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Spring 2005 Events

January			top
23 Sun	2:00 - 3:00 PM	East Lansing Public Library	Community Cultures: Focus on Asia Community Cultures is a series of programs designed to introduce families to these cultures. Explore a variety of different traditions, festivals, crafts, folklore, costumes, food and more.
25 Tu	2:00 -5:00 PM	MSU Union-Gold Rooms & Parlor Rooms	Educational Forum: The Tsunami and Its Impact
26 Wed	7:00 PM	B-102 Wells Hall	Central Asian Film Series *Luna Papa* Directed by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (1999; 107min) Russian with English subtitles (fillmed in Uzbekistan) With an introduction to Central Asian films by Eric Freedman (MSU, Journalism)
26 Wed	7:30 PM	Kellog Center Auditorium	McPherson Professors Lecture Series: Robert J. Lang will speak on, "The Ancient Art of Japanese Paper Folding: Discovering Mathematical Principles and How Flapping Birds Evolved into Space Station Telescopes (and Beyond!)"
27 Th	8:30AM - 3:30PM	Spartan Rooms B&C	Global Islam Workshop for Grade 7-12 Presenters & Presentations: Hassan Khalil, What is Islam? Janine Sinno, Women and Islam Fareeha Khan, Islamic Law Najeeb Jan, Isam and Terror Emalie Karp, How to Teach About Islam, A Roundtable Discussion
28 Fri	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Uzbekistan: Myth vs. Reality > Askar Kushkunbaev MSU Visiting Scholar, Journalism
February

2 Wed	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Asia and the Diaspora: Traditions and Trajectories Lecture Series Lok Siu (New York University) Performing Diaspora: Gender, Nation, and Chineseness
2 Wed	7:00 PM	B-102 Wells Hall	Central Asian Film Series < *Beshkempir, the Adopted Son* Directed by Aktan Abdykalykov (1998; 81min) Kyrghystani with English subtitles
3 Th	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hall	Asian American Film Series *Searching for Asian American* Directed by Sapana Sakya, Donald Young, and Kyung Yu (2003; 90min)
7 Mon	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series A sian Rhythms: Traditional Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) Mazumi Izumi Japanese Taiko Drumming
8 Tu	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Asia and the Diaspora: Traditions and Trajectories Lecture Series Gaku Tsuda (UC San Diego) Migration and Alienation: Japanese Brazilian Return Migrants and the Search for Homeland Abroad
9 Wed	7:00 PM	B-102 Wells Hall	Central Asian Film Series Kardiogramma Directed by Darezhan Omirbaev (1995; 75min) Kazakh with English subtitles
10 Th	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hal	Asian American Film Series Doubles: Japan and America's Intercultural Children Directed by Regge Life (1998; 98min) Japanese with English subtitles
13 Su	5:00 PM	Golden Wok Restaurant	Shao-Chang Lee Annual Awards Dinner Reservations required, please contact our Center.
14 Mon	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Focus on Cambodia Philip Short Pol Pot: Anatomy of the Cambodian Nightmare
15 Tu	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hall	Focus on Cambodia Film Screening S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine Directed by Rithy Panh (2002; 105min)
16 Wed	7:00 PM	B-102 Wells Hall	Central Asian Film Series Kairat Directed by Darezhan Omirbaev (1992; 72min) Kazakh with English subtitles
17 Th	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Focus on Cambodia Miriam Stark (University of Hawaii) Politics, Nationalism, & Studies of the Cambodian Past
18 Fri	7:30 PM	Albert A. White Performing Arts Theater, Hannah Community Center	From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, an Evening of Performance with Dan Kwong
21 Mon	7:00 PM	B-102 Wells Hall	Focus on China Film Screening - *Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress* Directed by Sijie Dai (2002; 110min)
22 Tu	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asia and the Diaspora: Traditions and Trajectories Lecture Series Hung Cam Thai (UC Santa Barbara) Redefining Social Worth and Marriageability Across the Vietnamese Diaspora
23 Wed	6:00 - 8:30 PM	B-108 Wells Hall	Focus on China Annual Chinese Speech Contest
23 Wed	7:00 PM	B-102 Wells Hall	Central Asian Film Series Killer Directed by Darezhan Omirbaev (1998; 81min) Kazakh with English subtitles
24 Wed	7:00 PM	303 International Center	Annual So-Koo Lecture Keith Shoppa (Loyola University) Local Political and Economic Patterns in Contemporary China
28 Mon	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series Asian Rhythms: Traditional Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) David Reck (Ameherst College) Karnataka Sangeeta: The Classical Music of South India
March			top

2 Wed	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Asia and the Diaspora: Traditions and Trajectories Lecture Series Roger Bresnahan (MSU) Studying Shame in Southeast Asian Immigrants to the U.S.: A Proposal for Participatory Research
3 Th	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series Asian Rhythms: Traditional )Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) Charles Capwell (University of Illinois, Urbana) Multiple Modernities in the Realm of Islamic Popular Music in Indonesia
3 Th	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hall	Asian American Film Series Disoriented Directed by Francisco Aliwalas (1999; 90min)
14 Mon	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series Asian Rhythms: Traditional Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) Matheus Wasi Bantolo (University of Michigan) Indonesian Gamelan Music
17 Th	1:00 PM -	3rd Floor International Center	African and African Diaspora on Film
17 Th	1:00 - 2:30 PM	3rd Floor International Center	Graduate Student and Faculty Panel, Char: Ethan Segal, History, MSU
17 Th	3:00 - 4:30 PM	3rd Floor International Center	Professor Manthia Diawara, NYU "Neo-traditionalism in Nigerian Video Films"
17 Th	4:45 - 6:00 PM	3rd Floor International Center	Screening of Professor Diawara's film Bamako Sigi Kan* (The Pact of Bamako)*
17 Th	6:00 - 7:30 PM	Spartan Rooms A & B International Center	< Reception
17 Th	8:00 PM -	3rd Floor International Center	Screening of Professor Diawara's flims In Search of Africa and Malick Sidibe
17 Th	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hall	Asian American Film Series Charlotte Sometimes Directed by Eric Byler (2002; 85min)
18 Fri	9:30AM - 6:00PM	3rd Floor International Center	Television, Gender, and the Nation State
18 Fri	9:30AM -11:00AM	3rd Floor International Center	Professor Arvind Rajagopal, NYU "Techniques of an Emerging Market: Televisual Imagery and the Crafting of a New Middle Class in India" Chair: Professor Jyotsna G. Singh, English, MSU
18 Fri	11:00AM - 12:30PM	3rd Floor International Center	Documentary: Unlimited Girls* by Paromita Vohra*
18 Fri	2:30 PM	B102 Wells Hall	The Films of Moufida Tlatli (Film Director, Tunisia)
18 Fri	2:45 - 4:45PM	B102 Wells Hall	Film Screening - The Silences of the Palace
18 Fri	5:00 - 6:00PM	B102 Wells Hall	Moufida Tlatli: "The Gravity of Exeptionalism in the Countries of the Third World"
19 Sa	9:30 - 12:00PM	3rd Floor International Center	Iranian Cinema--Its Scope and Influence
19 Sa	9:30 - 12:00PM	3rd Floor International Center	Professor Hamid Naficy, Rice University "Under Cover but on the Screen: Women in Iranian Cinema"
19 Sa	1:00 - 3:00 PM	B102 Wells Hall	Film Screening: Under the Skin of the City* followed by A/A with Professor Naficy*
19 Sa	4:00 - 6:00 PM	B102 Wells Hall	Film Screening: The Season of Men* (French Only) followed by A/A with Director Tlatli*
21 Mon	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series Asian Rhythms: Traditional Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside) Thai Buddhist Performance and Ritual
22 Tu	7:00 PM	B106 Wells Hall	Films Final Solution
22 Tu	7:30 PM		McPherson Professors Lecture Series: Mel Chin will speak on, "Epiphanies: The Conception of Works of Art"
23 Wed	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Asia and the Diaspora: Traditions and Trajectories Lecture Series Arar Han (Harvard University) Searching for Identity: Asian American X
24 Th	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hall	Asian American Film Series *My America...or honk if you love Buddha* Directed by Renee Tajima Pena (1997; 83min)
28 Mon	7:15 PM	105 South Kedzie	(Amherst College) Resources, Conflict and Overconsumption: Challenges for Social Justice
April			top

1 Fri	12:00noon	201 International Center	CASID-WID Friday Forum Chris Wheeler (Teacher Education, MSU) Integrating School Reform and Community Development in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
4 Mon	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series Asian Rhythms: Traditional Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) Keila Diehl (Standford University) Constructing the Rich Cultural Heritage of Tibet: Musical Tradition and Innovation in an Exiled Community
7 Th	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Special Linguistics Colloquium Jack Gandour (Purdue University) Dr. Gandour has done a great deal of work on linguistic tone using neuroimaging techniques, including fMRI. There will be a reception following the colloquium.
7 Th	7:00 PM	B-106 Wells Hall	Asian American Film Series/India Week Bollywood Bound: Finding Fame and Identity in India's Filmmaking Capital Directed by Nisha Pahuja (2002; 57min)
8 Fri	9:00 AM - 1:30 PM	507 Erickson	Brunch and Lecture: Nita Kumar (Visiting Professor, University of Michigan) Educational Issues in India
8 Fri	7:00 PM	Wharton Center	Satrang 2005: Taal, the Rhythm of India
9 Sa	1:00 PM	Michigan Library & Historical Center Forum Auditorium	Asian American Film Series *Daughter from Danang* Directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco (2003; 83min)
9 Sa	3:00 PM	Turner-Dodge House and Cultural Center 100 E. North Street, Lansing	High Chai: The Teas of India Celebrate the tea traditions of India at a Spring High Tea at Turner-Dodge
10 Sun	2:00-5:00pm	MSU Museum, Youth Gallery	The exhibit “Spring Festivals of India: 'Oral Histories'” installed at the museum.
11 Mon			All the Questions You Always Wanted to Ask About India, but Were Afraid to Ask Volunteers from the local Indian Community will visit local High Schools to participate in a question and answer session with the students.
11 Mon	4:00 PM	303 International Center	Asia and the Diaspora: Traditions and Trajectories Lecture Series ( Shirley Lim (UC Santa Barbara) Asian American Inventive Identities: Rethinking Difference and Hybridity in the Sibling Case of Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watana
11 Mon	7:00 PM	Bharatiya Temple 955 Haslett Road, Haslett.	The Carnatica Brothers: K.N. Shashikiran and Chitravina Ganesh These award winning singers from South India will perform a selection of songs.
12 Tu	12:00noon	Michigan State Capitol, East Steps	India Week Kick-off at the Capitol This event recognizes distinguished persons from across Michigan who have contributed to Government, Science, Education, and Economy, as well as to the cultural enrichment of our State. Photography exhibit at the Rotunda as well as a sampling of chai and Indian delicacies.
12 Tu	4:30 PM	303 International Center	Asian Music Series Asian Rhythms: Traditional Music, Modern Manifestations (Lecture Series) E. Taylor Atkins (Northern Illinois University) Jazzy Japonisme: Fantasies of Japan in Jazz
13 Wed	4:00 PM	A133 Life Sciences Building	Film Screening Gandhi, Directed by Richard Attenborough (1982;188min)
13 Wed	7:00pm	State Room, Kellogg Center	I Specialty dishes with the flavors of India, served with wines and imported beers designed to enhance the meal. $65, inclusive of gratuity and taxes; fundraiser for the MSU Museum. Fixed menu, vegetarian meal upon request. For reservations, call 432-5049
14 Th	4:00pm	303 International Center	Mark Lindley (Istanbul Technical University) Attenborough's ‘Gandhi' and the 'Real Gandhi’ A critique of the film Gandhi in comparison with the historical figure.
15 Fri	3:30 PM	303 International Center	Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History) Auspicious Places in a Mobile Landcape of Shamans, Shrines, and Dreams
15 Fri	7:00pm	MSU Museum, Youth Gallery	Spring Festivals of India: 'Oral Histories' Opening reception for the exhibit hosted by the Youth of the Asian Indian Community. Refreshments will be served
16 Sa	9:00 AM - 7:00 PM	Michigan Library & Historical Ctr. 702 W Kalamazoo St., Lansing
16 Sa	7:00pm	MacDonald Middle School, East Lansing	Presented by the Shruthilaya School of Dance, this dance drama draws from “Vikrama Charitra,” written in the 11th century A.D. by a poet at the court of King Bhoj. An event for all ages!
19 Tu	4:30 - 5:45 PM	N103 Business College Complex, MSU	MSU Department of Finance presents: Ha Sung Jang (Korea University)
26 Tu	12:00-12:50 PM	Room 201 International Center	VIPP Guest Speaker Seminar Series 2005 Xueqin Wu (HenanTeacher's College in Zhengzhou, China)
May
2 Tu	12:00 -1:00 PM	Room 105, Manly Miles Bldg.	Brown bag Seminar Series "Land Use/Land cover Change Research and Management in Vietnam" Dr. Do Xuan Lan (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hanoi, Vietnam)
23 Mo - 24 Tu	8 AM - 7 PM	Law College Building	Conference Director: Prof. Peter K. Yu, Director, Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program, Michigan State University College of Law
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