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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T120000
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SUMMARY:The Utility of Oral Histories: The case of China
DESCRIPTION:In a discussion for graduate students\, Professor Pickowicz asks the questions\, “What can be learned from oral histories that cannot be learned from other sources? What is unique about oral histories?” Pickowicz will show clips of several oral histories he filmed in China in the 1980s and 1990s and talk about both the pleasure and pain associated with the filming of oral histories. \nMonday\, May 9\, 12 – 3 PM\, HSSB 4041
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/the-utility-of-oral-histories-the-case-of-china/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220421T201356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T201356Z
UID:8241-1651852800-1651858200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Is a Tekagami a Text? Reading the Fragmentary in a Calligraphy Album
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 6\, HSSB Room 4080\, 4 – 5:30 PM \nJoin the Transregional East Asia RFG for a talk by Edward Kamens\, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies\, Yale University\, and Paul I. Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations\, UCLA. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group\, East Asia Center\, and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/is-a-tekagami-a-text-reading-the-fragmentary-in-a-calligraphy-album/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/5.6-Tekagami.png
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220418T160851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T214314Z
UID:8202-1651680000-1651689000@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Takashima Talks:  The Democracy That Society Allows -- Protest Sounds in Japan and the US
DESCRIPTION:Takashima Talks: The Democracy That Society Allows — Protest Sounds in Japan and the US \nPerceived attacks on the foundations of democracy in recent years have sparked large demonstrations\, often numbering in the hundreds of thousands\, in both Japan and the US. This paper will explore the ways in which democracy is sounded differently in street protests of two densely populated cities-Tokyo and New York-as shaped by urban geography\, urban acoustics\, participatory practices\, and perhaps most importantly\, policing. Analyzing protests as an interplay between urban space\, cyberspace\, police\, and activist-musicians\, the talk considers the ways in which the sounds of street protests reflect the kind of democracy that society allows. \nWEDNESDAY\, MAY 4\, 4:00 — 6:30 PM\nUCSB Campus:  SS&MS 2135
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/takashima-talks-presents-the-democracy-that-society-allows-protest-sounds-in-japan-and-the-us/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220414T195544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T195544Z
UID:8183-1651672800-1651678200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Tai Ming-Liang's Cruisy\, Sleepy\, Melancholy Queer
DESCRIPTION:NICHOLAS DE VILLIERS\, (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA) \nWEDNESDAY MAY 4\, 2022\, 2-3:30 P.M. PDT \nSPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR TAIWAN STUDIES\nZoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83806164281?pwd-eURnNWcxOTFJUmœkSnNAS1RyTIcAUT09\nMeeting ID: 838 0616 4281 Passcode: 337462\nFor more information\, please contact: eastasian-taiwanstudies@usb.edu
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/tai-ming-liangs-cruisy-sleepy-melancholy-queer/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Online Conference,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Cruisy-Sleepy-Melancholy-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220428T225636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T225651Z
UID:8276-1651593600-1651597200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Talks:  An Orange Bra between China and Taiwan -- Women Migrants\, Emotions and Digital Entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for “An Orange Bra between China and Taiwan: Women Migrants\, Emotions and Digital Entrepreneurship” with Beatrice Zani (McGill University). \nUCSB Room SSMS 2135\nTuesday\, May 3rd\, 4 – 5 PM
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/taiwan-talks-an-orange-bra-between-china-and-taiwan-women-migrants-emotions-and-digital-entrepreneurship/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Orange-Bra-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220421T195849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T195849Z
UID:8235-1651167000-1651174200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Gagaku:  Sound of a Thousand Years -- Lecture + Performance
DESCRIPTION:Gagaku: Sound of a Thousand Years\nLecture + Performance at UCSB’s ART\, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM\nNaoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble with special guest Maestro Hideaki Bunno\nThursday\, April 28 at 5:30 — 7:30 pm\nhttps://bit.ly/Gagaku2022 \nThe Gagaku orchestra at the Imperial Palace of Japan was established in 701; its music is recognized by the government of Japan as a national intangible cultural property\, and by UNESCO as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.  The most ancient and continuously performed orchestral tradition in the world\, Gagaku is exceptional in its combination of an archaic allure with unexpected contemporary features (free rhythms\, complex sound clusters\, controlled dissonance). In addition to the imperial court of Japan\, Gagaku is also regularly performed at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan as part of their respective liturgies. \nIn this lecture / performance\, the musicians will demonstrate the sounds and techniques of their respective instruments and offer the audience a unique perspective on the appreciation of the millenarian world of Gagaku.  This event is organized by Fabio Rambelli (University of California\, Santa Barbara) with Naoyuki Manabe\, in collaboration with the Art\, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara. Generous support is provided by the International Shinto Foundation Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies\, UCSB; Robert N.H. Ho Foundation; and Michael Hurley/Manitou Fund.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/gagaku-sound-of-a-thousand-years-lecture-performance/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220428_Gagaku_flyer.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220421T194644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T194644Z
UID:8229-1651082400-1651089600@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Gagaku: Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony
DESCRIPTION:Santa Barbara Museum of Art\, Mary Craig Auditorium\nWednesday\, April 27\, 2022 at 6 PM \nThis evening event will feature three musicians from the Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble led by Naoyuki Manabe. Manabe\, who holds a degree from the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts\, is a composer\, multi-instrumentalist and dancer who has performed internationally. The ensemble includes leading musicians\, Yoshie Kunimoto and Yutaka Ota. Also performing is special guest Maestro Hideaki Bunno\, former Director of the Gagaku Orchestra at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Maestro Bunno is the 45th generation of a family that has transmitted the art of the sho\, a type of mouth organ\, an instrument unique to gagaku for more than 1300 years. In 2009\, he received the prestigious prize from the Japanese Academy of the Arts. The Gagaku Orchestra at the Imperial Palace of Japan was established in 701; its music is recognized by UNESCO as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. \nTickets for the gagaku event can be purchased on the Santa Barbara Museum of Art website at https://www.sbma.net/events/  This event is free for members and $5 for non-members.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/gagaku-music-of-the-imperial-ceremonies-of-japan-one-thousand-years-of-elegance-and-harmony/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Gagaku-Flyer1-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220414T170310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T162243Z
UID:8161-1651075200-1651082400@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature
DESCRIPTION:TAIWAN TALKS Presents:\nQueer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature\nHoward Chiang (UCD) in conversation with Hangping Xu (UCSB) \nWed.\, April 27\, 2022\, 4-6 p.m. McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/queer-taiwanese-literature-as-world-literature/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Taiwan_Talks_Howard2-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220414T194422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T194422Z
UID:8177-1650556800-1650562200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Imaging History\, Historicizing Images: Transnational Visualities in Cold War Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Joseph W. Ho\, Albion College\n4:00-5:30 PM (PST)\, Thursday\, April 21\, 2022\nZoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/81071011621\nMeeting ID: 810 7101 1621\nPasscode: 108369\nPlease contact Linshan Jiang at linshanjiang@ucsb.edu if you have any questions.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/imaging-history-historicizing-images-transnational-visualities-in-cold-war-taiwan/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Online Conference,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Imaging-History.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220414T174101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T174101Z
UID:8169-1650290400-1650295800@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Representing East Asia On Screen:  Gendered and Racialized Discourses
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for “Representing East Asia on Screen: Gendered and Racialized Discourses” with Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University). \n2:00-3:30 p.m. PDT on Monday\, April 18\, 2022\, McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/representing-east-asia-on-screen-gendered-and-racialized-discourses/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220404T165007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T165007Z
UID:8112-1649685600-1649691000@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:“In and Out: Laughter and Gender Politics in Li Shuangshuang (1962)” by Ping Zhu (East Asia Center)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that UCSB’s East Asia Center will be hosting Prof. Ping Zhu (University of Oklahoma) for a lecture\, “In and Out: Laughter and Gender Politics in Li Shuangshuang (1962)\,” on April 11\, 2:00–3:30pm (PST)\, as part of its EAC Zoom in Global Scholars Series. Please scan the QR code on the flyer to join the Zoom meeting.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/in-and-out-laughter-and-gender-politics-in-li-shuangshuang-1962-by-ping-zhu-east-asia-center/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Zhu-e-flyer.png
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220222T235203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T214644Z
UID:8025-1646325000-1646330400@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Talks:  “Coastal Formosan\, Nuclear Austronesian\, and Beyond”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for “Coastal Formosan\, Nuclear Austronesian\, and Beyond: How do Formosan Languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?” with Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington). \n4:30-6:00 p.m. PST on Thursday\, March 3\, 2022\nPlease register at: https://forms.gle/88TFEMBSQ1xqmVsZ6\nThe Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the talk.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/center-for-taiwan-studies-coastal-formosan-nuclear-austronesian-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Online Conference,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20220222T234143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T163253Z
UID:8016-1646242200-1646245800@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Guest Lecture on "Paper City" -- A New Documentary on the Tokyo Fire Bombings
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, March 2\, 5:30 – 6:30 PM as we welcome Dr. David Fedman (UC Irvine) to discuss his new documentary\, Paper City.  The documentary will make its US premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on March 3 and March 6. The documentary examines the history and memory of the Tokyo fire bombings. For those who don’t know Dr. Fedman’s work\, he is the co-director of the Japan Air Raids project and one of the most prominent public historians\, in the US and Japan\, of the Tokyo fire bombings. He is also the author of the recent\, and wonderful\, monograph\, Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington\, 2020). \nWe will meet in person at UC Santa Barbara on March 2\, 5:30 – 6:30pm\, in HSSB 4080. Please RSVP to Professor Sabine Frühstück directly at fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/guest-lecture-on-paper-city-a-new-documentary-on-the-tokyo-fire-bombings/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PaperCity-1.png
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211208T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20211201T201728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T201728Z
UID:7883-1638984600-1638990000@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Takashima Talks: Japanese Sex Workers\, Rights\, and the Gendered Economy
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for sex.  Widely understood to be socially necessary\, the sex industry operates and recruits openly\, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy — but whose work remains stigmatized and dangerous.  This talk reframes the labor of adult Japanese women working in Tokyo’s legal sex industry as female care work.  Sex as care\, I argue\, reflects the simultaneous importance and marginality of female sex workers in Japan as well as the political-economic roles and possibilities that they imagine for themselves. \nGabriele Koch is a sociocultural anthropologist who studies care and its contestations in contemporary Japan.  She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College and author of Healing Labor:  Sex Work in the Gendered Economy (Stanford University Press\, 2020).  Her work has also appeared in American Ethnologist and Critical Asian Studies\, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Anthropology.  Her current research focuses on the recent re-imagination of Japanese forests as agents of human well-being. \nWednesday\, December 8\, 2021 \n5:30 PM – 7:00 PM \nMcCune Conference Room & Live Streamed
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/takashima-talks-japanese-sex-workers-rights-and-the-gendered-economy/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20211129T013929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T013929Z
UID:7869-1638459000-1638464400@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China
DESCRIPTION:Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value\, accounting for larger outlays than ivory\, rhino horn\, and big cats put together. Nearly all rosewood logs are sent to China\, fueling a $26 billion market for classically styled furniture. Vast expeditions across Asia and Africa search for the majestic timber\, and legions of Chinese ships sail for Madagascar\, where rosewood is purchased straight from the forest. The international response has been to interdict the trade\, but this misunderstands both the intent and effect of China’s appetite for rosewood\, causing social and ecological damage in the process. Drawing on fieldwork in China and Madagascar\, Annah Zhu upends the pieties of Western-led conservation\, offering a glimpse of what environmentalism and biodiversity protection might look like in a world no longer ruled by the West. \nAnnah Zhu is an Assistant Professor of environmental globalization at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD in society and environment from the University of California\, Berkeley and her Masters in environmental management from Duke University. She is a veteran of the United Nations’ Environment Program in Geneva\, and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar. Her work has been published in Science\, Geoforum\, Political Geography\, Environment International\, and American Ethnologist. \nThursday\, December 2nd\, 2021\n3:30 PM — 5:00 PM\nUniversity of California\, Santa Barbara\nHumanities & Social Change Center\nRobertson Gymnasium 1000A\nCosponsors: Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; Environmental Studies Program
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/rosewood-endangered-species-conservation-and-the-rise-of-global-china/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ORGANIZER;CN="Fabio Rambelli":MAILTO:rambelli@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20211129T012554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T012633Z
UID:7858-1638363600-1638369000@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Make Mars Beautiful: The Aesthetics of Sino-forming in the Chinese Century
DESCRIPTION:China plans to send its first manned mission to Mars by 2033\, and eventually establish a permanent colony on the planet. Many outside China see this ambitious turn towards space colonization as an attempt to establish global leadership in science and technology. But what is the cultural significance of Mars and Martian colonization for the Chinese? To form a better appreciation for Chinese conceptualizations of the relationship between nature and humanity that will shape the country’s interplanetary future\, George Zhu urges us to begin with one of China’s most well known artistic treasures\, the Meat Shaped Stone. Making connections across centuries of art\, environmental management\, and imperial ambition\, Zhu outlines a possible future for Mars–and the Earth–in what portends to be the Chinese century. \nGeorge Zhu received his master’s in English literature from the University of California Irvine. He is the co-founder of Double Bind Media\, a production company specializing in experimental documentary film and other visual media based in Los Angeles and the Netherlands. Currently\, he resides in the Netherlands where he develops and produces a range of multidisciplinary new media work. He is also a writer interested in contemporary Chinese culture\, environmentalism\, endangered species\, climate change\, and science studies. \nWednesday\, December 1st\, 2021\n1:00 PM — 2:30 PM\nUniversity of California\, Santa Barbara\nHumanities & Social Change Center\nRobertson Gymnasium 1000A\nCosponsors: Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; Environmental Studies Program
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/make-mars-beautiful-the-aesthetics-of-sino-forming-in-the-chinese-century/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
ORGANIZER;CN="Fabio Rambelli":MAILTO:rambelli@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20211111T164911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T164911Z
UID:7840-1637170200-1637175600@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Guest Talk with Tom Gill: Sudden Exile\, Sudden Wealth: Fukushima’s Nuclear Aristocracy in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 broke up local communities by forcing their inhabitants into exile in locations scattered though the prefecture.  In subsequent years\, government compensation policy created further divisions within these ruptured communities\, by providing wildly varying amounts of compensation according to the classification of danger in each district.  The most handsomely compensated were those in the “hard-to-return-zones” where many households received the equivalent of US $1 million dollars or more.  They have been cursed with the loss of their homeland and the lingering fear of radiation health risks\, blessed with sudden wealth\, then cursed again with “envy discrimination” by those less well compensated. \nTOM GILL is a British social anthropologist and professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Meiji Gakuin University\, Yokohama\, Japan.  He is author of two books about Japanese casual laborers\, Men of Uncertainty (2011) and Yokohama Street Life (2015).  Since April 2011 he has been following the fortunes of the inhabitants of Nagadoro\, a hamlet which to this days remains closed for habitation due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. \nWEDNESDAY\, November 17\, 5:30 – 7 PM at SS&MS 2135.  Live event.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/guest-talk-with-tom-gill-sudden-exile-sudden-wealth-fukushimas-nuclear-aristocracy-in-exile/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210326T224305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T224359Z
UID:7391-1622131200-1622136600@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Thinking about Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:For much of the twentieth century\, discussions of imperial-era Chinese identity were framed according to three conceptual categories then current in the social sciences: culture\, race\, and nation. In the 1980s\, Western historians began shifting to a new conceptual framework: ethnicity. Despite skepticism in some quarters\, ethnicity remains the framework within which most historians analyze politicized identities encompassing aspects of both culture and nation. But does “race” as a concept still have any place in this picture? What if we applied the broader and more structural understanding of race used by critical race theory (CRT)\, as scholars in the fields of Classics and Medieval Studies have lately begun to do? In this talk\, I will survey the development of imperial Chinese ethnic discourses from the Han to the Qing and propose that “race”—as understood by many CRT scholars in terms of institutionalized\, legally enforceable hierarchies of ethnic inequality within a state—was applicable primarily to “conquest dynasty” situations of minority rule. I will also argue that certain discourses previously characterized as racist or nationalist could be more usefully interpreted as two distinct but related traditions of foreign relations thinking that I term “Chinese supremacism” and “civilization-state discourse.” \nAbout the Speaker \nShao-yun Yang is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Denison University. An intellectual historian specializing in medieval Chinese ideas relating to empire and ethnicity\, he is the author of The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (University of Washington Press\, 2019) and several articles\, book chapters\, and translations. His current projects include a sourcebook on race and ethnicity in imperial China and a Cambridge Element on “Tang China and the World.”
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/thinking-about-race-and-ethnicity-in-imperial-china/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210510T154535Z
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SUMMARY:Gordon Matthews\, "The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace"
DESCRIPTION:Join us THURSDAY (5/13/2021) at 8PM-9:30PM (PST) to hear from Professor Gordon Mathews (Anthropology\, Chinese University of Hong Kong) about his recent publication The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace.\n\n\nJoin us via Zoom: http://bit.ly/EACTalks (Zoom ID: 925 5728 2471)\n\nABSTRACT: Only decades ago\, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today\, it is a truly global city\, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives\, find themselves\, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods – often knockoffs or copies of high-end branded items – to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou\, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became a center of “low-end globalization” and shows what we can learn from that experience about similar transformations elsewhere in the world.\nThrough detailed ethnographic portraits\, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality\, reputation\, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How\, he asks\, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups – Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans – that don’t share a common language\, culture\, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their status as temporary residents and begin to put down roots and establish families? \nFull of unforgettable characters\, The World in Guangzhou presents a compelling account of globalization at ground level and offers a look into the future of urban life as transnational connections continue to remake cities around the world. \nSPEAKER: Prof. Gordon Mathews has written or edited books about what makes life worth living in Japan and the United States\, about the global cultural supermarket and the meanings of culture today\, about the Japanese generation gap\, about what it means to “belong to a nation” in Hong Kong and elsewhere\, about how different societies conceive of happiness\, about Chungking Mansions as a global building\, and about low-end globalization around the world. Recently\, he has written papers on anthropology in East Asia\, on happiness and neoliberalism in Japan\, and on how to smuggle goods past customs in China. \nCo-sponsored by the East Asia Center and the UCSB Confucius Institute.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/gordon-matthews-the-world-in-guangzhou-africans-and-other-foreigners-in-south-chinas-global-marketplace/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Online Conference,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210409T160250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210409T160250Z
UID:7447-1619020800-1619026200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Kelly Hammond\, "Supporting the Faith\, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies in World War II"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine some of the ways that the Japanese Empire curried favors to Muslims in China\, and later throughout East Asia\, in the lead up to and throughout World War II. Drawing on examples from my recent book\, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II\, the talk will present viewers with concrete policies and explore some of the ways that the Japanese Government envisioned themselves as the benevolent protectors of Islam while at the same time advancing their imperial\, expansionist visions. For their part\, Muslims from around the colonial world found the anti-western and anti-Soviet rhetoric expounded by the Japanese Empire appealing to a certain extent. By placing Muslims at the center of Japan’s imperial ambitions\, it becomes clear that their visions for empire went far beyond what we would now consider to be the geographic boundaries of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere into predominantly Islamic spaces like Central Asia\, the Middle East\, and North Africa. \nJOIN US FOR A LIVE TALK AND Q&A\nWEDNESDAY\, APRIL 21 4PM TO 5:30PM (PST)\nZoom: http://bit.ly/EACTalks\nZoom ID: 925 5728 2471 \nSPEAKER: Kelly Hammond is an Assistant Professor of East Asian history at the University of Arkansas. Her recent work has been supported by the ACLS/Luce Foundation\, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Asian Studies.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/kelly-hammond-supporting-the-faith-building-the-empire-imperial-japans-islamic-policies-in-world-war-ii/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210405T200239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210405T200239Z
UID:7428-1618329600-1618333200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Makes History I: The Gender of Empire
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first event in the Center for Taiwan Studies three-part panel series Taiwan Makes History on “The Gender of Empire\,” guest directed and moderated by Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi University)!\n\n \n\nWe will welcome historians Fang Yu Hu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)\, Tadashi Ishikawa (University of Central Florida)\, and Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) to discuss how the lens of gender can change our understanding of the Taiwanese colonial research. The panelists will introduce their current research on how the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan attempted to shape and create gender norms and practices. They will discuss methodologies for uncovering how Taiwanese men and women mediated\, responded and contested idealized norms and forged their own paths. What were the competing notions of Taiwanese femininity and masculinity circulating at this time? What larger conclusions can be drawn about the experience of the Taiwanese versus other colonial peoples throughout the Japanese empire and beyond?\n\n \n\nDate: Tuesday\, April 13th\, 2021\nTime: 4-5 PM PST\nZoom link: http://bit.ly/TaiwanTalks
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/taiwan-makes-history-i-the-gender-of-empire/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Online Conference,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210402T171730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T171835Z
UID:7402-1617897600-1617903000@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Joshua Fogel\, "Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk for the Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group\, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932.” \nDate:\nApril 8\, 2021 \nTime:\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nREGISTRATION HERE. \nJoshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University\, Toronto. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/joshua-fogel-lingvo-internacia-the-esperanto-movement-in-china-and-japan-1905-1932/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210303T183944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T183944Z
UID:7366-1615298400-1615303800@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints by Dr. Kristina Kleughten
DESCRIPTION:“Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints”\nTuesday\, March 9\, 2021    2:00pm (PST)\ntinyurl.com/VRin18thC (Zoom: 846 6268 232)\n\nVirtual reality was an essential component of eighteenth-century Chinese art\, particularly in paintings and prints that evolved out of the artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe. These works created visions of extended realities for both imperial and popular consumption. Although on the surface they seem to have little in common\, when we examine them side-by-side\, we find a shared fascination at opposite ends of the social spectrum with transforming two-dimensional works of art into three-dimensional multisensory experiences.\n\nKristina Kleutghen (Harvard PhD) is the David W. Mesker Associate Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis and a specialist in Chinese art\, particularly of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Focusing on early modern\, modern\, and contemporary Chinese art\, her research investigates Sino-foreign interaction\, the imperial court\, optical devices\, and connections to science and mathematics. Professor Kleutghen’s first book\, Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces\, was recently published by University of Washington Press.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/creating-virtual-reality-in-18th-century-chinese-painting-and-prints-by-dr-kristina-kleughten/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210208T221210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210208T221424Z
UID:7330-1615228200-1615233600@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Small Talk: Critiquinng Heteronormativity\, Resisting Heteronormativity by Tze-lan Deborah Sang
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/TaiwanSoundScreen
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/small-talk-critiquinng-heteronormativity-resisting-heteronormativity-by-tze-lan-deborah-sang/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210208T220919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210208T221440Z
UID:7327-1614268800-1614274200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan Film Market in the New Millennium: Creative Industries\, Social Networks\, and Soft Power by Yingjin Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link: http://bit.ly/TaiwanSoundScreen
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/taiwan-film-market-in-the-new-millennium-creative-industries-social-networks-and-soft-power-by-yingjin-zhang/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210205T224145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T224145Z
UID:7316-1614182400-1614187800@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Electric Design: Light\, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising by Gennifer Weisenfeld (Inaugural Koichi Takashima Lecture)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our Inaugural Koichi Takashima Lecture on Wednesday\, Feb. 24 at 4:00 PM PST! Featuring the electrifying Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University) on “Electric Design: Light\, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising.”\n\n\nThis talk explores the industry’s important cultivation of a nascent consumer market for electrical goods in the prewar period\, & the role of graphic design & advertising in aestheticizing\, visualizing\, & commodifying the seemingly transformative social powers of electric energy.\n\n\nZoom link: https://bit.ly/TakashimaLecture
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/electric-design-light-labor-and-leisure-in-prewar-japanese-advertising-by-gennifer-weisenfeld-inaugural-koichi-takashima-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210205T224332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T224402Z
UID:7318-1613656800-1613662200@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History by Ruth Moster
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture with Dr. Ruth Mostern to learn about GIS and data analysis for Yellow River history.\n\n“Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History”\nThursday\, February 18\, 2021    2:00pm (PST)\ntinyurl.com/Tracks-of-Yu (Zoom: 894 2595 8266 passcode: 719417)\n\nSince the publication of The Yellow River Annals (Huanghe nianbiao 黃河年表) by Shen Yi 沈怡 in 1935\, historians of the Yellow River have routinely used the catchphrase “1\,500 floods and over thirty course changes” as a shorthand to describe the long-term and large-scale history of that volatile watercourse.  The Annals collates information about the Yellow River from historical sources and includes details about the type\, location\, and source of each event in river history of the.  Inspired by the extraordinary accomplishment of the Annals\, I have developed a data system called the Tracks of Yu Digital Atlas (TYDA)\, named for the legendary Yu the Great (Da Yu 大禹)\, the mythical culture hero who is said to have channeled the rivers of the realm and inaugurated dynastic rule. The TYDA integrates information from the Annals and other similar compilations of records about the history of disasters and management on the Yellow River. The TYDA also includes information about the settlement history of the Loess Plateau\, which is the upstream origin of the eroded sediment that leads to floods and course changes on the alluvial plain. In addition\, the TYDA includes contextual information: annual moisture data from the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas\, the beginning and ending dates of regimes\, the biomes that constitute the Yellow River watershed\, and more.  This talk introduces the TYDA and the historical event concept. It also summarizes the conclusions that I have reached about Yellow River history by analyzing the TYDA\, which appear in my forthcoming book\, The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press\, 2021).
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/digitizing-the-tracks-of-yu-gis-and-data-analysis-for-yellow-river-history-by-ruth-moster/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20210205T224735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T224915Z
UID:7320-1611853200-1611858600@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yihe ming): Monument\, Landscape\, and Calligraphy in Sixth-Century China by Lei Xue
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, January 28\, 2021\, at 5:00pm (Pacific Time) Prof. Lei Xue of Oregon State University will deliver a lecture on the mysterious Yihe ming 瘞鶴銘 (Eulogy for Burying a Crane) and its significance to the history of Chinese calligraphy. The talk is coordinated with Prof. Peter Sturman’s “Chinese Calligraphy” course (Chinese / Art History 134K) but open to all. Please join us via Zoom at tinyurl.com/eulogycrane.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/7320/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Lecture,Visiting Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T221534
CREATED:20200208T002250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T003007Z
UID:6770-1582732800-1582732800@eastasian.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Sovereignty and Emperor’s Child: The Logic of Dispossession and Protection of Ainu Mosir
DESCRIPTION:Sovereignty and Emperor’s Child: The Logic of Dispossession and Protection of Ainu Mosir\nDr. Katsuya Hirano\, Visiting Speaker \nSpeaker Biography: Katsuya Hirano teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan (Univ. of Chicago Press). \nHe has published numerous articles and book chapters on cultural and intellectual history of\nearly modern and modern Japan\, Fukushima nuclear disaster\, settler colonialism\, and critical\ntheory\, including “Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido: Settler Colonialism and Primitive Accumulation” (Critical Historical Studies). His current book project examines the\nintersection of racism and capitalism in the making of the modern Ainu with a focus on the\nsettler-colonization of the land that once belonged to the indigenous people. The Japanese government passed the Former Native Protection Law in 1899 as a way to respond to the deteriorating conditions of the Ainu life. The talk addresses the contradictory logic of protection articulated in the law by considering it in relation to the ways in which the concept of the imperial sovereignty facilitated the racialization and dispossession of the indigenous Ainu.
URL:https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/sovereignty-and-emperors-child-the-logic-of-dispossession-and-protection-of-ainu-mosir/
LOCATION:SSMS 2135
CATEGORIES:Visiting Speaker
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