Salah Hassan is an associate professor of English, and is also a core faculty member of MSU's Muslim Studies Program. His areas of research include literatures of empire and Arab North American studies.
Co-sponsored withOur Daily Work/Our Daily Lives
Hafsa Kanjwal is an assistant professor at Lafayette College. She received her Ph.D. in History and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan. Her scholarly and research Interests include: South Asia, Kashmir, Islam, Women's and Gender Studies, Islam in America.
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.
The Seoul National University (SNU) New Music Ensemble presents a mixture of old and new in their eclectic performance. The ensemble consists of a youthful string quartet, seasoned performers, and Korean traditional instrumentation. Featuring the harmonies and textures of the European classical tradition and the microtonal shadings and complex rhythms of Korean tradition, the performance promises to be a rich experience for all who attend. The repertoire will draw on the music of Korea's court and shamanic ritual tradition as well as the romantic traditions of Europe. The ensemble will perform, as well, new and experimental works that highlight the beauty of both traditions, truly representing the richness of music performance in Korea today. This concert is free and open to the public.
Performers
Gayageum Proffesor YI Ji-young
Viola Proffessor CHOI Ensil
Daegeum KIM Jong-rock
Jaggu GWAK Ayoung
Luz Quartet YOON Deckhee, KIM Yejing, CHOI Jiwon, KIM Sungwon
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Association for Asian Studies center, University of Michigan NAM Center for Korean Studies, RCAH, Korean Studies Program, Faculty Learning Community on Identity Formation in Global Context
Speaker: Emine Evered Associate Professor of History Michigan State University
Host: Global Urban Studies Program
In honor of MLK Day.
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Korea's historic March 1, 1919 non-violent demonstration for independence and delf-determination, which occurred before the division of the country in 1945. Join us for a discussion and dialogue led by Dr. Hope Elizabeht May (Central Michigan U) that connects this undertold story of Korea's peach history to the International Peach Through Law movement.
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Korean Program, and MSU Council on Korean Studies.
Farina Mir is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mir is currently working on two on projects. The first, tentatively titled "Producing Modern Muslims: Everyday Ethics in Late Colonial North India," is a study of Muslim socio-religious reform in late-colonial India, focusing on the role of popular ethics in constituting modern Muslim subjectivity and history. The second is "A History of Islam in South Asia," a synthetic history that covers the period from the rise of Islam to contemporary times.
The theme of this year's Korean Association for Multicultural Education (KAME) Conference is "Multicultural Education: Place, Progress, and Pathways Forward." The conference will provide a platform for researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field of multicultural education from home and abroad to share ideas and research findings, and build up a network of scholarly discussions and friendship.
The KAME invites submissions of manuscripts (or 500-word abstracts). Any presentations pertaining to the conference theme or related topics exploring research agendas and policy issues in the field of multicultural education are welcome. Please submit the manuscript/abstract and a short CV to the KAME office () by January 15, 2020. A final decision on the acceptance to the conference will be notified in February, 2020.
To learn more, please visit the KAME website.
A young adult novel by Randa Abdel-Fattah, let cy Leila Tarakji (English).
Sponsored by MSU Libraries and Muslim Studies Program
Speakers: Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan is an Associate Professor of Higher, Adult and Life Long Education (HALE) at Michigan State University. Ms. Tasnim A. Ema is an undergraduate student at the Department of Anthropology at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mr. Nisharggo Niloy completed his post-graduation from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Dhaka.
Drawing on interviews and participant observations with 22 faculty in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illuminate how academics experience, contest and manipulate their time(s) amid rapid socio-economic transformations of Dhaka (a mega-city). We aim to decenter the Global North knowledge production about temporality in higher education literature by introducing and applying a culturally sustaining concept of 'shomoyscapes'. While the Bengali word 'shomoy' literally means 'time', it goes beyond 'clock time', and also refers to memories, present moments, feelings, a particular duration, and/or signi􀃶er for a temporal engagement. We demonstrate the efficacy of shomoyscapes by illuminating how faculty in Bangladesh experience various temporal forces, such as: a) traffic, b) university politics, and c) the future of others. We conclude with implications about the complex temporal constraints at work within an urban Global South context and a rapidly growing HE system in South Asia.
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