Spring 2015 Calendar
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16
26
April
Saturday
Asian Festival Celebration
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Place: Latzer Hall, University YMCA
January
28
Wednesday
Translating East Asia Series
Chinese Poetry and the Art of Translation
Speaker: Bill Porter
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Place: Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages
Building, 707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana
28
Wednesday
CEAPS Speaker Series
Hermits and Zen: Solitary and Communal
Practice in China
Speaker: Bill Porter
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Place: Room 223, Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St.,
Urbana
29
Thursday
The Black Death and Beyond
Diagnosing Plague in 13th-Century China:
Medical Practitioners, Medical Terminology, and
the Problem of identifying a New Disease
Speaker: Robert Hymes
(Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of
Oriental Studies, East Asian Languages-Culture,
Columbia University)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: 1090 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana
29
Thursday
Visiting Asian Scholars Program (VASP) Speaker
Series
The Uniqueness of Chinese Ceramics: Images,
Stories, and the History
Speaker: Weiwei Zhang
(Assistant Professor, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute,
China; CEAPS Visiting Asian Scholar)
Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Place: 101 International Studies Building,
910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
30
Friday
EALC Speaker Series
Angry Goddesses and Feminist Fairytales: Kirino
Natsuo’s Kojiki Sequel
Speaker: Rebecca Copeland
(Professor of Japanese Language and Literature,
Washington University in St. Louis)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Place: Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages
Building, 707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana
February
6
Friday
CEAPS Brown Bag Series
Investigative Journalism in China: A
Historical Perspective
Speaker: Wenrui Chen
(Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Communications
Research, College of Media, UIUC)
Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Place: Honors Commons Lincoln Hall,
702 S. Wright St., Urbana
10
Tuesday
AEMS Documentary and Independent Film
Series: AsiaLENS
Embrace
(By Dan Smyer Yu and Pema Tashi. 2011. 55
minutes)
The film will be introduced by Alexander Mayer,
Associate Professor of Religion and EALC, UIUC.
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium
600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
13
Friday
CEAPS Speaker Series
Battlefield Intimacies: Reconfiguring the
Family in 1950s’ Korean War Films
Speaker: Theodore Hughes
(Associate Professor of Modern Korean
Literature, Columbia University)
Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Place: Room126, Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, 501 E. Daniel Street,
Champaign
16
Monday
China Day
9:00 a.m. - Noon China and the World
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Workshop on Engaging
Chinese/International Students
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Chinese painting
demonstration
[Detailed program to follow.]
Place: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Thursday
Visiting Asian Scholars Program (VASP) Speaker
Series
Career Education and Guidance: Why, How and
What
Speaker: Qinghong Han
(Career Counselor, Hai’nan University, China;
CEAPS Visiting Asian Scholar)
Time: Noon - 1 p.m.
Place: Urban Outfitters Building Conference Room
411 (IPS), 507 E. Greeen St.
March
6
Friday
CEAPS Brown Bag Series
Kōtoku Shōsui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist
Movement
Speaker: Robert Tierney
(Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian
Languages & Cultures, UIUC)
TIme: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Place: Honors Commons Lincoln Hall,
702 S. Wright St., Urbana
10
Tuesday
AEMS Documentary and Independent Film Series:
AsiaLENS
Buddhism After The Tsunami – The Souls of Zen
3/11 Japan Special
(By Tim Graf and Jakob Montrasio. 2012. Japan. 66
minutes.)
The film will be introduced by Brian Ruppert, Associate
Professor of Religion and EALC, UIUC
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium
600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Monday
Osaka City University Exchange
Symposium
TBA
1
Wednesday
Translating East Asia Series
Great Expectations: South Korea and the
Making of Global ‘Korean’ Literature
Speaker: Jenny Wang Medina Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Place: Room126, Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, 501 E. Daniel Street,
Champaign
3
Friday
CEAPS Speaker Series
The Metamorphoses of a Folktale hero:
Momotarō in Propaganda and Literary Parody.
A discussion by Robert Tierney (Associate
Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages &
Cultures, UIUC) and Matthew Königsberg, (Professor of Japanese Studies, Free University of Berlin)
Time: Noon - 1 p.m.
Place: TBA
9
Thursday
CEAPS Brown Bag Series
Inevitable’ Early Study Abroad: Ambivalent
Subjectivities of South Korean ‘Geese-dad’
Professors
Speaker: Sangsook Lee-Chung
(Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian
Languages & Cultures, UIUC)
Time: Noon - 1 p.m.
Place: Honors Commons, Lincoln Hall,
702 S. Wright St., Urbana
14
Tuesday
AEMS Documentary and Independent Film
Series: AsiaLENS
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard
(By Bryan Reichhardt. Produced by Shizumi
Manale. 2013. 85 minutes.)
The film will be introduced by Roderick Ike Wilson,
Assistant Professor of History and EALC, UIUC.
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium
600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
17
Friday
Translating East Asia Series
Reflections on Translating Heike and Other
Japanese Classics
Speaker: Royall Tyler
(Emeritus Professor of Japanese, Australian
National University)
Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Place: Room126, Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, 501 E. Daniel Street,
May
8 - 10
Friday - Sunday
Dissertation Workshop
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
13
Friday
CEAPS Speaker Series
Whose museum is this anyway?: History,
Testimony, and the Politics of Japan’s National
Hansen’s Disease Museum
Speaker: Susan L. Burns
(Associate Professor of Japanese History and East
Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Chicago)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Place: Room126, Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign
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