Master List of CEAS Outreach Events – Fall 2008
Thursday, September 11th
4:00-6:00 336 Ingraham
Faculty Reception
Thursday, September 18th
4:00pm—6:00pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Guest Lecture:Todd Henry
Assistant Professor of Modern East Asian History at Colorado State University
“Celebrating Empire, Fighting War: The 1940 Exposition in Late Colonial Korea”
This presentation will address the understudied Korea Exposition, a major cultural spectacle aimed at celebrating the history of the Japanese Empire and promoting the struggles of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45). Held in the fall of 1940, this commemorative event coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of Japan’s rule over colonial Korea and the 2,600th anniversary of the mythical foundations of the Japanese Imperial nation. As I will suggest, the convergence of past, present, and futureon a completely new exposition site (and one closely linked to other important sites throughout the Empire) underscores the specific nature of late Japanese imperialism, wherein both temporal and spatial differences were compressed into a homogenized milieu aimed at subjecting the “unassimilated” Korean masses to a hurried process of“imperialization.” In preparing Koreans to live and die on behalf of the Japanese Emperor, the media promoters of the 1940 Exposition engaged in what I will refer to as “emotional engineering”– a project wherein officials repeatedly told colonized subjects what to feel, but rarely afforded them opportunities to embody this subjectivity as an enduring identity of their own. Instead of dangerously exposing residual differences which might have undercut the utopian project of engineering homogenized loyalties for the Imperial cause, event promoters carefully arrogated to themselves the right to declare the over-determined “success” of wartime imperialization, even before the 1940 Exposition ended. This they did in large part by quantifying (but not necessarily qualifying) the large number of bodies mobilized to fill the exposition grounds – a strained performance highlighting the ongoing need to convince potentially dubious Korean subjects of the Empire’s validity.
Thursday, September 25th
12:00-1:20, 336 Ingraham Hall
Undergraduate Advising Pizza Lunch
Come and find out about a major and certificate in East Asian Studies, Study Abroad and Scholarship opportunities and life after graduation.
Pizza will be provided!! You must RSVP by Wednesday, September 24th so we have enough pizza.
To RSVP, please email:
Saturday, September 27th
Hands-on Workshop for K-12 Teachers
Introduction to East Asian Traditional Dress and Korean Crafts
Keynote Presenter: Dr. Jung Uk Rhee from Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
This is a never offered before two part workshop!! The first half of the workshop will be a lecture that will be introducing the characteristics of East Asian traditional dress looking at the cultural features, aesthetic values and the symbolism of color while also taking a critical look at the different aspects of East Asian and Western styles. The second half will be a hands-on-workshop that will let you learn beautiful Korean knotting, used in many traditional detailing, and then traditional wrapping and decorating techniques using traditional patterns and materials.
Registration Deadline: September 13th, 2008
Please contact the Center for East Asian Studies at eastasia.wisc.edu or for more information or registration details.
Tuesday, September30th
12:00-1:20, 336 Ingraham Hall
Graduate Advising Pizza Lunch
Come meet your peers and Erin Crawley, the International Institute’s fellowship specialist, learn about the Ph.D. minor and funding opportunities, including FLAS.
Pizza will be provided!! You must RSVP by Wednesday, September 24th so we have enough pizza.
To RSVP, please email:
Wednesday, October 1st
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “Farewell, My Concubine”
Directed by Chen Kaige, 1993
Wednesday, October 8th
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “Red Sorghum”
Directed by Zhang Yimou, 1987
Thursday, October 9th
4:00pm-5:30pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
Guest Lecture: Philip J. Ivanhoe
Professor at City University of Hong Kong Specializing in Neo-Confucianism
“Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism”
Wednesday, October 15th
12:00-1:30, 336 Ingraham Hall
Brown Bag Lunch: Peter Paik
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UW-Milwaukee
“Globalization is an Alien Conspiracy: On Jang Joon-Hwan's Save the Green Planet”
Wednesday, October 15th
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “Happy Together”
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
Saturday, October 18th
8:30am-5:00pm, Van Hise Hall
Teacher Training Workshop for K-16 Chinese Language Instructors 2008
The Center for East Asian Studies along with the Department of East Asian Language and Literature will be sponsoring a National professional development workshop for K-16 Chinese language teachers in the fall of 2008. At the workshop, various speakers will present on different aspects of Chinese language instruction to be incorporated into teaching K-16.
Registration deadline is TODAY, October 10th, 2008
Registration form for the workshop is available online at our website:
Co-Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC grant, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, the Language Institute and the China Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, October 22nd
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “Attack the Gas Station”
Directed by Kim Sang-Jin, 1997
Thursday, October 23rd
4:00pm-5:30pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
Guest Lecture: Judith Zeitlin
Professor in Chinese Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago
Painting the Invisible World: Literary and Theatrical” Perspectives on Luo Ping’s Ghost “Amusement Scrolls”
In contrast to the abundance of ghost stories written in late imperial China, paintings of ghosts were remarkably rare outside a ritual context. One of the main exceptions is the work of the artist Luo Ping (1733 < -1799 < ), the youngest member of the Eight Yangzhou Eccentrics, who developed his own distinctive visual language to do so. His enigmatic masterpiece, the Ghost Amusement handscroll, made him famous among his contemporaries, and the over 100 colophons on the earliest version of the scroll constitutes a veritable "who's who" of the late eighteenth-century elite, including notable ghost story writers Ji Yun and Yuan Mei. Rather than focusing on colophons as a discourse that holds the key to the painting's interpretation, or the artist's much vaunted ability to actually "see" ghosts as reported in anecdotes of the period, my paper explores the literary and theatrical contexts that made his experimentations with visual forms legible as ghosts to eighteenth-century viewers.
Wednesday, October 29th
12:00-1:30, 336 Ingraham Hall
Brown Bag Lunch: Jian Xu
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UW-Milwaukee
“The Consolation of Suffering and Zhang Yimou’s film ‘To Live’”
Wednesday, October 29th
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “The President’s Last Bang”
Directed by Im Sang-Soo, 2005
Wednesday, November 5th
12:00-1:30, 336 Ingraham Hall
Brown Bag Lunch: Poul Andersen
Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii - Manoa
“The Painter-Sage, Wu Daozi, and the Practice of Religious Painting in China”
Wednesday, November 5th
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “My Beautiful Girl, Mari”
Directed by Lee Seong-Kang, 2002
Monday, November 10th
4:00-5:30, 206 Ingraham Hall
Guest Lecture: Larry Kominz
Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University
“The Uses of Disguise, Deception, and Deceit: New Mishima Play Translations”
Americans know Mishima Yukio as the notorious right-wing superstar
novelist who committed /seppuku/ attempting to foment a military
uprising. In fact Mishima was just as important a dramatist as a
novelist. He wrote 60 plays, founded two theatre companies, and in the
calendar year 1955 had nine different plays performed professionally in
Tokyo--a record for a single playwright. In his presentation Laurence
Kominz shows how Mishima used acts of deception and deceit for very
different purposes in plays written for entirely different genres of
theatre: classical /kabuki,/ modern /noh,/ /shingeki /realistic drama,
and /shingeki/shinpa /hybrid plays. Mishima's thematic purposes were as
varied as his styles--he used disguise and deception to create romantic
comedy and to deny romance, to facilitate tragic betrayal and murder.
Kominz has just finished a new anthology of Mishima plays, entitled
*/Mishima on Stage: /The Black Lizard and/ Other Plays.
Wednesday, November 12th
12:00-1:30, 336 Ingraham Hall
Brown Bag Lunch: Kimiko Tanaka
Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison
“Aging and Family in Japan - Continuity and Change”
Wednesday, November 12th
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “Love Letter”
Directed by Shunji Iwai, 1995
Wednesday, November 12th
3:30-5:00 pm, 574 Van Hise
Lecture: Rania Huntington
Visiting Associate Professor of Chinese Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The View from the Tower of Crossing Sails: Female Informants in Qing Tales
of the Strange"
Monday, November 17th
4:00-5:30 pm, 586 Van Hise
Lecture: Hu Qiulei
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
"From Desire to Sympathy: Poetic Representations of Women through the Third
Century"
Wednesday, November 19th
6:30pm-8:30pm, 19 Ingraham Hall
CEAS Film Series: “Millenium Actress”
Directed by Satoshi Kon, 2001
Thursday, November 20th
4:00pm-5:30pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
Guest Lecture: Wei Hsin Yu
Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin
“Economic Restructuring and Changes in Job Mobility Patterns in Japan”
After the burst of its "bubble" economy in 1989, Japan experienced an
astonishingly long economic recession whose gravity surpassed any seen
in the industrialized world since the 1930s. While this recession is
likely to have important consequences on the well-known workplace
arrangements and career mobility patterns in that country, systematic
analyses of such consequences are nearly absent. This study examines
changes in the rates and directions of job mobility in Japan, using work
history data collected in 2005 from a nationally representative sample
of men and women. I find evidence that Japanese firms have largely
retained the core elements of the permanent employment system, despite a
decrease in the number of workers eligible for that system. The norm
that stresses men's loyalty to their employers, however, appears to have
weakened, resulting in higher voluntary job turnover among male workers.
In addition, the gender gap in lifetime mobility processes has narrowed,
but not because Japanese women have gained opportunities in the
workplace. Rather, economic stagnation has led to greater fluctuations
in employment and wages over men's life course, thereby closing the
gender gap. Beyond informing the changing stratification process in
Japan, the findings have general implications for understanding how
economic crises impact employment relations, institutional
transformations, and gender inequality in advanced industrialized
countries.
Monday, December 1
4:00-5:30 pm, 586 Van Hise
Lecture: Son Suyoung
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
"Writing for Print: Production and Circulation of Literary Texts in Seventeenth-Century China"
Monday, December 8th
4:00-5:00 pm, 260 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive
Study Abroad Information Session: China Summer History Program.
For information call 608-262-2851
Sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies and International Academic Programs