Join your fellow Indian and South Asian language learners for Chai and Chat. Practice speaking the language you're learning in a relaxed environment.

Join us for an hour of conversation in Korean. All levels (beginners to native speakers) are welcome. 

 

Linking All Types of Teachers in International Cross Cultural Education.

with Dr. Norman Graham, MSU Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Join us for an engaging evening as Dr. Ethan Segal guides us through the "floating world" of early modern Japan and its vibrant arts scene, which produced notable works and styles from kabuki theater and haiku poetry to ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Dr. Segal will offer an informative introduction to early modern Japan, highlight woodblock prints and artists who remain famous even today, the culture that allowed them to become so successful, and specific prints in the MSU collection. With lots of opportunity for questions and conversations, this is an introduction to Japanese art that you won't want to miss.

This talk is being held in conjunction with Scholar's Garden on view in the Collection Gallery at the MSU Broad through February 9, 2020.

Itaru Sasaki set up a phone booth in his backyard. Although the phone is not connected to anything, it comforted him to talk through it to a cousin who died from cancer. The following year when a tsunami took the lives of thousands in the region, their relatives also started to show up in Sasaki's garden to use the phone to communicate with lost loved ones. Don't miss this powerful doucmentary on love and how people deal with los, as story that is not so much Japanese as universal (it was also featured on the public radio program This American Life). This is a special screening of the NHK doucmentary (50 minutes) on temporary loan to MSU from NHK and the Japanese Consulate in Detroit.

Sponsored by the MSU Japan Council and the Asian Studies Center.

 

Lecturer: Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta

Rethinking "Chineseness" and on the one touchstone of traditional Chinese ethics - filiality - and examines it with respect to the narrative of one individual's experience: Tawanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien and his semi-autobiographical film A Time to Live, A Time to Die (1985)

 

 

Light but well-received film (based loosely on a real story) of a high school girl who, through hard work and with the help of a great teacher, turned things around and went from worst in her class to gaining entrance to a prestigious university in just one year. Stars Arimura Kasumi

Speaker: Professor Pingqiu An Director of the Center for Ancient Chinese Classics & Archives Peking University

China is the first country in the world to make wine, as the earliest archaeological evidence of wine fermentation has been found at sites in China (circa 7000 BCE). Although wine has been produced and consumed for millennia in China, it was the literati (i.e., primarily literary men but also some literary women) who added sophistication to the culture of wine. This lecture will use poetry, biographies, and historical anecdotes to delineate the relationship among wine, the ancient literati, and Chinese society.

*Reception to follow