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Spring 2004 Events

May
           
   
8
3:00 p.m.
307 International Center
Silk road talk to Freeman teachers
   
8
11:30 a.m.
Capitol Bulding, Lansing, Michigan
Workshop for State Legislature
   
June
   
4
12:00-1:00p.m.
301 International Center
Women's Traditional Health Practices in Hills of Northern India
   
4
7:00- 9:00p.m
3rd. Floor, International Center
Nisei Scholarship Ceremony
   
18
10:00-4:00 p.m
3rd. Floor, International Center
2004 Workshop for Teachers of Korean, Chinese and Japanese
   
25
9:00- 4:00 p.m
3rd. Floor, International Center
Fulbright Orientation
   
July
           
   
14
3:30 p.m
International Center Library
Language Teaching in a Nutshell: A Workshop for Asian Heritage Language Teacher
   
     
   
     


Spring Semester 2004

January
       
20
4.00 p.m
303 International Center

Special Presentations on Southeast Asia
Systemic Vulnerability and the Origin of Developmental States: Was Thailand's Developmental Path Too Easy?
Bryan Ritchie (MSU, James Madison College)
22
7:00 p.m.
B-106 Wells Hall

Southeast Asian Film Series: The Legend of Suriyothai (Thailand)
22
5:00 p.m.
303 International Center

Higher Education in India: Emerging New Scenarios
Arun Nigavekar, University Grants Commission, India
22
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
334A Case Hall

Turkey's Multiple Paradoxes
Mohammad Ayoob, James Madison College, MSU

 
27
4.00 p.m
303 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series:

Clans, Tribes, Groups, Gangs and Just Good Friends: An Exchange Theory Analysis of Central Asian Politics
Gregory Gleason, University of New Mexico

 
29
7:00 p.m.
B-106 Wells Hall

Southeast Asian Film Series: The Snake King's Child (Cambodia)
30
Noon
201 International Center
 Recent Economic Reforms and Human Development Initiatives in Pakistan
Asad Aleem, Humphrey Fellow, MSU
February
       
2

Opening Ceremony- 2:00 p.m.

Exhibit will run through February.

Feb 2~26
Michigan Library & Historical Center, Lansing

The Dolls of Japan: Shapes of Prayer, Embodiment of Love; opening ceremony at 2:p.m.

Driving directions to the Michigan Library and Historical Center

 

 
3
4.00 p.m
303 International Center

Special Presentations on Southeast Asia: Vietnamese Religion: A Key to Understanding
 Talbott Huey (MSU, Asian Studies Librarian)

 
5
7:00 p.m.
B-106 Wells Hall

Southeast Asian Film Series:
Nostalgia for the Country Side
(Vietnam)
8
6:00 p.m.
Golden Wok Restaurant

S.C. Lee Dinner

 
10
4.00 p.m
303 International Center

Special Presentations on Southeast Asia: Screening of documentary Burma Behind Bars followed by discussion led by Han Han Thi, PhD candidate from Myanmar in the College of Education.
12
7:00p.m.
B -106 Wells Hall

Southeast Asian Film Series:
A Smart Lady (Myanmar)
12
4:00p.m.
303,305 International Center

Integrating School Reform and Community Development: Lessons
from Vietnam:
Chris Wheeler; Michigan State University
16
4:00p.m.
303,305 International Center

The Thaw in India-Pakistan Relations: Genuine Rapprochement of False Start?
S.K. Singh, Former General Secretary of India

 
17
7:00p.m.
303 - 305 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series:
Asian Minorities in Russian State: Historical Heritage and Future Perspectives
Grigori Melnitser, Visiting Scholar, MSU

 
18
12:00 p.m.
302 International Center

ASN Graduate Research Forum:
Education in Myanmar
Han Han Thi, Ph.D., College of Education

 
19
7:00 p.m.
B -106 Wells Hall

Southeast Asian Film Series:
Exalted Guest (Indonesia)
19
3:30 p.m.
340 Morrill Hall

Dept. of History Spring Seminar Series:
Contest Over "Customs" in Nineteenth-century Japan
Suzanne O'Brien, History, Loyola Marymount University

 
23
12 - 1p.m
201 International Center

ASN Brown Bag:
Declining Birthrates and the Booming Sex Industry: Representing Sexuality, Procreation, and Nation in Contemporary Japan
Suzanne O'Brien, History, Loyola Marymount University
24
4:00-5:30 p.m.
303 - 305 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series: Russians in Contemporary Japan: Case Studies of Niigata and Hokkaido
Tsuneo Akaha, Monterey Institute, California

 
26
7:00 p.m.
B -106 Wells Hall

Southeast Asian Film Series:
Perfumed Nightmare (The Philippines)
26

Cancelled

 
Cancelled

Studying the Children of Trauma: Approaching Shame in Philippine Immigrant Culture Through Grounded Theory
Roger Bresnahan, MSU, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture
March
15
7:00 p.m
 Kellogg Center Auditorium

Celebration of Korean Culture:
P'ansori* Shim Ch'ong: A Vocal Narrative of Faith, Sacrifice, and Healing
Performance by Chan E. Park (Korean Language, Literature, and Performance Studies, Ohio State University)
*P'ansori is a solo-singer story-singing with drum accompaniment.
16
4:00-5:30 p.m.
303 - 305 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series:
Trafficking in Asia: Borderless Slavery
Chivy W. Sok, University of Iowa

 
17
12:00 p.m.
302 International Center

ASN Graduate Research Forum:
White and Asian Identity Formations Among Transracially Adopted Korean Americans
Tess Kim, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology

 
18
5:00 p.m.
307 International Center
 Study Abroad in Korea
Informational session on MSU study abroad programs at Yonsei and Kyonggi Universities in South Korea.
19
12.00 p.m
201 International Center
 Korean Japanese Identity: The Case of Yi Yang Ji's yuhi
.WID/CASID Friday Noon Forum presentation by Catherine Ryu (Linguistics and Languages, MSU)

22
7:00 p.m.
3rd Floor International Center

So Koo Lecture:
China and the U.S. in the American Century
 Warren Cohen, University of Maryland Baltimore County

 
23
4:00-5:30 p.m.
303 - 305 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series:
A Case Study: Nepalese Visa Over Stayers’ Community in Japan
Keiko Yamanaka, University of California , Berkeley

 
24
Cancelled
Cancelled

Cancelled
ASN Graduate Research Forum:
Discourse of Agrifood Biotechnology: BT Cotton Controversies in India
Tomiko Yamaguchi, Ph.D., Department of Sociology

 
25
5: 15 p.m.
The Peoples Church
200 W. Grand River
East Lansing, MI
 The Changing Faces of Mid-Michigan: A Taste of Freedom
25
7:00 p.m.
B-106 Wells Hall
 Korean Film Screening
Sopyonje

25

7:30 p.m.

B-104 Wells Hall

Second Annual Peace and Justice Studies Presents
Globalization: Corporate Nightmare or Nonviolent Dream.
Professor Michael Nagle--Emeritus Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature; founder and former Chair, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Californian, Berkeley

30
2:30 p.m
C210 Wells Hall

MATRIX presents:
Time-Map and ECAI: New Resources for Cultural Resource Mapping the Urban Angkor Project.
Ian Johnson, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, Sidney University.

 
April
1
7:00 p.m.
3rd. Floor, International Center

Special performance of Korean drums by MSU student organization MECK
8
7:00 p.m.
B-106 Wells Hall
 Korean Film Screening
Chunhyang
9
12:00 noon
201 International Center

CASID-WID Friday Forum
Change, Development, and the Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment in Laos
Manothong Vongsay, Humphrey Fellow, MSU

9

 

3:00p.m.

304 Natural Science Building

 

 

 

From Digital Development Toward Planned Intelligent Development in Southeast Asia
Mark Wilson & Ken Corey, Geography, MSU

 

12

4:00-5:30 p.m.

303 - 305 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series:
China's Central Asian Problem: Defending Borders in a Globalizing World
Gardner Bovingdon, Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

13
4:30 p.m.
303 International Center

Beijing(Peking)Opera and Chinese Traditional Opera
Peter Xinya Zhang, MSU doctoral student and president of student organization Panda Culture Group

14

6:30 p.m.

B-108 Wells Hall

Chinese Speech Contest

 

15

7:00 p.m.

B-106 Wells Hall

Chinese Film Screening
In the Mood for Love
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
(2001; 98 min.)

16

3:00p.m.

128 Natural Science Building

Third Annual Bernard Gallin Endowed Lecture in Asian Anthropology
David W. Plath, Uinversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Underdeveloped Images: Asia, Anthropology, and the Digital Upsurge"
17
8:30 a.m -2 p.m.
International Center Library

Symposium: Divided States and Contested Territories in Northeast Asia: Retrospect and Prospect
Speakers:
Kirk W. Larsen, The George Washington University
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shelley Rigger, Davidson College

 

19
&20

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m
9:00 a.m.-noon

Kellogg Center, MSU

China: Markets, Myths and Mavens
2004 Annual Western Coordinating Conference(WCC)-101
20
4:00-5:30 p.m.
303 - 305 International Center

Asian Studies Spring Colloquium Series:
Building Environmental Partnership in Northeast Asia: Lessons Learned from Project on the ADB/GEF Protection of Dust and Sandstorm in Northeast Asia
II Chyun Kwak, United Nations Economic And Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (UNESCAP)

 
24
10a.m -4p.m
East Lansing Public Library
Anime Festival : For details visit http://elpl.org/events.htm
May

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