The City in South Asia and Its Transnational Connections

Posted on October 23, 2014 by adeodhar

Asian Studies Conference on The City in South Asia and Its Transnational Connections

presented with the assistance of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS)

November 13-14, 2014 Knight Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon

Thursday, November 13th, 2014

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Keynote Lecture: Thomas Blom Hansen Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology, Stanford University Spatial Memory and Urban Imagination in South Asia

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Panel 1: Consumption, Class and Resistance in the City Chair: Bryna Goodman, Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon

Douglas Haynes, Professor, Dept. of History, Dartmouth College Beyond the Colonial City? The Transformation of the European Community in Bombay, 1920-1947″

Abigail McGowan, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Vermont, Burlington Home Life as City Life: The Urban Domestic in Interwar Western India

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Assistant Professor,Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University Unruly Landscapes: Spatial Contestation in Early Twentieth Century Bombay”

Discussant: Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cinema Studies, University of Oregon

Friday November 14th 2014

10:00 am – 12:00 pm Panel 2: Urban Real Estate and Its Peripheries

Chair: Andrew Verner, Director, Ph.D. Program, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon

Matthew Hull, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Cities and Property

Nikhil Rao, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College Approaching the Urban Edge: Changing Perceptions of Bombay’s Periphery

Asher Ghertner, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University When is the State? Flux, Porosity and Exclusion in Delhi’s State Spaces

Discussant: Dan Buck, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Asian Studies, University of Oregon

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Panel 3: Urban Infrastructure and the City in History

Chair: Lamia Karim, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon

Tarini Bedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Mimicry, Friction and Trans-Urban Imaginaries: Mumbai Taxis/Singapore Style

Arafaat Valiani, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon Entrepreneurship and Urban Land Markets in Postcolonial Mumbai and Karachi

Douglas Haynes, Professor, Dept. of History, Dartmouth College & Nikhil Rao, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wesleyan College Beyond the Colonial City: Re-Evaluating the Urban History of India, 1920-1970

Discussant: Arafaat A. Valiani, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Roundtable Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Moderated by Arafaat A. Valiani, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon Contact person: Lori O’Hollaren Assistant Director Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Email: loholl@uoregon.edu

Sponsored by the following at the University of Oregon:

Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS)

Asian Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

Office of International Affairs

Academic Affairs

Oregon Humanities Council

Department of History

Department of Anthropology

Robert D. Clark Honors College

Planning, Public Policy and Management

China-in-Asia Conference: Historical Connections and Contemporary Engagement

Posted on October 14, 2014February 16, 2016 by adeodhar

China in Asia:
Historical Connections and
Contemporary Engagement

October 25 – 26, 2014
Gerlinger Lounge
University of Oregon

Hosted by the Center for Asia and Pacific Studies and the Department of Geography

Organizer: Dr. Xiaobo Su (Xiaobo@uoregon.edu)

Conference Schedule

Saturday, October 25

9:00am—9:30am

Opening remarks: Xiaobo Su and Amy Lobben, Head, Department of Geography

9:30am—10:15am

Plenary Address: Wendy Larson, University of Oregon
The Cross-Cultural Imaginary: Zhang Yimou and Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

10:15am—10:30am Coffee Break

10:30am—12:00pm

Session 1: Arts, History, and Geopolitics
Stan Brunn, University of Kentucky
China’s Visual Geopolitics: Branding, Stamps and Memories

Rachel Wong, Harvard University
Plekhanov in China: A Reception History of “Art and Social Life”

Krishnendra Meena, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Re-production of Geopolitical Spaces: the Case of Indo-Pacific

Jianxiong Ma (Chair)

12:00pm—1:00pm Lunch Break

1:00pm—2:30pm

Session 2: Transnational Business with Chinese Characteristics
Jason Petrulis, Oberlin College
Moving wigs through Kai Tak:Trading a global commodity in 1960s-70s Hong Kong

Laura Elder, St. Mary’s College Notre Dame
Prospecting for power by using Islamic Finance as a gateway into China

Andrew Hao, University of Pennsylvania
Who is Afraid of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility?: The Transnational Economics and Politics of Suspicion

Stan Brunn (Chair)

2:30pm—3:00pm Coffee Break

3:00pm—5:00pm

Session 3: Transnational Connections: The Past and the Present
Edy Parsons, Mount Mercy University
Changing Dynamics of Sino-Japanese Relations: Territorial Disputes and Regional Rivalry

Tuong Vu, University of Oregon
State Formation on China’s Southern Frontier: Vietnam as a Shadow Empire and Hegemon

Lena Dabova, Saint Petersburg State University
Tibet in China and India bilateral relations: historical and legal perspectives

Yuanfei Wang, University of Georgia
Capitalizing on Java: Emerging Imperialism, Historiography, and Vernacular Fiction in Late Ming China

Eric Vanden Bussche (Chair)

Sunday, October 26

9:00am—9:45am

Plenary address: Jianxiong Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clustered Communities and Transportation Routes: The Wa Lands Neighboring the Lahu and the Dai on the Frontier

9:45am—10:00am Coffee Break

10:00am—11:00am

Session 4: Boundary and the Politics of Bordering
Eric Vanden Bussche, Stanford University
Adjusting the Tributary System in the Age of Imperialism: Crafting Qing China’s New Relationship with Burma and Southeast Asia” (1886-1910)

Nianshen Song, Vassar College
Boundaries of All under Heaven: Comparing Qing’s Demarcations with Korea, Russia, and Vietnam

Edy Parsons (Chair)

11:00am—11:15am Coffee Break

11:15am—12:15pm

Session 5: The Geographic Expansion of Chinese Forces
Dylan Brady, University of Oregon
Chinese Rail: Producing National Territory from the Inside Out

Tom Ptak, University of Oregon
The Geopolitical Nature of Southwest China’s Energy Conduit, Yunnan Province

Xiaobo Su (Chair)

12:15pm-1:00pm Closing Discussion

This event is made possible with generous support from:

The Social Science Research Council
College of Arts and Sciences,University of Oregon
Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
Department of Geography, University of Oregon
Office of International Affairs, University of Oregon

Conference: Comparative Historical Ecology in Ancient Northeast Asia

Posted on October 7, 2014February 16, 2016 by adeodhar

Friday, October 10, 2014

Conference: Comparative Historical Ecology in Ancient Northeast Asia

Many Nations Longhouse

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

University of Toronto and Center for Asian and Pacific Studies are organizing a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Workshop, the second of the three part series. Guest speakers from US, Canada, China, and UK will discuss the diverse responses of early people to climate changes and their impacts on local ecology in China, Korea and Japan during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. University of Oregon scholars will present historical ecology in North America and Pacific Islands. By examining past human-environmental interactions, the workshop will contribute to our better understanding of contemporary global warming and sustainability issues.

9:00–11:30 am Morning Session

9:00–9:15 am

Welcome with Jeff Hanes (History, CAPS, University of Oregon)

9:15–9:30 am

How can partnerships facilitate comparative analysis of human ecology in East Asian prehistory? Gary Crawford (Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)

9:30–9:45 am

Action from China: Research on climatic change and human adaptation
Xing Gao (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleo-anthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

9:45–10:00 am

Micro-blade industry from the last glacial maximum to Holocene in China
Ying Guan (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleo-anthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:00–10:15 am Q & A

10:15–10:30 am Morning Tea Break

10:30–10:45 am

Resolving the effects of human predation on marine resources: Pacific and Caribbean case studies
Scott Fitzpatrick (Anthropology, University of Oregon)

10:45–11:00 am

New archaeological evidence for origin and development of rice cultivation in the lower regions of the Yangtze River
Yunfei Zheng (Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Relics and Archaeology, China)

11:00–11:15 am

Pattern of human niche construction at the early Neolithic Kuahuqiao site
Yan Pan (Cultural Heritage & Museology, Fundan University, China)

11:15–11:30 am Q & A

11:30 am–1:00 pm Lunch

1:00–5:00 pm Afternoon Session

1:00–1:15 pm

Archaeology and historical ecology of California’s Northern Channel Islands
Jon Erlandson (Anthropology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon)

1:15–1:30 pm

Early-Middle Jomon chronology and pollen
Junko Habu (Anthropology, University of California Berkeley)

1:30–1:45 pm

Metastable ecosystems along the Shinano-Chikuma River, central Japan: approaches and challenges
Simon Kaner (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UK)

1:45–2:00 pm

Historical ecology of human impacts on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Terry Hunt (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon)

2:00–2:15 pm Q & A

2:15–2:30 pm Afternoon Tea Break

2:30–2:45 pm

Neolithic culture at the Houtaomuga site, Jilin province, Northeast China
Lixin Wang (Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, China)

2:45–3:00 pm

Comparative perspectives on Neolithic niche construction in northern China and eastern-southern Korea
Gyoung-Ah Lee (Anthropology, University of Oregon)

3:00–3:15 pm

The archaeology of Pacific herring
Madonna Moss (Anthropology, University of Oregon)

3:15–3:30 pm Q & A

3:30–3:45 pm Afternoon Tea Break

3:45–4:00 pm

10-year archaebotany at Shandong University, China
Qian Yang, Hui Fang, Xuexiang Chen (Archaeology, Shandong University)

4:00–4:15 pm

Students’ research on historical ecology at University of Oregon

4:15–4:30 pm

Concluding remarks
Gary Crawford (Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)

4:30–5:00 pm

Discussion

2013-14 Events

Posted on September 11, 2014February 16, 2016 by adeodhar

2013-14 Events

Spring Term

Thursday, April 10, 2014
“Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China”
Ellen Widmer, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies, Wellesley College
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Friday, April 18, 2014
“The Current State of the Aspect Hypothesis in L1 and L2 Acquisition”
Yashuro Shirai, Professor of Linguistics, University if Pittsburgh
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:00 pm

Friday, April 18, 2014
“Copyright and Media Pluralism in China”
UO School of Law, Room 142
8:30 am – 4:40 pm

Monday, April 21, 2014
“The Disappearance of Sombath Somphone: Implications for Civil Society and Human Rights in Laos”
A Special Appearance by Shui-Meng Ng
Unitarian Universalist Church
1685 W. 13th Ave., Eugene
5:30 pm

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Tales of Ise: The Shrines, Their Priests and Patrons in Post-war Japan”
John Breen, Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
Allen Hall, Room 140
4:00 pm

Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Yoko McClain Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
“Animating Reality: The Film Theory of Imamura Taihei”
Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Ford Alumni Center, Room 202
4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 30, 2014
“A conversation with Asian Studies Distinguished Speaker: Amitav Ghosh”
Knight Library, Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, May 1, 2014
Myung Sup Lim Lecture Series
“Korean Cinema Today”
Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator Emeritus for Film of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
3:00 pm

Friday, May 2, 2014
Myung Sup Lim Lecture Series
“Korea and Regional Relations”
Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President of The Korea Society
White Lotus Gallery, 767 Willamette St.
4:00 pm

Friday, May 9, 2014
Yoko McClain Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
“Visible Rhymes, Inaudible Echoes: Script and Sound in the Sinitic Poetry of Modern Japan.”
Matthew Fraleigh, Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
McKenzie 375
3:30 pm

Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Lecture: “The Function of the Constitutional Court of Korea in the Development of Democracy and the Rule of Law”
Jongik Chon, Associate Professor, School of Law
Seoul National University
Ford Alumni Center, Room 403
3:00pm

Saturday, May 17, 2014
Lecture: “Introduction to Chinese and Korean Ceramics”
Robert D. Mowry, Retired Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
2:00 pm

Sunday, May 18, 2014
Workshop: “Connoisseurship of Chinese and Korean Ceramics”
Robert D. Mowry, Jordan Schnitzer Museum
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Limited to 12 participants; $60 per person (info and registration: kaplan@uoregon.edu or 541-346-0968)

Monday, May 19th, 2014
Lecture: “On the Road in Olympic Era Tokyo”
Bruce Suttmeier, Associate Professor of Japanese
Lewis & Clark College
Ford Alumni Center, Room 403
3:30 pm

Thursday, May 29, 2014
Jeremiah Lecture
“Sent-down Youth and Rural Economic Development in China: The Cultural Revolution and Its Contemporary Legacies”
Emily Honig, Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz and Xiaojian Zhao, Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Executive Board Room, Ford Alumni Center (4th Floor)
4:00 pm

Winter Term

Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The Yoko McClain Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
“Japanese Friendship Dolls”
Alan Scott Pate, Alan Scott Pate Antique Japanese Dolls
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall
5:30 pm

Monday, February 10, 2014
Myung Sup Lim Series
“The Shifting Images of Korea Through the Lens of National Geographic Since 1890″
Dr. Young Hoon Kim, Professor, Department of Korean Studies; Director.
Research Institute of Korean Culture, Ewha Womans University
PLC, Room 159
4:00 pm

Saturday, February 22, 2014
The Yoko McClain Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
Symposium: “The Art of Japanese Traditional Theater”
Presenters: Laurence Kominz, Portland State University; Alan Pate, Alan Scott Pate Antique Japanese Dolls
Matt Shores, University of Hawaii; Glynne Walley, University of Oregon
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall
1:00 – 4:00 pm

Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Bollywood Nights Film Screening: Luck By Chance
Presented by the UO Asian Studies Program
Lawrence Hall, Room 166
5:30pm

Monday, March 3, 2014
“Heady Flights and Costly Slips: The Fantasy and the Reality of Garden Swings in Classic Chinese Fiction”
Andrew Plaks, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Knight Library Browsing Room
2:00 pm

Friday, March 7, 2014
“The Power and Reach of the Tongan Maritime State: Long-Distance Voyaging, Monumental Architecture and Elite Leadership”
Geoffrey Clark, Archaeology and Natural History, The Australian National University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Fall Term

Friday, October 4, 2013
CAPS/Asian Studies/JSMA Annual Reception
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
3:00-5:00 pm

Saturday, October 5, 2013
Picturing Global China: Contemporary Art from Shanghai and Beyond
A Cross-Cultural Panel Discussion
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Lecture Hall
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Please click here to view the conference program.

Thursday, October 17, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture
“Voices from the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai’i”
Dr Franklin Odo, Founding Director of Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and former Chief of Asian Division Library of Congress
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture
“Christianity’s Dialogue with Buddhism in Japan”
James Heisig, Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, November 7, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture
Postcolonial Literature as World Literature: World Heritage Preservation and the Unworlding of the Subaltern World in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide”
Pheng Cheah, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, November 7, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture
“FDI Networks in Production and Innovation in China: Beyond New Regionalism, Beyond Global Production Networks”
Yehua Dennis Wei, Department of Geography, University of Utah
Condon Hall, Room 106
4:00 pm

Past Events

2012-13
2011-12
2010-11
2009-10
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2003-04

"Engaging with Vietnam" Conference

Posted on July 28, 2014February 8, 2016 by adeodhar

The University of Oregon is pleased to host the “Engaging with Vietnam” conference,
from November 5-7, 2014

Registration

Registration is now open! Please click here to register. Below is a summary of registration deadlines and fees.

Regular Registration (through November 4, 2014)

Faculty Registrants: $125

Graduate Student Registrants: $100

On-Site Registration

Faculty Registrants: $140

Graduate Student Registrants: $120

On-site Registration and Panel Sessions will be held in the ERB Memorial Union (EMU) Ballroom located on the University of Oregon campus near the intersection of East 13th and University.

Registration includes the following: daily coffee service, two lunch buffets, the opening reception on November 5th and the conference banquet on November 6th.

Conference Program and Venue Information

Registration and opening reception will begin at 6:30 pm on November 5^th in the Gerlinger Lounge, which is located on campus near the intersection of East 15^th Avenue and University Street.

All panel sessions on November 6 and 7 will be held in the EMU Ballroom on the University of Oregon Campus, which is located at the intersection of 13th and University Street. The exact rooms for the panel sessions are noted on the program. Please click here for the most updated version.

To download a campus map, please open the attached PDF file: UO Map

Audio/Visual Equipment

Each room will have a laptop set up to a data projector for Powerpoint presentations. To make for smooth transitions in between speakers, we ask that you put your presentation on a flash drive and use the laptop in the room, if possible. If you need any additional equipment please send an email to apucilow@uoregon.edu.

Weather

We are hoping for mild weather during the conference, but weather in the Pacific Northwest can be very unpredictable in November. The average high temperatures for this time of year is 13°C (57°F), with lows around 5°C (41°F). There’s a moderate probability of rain showers, so it recommended to bring an umbrella.

Lodging

The Eugene Phoenix Inn will serve as the Conference Hotel. A block of rooms has been reserved, though depending on the number of participants, there may not be enough rooms for all conference attendees, so we have booked additional rooms at the Holiday Inn. Please see the links to each hotel for more details on their facilities. When making a reservation, please mention that you are with the Vietnam Studies group reservation. Please note the Group Reservation Deadline for each hotel. After that date, our reserved rooms will be released to the general public.

The Phoenix Inn (located near campus, about 7 blocks from the conference site)
850 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, 97403
Phone: (541) 344-0001
Email: Reservations704@phoenixinn.com
Special Conference Nightly Rate: $109 + tax (continental breakfast included)
Group Reservation Deadline: October 5, 2014

We have a smaller block of rooms available at the Holiday Inn Express, for overflow.

Holiday Inn Express (located near campus, about 12 blocks from the conference site)
2117 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, 97403
Phone : (541) 342-1243
Special Conference Nightly Rate: $109 + tax (continental breakfast included)
Group Reservation Deadline: October 5, 2014

Other Lodging Options

We do not have a special conference block at these hotels, but they are near campus and may have space if the conference hotel is booked.

Secret Garden Bed & Breakfast (located near campus, about 5 blocks from the conference site)
1910 University Street, Eugene, 97403
Phone: (541) 484-6755.
Nightly Rates starting at $115 + tax (full breakfast included)

The Campus Inn (located near campus, about 12 blocks from the conference site)
390 East Broadway, Eugene, 97403
Phone: (800) 888-6313 or (541) 343-3376
Email: eugene@campus-inn.com.

Nightly Rates starting at $91 + tax (continental breakfast included)

Air Travel

Eugene, Oregon, is serviced by the Eugene Airport (airport code EUG). Please note that this is a small airport with limited flights, so it is advised to book your tickets early.

An alternative airport, the Portland International Airport, is a 2 ½ hour drive from Eugene. Two shuttle companies offers service between the Portland International Airport and the University of Oregon. They are City 2 City Shuttle and the Hut Shuttle. Please click on their links to go to their websites for schedules and fares.

Airport-Eugene Transportation

The Phoenix Inn will provide complimentary transportation from the Eugene Airport between the hours of 7:00 am – 11:00 pm. Outside of those hours, it’s a $20 charge. Please note that reservations for the Phoenix Inn Shuttle are required, so you must make this request directly to the hotel by phone at: 1-541-344-0001 or by email at: Reservations704@phoenixinn.com.

If you don’t stay at the Phoenix Inn, or you arrive outside of these shuttle hours, you can take the OMNI Shuttle, located adjacent to baggage claim at the Airport, for shared ride door-to-door ground transportation from the airport to Eugene. Visit their website or call (800) 741-5097 for reservations or more information. One-way shuttle transportation to the UO campus will cost approximately $22 and will take around 25 minutes. Taxis are also available and cost approximately $30 each way.

For more information, please email Anna: apucilow@uoregon.edu

2012-13 Events

Posted on September 20, 2013February 16, 2016 by adeodhar

2012-13 Events

Spring Term

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture
“Rice in China: Histories and Myths”
Professor Francesca Bray, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
5:30 pm
To view this lecture please click here.

Monday, April 8, 2013
Myung Sup Lim Lecture Series in Korean Studies
“Shared Youth Predicaments: Education Notes Among South Korea, Finland, and the US”
Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields; Harry E. Preble Professor, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois
Gerlinger Lounge
4:00 pm

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Oriental Democracies”
Panel Discussion with “The Shadow of China, ” Benjamin Reilly, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, “Paradoxes of Democracy in East Asia, ” Bruce Gilley, Political Science, PSU, Moderator: Tuong Vu, Political Science, University of Oregon
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 – 5:30 pm

Sunday, April 14 – Monday, April 15, 2013
International Conference
“China and the Restructuring of International Political Economy”
Gerlinger Lounge
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Please click here to view the conference program.

Thursday, April 25, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America”
Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gerlinger Lounge
4:00 pm

Friday, May 3, 2013
Documentary Film Screenings
The Revolutionary and Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
Panel discussion with Sidney Rittenberg and filmmakers Irv Drasnin, Lucy Ostrander, and Don Sellers to follow.
180 PLC
6:00 pm

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Film Screening
“A Bite of China”
Willamette 110
6:00 pm (refreshments); 6:30 pm (film)

Thursday, May 9 – Friday, May 10, 2013
International Conference
“Foodways in China: New Scholarly Trajectories”
Gerlinger Lounge
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
For a more information and a full conference program please click here.

Friday, May 17, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Neolithic Ways of Food Production in Central and Western Northeast China: Geoarchaeological, Zooarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Approach”
Professor Tang Zhouwei, Department of Archaeology, Research Center of Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, China
204 Condon Hall
4:00 pm

Winter Term

Thursday, January 10, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Chinese Capitalism: Beyond Variety?”
Jamie Peck, Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Condon Hall, Room 106
4:00 pm

Monday, February 4, 2013
Myung Sub Lim Lecture Series in Korean Studies
“They Think They’re Normal: Explaining North Korea”
David Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business; Director of the Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm

Fall Term

Friday, October 19-20, 2012
Conference: “The Storied Self: Issues in Buddhist Narrativity.”

Friday, October 26, 2012
Concert
“Rock and Roll Jihad”
Salman Ahmad
Beal Hall; $10 general admission, $7 student admission
7:30 pm

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
CAPS/Asian Studies Annual Reception
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
3:30 pm

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Tea Ceremony with Megumi Unno
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
5:30-6:30 pm

Friday, November 16, 2012
Short Films from Vietnam
Global Scholars Hall Room 117
7:00-9:00 pm
*Please note that the directors are unable to attend

Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Design at the Speed of Sound – Chinese Architectural Practice
Presented by: Shanghai Xian Dai Visiting Architects
115 Lawrence Hall
6:00 pm

Friday, November 30, 2012
“Chinese Urban Planning Systems and Unique Practices in Chengdu City”
Mr. Peng Tang
Hendricks Hall Room 100
11:30am – 12:30pm

UO Delegation Leads Faculty Development Event in Japan

A five-person delegation from the University of Oregon led a two-day faculty development workshop at Nagoya University March 16-17, 2013. The Japanese Ministry of Education’s Global 30 initiative sponsored the program. Launched in 2008, this high-profile initiative aims to internationalize Japanese higher education by creating new English-language degree programs, recruiting international students, and providing opportunities for Japanese students to study abroad. UO’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, which facilitated three earlier G-30 faculty development workshops at the University of Oregon, provided the planning and logistical support for the team that took this pioneering workshop on the road. Remarking on the success of the workshop, CAPS Director Jeff Hanes notes: “The UO faculty development team brought their energy and expertise to the steep pedagogical challenges facing Japan’s signature program for the internationalization of higher education—and made a significant impact.”

Oregon’s team worked with 40 Japanese and international faculty members from eight Japanese universities to improve their English presentation skills and learn about evidence-based best teaching practices, focusing particularly on making the classroom more interactive. Lee Rumbarger, Director of the Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP); Trish Pashby, Senior Instructor at the American English Institute (AEI); Georgeanne Cooper, Former Director of the Teaching Effectiveness Program, and Elly Vandegrift, Associate Director of the Science Literacy Program (UO-SLP) co-facilitated the workshop. Highlighting the international nature of the G-30 initiative, the faculty participants were from 15 nations. CAPS Director Jeff Hanes accompanied the team, providing on-the-ground logistical support for the program. CAPS Assistant Director Lori O’Hollaren supervised planning of the operation, and East Asia Coordinator, Yifang Zhang, worked with organizers at Nagoya University to fine tune workshop organization and logistics.

The workshop weekend included small- and large-group sessions like “Interactive Lecture Techniques,” “Teaching in English,” “Teaching to a Diverse Student Audience,” “Learning Objectives and Backward Design,” and “The External Brain.” Each participant delivered a 10-minute mini-lecture in their fields of expertise incorporating interactive lecture techniques. The UO facilitators have expertise in each of these areas and offer training opportunities to graduate students and faculty at the UO on these topics.

During a closing discussion, participants articulated ideas from the workshop they planned to experiment with to incorporate big- and small-scale revisions in their own courses, such as incorporating midterm course evaluations, “minute-papers,” i-clickers, in-class demonstrations and a range of peer learning activities.

G-30 faculty members expressed satisfaction with the workshop and excitement about returning to their teaching with new ideas and drawing form the group’s collective energy. Some of the participants’ observations in a follow-up survey include:

“[I]nteractive, practical and encouraging atmosphere throughout session…I really liked being a student of very good teachers.”

“It was most stimulating to lean the importance of affirmative attitude to students. Interactive teaching is rare in the Japanese classes and most of the lectures including mine tend to be unidirectional. Teaching by questioning was a refreshing idea to me. Although I knew the importance of interaction in the class, I was not practical enough. Your lectures gave me lots of useful hints. I also liked the international atmosphere in the class thanks to many non Japanese participants.”

“The workshop was very impressive and helpful. Until now, I thought that university lectures were an opportunity to obtain knowledge written in a textbook through well-summarized teacher’s notes. Through the workshop, however, I could learn that a good lecture should be interactive, well organized, informative, and enjoyable. The teachers from University of Oregon showed me attractive lectures not only by clear speech, motions and good materials but also by kind answers to any questions. I deeply appreciate their efforts and passions.”

UO’s faculty development relationship with this group began in 2010 when CAPS paired TEP and AEI with administrators and faculty from Nagoya University looking to improve teaching on their campus. Over the past three years, 18 Nagoya University faculty and administrators have participated in multiday training programs on the University of Oregon campus. The March 2013 program was the first time that faculty from TEP, AEI, UO-SLP, and CAPS have been invited to Nagoya University to facilitate a workshop on that campus.

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Posted on April 11, 2013 by adeodhar

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CAPS Current Visiting Scholars

Posted on April 2, 2013February 27, 2023 by adeodhar

2022-2023

Tae-up Jung

Busan University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Research Project:
Faculty Advisor: Yugen Wang

Seonha Park

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Korea
Research Project:
Faculty Advisor: Yekang Ko

Iram Bano