Attended by: Caroline Eckhardt, Reiko
Tachibana, On-cho Ng, Jade Atwill, Gretchen Casper, Betsy Johnson. Accounted for: Richard Nichols.
1. Visiting Lecturers for 2003/04
Because of the necessary lead time, over the summer the
co-directors conferred to invite the first set of visitors. Upcoming visitors include Stephen Angle
of Wesleyan University who will come to lecture on campus on October 28, 2003 at
4:00 pm in 102 Weaver Building. His
fields of interest include human rights. Fliers have been printed out and
will be distributed to departments to hand out. Jade Atwill agreed to investigate
copyright issues for images on our fliers.
It was agreed that an announcement about the lecture should
also be circulated through various departments via email.
Reiko announced that Susan Napier of The University of Texas
at Austin will come to lecture on our campus on March 27, 2004. Her interests include literature and
film. She suggested that we
coordinate a film from our spring film series with this lecture – possibly
showing a Japanese anime film suggested by Napier. Reiko agreed to look into an appropriate
title.
2. Films for 2003/04
The film series for fall of 2003 has been solidified. We will show The Isle (10/17-18, 101 Chambers, 7:00
and 9:15pm), The Eye (10/31-11/1, 112
Chambers, 6:30 and 9:00pm), Marooned in
Iraq (11/14-11/15, 113 Carnegie Building, 6:30 and 9:00pm), What Time is it There? (11/21-22, 101
Chambers Building, 7:00 and 9:15 pm).
Fliers will be made and distributed across campus. Betsy has arranged for these films
to be shown in collaboration with the GSA Film Series. This gives us access to their
facilities, personnel, publicity, and other arrangements, as well as
cost-sharing.
Suggestions are encouraged for the spring film series.
3. Exhibition for Fall 2004
An exhibition space has been reserved in Pattee Library for a
CAEG exhibit for 8/04 – 10/04. Jade
Atwill has agreed to collaborate with Betsy Johnson in the planning of the
exhibit.
4. Coordinated Courses
We discussed the possibility of connecting Richard’s spring
seminar to Reiko's through a one-credit add-on course. Everyone agreed that this is a good way
to ease into offering team-taught courses.
We began thinking about establishing jointly-taught graduate
seminars for the 2004-05 academic year.
Since the grant promises a total of 4 jointly taught courses over a 2
year period, and because of the necessity of advance planning we were not able
to have one this Fall, it would be ideal to try to arrange 3 for next year. It was agreed that an announcement
should be crafted and sent to faculty members in all departments that offer
courses with appropriate subject matter. This announcement should contain:
1. A general introduction to CAEG's goals and information about what has already been accomplished.
2. A greeting and a welcome extended to all to offer suggestions regarding possible future films, speakers, etc.
3. A call for faculty interested in listing their seminar concurrently with a seminar in another department. The two (or more) faculty would coordinate their course material to meet together as needed, whether throughout the semester or for only part of the time. Any interested faculty member who is scheduled to teach a seminar next year should contact us and we can try to pair them up with another interested professor in a related subject. The themes for these courses can be anything that falls under the general concepts of “Reconsidering the Asian Canon” or "Focus on Asia: the State of Nations and Ethnic Conflict."
4. Aside from the possibility of joint teaching, a call for
faculty to let us know if they are teaching a course or bringing in a lecturer
related to Asia in the Era of Globalization so that we can form a list of all
related activities on campus and post it on the web.
We agreed to ask Richard to send out an announcement based on
a draft that Betsy creates.
We discussed sending this announcement to departments under
the College of Liberal Arts, The College of Arts and Architecture as well as
Agriculture, Geography, The School of Education, and possibly even ITS.
It was suggested that we could try to circulate the
announcement through the newsletters of specific colleges (ex/ The LA
Times).
We brainstormed on joint-course possibilities:
Gretchen suggested that Colin Flint, a professor in the geography department who researches civil war and terrorism, might be willing to participate in a joint-course.
On-cho suggested David Atwill, a professor from the history
department, as a possible match with Colin Flint for a joint course.
On-cho also suggested David Baker, a professor of education
who studies the exam system in Ancient China, as another possible
participant.
Betsy suggested that Brent Wilson, a professor of art
education who studies manga, might also be willing to participate. It was suggested that perhaps he could
be teamed with Reiko in a joint-course.
Since none of these colleagues has been contacted yet, and
since the opportunity for shared teaching is wide open, the items mentioned
above are just initial ideas that may or may not be pursued.
5. Web page
We agreed that the CAEG web page (under construction) should include all CAEG events and projects, and also a list of courses and lectures in Asian studies that are offered each semester on the Penn State campus, to the extent that we can identify them.
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