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2022-23 Events

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Spring 2023

Comparing Islamic Glass Bangles of South Asia
with those of the Middle East (16th-20th centuries)

Invited lecture by Charlotte K. Nash-Pye
Phd Candidate, University of Kent and The British Museum

Monday, April 3, 2023 at 4 PM in 204 Condon Hall

The presence of Islamic glass bangles across the Middle East, and beyond, has been documented from the 10th – 20th centuries. However, there is some differentiation over their popularity between regions and periods. Those that are best understood are from the Eastern Mediterranean regions of the Levant and Egypt, however other studies have also considered those from Anatolia, South Asia and southern Yemen. Having undertaken an analytical and typological review of multiple collections, it is now becoming possible to distinguish those found in the Middle East that were manufactured in South Asia, from both their distinctive typology and unique chemical signature. These are observed with a wide pattern of dissemination across the Western Indian Ocean trade network. It has long been speculated that South Asia may be the origin of many such glass bangles found in the Horn of and sub-Saharan Africa. This study considers the newly identified chemical signature of British Museum bangles from the rival manufacturing centre of Yemen. It also assesses the potential role South Asia played in glass bangle production and dissemination during this time. Both regions display a chemical signature with some similarities, but in other aspects clearly differ from one another.The study of Islamic glass bangles has traditionally been undertaken on a localised or regional level by a number of authors. However, with advances in archaeochemistry, the analysis of the primary production glass is offering new insights and contextualisation to their typological and colouration differences. This is particularly important when comparing those of a South Asian origin with Middle Eastern examples.

Following The “Chinese Model”? The Politics of
History and Memory in Present-day Vietnam

Invited lecture by Martin Grossheim
Dr. (University of Passau/Germany), Associate Professor of Vietnam History,
Seoul National University

Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 4 PM in Lillis Hall 175

In the aftermath of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Vietnamese party-state has continued to disseminate a carefully crafted historical narrative that highlights the wisdom of the Party’s past and present actions and denounces dissenting views that “distort history” and “negate the achievements of the Revolution”. In this, the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) seems to follow closely the policy of the Chinese Communist Party that also maintains authoritarian control by propagating an orthodox outlook on history and suppressing “historical nihilism”. Against this background, the talk will present the Vietnamese “memory machine” at work by analyzing two case studies: 1. The presentation of the history of the Soviet Union and the decline of communism after the end of the Cold War; and 2. The Commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979-1989) and naval battles between Vietnam and China. The second example will show that while to some degree the VCP follows the “Chinese model” to maintain control over historical memory, in the last two decades the commemoration of relations with China itself has been a contested issue in Vietnam.

The Ice Cream Sellers

Invited film screening and discussion with Sohel Rahman
Filmmaker, Writer, Producer

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 5 PM in JSMA Ford Lecture Hall

The Ice Cream Sellers (75”) tells the story of two little siblings and the genocide survivors of the Rohingya community who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh after a brutal genocide. While most of the Rohingya people were exhausted from the weight of their trauma, the two siblings began their new life with hard work, selling cheap ice-cream door to door in the world´s largest refugee camp in a desperate attempt to earn enough money to bribe officials for the release of their father from prison in Myanmar. The film invites the audience to become a part of the journey of two children across the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, just as the director himself was invited and received intimate access into their journey of life. The film portrays a story of tragedy and loss, courage, and suffering. On one hand, we have parents’ harrowing tales of their flight from their homeland, and on the other, we see laughter and the irrepressible spirit of the children.

A Traveling Feast: The Story of Chop Suey and
the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to America

Invited lecture by Miranda Brown & Aurthur F. Thurnau
Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Michigan

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 4 PM in Knight Library Browsing Room

Chances are good that if you encountered chop suey recently, it wasn’t at a restaurant with any gourmet aspirations. Fifty years ago, foodies banished the goopy stir-fry from their menus. Since then, chop suey has largely been consigned to the realm of cheap takeout. But chop suey wasn’t always the antithesis of fine Chinese. In centuries past, it was a staple of high-end banquets – on both sides of the Pacific. By tracing the journey of chop suey from eighteenth century Yangzhou to San Francisco: I use chop suey to tell a new, transnational story about the origins of Chinese-American cuisine.

BON-UTA
A SONG FROM HOME

Invited Film Screening and Taiko Drumming
by Ai Iwane and Ahiru Daiko
Associate Producer, Photographer

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 4 PM in 128 Chiles Hall

This film about the people of Futaba, a town located in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, documents their fight to save a generations-old tradition in the wake of 201 1’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. The folk song from their hometown, the Futaba Bon-Uta, has been performed at their annual festival since ancient times, but after Futaba is evacuated following the disaster, residents worry that the dispersal will lead to its disappearance. But lessons from another group, descendents of Japanese immigrants who worked Maui’s sugar plantations, gives them reasons for hope. The film follows the stories of these groups dedicated to preserving and sharing their deeply-rooted traditions.

Specters of the Andamans: Indigenous, Settlers,
Poachers, Infiltrators, and Other Heterogenous Subjects

Invited lecture by Itty Abraham
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Arizona State University

Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 4 PM in Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

Professor Abraham proposes that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a Southeast Asian space that belongs to India. Re-viewing the archipelago as a “sea of islands” (to draw from Pacific studies) rather than as an extension of Indian national space permits unauthorized social relations to become visible again. Once we redraw island geographies, spectral presences appear, taking the form of both foreign bodies and narrative contradictions. Currently, these specters are interpellated under the sign of “poaching,” a portmanteau of activities that joins the indigenous, settlers, infiltrators, and Nature in an illicit assemblage. The presence of ghostly contradictions should be read as recalcitrance: the complexity of an island space that cannot be erased by the violence of denial.

“Japaneseness” as an unmarked category: What does it mean
to be “Japanese” or “not truly Japanese” in an increasingly
diverse Japanese society?

Invited lecture by Ayako Mizumura
Assistant Director, Center for East Asian Studies
University of Kansas

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 4 PM in 128 Chiles Hall

Japan is often perceived as a homogenous country. Many Japanese people still view themselves as a mono-ethnic people. Japanese politicians have embraced racial and cultural homogeneity to assert Japan’s uniqueness as the source of success and power that enabled Japan to attain world economic advancement. Is Japan a homogeneous country? Absolutely not. The myth of homogeneity continues to exclude Japan’s minority groups such as the Ainu, Okinawans, Burakumin, and Zainichi Koreans from master narratives of Japanese history. Growing numbers of laborer immigrants and mixed race Japanese have gained attention in and outside Japan. Many of these minority populations are Japanese citizens yet they are often perceived as “not truly Japanese,” marginalized, and treated as Other. This presentation is an overview of some minority groups in Japan. I discuss how “Japaneseness” excludes anyone who does not fit characteristics that constitute “Japanese.” What does it mean to be “Japanese” or “not truly Japanese” in an increasingly diverse Japanese society?

Winter 2023

Self-Ornamentalization: A New Chinese/American Femininity
in the Writings of Helena Kuo (1911-1999)

Invited lecture by Clara Iwasaki
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature,
University of Alberta

Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 4 PM in 253 Straub Hall

The challenges of migration and anti-Asian racism are issues that are frequently explored in Chinese/American writing. Often these conflicts are conceived of as interethnic conflict such as Asian migrants’ oppression by white Americans. The centrality of the types of conflicts obscures subtler forms of oppression. Anne Cheng’s Ornamentalism is one recent work that has examined the particular way that the Asiatic woman has been constructed and fetishized by the white gaze. The question Iwasaki asks in this talk is whether a Chinese woman can ornamentalize herself?
She explores this question by discussing the Chinese/American writer Helena Kuo. Translator, writer, and Sino-American cultural broker, Kuo explores the idea of a new kind of Chinese migrant who shakes off the familiar stereotypes of prostitute or coolie and engages the West on equal footing. Embodying this new type of migrant occurs at the level of the superficial and the prosthetic. Chinese migrants must demonstrate their worth through their makeup, uniforms, or other outward signs. Kuo’s vision of the model Chinese migrant pointedly excludes earlier migrants such as coolies and their children. It also precluded solidarity with African Americans or Japanese Americans whose oppression she observes but avoids confronting. Instead Kuo is interested in upper class Chinese migrants’ ability to approach and eventually surpass whiteness by becoming modern while also remaining true to a vision of conservative Chinese domesticity and repositioning the post WWII wave of Chinese migrants as a more desirable kind of immigrant.

Wu Jianren’s Hybrid Modernity: The Late Qing Intellectual Crisis as Reflected in The New Story of the Stone

Invited lecture by Theodore Huters
Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 4 PM in 112 Lillis Hall

The period between China’s defeat by Japan in 1895-1895 and the New Culture Movement that gathered momentum after 1919 was marked by a great epistemic instability. Whereas there had been a number of efforts to accept certain Western ideas and technologies in the period prior to the war with Japan, even those who embraced those efforts were committed to the notion of Chinese cultural superiority. And following the May Fourth Movement and the reorganization of Peking University and the Commercial Press, there was general acceptance among the intellectual elite that the old Chinese order was not up to the challenge of the West. In the interim period, however, neither the Chinese nor the Western system was regarded definitively as having the upper hand: there was instead a nagging uncertainty as to which set of ideas was ultimately superior. Wu Jianren (1866-1910) was the novelist most acutely tuned into the political economy and intellectual wavering of the period, and his The New Story of the Stone, written in two distinct segments between 1905 and 1907, is his most complete interpretation of the various hard choices he saw as confronting China. While in the work he recognizes, often only indirectly, the power of Western science, after setting out China’s problems in the first half of the novel, in the second half he deploys the tropes of science fiction in an attempt to prove the superiority and potential of Chinese cultural values. The supreme difficulty of this effort is mirrored in the contradictions and inconsistencies that surface in the text.

Fall 2022

In the Footsteps of the Snow Lion:
A Meditative Journey from Eastern Tibet to the US

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 4 pm
Fenton 110 and on Zoom

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. This lecture is also available via Zoom at this link. Please pre-register for the event at this link to receive the Meeting ID and passcode.

Thangka Painting Workshop

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:00 am
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Register here

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. These workshops are for UO students only. Please visit this link to register. Registration is required prior to the workshop. Please bring the following supplies to the workshop: paper, pencil, ruler, eraser, brush, and watercolors.

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

David Shambaugh

Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs
Director of the China Policy Program
George Washington University

Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM in Crater Lake North

The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In his recent book Where Great Powers Meet, Professor Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence–and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global “power transition” occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. In this special lecture Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University delves into the complexities of the competition and asks whether the two superpowers can coexist.

Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting 2022

Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2022
Global Scholars Hall 123 and on Zoom

Join us for two days of panels exploring the notion of ‘resonance’ as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies. This hybrid event is taking place in person and on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom link prior to the conference.

Register to join the event via Zoom!

Download the program here: KLA 2022 Program

Understanding the microbial history of the Pacific Islands: Insights on human adaptations to new environments

Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Penn State University

Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM in the Museum of Natural and Cultural History

The settlement of the Eastern Pacific (the “Polynesian triangle” from Hawaii to Rapa Nui to Aotearoa New Zealand) represents the last great phase of prehistoric human exploration and expansion. Despite this incredible feat, we know incredibly little about immediate and long-term post-arrival impacts on human physiology and health. Arrival in unique locations with varied access to resources, new disease exposures, and altered diets likely resulted in differential adaptive strategies across distinct archipelagos. A new method – assessing ancient oral microbiomes within calcified dental plaque (calculus) – can provide insights into how humans adapted to new environments. Here, we sequenced ancient DNA preserved within dental calculus from three different Pacific Island Nations (Palau, Tahiti, and Aotearoa) in concert with local collaborators and communities. Distinct oral microbial communities were linked to the arrival in Central-East Polynesia, as well as settlement on individual archipelagos (i.e., in Tahiti), suggesting that settling in new locations may have altered microbes within these Ancestors.  Further, oral microbiome shifts were linked with different environments and ecologies, as distinct microbiomes were present in people living on sand atolls versus forested high-islands. Several of these microbes associated with these different ecologies are linked to the modern-day presence of oral disease, providing unique opportunities to examine the origins of chronic disease in the Pacific Islands. Lastly, a phylogenomic approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of 10 different vertically-inherited oral microbes revealed past relationships between people in the Pacific, suggesting that microbes were shared between island communities, likely through interisland connections and trade. A key oral species within the Anaerolineaceae family also corroborated large-scale patterns of human migration, suggesting that these microbial signatures can potentially be leveraged to identify Pacific Islander Ancestors with minimally destructive sampling approaches. Overall, our work reveals how microbial signatures in Ancestors can illuminate novel insights into human adaptation to new environments.

CHINA Town Hall 2023

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
4:00 PM
242 Gerlinger Hall

CHINA Town Hall connects leading China experts with Americans around the country for a national conversation on the implications of China’s rise on U.S.-China relations and its impact on our towns, states, and nation.  The National Committee is proud to partner with a range of institutions and community groups, colleges and universities, trade and business associations, and world affairs councils to bring this important national conversation to local communities around America for the 17th consecutive year. This year, the national simulcast features a talk with current U.S. Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns. At the University of Oregon, a live talk follows by Margaret K. Lewis, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University.

Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns is U.S. Ambassador to China. Nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate, he was sworn into office on December 22, 2021. As Ambassador, he leads a team of experienced, dedicated, and diverse public servants from 47 U.S. government agencies and sub-agencies at the U.S. Mission in China, including at the Embassy in Beijing and at the American Consulates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Shenyang.  He oversees the Mission’s interaction with the PRC on the full range of political, security, economic, commercial, consular, and many other issues that shape this critical relationship.

Ambassador Burns has had a distinguished career in American diplomacy, serving six U.S. Presidents and nine Secretaries of State over 27 years. His State Department roles have included Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the State Department’s third-ranking official and most senior career diplomat (2005-2008); U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005); U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1997-2001); and State Department spokesman (1995-1997). Before that, he worked at the National Security Council at the White House (1990-1995) where he served as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and as Director for Soviet Affairs for President George H.W. Bush during the collapse of the USSR.

Ambassador Burns’ engagement with China also spans decades. He first visited the PRC in 1988, accompanying Secretary of State George Shultz, and then again in 1989 with President George H.W. Bush. He made subsequent visits with Secretaries Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, including during the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the PRC in 1997. As Under Secretary of State, he worked with the PRC government on a diverse range of issues, including Afghanistan, North Korea, United Nations sanctions against Iran and U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific.  As a private citizen, he also created and managed an Aspen Strategy Group policy dialogue with the PRC government’s Central Party School.

A graduate of Boston College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Ambassador Burns is currently on a public service leave from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he was the Goodman Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and founded the school’s Future of Diplomacy Project.

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Maggie Lewis is an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Seton Hall University. Her research focuses on China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice and human rights as well as on legal issues in the US-China relationship. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a visiting professor at Academic Sinica, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation’s US-Japan Leadership Program. Lewis is also a Non-Resident Affiliated Scholar of NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute. She has participated in the State Department’s Legal Experts Dialogue with China, has testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is a consultant to the Ford Foundation.

Before joining Seton Hall, Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school, she worked as an Associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law and was awarded a Furman Fellowship.Lewis received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University, and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Toward the 50th Anniversary of the End of War: Vietnamese Americans Contending with War and Postwar Legacies

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October 27 – 28, 2023
Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom
Ford Alumni Center
University of Oregon Campus

The US-Vietnam Research Center presents a two-day conference at the University of Oregon as part of our activities to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Vietnam. This important occasion provides an opportunity for Vietnamese American scholars, activists, and community members young and old across the country to gather to share their thoughts, experiences, and concerns about the past, the present, and the future. The main topics for discussion include war and postwar legacies; political, economic, social and cultural efforts to develop the community and to preserve memory for the next generation; and inter-generational differences. We hope the discussion will help us understand better the critical issues currently facing this community and empower participants to identify effective solutions for them.

Dates: Friday, October 27th and Saturday, October 28th, 2023
Location: Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom, Ford Alumni Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Registration is recommended. Please use this link to let us know you’re coming.

You can download the conference schedule by clicking this link:

Towards the 50th Anniversary of the End of War Conference Schedule

 

 

The conference takes place on the University of Oregon campus in scenic Eugene, Oregon. Nestled in the Willamette Valley, Eugene is a friendly city full of culture and integrated with its natural environments of verdant forests and crystal clear rivers, with the Cascade Mountains in the distance. Eugene is 2.5 hours’ drive south of Portland, and an hour south of Salem. Only an hour from the famous Oregon Coast and nearby to several waterfalls and scenic drives, Eugene features several parks and hiking trails, as well as bike paths that make biking the city easy and fun.

The University of Oregon campus is spread over 295 acres, eighty buildings and counting, and is an arboretum containing 500 species of trees, with over 3,000 trees on campus. There are six libraries and two museums, and multiple galleries scattered around campus as well. UO is situated near Eugene’s vibrant downtown and is close to many restaurant and entertainment options. It is easily accessible via public transportation, and bike- and pedestrian-friendly.

Getting to Eugene

                            

 

Participants are encouraged to fly into Eugene Airport (EUG), conveniently located about fifteen minutes from the UO campus. Multiple cities offer direct routes to Eugene Airport, including Seattle-Tacoma (SEA), San Francisco International (SFO), Los Angeles (LAX), San Jose (SJC), Denver (DEN), Salt Lake City (SLC), San Diego (SAN), Burbank (BUR), Oakland (OAK), Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Portland (PDX), Las Vegas (LAS) and Phoenix (PHX and AZA). We are served by several major and budget carriers, including United, Delta, American, Southwest, Alaska, Allegiant, and Avelo airlines.

Some participants may decide to fly into Portland International Airport (PDX), which is approximately 100 miles from Eugene. Participants will need to provide their own transportation to Eugene. Shuttles are available from PDX that arrive on or near the UO campus. We highly encourage you to fly directly into Eugene to avoid the additional hassle of traffic and shuttle travel.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Express

 

There are several hotels near the University of Oregon.  We have secured a special rate at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites, which is within walking distance to the UO campus. You are also welcome to coordinate your own stay. You may look for short-term stay options via AirBnB or other short-term options.

We recommend Holiday Inn Express and Suites, conveniently adjacent to the UO campus, provides accommodations featuring a king-sized bed or two queens, free WiFi, complimentary parking and breakfast. The hotel features an indoor pool and fitness room, guest laundry services, a 24-hour business center, and a comfortable lobby for conversation and relaxation.

To book a room in the conference block at the Holiday Inn Express, please click on this link, then select the BOOK NOW option. Enter the dates of your arrival and departure, then click “Search.” You will be shown area hotels. Be sure to click “Holiday Inn Express and Suites: Eugene Downtown-University. The link will then populate rooms in the group block at our discounted rate (you should see UO Asian Pacific S under the room cost), and you can select the room of your choice and book it. If you experience any issues, please call the hotel at 541-342-1243 and inform them that you would like to book the in the UO room block for the conference dates.

Attending the Conference and Parking Options

 

The conference will take place in the Ford Alumni Center, located at 1720 E. 13th Avenue. It is a short walk from the Holiday Inn Express, where parking is complimentary if you are staying at the hotel. If you would prefer to park at the venue, parking is available in the 13th Avenue Garage west of the Ford Alumni Center on 13th Avenue. Credit or debit cards are accepted at the pay station upon exit, or cash is accepted at an on-foot pay station located on P2. Prices range from $1 to $3 per hour up to a daily maximum of $12. Overnight parking is not permitted. You can find additional campus parking information on the UO Transportation Services website. For more information about campus locations, there is an interactive campus map that is searchable and provides maps of building interiors as well.

Stay Tuned…

We will add additional information about the conference schedule and logistics as the event approaches. In the meantime, don’t forget to register, and if you have any questions, please contact us to ask them. We will see you in October!

Global Public Humanities Materials

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This page provides resources related to developing Global Public Humanities curriculum. As part of our “Developing a Global Public Humanities Undergraduate Track” project as part of the Humanities Connections program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, workshops on developing public humanities curriculum and courses were delivered this year to assist in establishing courses in a proposed “Global Public Humanities” track within the School of Global Studies and Languages.

 

WORKSHOPS

Craft, Clothing, Culture by Emily Hartlerode, Associate Director of Oregon Folklife Network

RFA Communities Connecting Heritage

Short Project Ideas Worksheet

Exchange Alumni privileges for Students

 

Latino Roots by Gabriela Martinez, Professor, School of Journalism and Communications

Latino Roots Website

Community-Engaged Learning and Participatory Action Research by Sarah Stoeckl, Assistant Director, Office of Sustainability and member of the Just Futures Institute Project Team.

Partnership Pedagogy Toolkit

 

The Global Public Humanities project has been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

2021-2022 Events

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Fall 2022

In the Footsteps of the Snow Lion:
A Meditative Journey from Eastern Tibet to the US

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 4 pm
Fenton 110 and on Zoom

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. This lecture is also available via Zoom at this link. Please pre-register for the event at this link to receive the Meeting ID and passcode.

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Thangka Painting Workshop

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:00 am
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Register here

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. These workshops are for UO students only. Please visit this link to register. Registration is required prior to the workshop. Please bring the following supplies to the workshop: paper, pencil, ruler, eraser, brush, and watercolors.

________________________________________________________

Invited Lecture

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

David Shambaugh

Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs
Director of the China Policy Program
George Washington University

Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM in Crater Lake North

The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this
competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In his recent book Where Great Powers
Meet, Professor Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia.  e United States and China
constantly vie for position and influence–and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine
whether Asia leaves the American orbit a er seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence.
Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global “power transition” occurring from the US to China, the
fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their
competition. In this special lecture Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University delves into
the complexities of the competition and asks whether the two superpowers can coexist.

________________________________________________________

Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting 2022

Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2022
Global Scholars Hall 123 and on Zoom

Join us for two days of panels exploring the notion of ‘resonance’ as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies. This hybrid event is taking place in person and on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom link prior to the conference.

Register to join the event via Zoom!

Download the program here: KLA 2022 Program

________________________________________________________

Invited Lecture

Understanding the microbial history of the Pacific Islands: Insights on human adaptations to new environments

Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Penn State University

Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM in the Museum of Natural and Cultural History

The settlement of the Eastern Pacific (the “Polynesian triangle” from Hawaii to Rapa Nui to Aotearoa New Zealand) represents the last great phase of prehistoric human exploration and expansion. Despite this incredible feat, we know incredibly little about immediate and long-term post-arrival impacts on human physiology and health. Arrival in unique locations with varied access to resources, new disease exposures, and altered diets likely resulted in differential adaptive strategies across distinct archipelagos. A new method – assessing ancient oral microbiomes within calcified dental plaque (calculus) – can provide insights into how humans adapted to new environments. Here, we sequenced ancient DNA preserved within dental calculus from three different Pacific Island Nations (Palau, Tahiti, and Aotearoa) in concert with local collaborators and communities. Distinct oral microbial communities were linked to the arrival in Central-East Polynesia, as well as settlement on individual archipelagos (i.e., in Tahiti), suggesting that settling in new locations may have altered microbes within these Ancestors.  Further, oral microbiome shifts were linked with different environments and ecologies, as distinct microbiomes were present in people living on sand atolls versus forested high-islands. Several of these microbes associated with these different ecologies are linked to the modern-day presence of oral disease, providing unique opportunities to examine the origins of chronic disease in the Pacific Islands. Lastly, a phylogenomic approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of 10 different vertically-inherited oral microbes revealed past relationships between people in the Pacific, suggesting that microbes were shared between island communities, likely through interisland connections and trade. A key oral species within the Anaerolineaceae family also corroborated large-scale patterns of human migration, suggesting that these microbial signatures can potentially be leveraged to identify Pacific Islander Ancestors with minimally destructive sampling approaches. Overall, our work reveals how microbial signatures in Ancestors can illuminate novel insights into human adaptation to new environments.

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Spring 2022

Barbarians, Bronzes, and National Imagination:
Exploring Legendary Co Loa

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 12 pm
Lawrence 166

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. Two thousand years ago, China’s Han Empire stretched its imperial grasp beyond the mountains far to the south of the Central Plains, reaching into the domains of “barbarians.” Along its southernmost periphery lay the Red River Valley (RRV) of present-day Vietnam. In their chronicles, the Han claimed they had “civilized” the RRV’s “barbarians.” In contrast, many Vietnamese believe this time and location represent the birthplace of an indigenous, proto-Vietnamese civilization that predates Han arrival. This view is based on colorful tales and legends. One of the most enduring accounts tells of the Au Lac Kingdom and its capital city, known as Co Loa. At the heart of ongoing, intense, and sometimes nationalistic debates are two contrasting views. One sees civilization as a byproduct of Han arrival, while the other sees it as the outcome of local, indigenous cultural traditions. This lecture presents recent and ongoing archaeological research that addresses these themes and questions.

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Plumbing Nebulous Depths: Warfare in Humanity’s Past

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 4 pm
Lawrence 166

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. When did warfare begin? Is it as old as humanity? How would we know? Signs of warfare appear as soon as we began creating our earliest written records several thousand years ago. But what can we see beyond that literary horizon? This lecture highlights anthropological research to contemplate warfare’s origins, providing a glimpse into past contexts of organized violence in the deeper recesses of humanity’s past. We will take a tour around the world, considering select cases across space and time, from the Ice Ages to the present day. The lecture explores the evidence for varied manifestations of war and what those data can reveal about our shared past, our evolution as a species, and our prospects for peace.

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Winter 2022

China beyond China; china within China: Zhangzhou ceramics, 16th to 19th centuries

Wednesday February 23th, 2022 at 5 pm
Zoom talk

Please join us for a lecture by Lucille Chia, Department of History at the University of California, Riverside. For a relatively brief period Zhangzhou in southeastern China rivaled the famed porcelain center of Jingdezhen in the amount of export ware it produced. The markets for Zhangzhou ware spanned the globe from Japan to Southeast Asia to the Middle East and the Americas, as well as its own local area. In her talk historian Prof. Lucille Chia from UC Riverside will explore how the history of Zhangzhou ware can help explain the rise and decline of export ceramics centers throughout of China over the centuries. You can attend the talk by using this Zoom link.

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The Daode Jing’s Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral Cult

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Lawrence 115
Hybrid in-person/online event
Join via Zoom at this link

Join us for a lecture by K.E. Brashier, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Humanities at Reed College, in person or via Zoom.  The Daode jing is one of the most famous and oft-translated books in the world, but scholarship on it never asks, “Where did it come from?” In the early ancestral cult, forebears gradually lost identity, fading upward into lineage history and into the formless heavens. In the early Dao discourse, the named and distinct ten thousand things merged into a nameless, blurry, unified Dao. That is, both ancestral cult and Dao discourse traced out a spectrum that moved from individuation to unity, from tangible definition to loss of dualistic knowledge. These spectrums are not only parallel but also overlap because the Daode jing explicitly uses the ancestral cult to explain itself. Brashier‘s presentation speculates that the Daode jing didn’t arise out of nowhere but is in fact a child of the ancestral cult.

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Barbarians, Bronzes, and National Imagination:
Exploring Legendary Co Loa

Postponed to Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 12 pm
Location TBD

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. Two thousand years ago, China’s Han Empire stretched its imperial grasp beyond the mountains far to the south of the Central Plains, reaching into the domains of “barbarians.” Along its southernmost periphery lay the Red River Valley (RRV) of present-day Vietnam. In their chronicles, the Han claimed they had “civilized” the RRV’s “barbarians.” In contrast, many Vietnamese believe this time and location represent the birthplace of an indigenous, proto-Vietnamese civilization that predates Han arrival. This view is based on colorful tales and legends. One of the most enduring accounts tells of the Au Lac Kingdom and its capital city, known as Co Loa. At the heart of ongoing, intense, and sometimes nationalistic debates are two contrasting views. One sees civilization as a byproduct of Han arrival, while the other sees it as the outcome of local, indigenous cultural traditions. This lecture presents recent and ongoing archaeological research that addresses these themes and questions.

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Plumbing Nebulous Depths: Warfare in Humanity’s Past

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 4 pm

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. When did warfare begin? Is it as old as humanity? How would we know? Signs of warfare appear as soon as we began creating our earliest written records several thousand years ago. But what can we see beyond that literary horizon? This lecture highlights anthropological research to contemplate warfare’s origins, providing a glimpse into past contexts of organized violence in the deeper recesses of humanity’s past. We will take a tour around the world, considering select cases across space and time, from the Ice Ages to the present day. The lecture explores the evidence for varied manifestations of war and what those data can reveal about our shared past, our evolution as a species, and our prospects for peace.

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Fall 2021

China Town Hall
2021

Tuesday, October 19, 2021
4:00 PM

On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 4:00 PM PST, join us for 2021’s China Town Hall, a national conversation on how the U.S.-China relationship affects our cities, towns, and communities. From supply chains to national security, new technologies to climate change, the future of both countries will be determined by their relations with one another and the global community.

This year’s China Town Hall will feature keynote speaker Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide and columnist for the Washington Post. His keynote address will be nationally broadcast starting at 4:00 PM. The UO is a local partner for this year’s China Town Hall and will be hosting an invited speaker, Elizabeth Knup, regional director of the Ford Foundation in China. She will speak at 5:00 PM, followed by Q&A. The local presentation will be moderated by University of Oregon Law Professor Eric Priest.

The Event Zoom link is: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92059472725?pwd=WFZ6eEVqMFRqek1ZbENxR1pUNm5tdz09

Meeting ID: 920 5947 2725
Passcode: 688561

Resonance

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Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting 2022
Theme: “Resonance”

Hosted by the University of Oregon on Friday, November 11, 2022 and Saturday, November 12, 2022 in Global Scholars Hall 123.

Join us for two days of panels exploring the notion of ‘resonance’ as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies.

This hybrid event is taking place in person and on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom link prior to the conference.

 

Friday, November 11, 2022 (Global Scholars Hall 123, The Great Room)

9:00-9:20 Congratulatory Remarks (Moderating: Jina Kim)

  • Executive Director of School of Global Studies and Languages: Professor Aneesh Aneesh
  • Director of Center for Asian and Pacific Studies: Professor Maram Epstein

 

9:20-9:30 Welcome & Resonance

  • KLA President: Immanuel Kim
  • Jina Kim

 

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Resonance as a Method

Chair: Kelly Jeong (UC, Riverside) (virtual)

  1. Mi-ji Kim (Dankook University), Resonance to ‘the cutting edge’: The Adoption of American Literature and Print Culture Network in East Asia in the 1930s
  2. Haeun Bae (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Can the Voice of Poetry Resonate in the Capitalized Society Again?: ‘Poetic Act’ after the Hope Bus Movement in Korea
  3. Woohyung Chon (Chung Ang University), International Film Festivals in Korea as a Field for Agonistics and Resonance

 

11:15-12:45 Panel 2: Ethics of Resonance and the Question of Belonging

Chair: Immanuel Kim (George Washington University)

  1. Lindsay Schaeffer (UC, Riverside), The Structure of Empathy and the Self in South Korean Television Loser Growth Dramas
  2. John Treat (Yale University), Yi Kwang-su and Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Literary History

2:00-3:30 Panel 3: Witnessing Traumatic Performances

Chair: Susanna Lim (University of Oregon)

  1. Bruce Fulton (University of British Columbia), Trauma and Historical Memory in Modern Korean Drama
  2. Hayana Kim (Northwestern University), Bodies Resonating with Grief: Representing the Kwangju Uprising on Stage and Troupe Shinmyŏng’s Rising People (1988)
  3. Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University), Traumatic Resonance of Violence in Kang-baek Lee’s plays, Three and Watchman (virtual)

3:30-3:45 Coffee and Tea

3:45-5:15 Roundtable on Translating K-Literature & Beyond: Sora Kim-Russell

In conversation with Glynne Walley (University of Oregon) and Immanuel Kim

 

Day 2, November 12, 2022 (Global Scholars Hall, The Great Room)

9:30-11:00 Panel 4: Resonance and Dissonance Across, Between, and Beyond Borders

Chair: Ksenia Chizhova (Princeton University) (virtual)

  1. Miya Xie (Dartmouth College), Resonance and Dissonance in Chinese Ethnic Korean Literature (virtual)
  2. Jerome de Wit (University of Tübingen), The Crisis in Korean-Chinese Cultural Identity in the 21st Century: Focusing on the Literature of Hŏ Ryŏnsun (virtual)
  3. Jaewuk Kim (University of Southern California), The Cosmopolitan Everyday: In Search of the Marvelous in Ch’oe Inhun’s ‘The Gray Club’ and Kuunmong

 

11:15 -12:45 Panel 5: Urban(e) Resonances

Chair: Dong Hoon Kim (University of Oregon)

  1. Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State University), The Skies of Seoul, the Moon of Seoul: Critique of Urbanity in South Korea’s American Roots Music
  2. Kevin Michael Smith (UC, Berkeley), A Tune of Two Cities: Seoul, Tokyo, and the Timbre of Simultaneity
  3. Evelyn Shih (University of Colorado Boulder), From ‘The Laughing Song’ to ‘The Happy Provincial Gentleman’: Colonial Transformations of the Sonic Color Line in East Asia (virtual)

 

1:45-3:15 Panel 6: Resonating Women’s Voices in Self-Writing

Chair: Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California) (virtual)

  1. Sangmi Bae (Waseda University), Resonance with Others: Transformations of the Autobiographical Novel in The Man’s House by Park Wan-suh
  2. Soonyoung Lee (UC, Riverside), Enacting Texts, Resonant Texts with Plural ‘I’s: Focusing on 1970s South Korean Female Workers’ Memoirs
  3. Christian Baier (Seoul National University), Facts, Fiction and Controversy: The Emotional Resonance of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (virtual)

 

3:30-4:30 Workshop: Developing a Major in Korean Language and Literature

 

4:30-4:40 Closing Remarks

Department Head, EALL: Professor Yugen Wang

 

4:40-5:00 Looking Beyond Resonance

KLA Executive Committee

 

Thangka Painting Workshop

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Thangka Workshop

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:00 am
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. These workshops are for UO students only. Please visit this link to register. Registration is required prior to the workshop. Register for only one day/time. Please bring the following supplies to the workshop: paper, pencil, ruler, eraser, brush, and watercolors.

Fulbright Opportunities for Faculty and Administrators

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“Advance knowledge, redefine teaching, and bring international perspectives and experience back to your home campus, organization, and community.”

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

DEADLINE: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 11:59PM PST

Each year, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program provides approximately 800 grants in more than 130 countries to support teaching and research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. The programs now include:

–Fulbright Global Scholar Awards for training, research, and/or professional projects in multiple countries.
–Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Awards that recognize eminent scholars with records of significant publications and outstanding teaching.
–Fulbright Postdoctoral and Early Career Awards that allow new scholars to deepen their expertise, acquire new skills, and make connections with peers in their fields.
–Fulbright Public Policy Fellowships for early and mid-career professionals and practitioners in the United States to serve in a partner foreign government ministry or institution.
–Fulbright International Education Administrator Awards for international education professionals and senior higher education officials to engage in a two-week intensive seminar to learn about the host country’s education system and establish networks of U.S. and international colleagues. Deadlines vary.

Some awards offer more flexible options of multiple short-term trips in the host country for one to two years. To see all available awards, check out the catalog of awards.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program

After applying in their home countries, approximately 900 faculty and professionals from more than 100 countries receive Fulbright grants each year to conduct research and/or teach in the United States. The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program links campuses around the world and introduces new ideas and networks to students, faculty, and administrators. Additional programs offer other ways to invite visiting scholars to campus:

–Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program that links campuses around the world and introduces new ideas and networks to students, faculty, and administrators.
–Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program for scholars who teach primarily at the undergraduate level.
–Outreach Lecturing Fund to invite scholars who are already in the U.S. to visit campus for short-term speaking engagements.
–Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program for teaching assistants to support foreign language instruction on campus.

If you’re interested in one of these opportunities or would like to know more, please contact UO’s Fulbright Scholar Liaison, Holly Lakey, for more information.

Oregon-Vietnam-Japan Exchange and Collaboration Project

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Oregon-Vietnam-Japan Exchange and Collaboration Project
Funded by the Japan Foundation
2017-2021

 

The Oregon-Vietnam-Japan Exchange and Collaboration (OVJEC) Project aims to initiate collaboration and exchange to promote Japanese Studies through the partnership of institutions in the United States, Japan, and Vietnam. Partner universities include the University of Oregon (UO), Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Hanoi University (HANU), and Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (HCMC). Highlights of the program have included faculty exchanges and visits, a kick-off conference in Ho Chi Minh City, a language pedagogy symposium in Hanoi, presentations at the APU Asia Pacific annual conference, curriculum sharing and development, professional development activities, translations into Vietnamese of important works on Japanese Studies, and the development of a network of scholars who share their ideas and experiences on researching and teaching Japanese Studies.

Year 1 Accomplishments

During the first year of the project, participants from partner institutions met at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education for a kick-off conference entitled “What is Japanese Studies.” Presenters discussed their research in the wider lens of defining and expanding the notion of Japanese Studies, while also discussing ways to collaborate and promote Japanese Studies to a wider audience. Three HCMC and two UO faculty members traveled to APU to attend the 15th Asia Pacific Conference and meet with APU project members, as well as meet students and administrators to discuss the projects and ways of internationalizing Japanese Studies. Three HCMC then traveled to UO for an eight-week academic residency where they were paired with UO mentor faculty to discuss their research and sit in on UO classes to compare pedagogy methods. They were also provided with professional development sessions in academic writing, research development and methodology. Along with the project directors, they traveled to Portland to visit the world-famous Portland Japanese Garden and meet with members of the Oregon East Asia Network. Throughout the year, project members discussed curriculum improvements and possible course reader and translation projects.

Year 2 Accomplishments

The second year of the project continued the agenda of exchanges, with three HANU faculty meeting UO faculty at the 16th APU Asia Pacific Conference. Visiting faculty met with APU faculty to discuss the progress of the project and met with students and administrators. Three HANU faculty then traveled to UO for an eight-week academic residency with UO faculty mentors. They sat in on classes, discussed curriculum and pedagogy, and one HANU faculty member taught a demonstration class on Japanese haiku. HANU faculty sat in on UO classes and were provided with professional development workshops on English, academic writing, and research planning and methodology. HANU faculty also participated in a half-day workshop on Flipped Learning in the Language Classroom in the UO’s Yamada Language Center. Year 1 UO mentors traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to meet with their mentees, observe classes, and hold guest lectures. These mentors also visited APU to meet faculty and students and give talks on Japanese Studies. Hanoi University hosted a symposium on Japanese Language Pedagogy, attended by faculty from UO and APU, and followed by meetings on project projects. This year also saw the beginning of an ambitious translation and publication agenda, with six books in translation and scheduled for publication.

Year 3 Accomplishments

The project’s third and final year has been affected by the global pandemic, as international travel has proved too risky for our partners. Nonetheless, we have continued to make strides towards our project goals. Prior to the outbreak, two UO mentors visits HANU to meet mentees and observe classes, as well as meet with administrators and observe a Japanese speech contest. The project’s Capstone Conference, which was to take place at UO in spring 2020 was moved to a smaller symposium on Internationalizing Japanese Studies in Hanoi in January 2021. Vietnamese faculty met and shared their research and thoughts on the promote of Japanese Studies, and teaching Japanese topics to a variety of audiences, both domestic and international. Many international scholars attended via Zoom as well. UO faculty participated in the form of prerecorded conversations with Japan Studies experts to be viewed at the symposium by in-person attendees. Ho Chi Minh City University of Education hosted a well-attended seminar series on Japanese cinema, literature and culture in the 2020-21 academic year with esteemed experts at a community organization called The Ladder. Three additional Vietnamese translations are slated for publication at the beginning of 2021. Project members will continue to discuss ways to internationalize Japanese Studies and to sustain the network we’ve built after the project ends.

             

Videos Celebrating the OVJEC Project’s Accomplishments

Above video from Hanoi University

Above video from Ho Chi Minh City University of Education