Women in Chinese Silent CinemaIn his lecture, Prof. Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s. He'll emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more […]
Koichi Takashima Lecture 2022: Tawada Yōko -- Translation as Politics, Translation as Dream The consistent process of disorienting geography, maps, and directions in Tawada Yōko's fiction flies in the face of problematic distinctions between "areas" and the territorial boundaries they imply, assumptions still often dominant in studies of the "boundary-crossing literature" she is taken to […]
ELLEN Y. CHANG, (UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) WEDNESDAY MAY 11, 2022, 2-3:15 P.M. PDT SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR TAIWAN STUDIES Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89554862326?pwd=Z.U1IcEN2QWR4SW50WnBxMTBPR1NmU/T09 Meeting I: 895 5486 2326 Passcode: 496309 For more information, please contact: castasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu
THE HUNT FOR THE "ENEMY WITHIN" DURING THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA: RETHINKING WARTIME ATROCITIES DURING THE ASIA-PACIFIC WAR This talk will detail the execution of Okinawans as "spies" by the Japanese military during the Battle of Okinawa, which was the last land battle of the Asia-Pacific War, and the one that resulted in the largest […]
Please join us for “Western-style Confectionary and Colonial Taiwan: Conglomerates, Settler Colonialism, and Tropical Agriculture” with Lillian Tsay (Brown University). 4:30-5:30 p.m. PDT on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/2p863s22 Meeting ID: 816 8978 5230 Passcode: 500745 Please contact Kanda Polatis at kpolatis@ucsb.edu if you have any questions.
Please save the date for a Zoom lecture by Dr. Jihoon Kim, titled “Activism & Post activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2021” on Wednesday, May 25, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm (PDT). You will need to use this link (https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wM0z1rY-T9ij5vJovxf8Cw) to register for the webinar in advance. This presentation will provide an overview of documentary films from Korea addressing […]
