Speaker: Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction. Among their awards and fellowships are a PEN America Heim Translation grant for One Left, two U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, and the first residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre awarded to translators from any Asian language. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural occupant of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, and the recipient of a 2018 Manhae Grand Prize in Literature.
Translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton will discuss One Left, their translation of the first Korean novel to focus on the Korean "comfort women" of World War II. They will focus on the question of why it has taken 75 years for such a novel to be written, on the way in which author Kim Soom has interwoven the testimony of the surviving women with a fictional narrative taking place in present-day Seoul, and on broader issues of social justice, truth and reconciliation, and trauma and healing.
This workshop series is supported by the Asian Studies Center Virtual Speaker Program and is organized by the Council on Korean Studies (CKS)
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Experiance Japanese culture with MSU Japan Club! Come and learn how to fold origami, try out kendama, or practice Japanese caligraphy!
Lecture by Dustin Byrd (Olivet College)
Sponsored by MSU Libraries and Muslim Studies Program
There will be three speakers:
Dr. Ethan Segal, Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Japan Council
Dr. Kazuya Fujita, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Catherine Ryu, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature & Culture and Director of the Japanese Studies Program
Speaker: Zhao Ma is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture and Director of Undergraduate Studies.
On October 23, 2020, Chinese President Xí Jinping held a state ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of China's entrance to the Korean War. In the same month, three documentary film series were aired on CCTV, a war movie (featuring action star Wu Jing) opened in theaters across the country, and China also reopened two national Korean War memorials after years of renovation. The flurry of remembrances across films, museums, and political spectacles leaves one wondering why the war has had such a hold on Chinese historical imagination? How has the memory of war shifted from the communist era to the post-socialist present? How does China remember its "last war" in the shadow of a new US-China cold war?
Please register in advance for this event.
This workshop series is supported by the Asian Studies Center Virtual Speaker Program and is organized by Xuefei Hao, Academic Specialist of the MSU Chinese Program.
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 encourages to attend. Also, we extend the invitation to the Arabic speaking students at the English Center.
Contact Sara Kasem for link:
Join us tonight at 5pm for The People's Patriarch Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Film Synopsis:
Patriarch Michel Sabbah: An Arab, Palestinian, and Christian believer from Nazareth. In 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1987, to be the first Arab Patriarch to hold the office in the Catholic Church's history. The film is a humble contribution to honor the Patriarch and shed light on some crucial moments in his life, his thought, and his constant obsession with the consolidation of love, justice, and peace.
Moderator, Brahim Chakrani, MSU Department of Linguistics and Languages
Film Producer, Lily Habash
Panelist, Stephen Gasteyer, MSU Department of Sociology
Deadline for undergraduate and graduate paper submissions: March 15, 2021
Awards to be announced at the Showcase:
Graduate Student Paper Award ($500)
Published or unpublished papers (roughly 15-25 pages with complete works cited) must have been written between March 1, 2020 and the deadline, March 15, 2021
Undergraduate Student Paper Award ($500)
Published or unpublished papers (roughly 15-25 pages with complete works cited) must have been written between March 1, 2020 and the deadline, March 15, 2021
All submissions should be sent to Mohammad Khalil () and Mary Firdawsi ()
Dr. Liza Weinstein wil lead the discussion of immigrant and refugee settlement is currently animating scholarly discussions and strategic thinking about cities and citizens. Yet refugee settlement and the relocation of internally dispersed persons has also shaped earlier eras of planning and development, and the lessons learned from this earlier period may be instructive for practitioners, scholars and urban citizens grappling with these challenges today. Inspired by understanding the contemporary relevance for cities, planning, and politics today, this paper revisits the period of refugee resettlement in post-partition India and how the relocation of refugees from the newly created Pakistan into the cities of Mumbai and Delhi reshaped landscapes of housing in both cities and unsettled established patterns of planning and politics with relevance continuing today. The paper argues that the landscapes of both cities as we know them today were remade during the 1950s, as diverse sets of refugees found homes in these dramatically remade cities. But more importantly this paper argues that the strategies for administrative, planning, and political responses to residential informality and "slum" housing were also shaped in this period, with major consequences for the politics of housing security and claims making across urban India today.
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology
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AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies
