Calendar, Fall 2009
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Sunday, August 3
QUAD DAY

Friday, August 28
China Workshop
Street as Courtroom: State Accommodation of Labor Protest in South China
Frank He (City University of Hong Kong)
2:30-4:30 pm
Law Building Room F

Friday-Saturday, August 28-29
URBANA SWEETCORN FESTIVAL

 
     
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September 2009
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Friday, September 11
Korea Workshop

Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
Nadia Y. Kim (Loyola Marymount University)
Discussant: Hyunhee Kim
1:00-3:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

Friday, September 11
China Workshop

Is Hong Kong a Chinese city? The role of language in defining the identity of Hong Kong
Kwai Ng (UCSD)
1:30-3:30 pm
Illini Union Room 210 (General Lounge)

Friday, September 18 (CANCELLED)
Korea Workshop
North Korean Conversion en route to and in South Korea
Jin-Heon Jung
Discussant: TBA
1:00-3:00 pm
Davenport 109

Friday, September 25
Korea Workshop

Inequality of Educational Achievement in Korea
Hyunjoon Park (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Sujung Kim
1:00-3:00 pm
Davenport 109

 
     
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October 2009
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Friday, October 2 (CANCELLED)
China Workshop, Dissertation Series

Title TBA
Shumin Lim
1:30-3:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Friday, October 9
China Workshop, New Authors
Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China
Eugenia Lean (Columbia University)
1:00 -3:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Monday, October 12
China Workshop
Autumn Gem
A documentary by Rae Chang and Adam Tow
4:00-6:00 pm
Asian American Cultural Center

Thursday, October 15
Japan Workshop, New Authors
The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan
Scott O’Bryan (Indiana University)
12:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Friday, October 16
Korea Workshop

Politics of Financial Regulatory Reforms in South Korea: The Paradox of Political Leadership
Heon Joo Jung (Indiana University)
Discussant: Chunwoong Park
1:00-3:00 pm
Davenport 109

Monday, October 19
Campbell Family Lecture: An Evening with Dr. Michael Mel (University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea)

7:00 PM
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

Thursday, October 22 (Postponed-to be rescheduled in November)
Japan Workshop
Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?
Patrick Drazen (Independent Scholar)
4:00 pm
Noyes 163

Friday, October 23
China Workshop, Dissertation Series

Han Shaogong: excavating the linguistic to re-imagine modernity
Eric Dalle
Discussant: Yanjie Wang (EALC)
Chair: Hyungju Hur
1:30-3:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Friday, October 30
Korea Workshop
Domestic Space in Working Class Dwellings and Urban Redevelopment
Lisa Kim Davis (UCLA)
Discussant: Tschangho John Kim
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

 
     
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November 2009
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Tuesday, November 3
AEMS AsiaLENS

Daughters of Wisdom
With Arija Rinpoche (Director, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana)
7:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Wednesday, November 4
China Workshop

Independent Filmmaking Across Cultures: Discussion with Evans Chan
Chaired by Gary Xu

1:00-3:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Wednesday, November 4
China Workshop

Sorceress of the New Piano: The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan
Film Screening with director Evans Chan
7:00 pm
Music Building Auditorium Room 2100
Cosponsored by Cinema Studies and the School of Music

Friday, November 6
Korea Workshop

South Korean and Westerner Interactions with North Koreans with a focus on Selfhood and Authenticity
Hyang-Jin Jung (Seoul National University)
Discussant: Nicholas Harkness
1:00-3:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

Tuesday, November 10
Japan Workshop
Now We Eat Sushi: Globalization and Changing Patterns of Food Consumption in a Japanese Community
Keith Brown (University of Pittsburgh)
12:00-1:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Thursday, November 12
Japan Workshop
The Why of the Way: the Ends and Ideals of Traditional Japanese Martial Art
Karl Friday (University of Georgia)
4:00-5:30 pm
NOYES 163

Friday, November 13
China Workshop, Dissertation Series
The Barbarian Guest of Honor: China and the Osaka Exhibition of 1903
Hyungju Hur
1:30-3:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Friday, November 20 (CANCELLED)
Korea Workshop, Dissertation workshop

1:00 – 3:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

 
     
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December 2009
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Tuesday, December 1
Alumni Insights on International Careers and Foreign Languages and Area Studie

6:30 pm
Rm. 3007, Business Instructional Facility, 515 E. Gregory Dr., Champaign

Friday, December 4
China Workshop

Title TBA
Galal Walker (OSU)
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Freeman Fellows Building, 912 S. Fifth St.

Friday, December 4
Korea Workshop

Marginalization and Empowerment of an Intellectual in Late Choson Korea
Yoonjeong Shim
12:30 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

 
     
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