Calendar, Spring 2008
  STIP (Science and Technology in the Pacific Century)
China Today
Teaching Asia
Korea Workshop
EAPS Arts
Aems Films
Asian Dissertation Series
EALC
And More...
 
     
  STIP
All events are 1-3 pm in 607 Institute for Genomic Biology unless otherwise noted
 
 
Science and Technology: A Primer
Langdon Winner (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Thursday, January 24

The Failure of Bio-informatics in India
Preeta Banerjee (Brandeis University)
Thursday, January 31

Chinese Environmental Policy and its Historical Roots
Peter Perdue (Yale)
Friday, February 15

The Rise of Genomics in Japan
Joan Fujimura (University of Wisconsin)
Thursday, February 28

Starting a Biomedical Research Institute in Korea
Ook Joon Yoo (KAIST)
Thursday, March 6

International ‘brain circulation’ and technology entrepreneurship
AnnaLee Saxenian (University of California-Berkeley)
Wednesday, March 12, 4 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

An Overview of Korea’s Science System
Sanghyun Kim (Harvard)
Thursday, March 27

The State of Japanese Science and Technology
Ed Lincoln (New York University)
Thursday, April 3

Science and Technology Policy Making in Korea
Yongrak Choi (KORP)
Thursday, April 10

Korean Biochemistry
An-Sik Chung (KAIST)
Thursday, April 17

 
     
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  China Today  
 

AEMS Film: China Blue
Wednesday, January 23, 7:30 pm
386 Armory

AEMS Film: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Tuesday, February 19, 7 pm
386 Armory

Chinese Environmental Policy and its Historical Roots
Peter Perdue (Yale)
STIP
Friday, February 15,1-3 pm
607 Institute for Genomic Biology

In Search of Law in China
Stanley Lubman (University of California-Berkeley)
EALC
Thursday, March 13,4 pm
Law Building, Room D

Investigating the Relationships between China and its Main Trade Partners
GONG Min
(Freeman Fellow, Xiamen University)
Monday, March 3,Noon-1 pm
Freeman Fellows Conference Room, 912 S. Fifth St.

EAPS-EALC Graduate Certificate in East Asia Presentations

Wanju Huang (Curriculum and Instruction)
Hua Qin (Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)
Tuesday, March 11, 12-1 pm
International Studies Building 101

Language and Culture: Ethnic Humor

WANG Qinling (Freeman Fellow, Southwest University)
Monday, April 14,Noon-1pm
Freeman Fellows Conference Room, 912 S. Fifth St.


Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Contemporary China
All events are 11 am-1 pm in Foreign Languages Building G-58


China, North Korea and the Emerging Security Order in Northeast Asia
Stephan Haggard (University of California-San Diego)Thursday, January 24

The Internet and Mobile Phones in Rural China
Rachael Murphy (St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford)
Thursday, January 31

Vulnerability to Environmental Change: Linking Local Cases with Global Models
Evan Fraser (University of Leeds)
Thursday, February 7

Globalization, China and Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema

Poshek Fu
Thursday, February 14

 
     
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  Teaching Asia  
  Teaching Asia Brown Bag Series
In this series, U of IL faculty will introduce their syllabi, their evolution and goals to begin a reflective conversation about the teaching of Asia.

EALC 397 Diplomatic History of Korea
Jacques Fuqua
Monday, February 25, Noon-1 pm
Freeman Fellows Conference Room, 912 S. Fifth St.

SOC365/EALC365 Contemporary Korean Society
Shin-Kap Han
Monday, April 7,Noon-1 pm
101International Studies Building 101
 
     
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  Korea Workshop
Korea – Gender, Sexuality, Race
All events are 1-3 pm in FLB, Lucy Ellis Lounge except as noted
 
 

The Vanished Women of Korea: Beyond the Anonymity of Historical Traces
JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University)
Friday, February 29

Title tba
Young-gyung Paik (Johns Hopkins University)
Friday, March 7

Through Autobiographical Writings: Gender and the Field of Publication in Colonial Korea
Kyeong-hee Choi (University of Chicago)
Friday, March 14

Thursday-Friday, April 10-11
Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film Festival

The Hyperbole of Youth
(Ch'ongchun Ssangkokson)
Thursday, April 10, 7-9 pm
location tba

Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film
Jinsoo An (University of California-Berkeley), Chung-kang Kim
Friday, April 11

Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film Festival
A Petty Middle Manager
(Samtung Kwachang)
Friday, April 11, 7-9 pm
location tba

Title tba
Janet Poole (University of Toronto)
Friday, April 18

 
     
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  EAPS Arts  
 
Totebags, Teeshirts, and Tableware: The Domestication of Hokusai's "Great Wave"
Christine Guth (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum)
Tuesday, March 4,5:30 pm
Krannert Art Museum Auditorium

Collecting East Asia:
Gallery Conversation and Book Discussion of
Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan
Christine Guth (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum), Lee Wonsik (Kinki University), Anne Burkus-Chasson, participants in Fall 07 Collecting East Asia course
Wednesday, March 5,5:30 pm
Krannert Art Museum

Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film Festival

The Hyperbole of Youth (Ch'ongchun Ssangkokson)
Thursday, April 10, 7-9 pm
location tba

Golden-Age South Korean Comedy Film Festival

A Petty Middle Manager
(Samtung Kwachang)
Friday, April 11, 7-9 pm
location tba
 
     
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  AEMS Films  
 
All films are at 7:30 pm

China Blue
Wednesday, January 23, 7 pm
386 Armory

The Blood of Yingzhou District
Tuesday, February 19, 7 pm
386 Armory
 
     
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  Asian Dissertation Series
 
  EAPS is pleased to feature recently completed Asia-related dissertations. Not a second defense, this is instead a celebration and a chance for these scholars to informally discuss their work with interested students and faculty. All are welcome!

All events are Noon-1 pm, 101 International Studies Building

Space, History and Mobility: A Historical Inquiry of Seoul from 1970 to 2000
Soochul Kim (Communications)
Monday, January 28

Corporeal Colonialism: Managing Women's Bodies, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Korea
Jin-Kyung Park (Communications)
Monday, February 18

Essentialist belief of race: Its implication to social categorization and intercultural processes
Melody Chao (Psychology)
Monday, April 28
 
     
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  EALC
 
  In Search of Law in China
Stanley Lubman (University of California-Berkeley)
Thursday, March 13,4 pm
Law Building, Room D

Terayama Shuji and the Dramatization of Revolution
Steven Clark Ridgely (University of Wisconsin)
Thursday, April 17,4 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge 

’Kissing is a Symbol of Democracy!’ The US Occupation and the Creation of a Culture of Romance in Japan 1945-52
Mark McLelland (University of Michigan)
Tuesday, April 22,4 pm
G-17 Foreign Languages Building
 
     
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  And More...  
 
New Trends in the Japanese Consumer Credit Industry
Takeshi Mori (Konan University)
Monday, February 11, Noon-1 pm
101 International Studies Building

South Korea’s Education Exodus (Chogi yuhak): Risks, Realities, and Challenges

Asian American Studies
Friday-Saturday, March 28-29
For more information see: http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/EducationExodus/index.html
 
     
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