Graduate Discussion Spring 2021

Graduate Discussion Winter 2021

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AY 2018-2019

AY 2016-7

Fall 2016

M 9/26, 4 pm, 1515 Kresge, Deepti Misri, “Showing Humanity: Violence and Visuality in Kashmir”

F 9/30, 12 pm, 108 Harris, Oguma Eiji, Workshop

M 10/17, 4 pm, 201 University, Shellen Wu, “The Endless Frontiers of Science in Twentieth Century China”

W 10/24, 4 pm, 1515 Kresge, Michael Cherney “The Sun is Not So Central”

W 12/7, 5 pm, 4354 Kresge, Timon Screech, “The Eight-plank Bridge (Yatsuhashi) as Political Icon in the Edo Period”

Winter 2017

W 1/18, 5 pm, Block Museum, Marsha Haufler (University of Kansas), “Purchased by L. Sickman in Beijing”

T 1/24, 11 am, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Gradaute Colloquium: Guangshuo Yang (History), “Intersecting Intrigue: Spiritual Politics of the Animal Protection Movement in Republican China;” Darcie Price-Wallace (Religious Studies), “Exploring the Controversial Issues of the Question of Fully Ordained Nuns in Tibetan History”

W 2/1, 3:30 pm, 108 Harris, Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton University), “Islamist Violence, The State, and Counter-Islamist Narratives in Pakistan”

T 2/7, 11 am, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Gradaute Colloquium: Melody Shum (History), “The Criminal Justice System in French Kwang Chow Wan;” Youjia Li (History), “Human-powered Metropolis – Evolving Transport Networks in Japan and East Asia, 1630s-1930s.”

H 2/9, 1 pm, 1902 Sheridan Road, Thomas David DuBois (Australian National University), “Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics – Interpreting China’s Religious Services Law”

T 2/21, 11 am, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Career Development Panel, “One Asia? Or Many?” with Rajeev Kinra (History), Jun Hu (Art History), and Mi-ryong Shin (Asian Languages and Cultures).

T 3/7, 11 am, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Gradaute Colloquium: Verena Ziegler (Art History), “The life of Buddha Śākyamuni in the Byams pa lha khang of Basgo. To be continued!.”

Spring 2017

T 4/4, 12:15 pm, 108 Harris, Anand Yang (University of Washington), author of Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State Bihar, 1765-1947 (1998)

W 4/5, 3:30 pm, 108 Harris, Gray Tuttle (Columbia University), “Can Tibetan Buddhist Institutions Map ‘Tibetan Culture’?”

T 4/11, 12:30 pm, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Graduate Colloquium: Teng Li (History), “Communist Property Law in Northern China.”

T 4/18, 12:30 pm, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Graduate Colloquium: Lois Hao (History),”Destined to Marry? Marriage Renunciation and Reform for Women in Republican China.”

T 5/2, 12:30 pm, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Career Development Panel, 4438 Kresge, ASGC Career Development Panel, Paul Copp (University of Chicago), “Seal and Scroll: Buddhism and Material Culture at Dunhuang and Beyond.”

T 5/16, 5 pm, 1515 Kresge, Phillip Bloom (Indiana University), “‘Collected Like Clouds’: Facts and Fantasies in the Daitokuji Five Hundred Arhats.”

W 5/17, 5 pm, 4354 Kresge, ASGC Career Development Panel, Phillip Bloom (Indiana University), “From Dissertation to Book.”

AY 2015-6

Fall 2015

The Art History Department and the Asian Studies Graduate Cluster are happy to announce the lecture “The Mogao caves of Dunhuang: Then and Now,” by Professor Zhao Shengliang, to be held at 1800 Sherman, Room 5137, on November 11, 2015, at 12,00 PM. The lecture will be held in Chinese, with translation into English by Professor Jun Hu.

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The first event in The Sounds of South Asia series,a yearlong undertaking presenting visiting speakers whose work exists at the intersection of Sound Studies and South Asian Studies. The series brings together scholars and students interested in expanding the global scope of Sound Studies and to listening to South Asian cultures with fresh ears.

Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College, Iconic Voices in Post-Liberalization Tamil Cinema
When: October, 23rd at 3:30
Where: The Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201)

Amanda Weidman is a cultural anthropologist with an area specialization
in South Asia. Her previous research in South India examined the creation
of South Indian classical music as a high cultural genre in the context of
late colonialism, Indian nationalism, and regional politics in South India.
This project combined ethnographic research, examination of archival
sources, and her own study and performance of South Indian classical
music. Her current research focuses on the people who create the music
for South Indian popular cinema: playback singers, music directors, and
studio musicians. She examines the social organization of the studios
and discourses about voice and sound that emerge in recording sessions,
relating these to broader politics and cultural movements.
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AY 2014-2015

The Block Museum has a full roster of dynamic public programs this winter, ranging from a look at the early art of Kashmir, to musical performance in the galleries, to an exploration of the expeditions of one of the primary collectors in the region.Block Museum Block Cinema will also screen films related to Collecting Paradise, five new documentaries, and a series of special programs. Please come and experience this wonderful world, and share the news!

You're Invited! Block Museum Winter Season Opening Celebration Saturday, January 17 from 2-5pm. Click to learn more.

FALL 2014

Please join us for a NU panel on Sarah Jacoby’s new book, Love and Liberation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)

Where: John Evans Alumni Center

When: Wed. Jan 7, 2015, 3:30 PM-5 PM

Who: Panelists are Paola Zamperini (Chair, DALC), Barbara Newman (English), and Robert Orsi (Religious Studies), with response by Sarah Jacoby

About the book:

Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Künzang Dekyong Chönyi Wangmo (also called Dewé Dorjé, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera Khandro’s conversations with land deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members whose voices interweave with her own to narrate what is a story of both love between Sera Khandro and her guru, Drimé Özer, and spiritual liberation.

Sarah H. Jacoby’s analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro’s texts, the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and Drimé Özer as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion.

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This paper examines a late Qing woman’s jacket embroidered with eight well-known Suzhou garden and temple sites. Such an object makes little sense within the conventional historiography of Chinese dress, long dominated by regulated garments like dragon robes and rank badges, and consequently, concerned with themes of imperial status and official rank. Yet this curious jacket permits an exploration of the impact of handicraft commercialization and widening material consumption upon late Qing women’s fashions, and the degree to which these developments expanded the potential of female material culture as a forum for cultural production.

Rachel Silberstein is a historian of Chinese material culture, in particular dress and textiles. She recently completed a PhD in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford with a thesis examining the influence of fashion and commercialization upon late Qing women’s dress. Her interest in Chinese textiles began in the textiles market of Xi’an, where she spent two years teaching and studying at Xi’an Foreign Languages University. Returning to the UK, she received an MA in Chinese language and linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, prior to beginning doctoral studies at Oxford in 2007. In 2012, she was awarded the Gervers Fellowship at the Royal Ontario Museum to study their collection of Chinese vernacular embroideries.

This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, Department of Art History, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian Studies Graduate Cluster.

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Lecture by Professor Trent Maxey, Japanese History, Amherst College

“Does State Shinto Matter?”

WHEN: Wednesday October 28, 2014 @ 4 PM

WHERE: Harris Hall 108

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Lecture by Professor Peter Zinoman, South East Asian History, UC Berkeley

“Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung”

WHEN: Thursday October 23, 2014 @ 4,30 PM

WHERE: Harris Hall 108

Sponsors: Asian Studies Graduate Cluster; Asian Studies Program; Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; Department of History; Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) Program

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Screening of GULABI GANG followed by Q&A with director Nishtha Jain

WHEN: Wednesday October 8, 2014 @ 7PM

WHERE: Helmerich Auditorium in Annie May Swift Hall

Sponsors: Asian Studies Graduate Cluster; Asian Studies Program; Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; MFA in Documentary Media

PAST EVENTS

Imagining the Public in Colonial India
Print, Polemics, and the People

Friday May 16, 2014
Harris Hall 108
9:30 to 4:30

Organized by: Brannon Ingram, J. Barton Scott, and SherAli Tareen

For participants and schedule please see:
http://sites.northwestern.edu/imaginingthepublic/

Sponsors:
Equality, Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) – Buffett Center, Northwestern University; Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities; Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC); Chabraja Center for Historical Studies; Department of Religious Studies; Department of History; Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; Asian Studies Graduate Cluster

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Peking Opera Master Classes with Jamie Guan
Northwestern University, May 9, 2014

Lecture-Demonstration (Open to all)
11-11:45 AM
Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center, Ballroom Theater
10 Arts Circle Drive

Peking Opera Movement Workshop
1:15-2 pm
Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center, Ballroom Theater
10 Arts Circle Drive
Registration required by May 7: elizabeth.son@northwestern.edu

Peking Opera Makeup Workshop
2:30-3:15 pm
Loius Theater Makeup Room
1949 Campus Drive
Registration required: elizabeth.son@northwestern.edu

Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Theatre, Dance Program, Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama, and Asian Studies Graduate Cluster

Friday April 4, 2014, 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday April 5, 2014, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Library Forum Room, Northwestern University Library

Workshop: The Date of the Alchi Sumtsek Murals: 11th or 13th Century?

Participants:
Chiara Bellini, University of Bologna
Philip Denwood, SOAS, University of London
Amy Heller, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gerald Kozicz, Graz University of Technology
Rob Linrothe, Northwestern University
Christian Luczanits, Rubin Museum of Art

To RSVP, please email r-linrothe@northwestern.edu

Funded by the Myers Foundations, Department of Art History, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Asian Studies Graduate Cluster, and an anonymous donor

Schedule: Schedule
Poster: Alchi Sumtsek

Tuesday, 3/18/2014
5 pm, Kresge 3-430

Jun Hu, ABD, Princeton University
“The Perturbed Circles:
Domical Architecture in East Asia (ca. 200-750)”

Organized by the Department of Art History

Click Hu poster for a poster.

Thursday, 3/6/2014
5 pm, Kresge 3-430

Dr. Ellen Huang, University of San Francisco
“Mind in Materials – Jingdezhen ‘china’ of the Qing Dynasty”

Organized by the Department of Art History

Click Huang poster for a poster.

Wednesday, 2/12/2014
4:30 pm, Kresge 4-310

Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History, Carleton University
“Wartime Avant-Garde Art in Japan”

Organized by Laura Hein, Department of History
Supported by The Department of Art History and the Asian Studies Graduate Cluster

Thursday, 1/16/2014
4:30 pm, Hagstrum Room (University 201)

Patrick J. Noonan, Lecturer, Univ. of California, Berkeley
“Reading Left Melancholy in 1960’s Japan: The Literature of Shibata Sho and Takahashi Kazumi”

Sponsored by The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Wednesday, 1/8/2014
12 pm, Hagstrum Room (University 201)

Professor Andrew Rodekohr
“Visualizing Masses: The Crowd as Medium in Chinese Propaganda Posters”

Click Andrew Rodekohr’s talk[1] for poster

Monday, 9 December, 2013
3:30 – 5 pm, University Hall, 122

Nawaraj Chaulagain, a candidate for an Assistant Professor position in Religious Studies in Hinduism

“Swords and Seedlings: Ritual Installation and Execution in a Hindu World”

25 November, 2013
12 noon, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Seminar Room

Christopher Pinnery, University College London
“Once Upon a Time in Central India:
Imagining the Future in a Small-town Photographic Studio”

Click here for a poster: PinneyPoster

25 October, 2013

1:30 pm, Ver Steeg Lounge, University Library

Rahul Pandita, author of “Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits” will discuss the Kashmiri Pandit experience beginning with their departure from Kashmir in 1990

Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and EDGS/Buffett Center

Click here for the poster

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25 October, 2013
4 pm, Hagstrum Room 201, University Hall

Huang Wenguang, author of A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel