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October

October 01, Thursday
Kapur Lecture

• 7pm
• 115 International Center
• Speaker: Jack Duvall Reception following talk

October 01, Thursday
Free Film Showing: Blood Rain

• 7pm
• MSU Main Library
• It is the 19th century Chosun dynasty, an era of loathing and vengeance towards Catholics. A transport ship carrying paper to the palace burns into ashes, and investigator Won-kyu is sent to the scene. Brutal murders follow suit, which are traced back to a curse by a Christian who had his whole family beheaded seven years previously. The climax builds to an unexpected ending. (Directed by Kim Dae-seung, 115 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles). Appropriate only for adult audiences, viewer discretion is advised. Film presented by Mina Shin, Department of Linguistics and German, Slavic, Asian and African Languages and cosponsored by the Kresge Art Museum in coordination with the exhibit Celebrating Korea.

October 05, Monday
8th Annual Gallin Lecture: The Traffic in Money Boys

• 3pm to 11pm
• 303-305 International Center
• Speaker: Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz This lecture will address the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about "money boys" -- a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. Dr. Rofel will argue that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia and dilemmas about the proper ways to tremendous transformations, often called neo-liberalism, that have occured in China over the last twenty-five years and by the recent mobilization of Chinese national and cultural identity that creates tensions for gay men about desire and about cultural citizenship, or belonging.

October 05, Monday
Human Resource Management in China under Financial Crisis

• 4:30pm to 6pm
• N101 Kedzie Hall
• Shuming Zhao, the guest speaker, is Professor and Dean at the Nanjing School of Business in China.

October 07, Wednesday
Korean Coffee House

• 5:30pm to 7pm
• 201 International Center
• Practice your Korean while talking with Korean Speakers and learning about Korean culture, music and food.

October 07, Wednesday
Emerging Opportunities in Agricultural Research and Development in India and South Asia

• 6pm
• 303 International Center
• Speaker: Dr. Vibha Dhawan, Executive Director of TERI (New Delhi) and CANR Consul General in South Asia

October 08, Thursday
Hindi/Urdu Chai and Chat

• 5:30pm
• 303 International Center
• Join us for the Hindi/Urdu Chai and Chat, where you can practice your language, try different South Asian foods, watch movies, do activities and more!

October 10, Saturday
Korean International Awards Ceremony

• 10am to 1:30pm
• International Center Library
• Sponsored by Korea Council and VIPP

October 13, Tuesday
Imagining Women's Empowerment: Technology, Modernity and Religious Tradition in Thailand

• 3pm
• 303 International Center
• Speaker: Emily Zeamer, University of Southern California A part of Fall 2009 Colloquium Series: Women and Gender Politics in Asia

October 13, Tuesday
Trojan Women

• 7:30pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 14, Wednesday
(The 2009 JLee Memorial Lecture) The Silk-Road and Ancient Xinjiang

• 7pm
• 303, 305 International Center
• The 2009 Joseph Lee Memorial Lecture Reception follows Speaker: Professor Rong Xinjiang, Department of History, Peking University, Beijing, China

October 14, Wednesday
Korean Coffee House

• 5:30pm to 7pm
• 201 International Center
• Practice your Korean while talking with Korean Speakers and learning about Korean culture, music and food.

October 14, Wednesday
Trojan Women

• 7:30pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 15, Thursday
Trojan Women with Director Talk Back session (follows show)

• 7:30pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• 2009 Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 15, Thursday
Hindi/Urdu Chai and Chat

• 5:30pm
• Join us for the Hindi/Urdu Chai and Chat, where you can practice your language, try different South Asian foods, watch movies, do activities and more!

October 15, Thursday
Trojan Women

• 7:30pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 16, Friday
Anthropology Brown Bag Series on Topics in South Asia, Featuring Two Professors from India

• 12pm to 1pm
• 106C McDonell
• Anthropology Brown Bag Series on Topics in South Asia Speakers: Dr. Soumendra Mohan Patnaik(Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi) Dr. Nilika Mehrotra(Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Social Systems,

October 16, Friday
Trojan Women

• 8pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 17, Saturday
Trojan Women

• 8pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 18, Sunday
Trojan Women

• 2pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 18, Sunday
Trojan Women with Director Talk Back session (pre-show)

• 1:15pm
• MSU Auditorium Arena Theatre
• Guest Director: Dr. David Furumoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Visiting Faculty Artist, educator and director Dr. David Furumoto, brings new life and perspective to Euripedes' cautionary tale of war. Furumoto's staging mixes Asian performance techniques and aesthetics with this traditional Greek play. Tickets available through the Department of Theatre.
• http://whartoncenter.com

October 19, Monday
Collecting Migration Narratives of Indian Jewish Women

• 12pm to 1:30pm
• 321 Linton Hall
• MSU Jewish Studies, with support from the Dep. of History, Asian Pacific American Studies, and the Asian Studies presents(Faculty and Student Brown Bag): Maina Chawla Singh, from the University of Delhi, who is a Visiting Scholar at American University, will discuss the challenges of collecting narratives for a new book on Indian Jewish Women in Israel. (Bagels will be served.)

October 19, Monday
Being Indian, Being Israeli: Migration, Culture and Identity Among Indian Jews in Israel

• 7pm to 8:30pm
• MSU Union Green Room
• Professor Singh will speak on her recently published book (2009) based on her research on three Indian Jewish Communities in Israel.

October 21, Wednesday
Psychological Distress and Treatment among Community Dwelling Elderly Chinese

• 12pm
• C102 East Fee Hall
• Fall 2009 Brown Bag Series - Informal Presentation and Discussion / Faculty and Students Welcome / Coffee, juice, and snacks Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences Speaker: Zhehui Luo, an Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology at Michigan State University. Zhehui Luo,

October 21, Wednesday
Drunken Tiger in the First-Year Writing Classroom: Cross-Cultural Pedagogy and Rhetorics in...

• 12pm
• Multicultural Center(basement of MSU Union)
• The Asian Pacific American Studies Program presents A Brown Bag talk "Drunken Tiger in the First-Year Writing Classroom: Cross-Cultural Pedagogy and Rhetorics in Transnational Contexts" by Jennifer Sano, Ph.D. Student in Rhetoric and Writing Drunken Tiger, a hip-hop act that arguably pioneered South Korean hip-hop culture, entered Korea's largely homogeneous and tightly-controlled mainstream music insdustry with their 1999 debut album, Year of the Tiger. Sano will examine the intersections of cross-cultural composition pedagogy and rhetoric in transnational contexts as she discusses strategies for creating a more inclusive writing course through a rhetorical analysis of Drunken Tiger. She will first talk briefly about some of the benefits of using popular culture for writing instruction before providing a brief biography and rhetorical analysis of Drunken Tiger, followed by an overview of the abundance of relevant topics for student development of rhetorical knowledge and literacy through the lens of hybridity.

October 21, Wednesday
Korean Coffee House

• 5:30pm to 7pm
• 201 International Center
• Practice your Korean while talking with Korean Speakers and learning about Korean culture, music and food.

October 23, Friday
Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

• 7pm
• Fairchild Theatre
• Speakers: Keynote - Honorable Congressman Mike Rogers(Representing Michigan's 8th Congressional District) Guest Speakers: Dr. James Randolph Hillard(Associate Provost, MSU), Dr. Paulette Granberry-Russell(Director of the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives), Alex Kronemer(Co-Founder and Co-Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation) The Film: a new documentary film from Unity Productions Foundation, explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world's first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization.
• http://lansinginsideislam.eventbrite.com/

October 27, Tuesday
Sovereign Practices in the Age of Terror: The US Deportation Regime and Pakistani Return Migration

• 3pm to 4:30pm
• 3512 Haven Hall
• Arab American Studies and the Center for International and Comparative Studies Present: JUNAID RANA, an assistant professor of Asian American studies with appointments in Anthropology and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rana will examine the construction of the Muslim body in the Global War on Terror through the detention and deportation regime propagated by the US state, and the ensuing mass return migration of Pakistanis from the United States...

October 27, Tuesday
Women in Islam: Myths and Realities of Women's Lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan

• 3pm
• 303 International Center
• Speaker: Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune A part of Fall 2009 Colloquium Series: Women and Gender Politics in Asia

October 28, Wednesday
Korean Coffee House

• 5:30pm to 7pm
• 201 International Center
• Practice your Korean while talking with Korean Speakers and learning about Korean culture, music and food.

October 29, Thursday
Hindi/Urdu Chai and Chat

• 5:30pm
• 204 International Center
• Join us for the Hindi/Urdu Chai and Chat, where you can practice your language, try different South Asian foods, watch movies, do activities and more!

October 30, Friday
Cascading Globalization and Marine Ecosystems in India: Does international trade affect local...

• 3:30pm
• Room 1 Natural Resources Building
• Fall 2009 GSO Seminar Cascading Globalization and Marine Ecosystems in India: Does international trade affect local fisheries? Speaker: Brian Roth, MSU Dept. of Fisheries Wildlife Snacks and drinks will be provided