"The Curious Case of Hindi/Urdu: What Urdu Can Tell Us About the History of Language"
Kavita Datla
Assistant Professor of History
Mt. Holyoke College
Date: 4/12/12
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
(Light Refreshments will be served)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
SASS / Asian Studies Lecture: Curious Case of Hindu/Urdu
"The Curious Case of Hindi/Urdu: What Urdu Can Tell Us About the History of Language"
Kavita Datla
Assistant Professor of History
Mt. Holyoke College
Date: 4/12/12
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
(Light Refreshments will be served)
Friday, February 3, 2012
Asian Studies Lecture: China Debates Its Future
Asian Studies Department | Speaker Series – Spring 2012 Presents:
“China Debates Its Future, and the World’s: Contemporary
International Politics from a Chinese Perspective”
Allen Carlson
Political Science Department
Cornell University
Date: Thursday, 2/9/12
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Geneva Room
(Light refreshments will be served before the talk)
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
SASS / Asian Studies Lecture: Photography of Working Ahmedabad
“A Photography of Working Ahmedabad: The Jyoti Sangh, Pranlal Patel, and Women Workers”
Lisa Trivedi
Associate Professor of History
Hamilton College
Date: 11/10/11
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: Stern Hall 103
(Light refreshments will be served)
Friday, October 28, 2011
Public Lecture: "Media and Social Media in China"
Paul Mooney (P’12) will be on campus and speaking about his experiences as a journalist in Asia, including being based in Beijing since 1994.
Students with an interest in Asia, media in China, journalism (at various times, he has been on the staff of Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and The South China Morning Post), etc. or simply hearing about contemporary China through the eyes of an experienced journalist will benefit from this presentation.
Time: Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00 pm
Venue: Stern 103
Students with an interest in Asia, media in China, journalism (at various times, he has been on the staff of Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and The South China Morning Post), etc. or simply hearing about contemporary China through the eyes of an experienced journalist will benefit from this presentation.
Time: Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00 pm
Venue: Stern 103
*Also, Thursday, he will be available to meet with students, at 4:15 in the café, or can arrange individual appointments if they are interested.
Friday, October 21, 2011
SASS / Asian Studies Lecture: Tagorithms
Department of Asian Studies present:
"Tagorithms: Rabindranath Tagore's Home and the World"
Dr. Amit Ray
English Department, RIT
Date: 10/27/11
Time: 07:00 pm
Venue: Stern Hall 103
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Student Paper Competition
The Marianna McJimsey
Award
2012 Student Paper Competition
The Board of Directors of ASIANetwork invites undergraduate students, currently or recently enrolled in ASIANetwork member schools, to submit papers of between 3,000 – 5,000 words for the 2012 Marianna McJimsey Award. The annual prize recognizes the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia. Topics may include any area of Asian Studies.
ASIANetwork will award a cash prize and provide lodging and meals for the award recipient to attend the 2012 Annual Meeting of ASIANetwork in Portland, Oregon to receive the award in person. The award recipient will be announced on the ASIANetwork website in January 2012. The winning paper will appear in the spring 2012 edition of the peer-reviewed journal ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts.
The award honors the outstanding service of Marianna McJimsey, the first Executive Director of ASIANetwork and the first editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange.
Eligibility: Undergraduate students and recent graduates with a graduation date of 2011 or later from colleges and universities with current membership in ASIANetwork.
Field: South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, or Asia in Diaspora.
Format of papers: Papers should include two separate attachments: 1) a cover page giving the title of the paper, the student's name, the name of the faculty advisor(s), institution, and contact information (mailing address and e-mail); 2) the paper itself with no identifying information other than the title included on the individual pages. Failure to meet these conditions will render the submission ineligible for consideration.
Submission of papers: A student may submit only one entry. Papers may be submitted by the student author or by a faculty member acting on behalf of a student. A faculty member may not provide any evaluative comments at the time of nomination.
Submissions and questions should be sent as e-mail attachments to Jason Fuller: jfuller@depauw.edu.
ONLY PDF FORMATTED DOCUMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Deadline: 1 November 2011
2012 Student Paper Competition
The Board of Directors of ASIANetwork invites undergraduate students, currently or recently enrolled in ASIANetwork member schools, to submit papers of between 3,000 – 5,000 words for the 2012 Marianna McJimsey Award. The annual prize recognizes the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia. Topics may include any area of Asian Studies.
ASIANetwork will award a cash prize and provide lodging and meals for the award recipient to attend the 2012 Annual Meeting of ASIANetwork in Portland, Oregon to receive the award in person. The award recipient will be announced on the ASIANetwork website in January 2012. The winning paper will appear in the spring 2012 edition of the peer-reviewed journal ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts.
The award honors the outstanding service of Marianna McJimsey, the first Executive Director of ASIANetwork and the first editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange.
Eligibility: Undergraduate students and recent graduates with a graduation date of 2011 or later from colleges and universities with current membership in ASIANetwork.
Field: South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, or Asia in Diaspora.
Format of papers: Papers should include two separate attachments: 1) a cover page giving the title of the paper, the student's name, the name of the faculty advisor(s), institution, and contact information (mailing address and e-mail); 2) the paper itself with no identifying information other than the title included on the individual pages. Failure to meet these conditions will render the submission ineligible for consideration.
Submission of papers: A student may submit only one entry. Papers may be submitted by the student author or by a faculty member acting on behalf of a student. A faculty member may not provide any evaluative comments at the time of nomination.
Submissions and questions should be sent as e-mail attachments to Jason Fuller: jfuller@depauw.edu.
ONLY PDF FORMATTED DOCUMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Deadline: 1 November 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Spring 2012 Courses
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| Photo: Kamakhya temple near Gawahati in Assam, India z(Vikash Yadav). |
Language Courses
Chinese
CHIN 102 Beginning Chinese II
Zhou; 2 Sections: MWF 9:05 - 10:00 or MWF 10:10 - 11:05
CHIN 202 Inter. Chinese II
CHIN 302 Advanced Chinese II
CHIN 450 Independent Study
Japanese
JPN 101 Beginning Japanese I
JPN 201 Inter. Japanese I
JPN 301 Advanced Japanese I
JPN 450 Independent Study
Hindi
SILP 132 Beginning Hindi II
Vietnamese
SILP 163 Beginning Vietnamese III
Non-Language Courses
Rodriguez; TuTh 1:30 - 2:55
ARTH 103 Asian Art Survey
Blanchard; MWF 11:15 - 12:10
ARTH 253 Buddhist Art & Archit.
Blanchard; MWF 10:10 - 11:05
ARTH 336 Landscapes & Gardens
ARTH 436 Landscapes & Gardens
Blanchard; MW 1:25 - 2:50
ASN 101 Asian Civilizations
Yadav & Yoshikawa; TuTh 3:05 - 4:30
ASN 210 Buddhism & Taoism
Huang; TuTh 11:55 - 1:20
ASN 215 Env. & Develop. in E.Asia
Magee & Lewis; TuTh 11:55 - 1:20
ASN 231 Tibetan Mandala Painting
Yignyen; TuTh 10:20 - 11:45
ASN 340 Water & Energy in China
Magee; [See Instructor]
ECON 233 Comparative Econ.
Khan; TuTh 3:05 - 4:30
EDUC 302 Disability in China
McCabe; TuTh 10:20 - 11:45
ENG Globalization & Literature
Basu; MWF 12:20 - 1:15
ENV 234 Sustainable China
Magee; [See Instructor]
HIST 324 Qing and Tokugawa
TuTh 11:55 - 1:20
POL 180 Intro. to Int’l. Relations
Lee; 8:35 - 10:00
POL 202 Politics of Afghanistan
Yadav; TuTh 8:45 - 10:10
POL 246 Politics of East Asia
Lee; MWF 11:15 - 12:10
POL 254 Globalization
Lee; MW 1:25 - 2:50
REL 226 Religion & Nature
Botham; TuTh 3:05 - 4:30
REL 242 Islamic Mysticism
Anwar; MW 1:25 - 2:50
REL 255 Peace & Violence in the Quran
Kafrawi; TuTh 8:45 - 10:10
REL 280 Negotiating Islam
Kafrawi; TuTh 11:55 - 1:20
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