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Spring 2003 Events

Events Calendar-Spring 2003

                                                January                                            
Date
Time
Venue
Event
27
7:00 p.m.
Room 1415 Biomedical Science Building Twice Dead: Organ Transplant and the Reinvention of Death
Margaret Lock, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
28
4:00 p.m
 201 Int'l Center ASN Colloquium Series- Globalization and Local Rights: Asian Perspectives
Gender, Culture and Labor Rights in the Sri Lankan Garment Industry
Caitrin Lynch, Johns Hopkins University
31
3:00 p.m.
 Green Room, Union

De-Construction and the Transcendent: Gender, Androgyne, and Sexuality in Hindu Symbolism
Yoganand Sinha, Department of Religious Studies, MSU


                                               February                                      top

Date
Time
Venue
Event
2
4:00 p.m
Sheshiang Garden
S.C Lee Scholarship Dinner
3
4:00 p.m
201 Int'l Center
ASN Colloquium Series- Globalization and Local Rights: Asian Perspectives
Why Openness Isn't Enough: Labour and Globalization in China
Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan
5
7:00 p.m
 B-106 Wells Hall Korean Film Series:
Film 1- 301/302
10
4:00 p.m
 201 Int'l Center ASN Colloquium Series- Globalization and Local Rights: Asian Perspectives
Above the Law: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights in Asia
Bama Arthreya, International Labor Rights Fund, Washington D.C.
12
6:00 pm
 Passant Theater, Wharton Center Jihad in a World of Nation States"
Islam and World Politics
James Piscatori, Oxford University
17
4:00 p.m
 201 Int'l Center ASN Colloquium Series- Globalization and Local Rights: Asian Perspectives
From Violation to Violence: Separatism and Terrorism in Indonesia
Beth Drexler, Michigan State University
19
7:00 p.m
 B-106 Wells Hall Korean Film Series:
Film 2- Peppermint Candy
24
4:00 p.m
 201 Int'l Center

ASN Colloquium Series- Globalization and Local Rights: Asian Perspectives
International Intellectual Property Rights and the Struggle for Technology Leadership in Southeast Asia
Drew McDaniel, Ohio University
25
2:30 p.m
 340 Morrill Hall Debating the Cosmic Triad: Ideological Development in Late Tokugawa Nativism
Mark McNally, University of Hawaii
25
8:00 p.m
 206 Old Horticulture September 11 Historical Frameworks: Secularism, Nationalism, Islamism" Turkey: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges"
Sabri Sayari, Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University and Executive Director, Institute of Turkish Studies

                                           March                                                                      top

Date
Time
Venue
Event
1
8a.m-4 p.m.
 Wells Hall Michigan Japan Bowl-Quiz Competition for K12 Students Of Japanese and Cultural Demonstrations.
3
 MSU Spring Break (March 3 to 7)
10
7:00 p.m.
   So/Koo Lecture: The Persistence of Humanity and the Relevance of 'Confucius' Phillip Ivanhoe (PDF)*
12
7:00 p.m.
 B-106 Wells Hall Korean Film Series:
Film 3- No. 3
15
     India Week (March 15-23)
17
5:30p.m.-8p.m.
 3rd Floor International Center An Evening of Indian Dance and Music - Performances by local Veena player Nagraj Kota and Bharatnatyam Dance by Eyal Umankanth. Reception to follow. (PDF)*
19
12:00p.m.
 201 Int'l Center Lesson from My Grandmother: An Account on Feminism
Dr. Kali Majumdar, Ferris State University
An MSU alumnae, Dr. Majumdar will return to the campus for a brown bag presentation about what it means to be a Hindu Feminist
21
12:00p.m.
 201 Int'l Center Characteristics and Roles of NGOs in Public Policy Making in Korea - Tae-Ryong, Sangji University
21
9p.m.-11p.m.
 B106 Wells Hall The Middle Man - An Indian film by Oscar winner director Satyajit Ray
21
9:30 p.m.
 B106 Wells Hall Daughter from Danang
 Winner of Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for best documentary.
22
6:30 p.m.
 B106 Wells Hall Mais America
A spunky, mini-skirted Vietnamese high school exchange student comes to America expecting the stuff of American movies.
22
6:30 p.m.
 B106 Wells Hall Bend it Like Beckman
An enormously charming film about a teenage Indian girl who wants to play soccer instead of cook or find the perfect husband.
24
4:00 p.m.
 201 Int'l Center ASN Colloquium Series- Globalization and Local Rights: Asian Perspectives
Paradise Lost: Kashmir, South Asia, and Globalization
Nirvikar Singh, University of California
26
7:00 p.m.
 B-106 Wells Hall Korean Film Series:
Film 4- A Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors
27
     AAS Annual Meeting- New York (March 27-30)
       

                                               April                                              top

Date
Time
Venue
Event
      China Week (April 1-4)
1
7:00p.m.
B102 Wells Hall
 Chinese Film: Suzhou River
Director, Lou Ye (1999, 89min.)
1
8:00p.m.
206 Old Horticulture Hall
 Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
Sandra Mackey, Independent Scholar
2
12:00p.m.
201 Int'l Center
 Political Transition in China: New Leaders, New Challenges
Brown Bag Presentation by Bates Gills, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
3
5:00p.m.
B106 Wells Hall
 Chinese Speech Contest
4
3:00 p.m.
3rd floor Int'l Center
 Second Annual Bernard Gallin Lecture Series
Chinese Diaporic Communities in Northern Thailand: Ecology, Identity, and Transnational Development
Shu-Min Huang, Iowa State University (PDF)*
5
9:00 a.m.
Erickson Kiva
ASN/JMC Symposium:
Hindu Nationalism and the Future of Indian Polity
5
7:00 p.m
Breslin Center
India Student Org. "Satrang"
7
4:00 p.m.
303/5/7 Int'l Center
 The Maoist Problem in Nepal: An On-Going Dialogue With The Government
Murari Sharma, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the UN
(PDF)*
8
12:00
201 I'ntl Center
 Japanese Higher Education:Moving Toward the 21st Century
Colleen Tuer, Michigan State University
8
8:00p.m
206 Old Horticulture Hall
 The Struggle for the Soul of Iran: Hardliners, Liberal Muslims and the Future of Teocracy
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
9
4:00 p.m.
303 Int'l Center
 ASN/ English Lecture
Social Justice in South Asian Imaginary
 Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University
Shashwati Talukdar
11
3:00 p.m
340 Morrill Hall
 Abandoning Their Children: The Parents of "Mixed-Blood" Orphans in Early Postwar Japan
Robert Fish, Department of History, Michigan State University.
14
12:40
 3rd Floor, Int'l Center Southeast Asian Puppet Show
15
8:00p.m.
206 Old Horticulture Hall
 Can Civil Society Moderate Ethnic Conflict? Reflections on Hindu-Muslim Violence
Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan
16
7:00 p.m.
 B-106 Wells Hall Korean Film Series:
Film 5- The Gingko Bed (PDF)*
21
Noon
 201 International Center Japan's New Curriculum Reform: Moving Away from Centralization and Examination?
Anne Hooghart, MSU College of Education
(PDF)*
22
3:00
 201 International Center
 Announcing the third panel discussion in the International Research Ethics Case Study Panel Discussion Series.
Topic: Breast Cancer Study in Vietnam

Panelists: Barbara Sparks, Howard Brody, David Wright
25
 LAST DAY OF CLASSES
27-May 27
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Hankins Gallery
280 M.A.C. Avenue
 Korean Artist Sang Jin Kim
Brings a new perspectives to the area with her first American Exhibition

                                                  May                                               top

Date
Time
Venue
Event
       

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