Conversation hour with cultural events, for those learning Korean. Do you know Korean? Come practice Korean.

Sponsored by the Korean Program, Council on Korean Studies and the Asian Studies Center.Conversation hour with cultural events, for those learning Korean.

Hybrid event (New Haven, CT and online). Co-hosted by MSU Department of Psychiatry

Theme: Fragilities Unmasked: Emerging from Social Isolation, Social Inequalities and COVID

More information: | Michigan State University (msu.edu)

Required Registration Link: Office for Education Abroad: Education Abroad 101 Webinar Registration

Want to study abroad and don't know where to begin? Come to an EA101 session and we'll help!

Topics covered include:

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  How the benefits of education abroad can play an important role in your future


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  What the differences are between various program types and experiences


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  How much programs cost and where you can find funding


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  What MSU has in place to keep you healthy and safe while abroad


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  Where to go next to begin searching for a program


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  At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

Required Registration Link: Office for Education Abroad: Education Abroad 101 Webinar Registration

Want to study abroad and don't know where to begin? Come to an EA101 session and we'll help!

Topics covered include:

• 
  How the benefits of education abroad can play an important role in your future


• 
  What the differences are between various program types and experiences


• 
  How much programs cost and where you can find funding


• 
  What MSU has in place to keep you healthy and safe while abroad


• 
  Where to go next to begin searching for a program


• 
  At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

SPEAKER: SAMIP MALLICK, Executive Director, South Asian American Digital Archive.

South Asian Americans have been a presence in the United States for more than 130 years. Early immigrants from South Asia worked on farms and factories, helped build railroads, fought for India's freedom from British rule, and struggled for equal rights in the United States. Today, more than 5.4 million individuals in the U.S. trace their heritage to South Asia, the fastest growing immigrant group in the country. South Asian American stories are an integral part of the American story, yet little information is available to the public about these stories.

In "The Missing Stories," SAADA's Executive Director Samip Mallick will cover how communities come to be excluded from the archival record and how we can address these absences. Samip will provide an introduction to South Asian American history (1800s to present) and will also discuss how community-based archives can become sites for liberatory memory work by introducing the audience to SAADA's archival collections, programs, and participatory storytelling projects.

SAADA's work has been recognized with awards and support from the American Historical Association, Society of American Archivists, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Institute of Museum and Library Services. The organization has been highlighted by the New York Times, the Atlantic, NPR, and other national and international media. SAADA is working to create a future where each person's story is valued and given the dignity and importance it deserves.

This event is co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Studies Program (APA) and the India Council, Asian Studies Center.

Conversation hour with cultural events, for those learning Korean. Do you know Korean? Come practice Korean.

Sponsored by the Korean Program, Council on Korean Studies and the Asian Studies Center.

Miriam Stark, professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Speaker: Miriam Stark, University of Hawai’I-Manoa.

Southern Cambodia contains a rich yet poorly understood record of early historic period occupation, between ca. 200 B.C. and A.D. 500. Chinese travelers to this region in the third and sixth centuries A.D. described walled and moated cities that housed rulers, elites, and artisans of fine goods such as precious metals, jewelry, and other crafts. Archaeological work at contemporary sites in Vietnam suggests that this area was a thriving economic center in the trade routes that linked India to China by way of mainland Southeast Asia.

 

In most areas of the world, the transition to history is associated with the appearance of writing. Indigenous writing system first appeared in the early seventh century A.D. in southern Cambodia. Yet foreign accounts suggest that the Mekong Delta housed some of the earliest states in mainland Southeast Asia many centuries before this time. In Cambodia, we know these polities (or states or mandalas) solely through documentary evidence. The Lower Mekong Archaeological Project is the first archaeological project to examine the establishment, growth, and decline of early historic period settlements in Cambodia's Mekong Delta. Work has concentrated in and around the archaeological site of Angkor Borei and its associated Phnom Da temples.

 

Professor Miriam Stark joined the University of Hawai’i-Manoa in August 1995 as a Southeast Asian archaeologist. She holds a B.A. (1984) from the University of Michigan, M.A. (1987) and PhD (1993) degrees from the University of Arizona. Her archaeological and ethnographic field experience involves field-based research in several locations of North America (first the Midwest, the sub-Arctic, and the American Southwest), the Near East (Israel and Turkey), and in Southeast Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia).In 1996 she began co-directing the [Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP) in southern Cambodia, and have continued work in this region over the last 12 years.

Sponsored by James Madison College, Dept. of History, and the Asian Studies Center.