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Center for East Asian Studies file:///Volumes/LA's MUSIC/Newsletter 2015-2016/Newsl15 2015-16.Html Center for East Asian Studies file:///Volumes/LA'S MUSIC/Newsletter 2015-2016/newsl15_2015-16.html Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) Newsletter Academic Year 2015–2016: Issue No. 15 | Friday, March 18, 2016 The Center for East Asian Studies has a new face on the web! Find information on current and upcoming East Asia events at our new website: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/ If you have notices in the below categories that you would like posted in future newsletters, please e-mail us at [email protected] with your listing. The CEAS Newsletter, published every other week, notifies East Asianists in our region of events and opportunities of interest. Notices appear under eight headings: 1. University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events 2. Regional East Asia Events 3. Employment and Internship Opportunities 4. Fellowship and Award Opportunities 5. East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries 6. Conferences and Workshops 7. Call for Submissions 8. Opportunities for Teachers * Asterisk indicates notices appearing for the first time. (I) University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events for 03/19/2016 to 04/01/2016 Saturday, 03/19/2016 Early Modern Print Culture through a Japanese Prism: A Celebration 10AM-12PM, Kislak Center, 6th floor, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania 10:15 am Opening Remarks - Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania 10:30 am Remarks on Early Modern Print Culture- Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley 10:45 am Presentations by students in Art History 515: Seminar in Japanese Art: Utamaro and his Contemporaries 12:00 pm Print Viewing, Lea Library 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch break PENN YEAR OF DISCOVERY, 2015 – 2016, Center for the Integrated Study of Japan Colloquium 1 of 14 3/18/16 7:51 PM Center for East Asian Studies file:///Volumes/LA'S MUSIC/Newsletter 2015-2016/newsl15_2015-16.html Discovering the Early Modern through Tokugawa Japan Free and open to the public, will need to show ID to enter building Co-sponsored by the Penn Global Engagement Fund * http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/japanese_prism.html ________ Saturday, 03/19/2016 Picturebooks, Priests' Wives, and Politics: Making Buddhism at Home in Contemporary Japan 1:30PM-5:00PM, Kislak Center, 6th floor, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania 1:30 pm Introductory Remarks - Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania 1:40 pm "The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Picturebooks" - Heather Blair, Indiana University 2:25 pm "Gender, Boundaries, and Belief: Domestic Religion at Japanese True Pure Land Temples" - Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College 3:10 pm Coffee break 3:30 pm "Religion, Politics, and Family: How the Soka Gakkai Home Shapes Komeito's Electioneering and Party Policy"- Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University 4:15-5:00 pm Roundtable: Teaching Japanese Religious Culture - Featuring Heather Blair, Jessica Starling, and Levi McLaughlin. Moderated by Jolyon Thomas Free and open to the public, will need to show ID to enter building Co-sponsored by PhilaNipponica, the US-Japan Foundation, the Saunders Fund, the Center for the Integrated Study of Japan, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of the History of Art * http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/japanese_prism.html ________ Monday, 03/21/2016 Global Distinguished Lecture: Lessons from the Great Syrian Migration 6:30 PM, Widener Lecture Room, Penn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia , PA 19104 New York Times journalist, Anemona Hartocollis, has been chosen as the National Resource Centers’ Global Distinguished Lecturer for 2016. In her talk she will discuss her experience following a group of migrants and refugees from the Greek Island of Kos to Denmark. She will explore the struggles, hopes and desires of people she met along the way and ponder the unknown outcomes of this mass exodus from the Middle East and North Africa. Ms. Hartocollis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. Hartocollis has won awards from the Newswomen’s Club of 2 of 14 3/18/16 7:51 PM Center for East Asian Studies file:///Volumes/LA'S MUSIC/Newsletter 2015-2016/newsl15_2015-16.html New York Front Page Award, the New York State AP Writing Contest, the Society of Silurians and the Deadline Club of New York Award, among others. Before coming to work as a journalist for the Times, Hartocollis was a reporter and feature writer for the Daily News in New York, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit News. She is the author of Seven Days of Possibilities: One Teacher, 24 Kids and Music that changed their Lives Forever This event is FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP on event facebook page or by emailing [email protected]. This event was sponsored by: the Middle East Center, Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, the Perry World House, The Project for the Advanced Research for Global Communication Widener Lecture Room, Penn Museum, the International Refugee Assistance Project, Penn School for Social Policy and Practice and Penn Law School. * https://www.facebook.com/events/1507755276200332/ --------- Wednesday, 03/23/2016 CSCC Roundtable: What Direction for Legal Reform under Xi Jinping? 12:00PM, CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345 Carl F. Minzner, Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School; Neysun A. Mahboubi, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Lecturer-in-Law, University of Pennsylvania; Moderated by: Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania After the “turn against law” that many perceived under the administration of Hu Jintao, the Chinese Party-state under Xi Jinping has appeared to place a new emphasis on formal law and legal institutions, to address various and mounting governance challenges. Apparent in personnel appointments, legislative revisions, and support for judicial reform, this new policy emphasis was expressed most clearly in the Decision of the Fourth Plenum of the CCP’s 18th Central Committee in October 2014. At the same time, escalating repression of “rights defense” (weiquan) lawyers and other human rights activists, tightening space for civil society, and increased limits on free speech, under the current administration, demarcate an overall political environment which may seem inconsistent with the development of a robust “rule of law” in China. This policy roundtable will explore the specific contours of this evolving story, and its attendant tensions, with a view towards appraisal of the possibilities for legal reform in the near future. * https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2016/March/ 3 of 14 3/18/16 7:51 PM Center for East Asian Studies file:///Volumes/LA'S MUSIC/Newsletter 2015-2016/newsl15_2015-16.html _____ Thursday, 03/24/2016 Jill and John Avery Lecture in the History of Art: Craig Clunas, University of Oxford, "Chinese Art and the Cosmopolitan" 5:00PM-6:30PM, STIT B-26, Reception to follow in the Jaffe Building Craig Clunas is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford, the first holder of the chair to work on art from outside the European tradition. He began his career as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and has taught at the University of Sussex and SOAS, University of London. He is the author of numerous books on Chinese art and culture, and in 2012 gave the A.W. Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, on "Chinese Painting and its Audiences," now forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Art in China has never been quite the same as "Chinese art," and throughout history there have always been present in China works from other parts of the world, whether Sassanian silverware or Japanese lacquer screens. In the twentieth century, the intensified interaction with art from elsewhere, and the sheer numbers of surviving artworks, means we need new models for a more cosmopolitan or transnational type of history. Looking at a series of conjunctions drawn from the art of the Republican period in the 1920s, this lecture examines the challenges and possibilities for art history in an expanded field. * http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/events/2016-03-24/jill-and-john- avery-lecture-history-art-craig-clunas-university-oxford-%E2%80 %9Cchinese-ar ------------ Friday, 03/25/2016 CSCC Forum: The Power of the Power: Censorship in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Rose Luqiu Luwei (????), Journalist & Executive News Editor, Phoenix TV 12:00PM, CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345 The Chinese government is constantly releasing new regulations to censor media content. In Mainland China, the Party strengthens its control on media agenda-setting and makes sure that the media remembers its role as the mouthpiece. In Hong Kong, although the Basic Law protects the constitutional right of freedom of speech, the media is already controlled by Beijing through financial means. Reporting during the “Umbrella Movement” demonstrated the consequences of the ownership of both traditional and new media. How can we counter government power, find ways to speak out in the mainland, and protect freedom of press in Hong Kong? Open to all, lunch provided * https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2016/March/Media 4 of 14 3/18/16 7:51 PM Center for East Asian Studies file:///Volumes/LA'S MUSIC/Newsletter 2015-2016/newsl15_2015-16.html _____ Wednesday, 03/30/2016 Joseph Alexander Colloquium: What is a Human Being? The Debate over "Inborn Nature" in Canonic Texts of Chinese and Jewish Cultures - Professor Andrew Plaks, Princeton 5:15PM - 6:15PM, Meyerson Conference Center, Rm. 223, Van Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut St This talk explores the range of speculation on what it means to be human — in the scriptural and commentarial writings of two major intellectual traditions.
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