CERES Brown Bag Talk series. Speaker: Dr. Timur Kocaoglu, James Madison College and Asst. Director of CERES.

The early Jadids in the Volga region in the 19th century, were eager in advancing the need of "Ijtihad" (interpretation) within Islam that lead to revitalize Islam by restablishing and reforming Islamic law and its interpretaions to accommodate Islam with modern society.

Co-sponsored by the MSU Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Muslim Studies.

Exploring new directions in Chinese education and the implications of US education for Chinese education reform.

Please join us for five presentations by our visiting scholars from Southwest University in Chongqing, China. While the Southwest colleagues have been here at MSU learning more about US education, they have been simultaneously working on their research theses. Come hear about new directions in Chinese education, new approaches to research in China, and the insights these visiting scholars have gained from their time in the US.

Research, education and Extension Collaboration with University of Philippines Los Banos (UPLB)

with UPLB Chancellor Fernando C. Sanchez, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Portia G. Lapitan, and Chancellor for Research and Extention Rex Bemafelis.

 

R. Ramakumar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Prof R. Ramakumar is the NABARD Chair Professor at the School of Development Studies of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He also serves as a non-ministerial member of the State Planning Board for the Government of Kerala. His research interests include agriculture and agrarian change in rural India, agricultural credit, and economic reforms and changes in rural livelihoods. His recent work looks the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the agriculture sector in India, with a focus on food shortages and disruptions in food supply chains.

Part of Southeast Asian in Transition Series: Plastic Runs Through It 2021 Webinar

This series is made possible through funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and is co-organized by Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, the East-West Center, University of Hawai'i-Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa-Center for Chinese Studies, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.

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, fatima_bh(at)msn.com.

Speaker: James Ocita (Makerere University)

Eye on Africa Speaker Series

 

 

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.

Weijie Song, Associate Professor, Rutgers University.
Ang Lee once famously confessed that every Chinese-language director has a dream to make a martial arts (wuxia) film. Literary historian Chen Pingyuan also noted that, over a thousand years, Chinese literati have shared a dream of becoming a knight-errant. Indeed, from the 1960s to the present, a number of major Chinese-language filmmakers sought to create a martial arts work at the crucial stage of their careers. This talk seeks to chart a cultural and emotional geography of martial arts narratives constructed by avant-garde cinematic aesthetics from the Cold War to the post-Cold War eras in Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China and beyond. I will examine five leading film auteurs and their martial arts works in the Sinophone world: (1) diasporic relocation and obsession with a Chivalrous China in King Hu's Come Drink with Me (1965), Dragon Inn (1967), and A Touch of Zen (1971); (2) ashes of time and traces of subjectivity in Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time (1994), Ashes of Time Redux (2008), and The Grandmaster (2013); (3) emotion in motion in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); (4) epiphanies from the tale, the marvel, and the quotidian in Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin (2015); and (5) crippled chivalry and subaltern psychogeography in Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin (2013) and Ash is Purest White (2018). Chinese chivalrous psychogeography brings to limelight the human feelings and spatial trajectories of knights-errant, outcasts, and outlaws drifting across vast terrestrial regions beyond specific geographical environment, steered by psychological coordinates and emotional navigations, and thus showcases the entangled connections of diasporic imagination, personal/historical violence, and social (in)justice immersed in political, martial, and cultural crisis.
This talk is a part of the Global Virtual Speakers Program/MSU Asian Studies Program, and funded by the Anthony Koo/Kwan-Wai So Lecture endowment.