Speakers: Prof. Michael H. Hunt, UNC-CH, "Perspectives from American History," Prof. W. Miles Fletcher, UNC-CH, "Perspectives from Japanese History" and Prof. E. Willis Brooks, UNC-CH, "Perspectives from Russian History"
Location: Hanes Art Center Auditorium, UNC-CH
Date: September 10
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Speakers: Mr. Sangkey Yoh, ROK Ministry of Unification, Prof. Kinney Kim, NCCU, Prof. Steven I. Levine, UNC-CH
Moderator: Prof. Eugene Eaves, NCCU
Location: Murphey Hall, Rm. 116
Date: October 7
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Speakers: Prof. Gail Henderson, Dept of Social Medicine, School of Medicine; Prof. Thomas Linden, School of Journalism;
Location: Gerrard Hall
Date: November 11
Time: 5:30 -7:00 PM

This is to announce, and invite you to attend, a presentation and discussion on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan under the series "Rethinking Development Policy" organized by the Duke Center for International Development (DCID).

Speaker: Mr. Philippe Dongier
Location: Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Room 04
Date: Thursday September 11, 2003
Time: 5:30-7:00 pm

Mr. Philippe Dongier, who has been managing the World Bank's support to the reconstruction of Afghanistan since November 2001, willl emphasize lessons learned and priorities for the future.

The seminar is free. Light refreshments will be served. There is no need to pre-register. For more information, call 613-7333.

Sponsors: Institute of African-American Research, Carolina Asia Center, Curriculum in Asian Studies

Date: September 17
Time: 3:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Toy Lounge, 4th Floor Dey Hall

Moderator: Professor William A. Darity Jr., Institute of African American Research

Panels:

I. African Americans and the USA

Professor HIGUCHI Hayumi Senshu University (Kanagawa)
“Billiken Club: ‘Race’ Leaders Educating Children”

Professor CHUJO Ken Obirin University (Tokyo)
“The DAR and its Attitudes toward African-Americans”

II. Islanders and the USA

Professor ABE Kosuzu The University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa)
“Puerto Rican Identities in the Immigrant Community in New York, 1930s-1940s”

Professor TOBE Hideaki Waseda University (Tokyo)
“What Did America Mean to People in Okinawa after World War II?”

Professor MURATA Katsuyuki Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
“A Comparative Study on Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere
To the United States, 1965-1986”

III. Asians in the Americas

Professor SATO Kanji Dokkyo University (Saitama)
“Chinese in Mexico during the 1920s”

Professor John Howard King’s College, University of London
“Interrogating the Nation under Japanese-American Incarceration”

Date: September 18th
Time: Noon
Location: Toy Lounge, 4th Floor Dey Hall

John Howard, “What is a Potato Queen? Reflections of a Gay American Academic in Japan”

Ken Chujo, “What is J(apanese) Rap”

A native of Brandon, Mississippi, John Howard teaches in the Department of American Studies at King’s College, University of London. He is the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History and the editor of three other volumes in American literary and cultural history. A portion of his current book project appears as “The Politics of Dancing under Japanese American Incarceration” in the fall 2001 issue of History Workshop Journal.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Ken Chujo teaches in the School of International Studies at Obirin University, a private institution in Tokyo. His monographs include “Contemporary Black Nationalism and Political Culture of African Americans” (1997). He is the co-author of Martin L. King, Jr.’s biography, Martin L. King Jr.: Seeking for Racial Equality and Humanity (1993). His current research interest is in the making of U.S. Nationalism and its racial character in the early twentieth century.

Professor Alexis Dudden, History Department, Connecticut College, will speak on "A Future-Facing Past: Japan's Politics of Apology." The lecture will be based on her on-going work on the history of political apology and historical apologism between Japan, Korea, and the U.S. during the post-1945 era, particularly the 1960s and 1990s.

Date: Friday September 26, 2003
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Location: Duke University, Perkins Library, Breedlove Room

Oct.3-8, 2003, www.templeball.com (919)-929-1208 Temple Ball: Art Gallery and Performance Space, located in Carrboro, invites the community to learn about Tibetan Culture, Oct. 3-8 from the Shiwa Tour of Tibetan Peace and Healing, which will be presented by the Sera Jey Monks. During their first visit to the United States, the monks will demonstrate traditional dances and chants at the Carrboro Arts Center on Oct. 3rd and then create of a Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala at Temple Ball Oct. 4-8

The Shiwa Tour is a not a religious tour. It was created as a cultural tour of practices and methods of Tibetan Monks. Money raised during the tour will benefit Tibetan charities in India.

The week long tour will begin at 8 pm on Friday, Oct.3 at the Carrboro Arts Center, located on Main Street, and will feature: the Snow Lion Dance, which symbolizes the fearless quality of the enlightened mind; the Yak Dance, which signifies that the armonious co-existence between humans and animals; and traditional Chanting Ceremonies. Tickets are $25 (Friends of the ArtsCenter $22) and are available by visiting www.artscenterlive.org or by calling 919-929-2787. The ticket also gives free admission to Temple Ball for the creation of a Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala.

The Shiwa Tour will continue at Temple Ball, Oct. 4-8 from 1pm-8pm daily with the creation of a Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala. A mandala is a symbol of the Universe's energy and a reminder of the cycles of life. The creation of a mandala takes several days, during which the monks physically create an elaborate mandala from colored. As the mandala is made in the spirit of impermanence and non-attachment, it will be ritualistically dismantled on Oct.8. The dismantling process symbolizes the Buddhist belief in the transience of life and the ideal of nonattachment to the material world. Visitors will not be allowed to take sand from the mandala.

Admission for the creation of the Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala will be $10 for individuals and $5 per person in groups of 20 or more. Tickets are available at Temple Ball. Visit www.templeball.com or call (919) 929-1208 for more information. The Shiwa Tour will help to raise funds for projects such as building a new dormitory at the overcrowded Sera Jey Monastery and a new city center for Kadampa Center, a Tibetan Buddhist center for study and practice in Raleigh. Proceeds from the tour will also benefit disabled children at the Karuna House, a facility for children near Sera Jey Monastery in south India.

To learn more about the Shiwa Tour, visit www.shiwatour.org. For more information about their visit sponsored by Temple Ball, visit www.templeball.com or call (919) 929-1208. For interviews contact: Katie Red @ katiered@nc.rr.com or call (919)

October 3-4, 2003, Fee

Much of the world's attention has focused lately on the Middle East. But when it comes to issues of political and military security, few areas of the globe are more potentially explosive than East Asia, which has unfortunately been the geographical focus of three major American wars in the 20th century. Through detailed discussions of three countries (China, Japan, and North Korea), this seminar seeks to increase our understanding of East Asia and its complicated relationship to the United States and global security.

The seminar will begin by exploring the volatile (and, perhaps, unfortunately timely) case of North Korea. Long a flashpoint of potential conflict in the region, North Korea today is crucially important to its neighbors and to the United States as the last of the communist dictatorships and the first potentially nuclear-armed rogue state. We will explore the status of the confrontation on the Korean peninsula, the role of South Korea, and the implications for relations between Japan, China, and America. Next, we'll turn to China and Japan. At a time when China finds itself on the verge of becoming a global power, we¹ll see that its new leaders, the so-called Fourth Generation, are mostly men with limited international experience who face monumental domestic policy issues. The question of how this new leadership will cope with an unprecedented range of global security issues is of the greatest importance. With by far the largest economy in Asia, a stable democracy, and a strategic 50-year-old relationship with the United States, Japan¹s actions also have an enormous impact on strategic developments in Asia and, indeed, the entire globe. Japanese policymakers face serious new challenges from the bursting of Japan's "bubble economy," the growing economic and military power of China, the threat of instability caused by North Korea, and rising nationalism at home. Will the Japanese economy recover from its recent ten-year period of stagnation? What economic role will Japan play in Asia? Will an increasingly nationalistic Japan revise its "Peace" constitution and re-arm itself, as its neighbors fear? Will Japan seek to go its own way, or will it continue to cooperate with the United States? In the light of such questions, finally, the seminar will explore Korea, China, and Japan in terms of their relationship to both the domestic politics and economy of the United States and to related issues of global security.

Topics and Speakers

Korea: Lynchpin of Security in East Asia
James White, Professor of Political Science

Can China Think Globally?
Steven Levine, Interim Director, Carolina Asia Center, and Associate Chair, Curriculum in International and Area Studies

Japan: The Search for a New Role in an Era of Rapid Change
Miles Fletcher, Professor of History and Chair, Curriculum in Asian Studies

East Asia, America, and Global Security
Timothy McKeown, Associate Professor of Political Science

East Asia, America, and Global Security
Professors White, Levine, Fletcher, and McKeown

Time and Cost

6:30 p.m., Friday, October 3, through 1:00 p.m., Saturday, October 4, 2003. The tuition is $110 ($95 before September 19). There is no Friday evening supper, but the cost of the seminar includes a coffee and dessert break on Friday evening. Scholarship tuition is $55 ($47.50 before September 19). 10 contact hours for 1 unit of renewal credit. The deadline is September 12 for the block of rooms held for this seminar.

A Lecture by Professor Richard Madsen, UC-San Diego.

Date: Monday, October 20, 2003
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 08 Gardner Hall

Richard Madsen is a leading sociologist of China and author of Morality and Power in a Chinese Village, China's Catholics:Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society, and China and the American Dream among many other works.

Call 843-0129 for further information

Date: Saturday, October 25, 2003
Time: 8:00-9:30 PM
And
Date: Sunday, October 26
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM

Location: Cary Academy, 1500 N. Harrison Ave, Cary (I40 exit 287)

Fee: Saturday $30 reserved seat, $10 general admission; Sunday $10 adults, $5 youth (ages 18 and under)

Colorful costumes, bold choreography, tumbling and martial arts, elaborate make-up, and tragic and comic drama for all ages. Dancers, drama students, performing arts enthusiast, and families who want to see something different can all enjoy the show. An accompanying big screen slide show will provide translations and background for the stories performed in old style Chinese language.

azz in Asia

The annual TEAC meeting will be Saturday, November 1, 2003 at UNC Chapel Hill in Toy Lounge on the 4th Floor of Dey Hall (see map).

Schedule:

9:30-9:50 AM Java and Jazz (Coffee, muffins, and music)
9:50-10:00 AM Introduction—Jim Hevia, International Studies, UNC-CH
10:00-10:30 AM Video “Jazz in Japan”
10:30-12:00 Noon Taylor Atkins, author of Blue Nippon. “Localizing Jazz and Globalizing Identity in Japan”, Discussant: Gennifer Weisenfeld
12:15-1:15 PM Lunch
1:30-3:00 PM Andrew Jones, author of Yellow Music, “Black Internationale: Notes on the Chinese Jazz Age”, Discussants: Eugenia Lean, Sarah Weiss
3:15-4:45 PM Roundtable Discussion, Moderator: Jerma Jackson
6:00 PM Dinner at local Asian Restaurant

RSVP to: silevine@email.unc.edu Tel: 919-843-0130

Like a jigsaw puzzle that has been knocked askew, the shape of the world is no longer what it used to be. The reassessment and readjustment of America’s relations with Asia that began when the Cold War ended have accelerated since September 11, 2001. This ongoing process is the subject of a lecture series which will be held in Chapel Hill High Point and Wilmington

The U.S. and East Asia: New Roles in an Era of Rapid Change
Lecturer: W. Miles Fletcher
Location: George Watts Hill Alumni Center, UNC-CH Campus
Date: Monday, September 29, 2003
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM

Encore Presentation
The U.S. and East Asia: New Roles in an Era of Rapid Change Lecturer: W. Miles Fletcher
Location: Wilmington, UNC-Wilmington Campus
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM

Can the U.S. Stay the Course in Central Asia?
Lecturer: Steven I. Levine
Location: Wilmington, UNC-Wilmington Campus
Date: Tuesday, September 23. 2003
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM

Encore Presentation
Can the U.S. Stay the Course in Central Asia?
Lecturer: Steven I. Levine
Location: George Watts Hill Alumni Center, UNC-CH Campus
Date: Monday, October 27, 2003
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM

Reassessing U.S. and Asian Relations
Lecturer: Steven I. Levine
Location: High Point, High Point Theatre
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM

Day: Tuesdays
Time: 4:oo-6:00
Location: Greenlaw 101

Date:
Sept. 9 The Iron Monkey, directed by Yuen Wo-ping
Sept. 16 Mr. Canton & Lady Rose, directed by Jackie Chen
Sept. 23 The Bride with White Hair, directed by Ronny Yu
Sept. 30 Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou
Oct. 7 Seven Samurai, directed Akira Kurozawa
Oct. 14 The Matrix, directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski
Oct. 21 (Fall break)
Oct. 28 High Noon, directed by Fred Zinnemann
Nov. 4 The Ashes of Time, directed by Wang Karwei
Nov. 11 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Li
Nov. 18 Cursive (modern dance of Cloud Gate Dance Company)

The film screening is open to the public. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Duke University Contemporary South Asia Forum presents a seminar by Anna Bigelow, Department of Religion, North Carolina State University

Date: Thursday November 13, 2003
Time: 7.00 PM
Location: John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, Duke University, 2204 Erwin Road (corner Erwin and Trent Drive; building entrance on Trent)
Parking: is available in Pickens Medical Clinic, opposite the Franklin Center on Trent.

Anna Bigelow's research focuses on shared sacred sites, their meaning and management. Since witnessing the complicated and varied reactions of Indian communities to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid by Hindus believing it to be built on the birthplace of the god Ram, she has sought to understand why such disputes arise and why their impact in some places is divisive and in others integrative. Her work explores the cooperation and contestation involved in sharing sacred sites, looking at the theology, sociology, and politics of the sites. Bigelow's dissertation focuses on a particular town in Punjab, India where the Muslim population remained and where no one was killed during the Partition violence of 1947. She examines the inter-religious dynamics in place in this multi-religious town, particularly at its multi-confessional sites, and in her future research she hopes to compare this site to others in order to grasp more fully what makes inter-religious co-existence and cooperation at shared sacred sites possible.

The Seminar is chaired by Prof. Steven Wilkinson, (Political Science) and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost for International Affairs and the Triangle South Asia Consortium.

Questions: 919. 668.2146 or email Nisa Moosa: nisa.moosa@duke.edu

Date: Monday, November 17, 2003
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

Call 843-0129 for further information

Date: Friday, November 21, 2003
Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: 215 Hanes Art Center.
Followed by a reception.

Sandria B. Freitag of the Dept. of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz will speak on the topic, "Picturing Modern India."

Abigail McGowan from the Dept. of History at the University of Virginia
will make a presentation on the topic, "Envisioning India through Crafts:
Remaking Society in Colonial India, 1850-1922."

The lectures are presented in conjunction with Art 360, "Colonialism, Nationalism, and South Asian Art."

Join us for a concert of music in which we explore the idea of composing for the Javanese Gamelan. We will present pieces ranging from those created by ruling prince Mangkunegara IV in the mid-nineteenth century through Nartosabdho's samba-inspired songs from the 1950s to composer Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Javanese Gamelan. The Harrison will be performed with guest artists UNC faculty members Richard Luby, violin and Brent Wissick, cello.

Location: Hill Hall on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill
Date: Sunday November 23, 2003
Time: 4:00 PM

Admission is free. Please join us. For promotional pictures and sounds of the ensemble please go to our website: http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/ or email us at: sweiss@email.unc.edu

Professor Tong-gyu Hwang will give a lecture on the topic “Modernism, the Wildebeest’s River: Modern Korean Poetry.”

Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004
Time: 5:oo PM
Location: Morehead Faculty Lounge, Morehead Planetarium Building

The talk is sponsored by the Department of English, the Curriculum in Asian Studies , and the Carolina Asia Center.

Chinese Poet Zheng Danyi

Date: Friday, March 19th
Time: 3:30
Place: Bull's Head Bookshop

Chinese poet Zheng Danyi will read from Wings of Summer: Selected Poems of Zheng Danyi, 1984-1997 (Sixth Finger Press) in Sichuanese and Mandarin. Translator and UNC Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies J.P. Seaton, Madeleine Marie Slavick of 6th Finger Press, and UNC Associate Professor of Art elin o'Hara slavick will read the internationally acclaimed. English translations by Luo Hui