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Catherine Hamilton and Gail Tatangelo: Two Artists Talk
April 15, 2007
2:30pm
The RISD Museum

Hamilton [RISD ’91, Illustration] turned her bird-watching experience into an elegiac body of ink drawings that combines astonishing scrutiny with ruminations on current attitudes towards nature. Tatangelo attended RISD and is an award-winning bird carver and an avid gardener. She continues to carve, teach and speak for the Audubon Society.

Restaurants, Food, and Memory
April 4, 2008
4:00–5:30 p.m.
John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street, Library

Restaurants provide a “where” of memories, a site of remembrance. They are allusive also, able to call up associations of place, fragrance, sight, and taste. A five-sided discussion with an historian, a restaurateur, a cookbook author, and cultural critics, all of them eaters. Panel discussion with Mark Swislocki, John Chan, Ellen Leong Blonder, discussants Robert Lee and Lingzhen Wang.

Eating Chinese: Global and Local Perspectives on Food and Memory
April 4, 2008
1:00–3:30 p.m.
John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street, Library

How do we identify? What does “authentic” mean? Canadian-Chinese, Latino-Chino: Are there distinguishing differences? Common roots? Socio-historical constructions? Film screenings ("Cuba” from “On the Islands” and “Canada” from “Three Continents”) followed by a conversation with filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, Ernesto Martinez, and John Eng-Wong. Moderated by Evelyn Hu-Dehart.

The Chow Mein Sandwich: Chinese in Local Perspective
April 4, 2008
6:00–7:30 p.m.
John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street

Southeastern New England’s unique contribution to Chinese American food commemorated and served at this opening reception.

REASSESSING THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
April 4, 2008
1:00-8:00 pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106

Speakers will include Scott McGinnis of the Defense Language Institute, Clara Yu of the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Hans Lauge Hansen of Aarhus University in Denmark, Elizabeth Welles, formerly with the MLA, Damon Rarick of the University of Rhode Island, Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, Rick Donato of the University of Pittsburgh, and Katherine Arens of the University of Texas. Following a banquet Friday evening, April 4th, we will hear from our keynote speaker, the distinguished Chinese-American novelist, Ha Jin, winner of several awards, including the 1999 National Book Award and the 2000 PEN/Faulkner for his novel, Waiting. In a review of Ha Jin’s latest novel, A Free Life, John Updike writes in The New Yorker: “His prize-winning command of English has a few precedents, notably Conrad and Nabokov, but neither made the leap out of a language as remote from the Indo-European group, in grammar and vocabulary, in scriptural practice and literary tradition, as Mandarin.” The conference will also feature a panel with presentations highlighting curricular initiatives at Consortium institutions, and a summary panel with questions and answers from the audience.

REASSESSING THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
April 5, 2008
8:15 am - 5:30 pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106

Taiwan Politics: Past and Future
April 17, 2008
7:30 PM
BioMed Center 202

The 2008 US Presidential election will no doubt be very exciting - why not warm up to that with a discussion about the results of the recent 2008 Taiwanese Presidential election? The Brown Taiwan Society is inviting a guest speaker who has experience in the American Institute in Taiwan to discuss what the recent Taiwan presidential election results could mean for the island's future. Entitled "Taiwan Politics: Past and Future", our guest speaker, Eugene Chen, will be hosting a presentation followed by a Q&A session. Don't know anything about the politics? Come to learn about it! Eugene will start with an overview on the political situation in Taiwan, including the government's structure and the stance of each of the major parties.

U.S. Foreign Policy in Korea and the Asia-Pacific
April 25, 2008
3:00 PM
Smith-Buonanno 106

Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture "U.S. Foreign Policy in Korea and the Asia-Pacific," with Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Christopher R. Hill was sworn-in as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs on April 8, 2005. Ambassador Hill is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service whose most recent assignment was as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. On February 14, 2005, he was named as the Head of the U.S. delegation to the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Previously, he has served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2000-2004), Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996-1999) and Special Envoy to Kosovo (1998-1999). He also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs in the National Security Council. Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Ambassador Hill served tours in Belgrade, Warsaw, Seoul, and Tirana, and on the Department of State's Policy Planning staff and in the Department's Operation Center. While on a fellowship with the American Political Science Association, he served as a staff member for Congressman Stephen Solarz working on Eastern European issues. He also served as the Department of State's Senior Country Officer for Poland. Ambassador Hill received the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for his contributions as a member of the U.S. negotiating team in the Bosnia peace settlement, and was a recipient of the Robert S. Frasure Award for Peace Negotiations for his work on the Kosovo crisis. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Ambassador Hill served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Ambassador Hill graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with a B.A. in Economics. He received a Master’s degree from the Naval War College in 1994. He speaks Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Albanian. Ambassador Hill is married and has three children.

"Look An Asian!": The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of Virginia Tech
December 3, 2007
12:00-2:00
John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street

Fourth and last lecture in a series entitled "Trans-Pacific America: Histories and Public Cultures." Presented by Sylvia Chong, English, University of Virginia.

Chinese New Year
February 18, 2007
12:00 AM
Everywhere

The Year of the Pig
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese year 4705 begins on Feb. 18, 2007.

Study Day: A Kachoga Dialogue
March 16, 2007
10 AM - 5 PM
The RISD Museum

Join a dialogue of scholars on the subject of Japanese bird-and-flower woodblock prints (kachoga), moderated by Deborah Del Gais, the Museum’s Curator of Asian Art. John Carpenter (see lecture on March 14); Sarah Thompson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Miriam Wattles, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ann Yonemura, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; and respondent Maggie Bickford, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University; fuel the discussion. Audience participation is encouraged. This event is free and open to the public; pre-registration required; space is limited. Contact Pam Kimel to register by phone (401 454-6505) or e-mail (pkimel@risd.edu). Admission to the Museum is free for attendees, as is the entire program.

Ryuko Mizutani: Koto Performance
March 25, 2007
2:30 PM
The RISD Museum

Ryuko Mizutani is a native of Japan and a graduate of the Japanese National Broadcasting Company School for Performers of Traditional Japanese Instruments. Her instrument is the koto, a long zither with 13 silk strings. Since 1987, she has studied both classical and modern koto music and has become interested in improvisational and experimental music.

Songs of the South: Court and Chamber Music in Ancient China
March 6, 2008
4:00 PM
Grant Recital Hall

The Double Inheritance
November 6, 2007
12:00-2:00
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall

The Double Inheritance: The Afterlife of Colonial Modernity in Former 'Manchuria'. A presentation by Yukiko Koga, postdoctoral fellow in International Humanities and East Asian Studies.

Feminist Dilemnas in the Globalization of Care
November 2, 2007
12:00-2:00
Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House

First in a series of lectures entitled "Trans-Pacific America: Histories and Public Cultures." Presented by Rhacel Parrenas, Asian American Studies, UC Davis.

A Performance of Mock Negroes: Blackness, Power, and the Opening of Japan, 1853-1854
November 9, 2007
12:00-2:00
Brown Inn/New Dorm Lounge

Second lecture in a series entitled "Trans-Pacific America: Histories and Public Cultures." Presented by Eric Love, History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Transnational Melodrama: Gender and Affect in Hmong Diasporic Video
November 19, 2007
12:00-2:00
John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street

Third lecture in a series entitled: "Trans-Pacific America: Histories and Public Cultures." Presented by Louisa Schein, Anthropology, Rutgers University.

Development of the Song Dynasty "Biji" Genre
November 13, 2007
4:00
East Asian Studies Department, 333 Brook St., Conference Room (201)

Presented by Nanjing Normal University Professor Zhong Zhenzhen.

Eco-Poetics, Nature & Innovative 20th Century Japanese Poetry
November 5, 2007
3-4:30
McCormack Family Theater (in Fones Alley, off Brown Street)

Presented by Hiroaki Sato, the influential Japanese translator of both classical and contemporary poetry Sponsored by Literary Arts with Contemplative Studies

Reception for Chinese Writers' Signature Gift Books Donated by Mr. Bing Ling
November 26, 2007
3:00 - 4:30
Rockefeller Library, Conference Room

The reception will honor a recent contribution of books (approx. 300 titles), donated by Mr. Weimin Jiang (pseudonym Bing Ling), Chairman of the Association for Chinese Writers in the US. These authors with their signatures on the books includes a number of most prominent Chinese writers. Prior to that, Mr. Bing Ling also coordinated a program that calls Chinese writers, in China and overseas, to donate their works to several selected libraries in the US and Europe, including our Brown Library. As a result, since last summer we have received about 100 books donated by 70 authors. These gift books are a valuable special collection in Chinese literature for our library resources.

Strait Talk Symposium Panel 2
November 14, 2007
3:30-5:30
Frank Hall 220

Leadership and Progress? Future of the Taiwan Strait

Strait Talk Symposium Mixer
November 15, 2007
9:00-10:00 pm
Petteruti Lounge

Meet the Delegates

Strait Talk Press Conference
November 16, 2007
2:00-6:00 pm
Joukowsky Forum

Future of the Taiwan Strait, In Our Own Words