students may participate in an internship.
Courses Offered:
EALC HIST 391 950: The Korean War and Its Legacies for U.S. – Korean Relations (1CU)
PSCI 298: Politics and Economics of Korea (1CU)
Housing: Students live in the dormitory of Kyung Hee Univeristy.
Tuition: $5,100 est. See website for updates and other costs: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/CGS/summer/abroad/seoul index.php
The Penn-in-Seoul Program enters its 14th year this summer. Students can earn two course units of credit. They also will meet with senior officials from the Foreign Ministry, Bank of Korea, Korea Development Institute, or the National Intelligence Service, etc. We also visit the DMZ and take several cultural tours, and end the summer with a month-long, full-time internship. Please do not hesitate to contact Frank Plantan (fplantan@sas.upenn.edu) if you have any questions about this program. We have secured some scholarship funds from the Korean Studies Program to support the program and will be distributing awards of $500 - $2000 to those with the most need, and after that on a combination of need and merit.
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Penn Young Scholars Chinese Academy
University of Pennsylvania
July 2- August 10, 2007
The University of Pennsylvania's new Summer High School Language Program couples Penn's extensive experience with intellectual development programs for high school students and its excellence in Chinese language and culture taught by known Penn professors.
CURRICULUM:
-Curriculum tracks in Beginning Chinese 1 and 2
-Language instruction Monday through Thursday
-Lectures on Chinese culture, literature, religion history, and philosophy on Fridays
-One-on-one practice sessions with language teachers
-Language Lab instruction in writing and website navigation
-After-school field trips, dance and martial arts demonstrations
FACULTY:
-Dr. Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania
-Dr. Paul Goldin, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania
-Dr. Mien-hwa Chiang, Director, Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania
-Steven Chuang, Chinese Language Instructor at Central High School
CLASS SCHEDULE:
-Classes will be held 9am to 2pm Monday through Thursday and 9am to 12 noon on Friday.
STUDENTS:
-The program has places for 30 high school students.
TUITION:
-Each student will be granted a scholarship of $1,000 to be applied to the $1,876 tuition; the final cost to each student will be $876.
*A limited number of full scholarships may be available.
To apply, please access the form at the bottom of our webpage: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 215-573-4203.
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Deadline extended: Study in Mongolia
The following courses, organized by the National University of Mongolia, will accept applications through May 16th. Please contact International Program Coordinator Munhtuya Goulden for more information:
mtuya11@rcn.com , 610-328-1634.
ARCHEOLOGY
Using the Arkhangai and Uverkhangai Province in Central Mongolia as primary excavating sites, this course will teach students record keeping, artifacts handling as well as excavation and survey techniques. Field research is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at the Orkhon Valley World Cultural Heritage site. Orkhon Valley is rich in archaeological monuments, ancient city remains, burial and sacred sites and rock art that spans a prehistoric age to the 13th century.
Dates:
Instructor: D.Tumen Ph.D. Head Department of Anthropology and Archeology
ART HISTORY: Journey to the “World's Unique Treasure House”
This course surveys Mongolian art from prehistory to the modern period. Particular emphasis on developing and understanding common terminology/ vocabulary of art history, identifying and discussing periods, specific art forms, techniques used in rock art, identifying important religious concept, philosophical movements, historical and cultural events their relation to the art history. Ten days trip to Petroglyphs in the Altai Sayan National Park far West where the site is comprising ten thousand images and considered as a World's Art Gallery of ancient ancestors.
ANTHROPOLOGY
The program begins with a two day excursion in Ulaanbaatar and thematic workshops with NUM faculty and Mongolian scientists. We then head out of town for extended travel on field trips to explore ethnic customs of nomads living and adapting to the different environmental conditions of Mongolia ranging from taiga forest in North to steppe, semi-desert and desert “Gobi” in the South. You will learn about customs, religions and traditional patterns of nomadic pastoralism.
HISTORY AND POLITICS
This course, jointly conducted by the Department of History and Political Sciences of the National University of Mongolia offers overarching view of the entire span of Mongolian history and contemporary politics, and will provide detailed clues to the questions; What have been the Mongols' greatest achievements and contributions to world history? How did Mongolia emerge as the world's second-oldest Communist regime and yet, how and why was the nation able to be the only Asian country successfully transform itself from a Communist dictatorship into a vibrant and dynamic liberal democracy? Side trips to the Orkhon Valley World Cultural Heritage site one can easily touch history and enrich his or her experience.
NUM will give three credits for each course, but local acceptance of these credits will need to be decided by the home university. Special research opportunities are also available working with on-going field research programs. Alternatively, if a faculty member of a university would like to participate with a group of students, this can also be arranged. Dates are tentative subject to change. Space is limited.
Applications will be accepted until April 15.
Contact:
International Program Coordinator Munhtuya Goulden
mtuya11@rcn.com , 610-328-1634
(VI) Conferences and Workshops
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
“Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual”
WHEN: September 29th to October 2nd 2008
WHERE: Heidelberg University in Germany
~The Collaborative Research Center “Ritual Dynamics” was set up in 2002 as an interdisciplinary centre to research the dynamics of ritual. It is the world's largest research centre dedicated solely to investigating these issues, with over 90 scientists and researchers working in nineteen sub-projects. Our focus is on the reinvention of rituals, transfer and change - which we see as the rule not the exception. Through questions such as: "Who invents rituals and why?" "When and why do rituals die?" "How variable are rituals and how do new media affect old rituals?" new avenues have been opened up, such as research into inter-cultural ritual transfer, ritual agency, and the connections between rituals and new media.
It is now time to develop collaborative models to research rituals at an international level. We thus invite scholars worldwide to come, discuss, and expand our results, and to explore new approaches such as ritual economics, ritual design, and scientific rituals.
Conference structure
To give focus to the enormous potential of this field, the conference will be structured around themed panels. At present eleven panels are planned, but we are very open to proposals for additional panels. The diversity of topics will inevitably reflect the diversity of backgrounds of the participants - from Anthropology to Musicology, Assyriology to Mediaeval Studies, Medical Psychology to Indology - to name a few.
For more information or to submit proposals please see: www.rituals-2008.com.
Center for East Asian Studies
University of Pennsylvania
642 Williams Hall
255 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Tel: 215-573-4203; Fax: 215-573-2561
E-mail: ceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
