Past Events
Fall 2022
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Thursday, September 22
Japanese Tea Ceremony
In community with the Vanderbilt Center for Languages and the Department of History of Art & Architecture -
Friday, September 23
Ice Cream Social at Sarabha's Creamery -
Monday, October 10
Japanese Cultural Event: Koto Music & Onigiri Action
In community with the Vanderbilt Center for Languages -
Thursday, October 20
JET Info Session -
Monday, Nov 14
Kimono Viewing & Discussion
Organized by Dr. Shimizu
In community with the Department of History of Art & Architecture, the Vanderbilt Center for Languages, and guest expert Sachi Uemoto -
Thursday, Dec 1
Sino-Black Relations: A Discussion with Keisha A. Brown
In community with the Departments of African American and Diaspora Studies & American Studies
Spring 2022
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Saturday Feb 12 - Sunday Feb 13
China and the World Conference
Panels and discussions will be in person on Vanderbilt's campus -
Thursday Mar 24,12:30pm
From Vincent Chin to #StopAAPIHate
Abstract: 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’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’ve come since Vincent’s death, and the work we have left to do to achieve justice and equity.
Moderator: Rev. Laura M. Cheifetz, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Vocation & Stewardship, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Panelists: Vivian Shaw, Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, College of Arts & Science; Linken Lam, President of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) at Peabody College
Commons Center Multi-purpose Room (2nd floor)
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Spring 2019
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Thursday Jan 10, 6pm
"South by South Asia: Food, Passion, and Identity"
Talk by Farhan Momin
Buttrick Hall 102 -
Thursday Jan 31, 12pm
"Bruce Lee: A Life"
A Conversation with Bruce Lee biographer, Matthew Polly
Sarratt 218/220 -
Thursday Jan 31, 7:30pm
Screening of Enter the Dragon, Q&A to follow
Sarratt Cinema -
Thursday Feb 7, 4:10pm
"Illumination and Its Discontents: Tokyo, Electrification, and Japan's Fossil-Fueled Modernity"
Ian Jared Milller, Professor of History, Harvard University
Buttrick 306 -
Thursday Feb 28, 4:10pm
"Stock Religous Characters in Secular Stories for Children: What can Japanese Picturebooks Teach Us?"
Talk by Heather Blair, Associate Professor of Religous Studies, Indiana University
Buttrick 123
Fall 2018
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Monday Sept 24, 4:10pm
"Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Demarcation of the China-Korea Tumen River Border, 1881-1919"
Nianshen Song, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Buttrick 123 -
Thursday Oct 4, 4:10pm
"Buddhist Networks in Southwest China"
Megan Bryson, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UT Knoxville
Buttrick 206 -
Wednesday Oct 10, 12:10pm
"The Ten-thousand Rooms Project"
Mick Hunter, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale UniversIty
Buttrick 344 -
Wednesday Oct 10, 4:10pm
"Rethinking the Warring States 'Masters'"
Mick Hunter, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Buttrick 344 -
Thursday Oct 18, 7:30pm
Screening of The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (Dir. Kim Jee-Woon)
Presented by Se Young Kim & Haerin Shin, Q&A to follow
Sarratt Cinema -
Thursday Oct 25, 7:30pm
Screening of A Bittersweet Life and Q&A with Dir. Kim Jee-Woon
Sarratt Cinema -
Friday Oct 26, 4:00pm
"Good, Bad, and Weird Cinema: The Aesthetics of New Korean Film"
A Conversation with Dir. Kim Jee-Woon
Wilson Hall 103
Spring 2018
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Tuesday Jan 23, 4:10pm
"Walk in US, Talk on Japan"
Presentation, Q&A, and networking with delegation headed by Ichiro Fujisaki, former Japanese Ambassador to the United States and President of the America-Japan Society
Kissam C216 -
Tuesday Jan 30, 8:00pm
"Migration: The Music of Wu Fei"
Performance by The Wu Force with Wu Fei, Abigail Washburn & Kai Welch
Turner Hall, Blair School of Music -
Thursday Feb 8, 4:10pm
Lecture: "Imagination and Interpretation in Early China"
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University
Cohen Memorial Hall 203 -
Wednesday Feb 21, 4:10pm
"Bhutan: Development with Values"
Presentation and Q&A with representatives from the Bhutan Foundation
Cohen Memorial Hall 203 -
Friday Feb 23, 12:00pm
Asian Studies Lunar New Year Potluck Luncheon
Buttrick Hall 230 -
Thursday Mar 15, 4:10pm
Lecture: "From 'Literary' to 'Civil' Culture: Redefining Literature in the Biographies of New Tang History"
Anna Shields, Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Buttrick Hall 123 -
Wednesday Apr 4, Lecture at 5:30pm; Reception and book signing at 6:30pm
An Evening with Amitav Ghosh, author of The Ibis Trilogy and The Great Derangement
Central Library Community Room -
Saturday Apr 7, 12:00pm
Tennessee Area Japanese Speech Contest
Wilson Hall 103 -
Friday Apr 13, 12:00pm
Seminar: "The Literary Imagination of Ritual in Early Japan"
Torquil Duthie, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Robert Penn Warren Center
Fall 2017
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Thursday Sept 7 - Saturday Sept 9, 8:30am
"Space and Speech: Discursive Environments Around Non-Arab Islam"
John E. Sawyer Seminar Conference
Sarratt 216-220 -
Monday Sept 11, Reception at 6:00pm, Performance at 6:30pm
"Qissebaazi -- Reimagining the Art of Storytelling"
Danish Husain, Director, The Hoshruba Repertory Theatre, New Delhi
John Seigenthaler First Amendment Center
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Tuesday Sept 12, 4:10pm
"China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War"
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Buttrick 102 -
Wednesday Sept 13, 7:00pm
"North Korea and Global Wars in Asia"
Roundtable/Q&A with Asian Studies Faculty Brett Benson, Peter Lorge, Haerin Shin, Ben Tran, and special guest Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine, editor, The Journal of Asian Studies
Kissam 216C -
Thursday Oct 5, 1:10pm
Reunion Week Event: "The Studio of Cai Guo-Qiang: an Archivist's Perspective"
Lydia Ohl (VU class of 2011)
Documentary Screening: Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016)
Directed by Kevin McDonald
203 Cohen Memorial Hall -
Wednesday Nov 8,
12:00pm
Pre-modern Cultural Studies Seminar: "Ghosts of India Past; Ghosts of India Present -- Can India's Most Hated Villain be Explained, or Even Humanized?"
Richard M. Eaton, Professor of History, University of Arizona
Robert Penn Warren Center -
Thursday Nov 9, 4:10pm
Film Screening: Nostalgia for the Future (2017), followed by panel discussion and reception
Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar
203 Cohen Memorial Hall
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Monday Nov 13, 12:00pm
Legal History Colloquium: "The Evolution of the Legal Subject in Classical Hindu Law"
Donald R. Davis, Associate PRofessor of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Buttrick 123 -
Friday Dec 1, 12:00pm
"Wire Aesthetics: Tube Entertainment's Flops and the Protocols of Late US Empire"
Joseph Jeon, Associate Professor of English and Asian-American Studies, Pomona College
Robert Penn Warren Center -
Monday Dec 4, 3:10pm
Vanderbilt History Seminar: Roundtable on the Environmental History of China and India
Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh) and Ben Cohen (University of Utah)
Sarratt 216-220 -
Fridays at 11:00am
Weekly Hindi-Urdu Programming: "Chai Time"
Elliott McCarter, Senior Lecturer of Hindi-Urdu, Vanderbilt University
Furman 001