Arabic Diwan is a gathering of Arabic students who are in the Arabic program, where they speak the language and learn about the culture in a relaxed environ­ment with our Fulbright teaching assistant. Students from all Arabic language levels are encouraged to attend. Also, we extend the invitation to the Arabic speaking students at the English Center.
For more information please contact Fatima Alaiwi, .
Join your fellow Indian and South Asian language learners for Chai and Chat. Practice speaking the language you're learning in a relaxed environment.
MSU Film Collective presentation. Fall theme: Work/Place.
Baran​ is the story of Afghan refugees told through the eyes of an Iranian teenage boy named Lateef. His devotion to a person he barely knows leads him to the choice that will change his life forever. Acadamey Award nominated director Majid Majidi ("Children of Heaven", "Color of Paradise") delivers a heartbreaking story of unrequited love.
filmstudies.cal.msu.edu/filmcollective
Guest: Erika Brown Binion, Executive Director, Refugee Development Center
The Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) 2020 Annual Meeting will be an online event. Michigan State University is pleased to co-host and manage the virtual platform. The MCAA seeks to promote Asian Studies at the university, secondary, and primary levels, and particularly to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists in the Midwest as well as with those from other parts of the country and the world. Scholars and students from all regions are invited to participate.
If you would like to register for this event please visit the MCAA 2020 Registration page. For more information on this event please visit the MCAA 2020 website.
Co-hosted by a consortium of MCAA-affiliated universities
Qais Assali (b. 1987 Palestine) is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist-in-Residence of Critical Race Studies in the Art, Art History, and Design Dept. of Michigan State University. His works with video, installation, sculpture, lecture performance, sound, photography, and in the archives seek to engage and subvert national geopolitical power dynamics. His interdisciplinary work stages questions between site and the body in relation to his own identity and locale in order to debunk metaphoric surrounding contested geographies.
Assali's work has been internationally exhibited at Jeune création, Paris (2016); 6018North, Chicago (2018); Festival Artes Vertentes de Tiradentes, Brazil (2016); The Overlook Place, Chicago (2018); solo exhibitions at Khan Al Wakala, Nablus (2016); and Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2015). Assali has been a faculty member at a number of academic institutions in Palestine including Al-Ummah College, Jerusalem. Assali holds two master's degrees – an M.F.A. from Bard College, New York and an M.A. in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Co-sponsored with the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design
The Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) 2020 Annual Meeting will be an online event. Michigan State University is pleased to co-host and manage the virtual platform. The MCAA seeks to promote Asian Studies at the university, secondary, and primary levels, and particularly to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists in the Midwest as well as with those from other parts of the country and the world. Scholars and students from all regions are invited to participate.
If you would like to register for this event please visit the MCAA 2020 Registration page. For more information on this event please visit the MCAA 2020 website.
Co-hosted by a consortium of MCAA-affiliated universities
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Yuri, a genre of manga. Yuri stories contain romantic relationships between girls and/or women. Erica Friedman, Japanese pop culture specialist, will take you through the history of the genre from 1919 to present.
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Yuri, a genre of manga. Yuri stories contain romantic relationships between girls and/or women. Erica Friedman, Japanese pop culture specialist, will take you through the history of the genre from 1919 to the present.
Sponsors: Academic Advancement Network, Asian Studies Center, Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen), Citizen Scholars Program, Japanese Studies Program, Japan Council, College of Arts and Letters, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Learning Community on Identity Formation in Global Contexts, Romance and Classical Studies
Presentations and Discussions 3-5 p.m.
-At the Precipice of More Tragedy: The Lives and Livelihoods of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, Taneesha Mohan, University of York
-The Culural Politics of 'Folk': Perspectives from India and Bangladesh, Priyanka Basu, British Library, London.
Series: Oct. 15, 16, with four UK-trained scholars from the School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge bring different dimensions of critical development, culture and gender in South Asia. Their research focus is on Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bengal and Bangladesh.
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