{"id":59,"date":"2023-09-18T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:35:16","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fall 2026 Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, August 27th<\/strong><br \/>\nIce Cream Social at Sarabha&#8217;s Creamery from 3-5 PM<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-467\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/08\/Ice-Cream-Party-Flyer-final-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/08\/Ice-Cream-Party-Flyer-final-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/08\/Ice-Cream-Party-Flyer-final-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/08\/Ice-Cream-Party-Flyer-final-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/08\/Ice-Cream-Party-Flyer-final-994x1536.png 994w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/08\/Ice-Cream-Party-Flyer-final.png 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Asian Studies Around Campus and nashville!<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sept 11th: <em>The Ghosts of Chinatown <\/em>world premiere brings overlooked history to the concert stage<\/strong><br \/>\nPurchase Tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/blair.live\/091126-tix\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/279\/2026\/09\/02184259\/ghosts_of_chinatown_poster.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, September 23rd, 12-1:30 PM, The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities presents:<\/strong>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Dr. Venkatkrishnan is Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia at The University of Chicago Divinity School. He is an intellectual historian of South Asian religion. His first book, <i data-ogsc=\"\">Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History <\/i>(OUP 2024), shows how popular religion shaped the everyday lives of Sanskrit scholars in early modern India. His current projects include <i data-ogsc=\"\">Searching for Sarasvati<\/i>, an alternate history of American Indology that bridges South Asian, African American, Asian American, and gender and sexuality studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">We will discuss Dr. Venkatkrishnan\u2019s draft article, \u201cBlack and Brown in Babylon: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda\u2019s <i data-ogsc=\"\">Divine Revelations<\/i>.\u201d As this is a draft, it should not be shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\"><b data-ogsc=\"\">Abstract:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The last few years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of the avant-garde musician and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane, who also went by the name Swamini Turiyasangitananda. For all the attention to her life and music, her ideas remain poorly understood.\u00a0Textual study was central to Coltrane\u2019s spiritual explorations. Through her daily meditations, she testified to being divinely inspired to compose scriptural texts of her own, to produce written commentaries on a variety of religious sources, and to provide spiritual exercises for a community of students. She published these texts from her ashram in the hills of Southern California. They\u00a0reveal an autodidact conversant in Sanskrit and Hindi and a reader who absorbed and interpreted specific religious texts. Yet few have been as patient as she was to work through their South Asian content. Through a close reading of her journal entries in <i data-ogsc=\"\">Divine Revelations <\/i>(1995) and other ephemera from the ashram, I provide detail into the South Asian forms of knowledge that Turiyasangitananda molded into her \u201cfreedom dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vanderbilt.edu\/rpw\/event\/104862-remaking-south-asia-seminar\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\"><b data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Please RSVP for lunch and to receive the reading.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, September 24th, 4:10 PM, The Department of Classical and Religious Studies with cosponsorship by The Department of Asian Studies:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-497 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Moonbeam-of-Wonder-1-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Moonbeam-of-Wonder-1-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Moonbeam-of-Wonder-1-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Moonbeam-of-Wonder-1-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Moonbeam-of-Wonder-1-994x1536.png 994w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Moonbeam-of-Wonder-1.png 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/>In critical studies of the humanities, we often think about the politics of knowledge, or, how<br \/>\nthe fields we work in are implicated in systems of domination. To tell an intimate history of<br \/>\nthese fields, however, is to move from the modes of thinking that undergird them to the people<br \/>\nwho dwell in and around them. That means centering human desires, motivations,<br \/>\ncontradictions, relationships, loss, fury, madness \u2013 in other words, what it feels like to<br \/>\nlearn, whether within an institution or on its edges.<br \/>\nThis talk is about one person on the margins of classical South Asian studies: my first Sanskrit<br \/>\nteacher, Dr. Sarasvati Mohan. Unreliable memories, archival fragments, and the texts we<br \/>\nread when I was a child form the basis of my attempt to understand how she transformed the<br \/>\nbitterness of unemployment into the gift of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, September 24th, 5:30-7:30 pm at VCL Rothschild Satellite &#8220;Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration&#8221; sponsored by Asian Studies and VCL<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-512\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Chinese-Mid-Autumn-Festival-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Chinese-Mid-Autumn-Festival-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Chinese-Mid-Autumn-Festival-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Chinese-Mid-Autumn-Festival-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Chinese-Mid-Autumn-Festival-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Chinese-Mid-Autumn-Festival.png 1545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/>Join us for an evening of mooncakes, Chinese food, cultural activities, and the chance to meet new friends while learning about Chinese culture!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday, September 25, 2-4 PM, The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities presents:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/robert-penn-warren-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/08\/Debashree-M-headshot-02-1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px\"><strong>Debashree Mukherjee<\/strong> (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University)<br \/>\n\u201cContract and Conjuring: Indian Film Exhibition in Colonial Fiji\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> In 1933, three Indian gentlemen sued the owners of Lilac Theatre, one of Fiji\u2019s best-known movie palaces, after being evicted from the dress circle. The court ruled in their favor, upholding the movie ticket as a binding contractual agreement, while leaving the racial dimension of their exclusion largely unexamined. The ruling carries a deeper colonial irony: Indian presence in Fiji had itself been consolidated through another contractual form\u2014the indenture agreement, or girmit\u2014rhetorically defended as modern form of consensual migration even as it enabled coercive, racialized labor extraction. Indian talkie films entered this fraught arena as a form of conjuring, summoning visions of transformation and magic that bypassed the contractual grammar of the colonial-bureaucratic episteme altogether. In this talk, I trace the work of cinema between contract and conjuring, as it mediated liberal aspirations for equality alongside more unruly visions of diasporic longing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Debashree Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. She is co-director of the Center for Comparative Media and edits the journal Screen. Author of Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (Columbia University Press, 2020), Debashree has several peer-reviewed publications on topics in feminist decolonial film historiography, eco-media, and critical visual theory. Her current research project, Tropical Machines, develops a media history of South Asian indentured migration from the 1830s onwards. Since 2022 Debashree has been running a collaborative project on Extractive Media, that considers the entanglements of media technologies with colonial and environmental extractivism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, October 1st, 6pm, Wilson 127 &#8220;Institutional NON-Neutrality&#8221;, cosponsored by Asian Studies<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-506 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/2fe8c4d8-dab3-4f73-a7a8-3eb1995209e9-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/2fe8c4d8-dab3-4f73-a7a8-3eb1995209e9-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/2fe8c4d8-dab3-4f73-a7a8-3eb1995209e9.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>A\u00a0constitutional law scholar and philosopher of art, Professor Soucek&#8217;s work ranges from equality and free speech law, to academic freedom, to topics at the intersection of law and aesthetics. He is a\u00a0member of The American Association of University Professors&#8217;\u00a0(AAUP) \u201cCommittee A\u201d on Academic Freedom and Tenure, recently chaired the University of California\u2019s system-wide Committee on Academic Freedom,\u00a0was a fellow with UC\u2019s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, led the Association of American Law Schools\u2019 Section on Law and the Humanities, and served a three-year term as trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Soucek will be visiting campus as a guest of the Vanderbilt chapter of the AAUP, and the talk is co-sponsored by a broad range of departments and programs on campus. Academic freedom and &#8220;institutional neutrality&#8221; are topics of great interest to everyone in higher education right now, and we very much hope that many of you will be able to join us for the talk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday, October 2<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>\u201cRace and Capitalism\u201d Seminar At The Robert Penn Warren Center<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-483\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-154227-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-154227-1.png 591w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-154227-1-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/>Co-directors: Ajay Batra (English) and <strong>Maya Singhal (Asian Studies)<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAsian Studies Working paper series, in conjunction with this seminar being lead by <strong>Mark Sanchez (Asian Studies)<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Race &amp; Capitalism Seminar (R&amp;C) is a forum for discussion about the role of race and other forms of difference in structuring economic inequality, social injustice, and the terrain of politics across time and space. Our programming fosters multi-disciplinary dialogue on a core set of inter-related themes and topics: the historical development and expansion of capitalism; colonialism and empire; free and unfree labor; race, ethnicity, and gender; and working-class politics and culture. To that end, we host lectures and workshop sessions that highlight the cutting-edge research of both Vanderbilt community members and visiting scholars. We welcome participants from the full range of disciplines across the humanities and the humanistic social sciences, including anthropology, ethnic and area studies, history, literary and cultural studies, and sociology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.e2ma.net\/signup\/2104572\/1956461\/\">Sign up for the Race &amp; Capitalism Seminar mailing list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oct. 8\/9<\/strong> <strong>Guest Speaker Tara Fickle of Northwestern University<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #bf9c34\"><em>Details forthcoming from the Department of English<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday, November 6th, 2 \u2013 4 PM, The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities presents:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/robert-penn-warren-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/08\/Yucong-Hao-1-150x150.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/strong>Pedagogy Workshop with Rebecca K. VanDiver (History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University), <strong>Yucong Hao (Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University)<\/strong>, and Isaac West (Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Please join us for a teaching practicum. We will begin with flash-talks by three Vanderbilt faculty (Yucong Hao: &#8220;AI Encounters&#8221;) and then open the floor for a wider conversation about teaching across media forms and their disciplines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asian-studies\/bio\/yucong-hao\/\">Yucong Hao<\/a> is Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Studies. Working at the intersection of comparative literature, media history, and performance studies, she studies the global connectivity, postcolonial engagement, and racial imagination in modern Chinese literature and media. Her work has appeared in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Global Storytelling, and International Comparative Literature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nov 7, Nashville Public Library&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nplf.org\/ocean-vuong-named-as-literary-award-winner-2026\/\">2026 Literary Award Weekend<\/a> featuring Ocean Vuong at Martin Luther King High School<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nplf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-10-at-1.54.15-PM.png\" width=\"316\" height=\"453\" \/><strong style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><br \/>\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">\u2013 Nashville Public Library and Nashville Public Library Foundation are proud to honor poet and novelist Ocean Vuong as the 2026 Literary Award winner. Mr. Vuong will be recognized for his contributions to literature during the 22nd Anniversary Literary Award Weekend, presented by First Horizon Foundation. His work, which moves between poetry and fiction with equal force, makes him an ideal recipient for this award sponsored by Sandra Schatten Foundation. Tickets will be available beginning in September.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong>Public Lecture is FREE \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/host.nxt.blackbaud.com\/registration-form\/?formId=60f08ab9-f8ea-4924-a087-3f5bddb729cb&amp;envId=p-S1rpsRNGZ0ainWKbZpD2Mw&amp;zone=usa\">REGISTRATION BEGINS IN SEPTEMBER<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nFree and open to the public<br \/>\nSaturday, Nov. 7 at 10 a.m.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King Jr. High School, 613 17th Ave. N., Nashville, Tenn. 37203<br \/>\nBroadcast live on NECAT and streaming on NPL\u2019s YouTube channel<br \/>\nSponsored by Dollar General and Carol and Bobby Frist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Friday, December 4, 2-4 PM, <span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Presents:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 1.2rem;font-weight: 300\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/robert-penn-warren-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/09\/SunnyXiang_headshot-150x150.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" \/><\/span><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;font-size: 1.2rem\"><b style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">Sunny Xiang<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">\u00a0(English, Yale University)\u00a0Conspiratorial Thinking; Or, Breathing Together<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><br \/>\nAbstract:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">\u00a0My talk uses two seemingly disparate material cultural objects that have long preoccupied me\u2014gas masks and bras\u2014to build toward a theory of conspiracy based on the micropolitics and geopolitics of breath. In pursuing this etymological and elemental interpretation of\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">conspiracy<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"> as \u201cbreathing together,\u201d I also test out a method of conspiratorial reading that adduces hypothetical chemical intimacies in the absence of verifiable causalities. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">My archive is eclectic, though it is informed by my commitment to studying U.S. militarism and imperialism in a transpacific context. Components of this archive include: a Maidenform bra designed for WWII carrier pigeons; anti-Vietnam War performance art by Nam June Paik and Salvatore Martirano, respectively; NASA\u2019s use of corset technologies in creating pressurized spacesuits; and an Emergency Bra (EBbra) that converts into a gas mask, which was inspired by the Chernobyl disaster and revitalized during the Covid pandemic. (I may not discuss all of these, but I will bring the EBbra to show you!) Through such examples, I hope to develop a critical vocabulary for redescribing the motifs of exposure and enclosure that underpin colonial conceptions of atmospheric harm and protection. Whereas these boundary-asserting motifs presuppose an antipathy between a vulnerable white body and a hostile environment, I wonder if that a more elemental and relational theory of conspiratorial thinking\/breathing can help us devise other blueprints for living in and with chemical and colonial violence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">Bio:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">\u00a0Sunny Xiang is a professor of English and American Studies at Yale\u200b who uses wide-ranging aesthetic, cultural, literary, and documentary materials to study U.S. military empire in Asia and the Pacific. She is especially interested in how historical norms for perceiving race and gender have interacted with the sensory economy of colonial violence and militarized security. Her book\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\"> was published in 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, February 4th, 2027<\/strong><br \/>\nSarah Wang visit for New Skin<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/reading-series\/\">In partnership with English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Past Events<\/h2>\n\n\n<!-- NEW ACCORDION * AID 1666-->\n\n<div class=\"panel-group VUaccordion_1666\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\" aria-multiselectable=\"true\">\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 9397-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading9397\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item9397\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item9397\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>Spring 2023<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item9397\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading9397\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Wednesday, February 1<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tU.S. Gun Violence and Asian Americans<br \/>\r\n\tRoundtable discussion with Sophie Bjork-James, Jonathan Metzl, and Ben Tran<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, February 16<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tA Philosophy of Hedonism in Early China: Understanding Yang Zhu in Ancient and Medieval Texts<br \/>\r\n\tA lecture by Erica Fox Brindley of Penn State University<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, February 16<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tThe Handmaiden<br \/>\r\n\tScreening of Park Chan-wook&rsquo;s film presented by iLens and introduced by We Jung Yi<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, February 23<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tDecolonizing Cinema Studies and the Rise of Global Korean Cinema<br \/>\r\n\tLecture by Aimee Nayoung Kwan of Duke University<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Tuesday, March 7 and Wednesday, March 8<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tCaste in the United States<br \/>\r\n\tLecture by Yashica Dutt<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Monday, March 20<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tAsian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism<br \/>\r\n\tJonathan Tran of Baylor on his new book<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, March 23 and Friday, March 24<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tWomen as Harmonius Subjects: Intervals between Antigone and Nguyen Du&rsquo;s Kieu<br \/>\r\n\tLecture by Nguyen Thi Minh of UCLA<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Monday, March 27<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tWelcome to the New Real: Why Nipper Barks in Japanese<br \/>\r\n\tLecture by Jonathan Abel of Penn State University on his new book<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, March 30<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tAssignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People&rsquo;s Republic<br \/>\r\n\tLecture by Mike Chinoy of University of California<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, April 20<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tAsian American and Critical Enviroment Studies: A Symposium with Neel Ahuja and Aimee Bhang<br \/>\r\n\tLectures by Neel Ahuja of University of Maryland and Aimee Bhang of Pomona College<\/li>\r\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 9397 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 9398-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading9398\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item9398\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item9398\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>Fall 2022<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item9398\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading9398\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, September 22<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tJapanese Tea Ceremony<br \/>\r\n\tIn community with the Vanderbilt Center for Languages and the Department of History of Art &amp; Architecture<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Friday, September 23<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tIce Cream Social at Sarabha&#39;s Creamery<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Monday, October 10<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tJapanese Cultural Event: Koto Music &amp; Onigiri Action<br \/>\r\n\tIn community with the Vanderbilt Center for Languages<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, October 20<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tJET Info Session<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Monday, Nov 14<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tKimono Viewing &amp; Discussion<br \/>\r\n\tOrganized by Dr. Shimizu<br \/>\r\n\tIn community with the Department of History of Art &amp; Architecture, the Vanderbilt Center for Languages, and guest expert Sachi Uemoto<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday, Dec 1<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tSino-Black Relations: A Discussion with Keisha A. Brown<br \/>\r\n\tIn community with the Departments of African American and Diaspora Studies &amp; American Studies<\/li>\r\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 9398 -->\n\n\n\n<!-- NEW PANEL ITEM * ID 9399-->\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" role=\"tab\" id=\"heading9399\"><h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a name=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" href=\"#item9399\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"item9399\"><i class='pull-right fa fa-chevron-circle-down' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>Spring 2022<\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"item9399\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading9399\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Saturday Feb 12 - Sunday Feb 13<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chinaandtheworld\/\">China and the World Conference<\/a><br \/>\r\n\tPanels and discussions will be in person on Vanderbilt&#39;s campus<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Thursday Mar 24,12:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\r\n\tFrom Vincent Chin to #StopAAPIHate<br \/>\r\n\tAbstract: Before the alarming escalation in anti-AAPI xenophobia resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, there was similar backlash decades prior amid the rise of the Japanese auto industry. The backlash included the murder of 27-year-old Chinese American Vincent Chin in 1982. This year marks the 40th anniversary of his death. From then until now, journalist and activist Helen Zia has been front and center in leading AAPI advocacy and she&rsquo;s seen it all. Join us for a panel discussion as Helen shares her experience and observations on 40+ years of AAPI resistance, how far we&rsquo;ve come since Vincent&rsquo;s death, and the work we have left to do to achieve justice and equity.<br \/>\r\n\tModerator: Rev. Laura M. Cheifetz, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Vocation &amp; Stewardship, Vanderbilt Divinity School<br \/>\r\n\tPanelists: Vivian Shaw, Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, College of Arts &amp; Science; Linken Lam, President of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) at Peabody College<br \/>\r\n\tCommons Center Multi-purpose Room (2nd&nbsp;floor)<br \/>\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/696589053\/bf3490790c\" target=\"_blank\">Watch now!<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!-- END PANEL * ID 9399 -->\n\n\n<\/div><!-- END ACCORDION * AID 9399 -->\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall 2026 Events Thursday, August 27th Ice Cream Social at Sarabha&#8217;s Creamery from 3-5 PM &nbsp; Asian Studies Around Campus and nashville! 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