SPECIAL EVENTS

In addition to discussion meetings of the focus group members, the following public and other
events relate to this project.

 

Sunday, November 3, 2002

Film: "Shiri." 3:00 PM, 113 Carnegie Building. 

 

Sunday, November 24, 2002

Film: "After Life." 3:00 PM, 113 Carnegie Building.

 

Monday, November 25, 2002

Presentation: Thomas Lamarre (Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies at McGill

University, Montreal, Canada): "The Geopolitical Unconscious of Pure Film: Film Literature and Images

of the Globe in Interwar Japan." 12:15-1:10 PM, 102 Kern Building.

 

Sunday, February 16, 2003

Film: "Princess Mononoke." 2:30 PM, 113 Carnegie Building.

 

Sunday, March 16, 2003

Film: "Not One Less." 3:00 PM, 113 Carnegie Building.

 

Monday, March 17, 2003

Presentation: Shuang Shen (Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Critical
Analysis of Contemporary  Culture, Rutgers University):  "Diasporic Time and Space in Ha Jin's

Waiting." 12:15-1:10 PM, 102 Kern Building.

 

Friday, June 20, 2003

Presentation: Conversation with Karen Yamashita (University of California at Santa Cruz) about her work

and about writing, literary theory, the Asian presence in the U.S. and in Brazil, etc. (Reading: Through the

Arc of the Rain Forest).  9:30-11:00 AM, 102 Kern Building.

 

Monday, September 22, 2003

Presentation: Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Professor of History, Director Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity

in America [CSREA],  Brown University):  "Asian Americans and Globalization?" 12:15-1:10 PM, 102
Kern Building.

 

Monday, March 29, 2004

Presentation: Susan Napier (Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Texas as Austin): 

 "Matter Out of Place:  The Abjected Monstrous in 'Princess Mononoke' and 'Spirited Away.'"

 

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Workshop and Conference Days, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,  June 19-21, 2003

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Visitors: Karen Yamashita (Writer and Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz) and

Kamal D. Verma (Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh)