Attended by: Caroline Eckhardt, Reiko
Tachibana, On-cho Ng, Paul Lavy, Jade Atwill, Gretchen Casper, Betsy
Johnson. Accounted for: Richard Nichols.
1. Film Series (Spring 2004)
The spring film series for spring 2004 has already begun with a showing of Chi Hwa Seon on January 30 – 31. The other three movies have been scheduled. They are:
2/27-28: The Legend of Suriyothai, 112 Chambers Bldg., 7:00 & 9:15 pm.
3/26-27: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, 101 Chambers Bldg., 6:30 & 9:00 pm.
4/23-24: Small
Voices, 112 Chambers Bldg., 7:00 & 9:15 pm.
We have sent notices about this film series via email to
faculty members throughout the college of liberal arts. The Institute for the
Arts and Humanities has generously designed and printed colored posters for our
series that have been posted in campus buildings. Flyers will also be made and
distributed to faculty mailboxes a week prior to each movie.
We started to think about films for the 2004-05 film series.
Paul has suggested that we show See
Angkor and Die, an older movie that would correspond well with a 400-level
course he is teaching in the spring on the “Age of Angkor.”
2. Web page
The CAEG web page is now linked up to the Comparative
Literature Department’s home page.
On-cho offered to link it to the home page of the History Department,
Paul offered to link it to that of the Art History Department, and Jade offered
to link it to the Library’s Asian Studies web page.
3. Visiting Lecturers for 2003/04
We discussed the possibility of having another lecturer come
to campus this Spring in association with the Korean plays that Richard is
directing. I agreed to check with Richard to see if he is planning to have a
Korean performer or director come to campus.
We began to think of other lecturers that we could bring in
either this Spring or next Fall.
Paul mentioned that there might be a Nepalese art exhibit brought to
campus next year by the Nepalese Student Association on campus. He suggested
that it might be possible to get the curator of this exhibit to deliver a
lecture. Paul has agreed to contact
the curator to investigate this possibility. If the curator comes to campus this
spring, it would be interesting (and coincide with our over-arching theme) if
the lecture would address how Nepalese art deserves to be given a place of
greater significance within the general canon of Asian art.
Carey suggested that if Richard does not have a lecturer
planned to coincide with his plays we could search for such a person in the
Pittsburgh or New York areas who would be willing to come and speak. On-cho offered to look into whether
there might be someone affiliated with Lincoln Center who would be
interested.
Since we had three lecturers come to our campus this fall
(Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Stephen Angle, and Ruth Ozeki) and we have one scheduled for
this spring (Susan Napier), it is not necessary for us to schedule any more this
year.
4. Coordinated Courses
We worked on solidifying the jointly-taught graduate seminars
that we will offer for the 2004-05 academic year. Our grant promises that we
will offer a total of 4 jointly taught courses over a 2-year period. Since we
were not able to offer one this Fall, it would be ideal to try to arrange 3 for
next year.
On-cho suggested that David Atwill will be teaching a
400-level seminar on Ethnicity in Asia in spring 2005 and that we might be able
to link that seminar with another course.
Gretchen suggested that Quan Li often teaches a 400-level course on
Globalization that has an Asian component.
On-cho offered to contact Quan to gauge whether or not he would be
interested in linking his course with Davids. If not, it was agreed that we
should look into the course listings of departments such as sociology and
anthropology to see if we could find a good fit.
Paul is teaching a graduate seminar in Art History in fall
2004 on Orientalism. Carey
suggested that this would be a perfect topic to link to a seminar in the
Comparative Literature Department.
Carey suggested that Djelal Kadir might have a course that could be
linked with Paul’s and offered to look into the possibility. We agreed that the
courses (most likely already scheduled at different times) would try to meet a
few times during the semester whether it be for a special event or a special
evening class. They would also
overlap their reading lists to develop a common ground for discussion.
Carey tentatively suggested that if the new faculty member
(still to be determined) in the present search for a China-specialist in the
comparative literature department has an interest in cross-cultural readings,
they might possibly be teamed up for a joint course with another literature
department, but this cannot be determined until the hire is completed.
Carey also suggested that Shu Kuge is teaching a graduate
seminar next year that could possibly be linked with a course in music,
aesthetics, or philosophy. Carey
has offered to contact Shu.
Gretchen mentioned that she usually teaches a course on Asia
and Democratization every spring.
Although she will be on sabbatical next year, it is possible that someone
else in her department will be teaching this course and could be contacted.
5. Exhibition for Fall 2004
There will be a CAEG exhibit in the diversity studies room of Pattee Library that will run from August through October 2004. Jade Atwill and I have agreed to work in April to finalize the layout of the exhibit. We have already begun compiling a list of the books that will be included. If there are any suggestions for books that are not currently owned by our library they will have to be directed to Jade right away in order to give her time to acquire them.
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