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Asian Studies Newsletter September 2024
Hope your semester is off to a great start. The Asian Studies Program is thrilled to have our new center in 19 and 19A Persson Hall. Please utilize our new home for events, small classes, studying, coffee/lunch break, etc. Below is a list of recent and future events related to Asian Studies.
If you would like to add an upcoming Asia-related event to our future newsletter sent out to Colgate Asian Studies Community, please send the information to Cathy Sheridan-Lee, our Academic Department Coordinator (csheridanlee@colgate.edu), or myself (ysong@colgate.edu). If you know of anyone who would like to receive our newsletter, please let us know as well.
Yang SongDirector, Asian Studies Program (2024–25)
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NEW - Asian Studies Program Center
Wednesday, September 4: Asian Studies Launch Party
Asian Studies students, faculty, and friends came together on Wednesday, September 4 to celebrate the official opening of the new Asian Studies Center in 19 Persson Hall. Attendants enjoyed refreshments from Main Moon and Hamilton Whole Foods, as well as mooncakes for an early Mid-Autumn Festival celebration.
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Space to host eventNeed a place to study, fill your coffee cup, or just grab a seat in between classes? Stop by the new Asian Studies Center in 19 Persson Hall! Learn more about Asian Studies courses, declaring a major or minor, and finding off-campus study opportunities. Need a space to host an event? Email Department Coordinator Cathy Sheridan-Lee (csheridanlee@colgate.edu) to reserve the conference room.
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Building a Web-Based ResourceTuesday, September 17, 2024 4:15pm to 6pm, Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room 105
Attend a conversation on "Mapping Temples Across the Tamil Plain: Building a Web-Based Resource for Faculty Research with Colgate Staff Experts."
Team Members include Niranjan Davray (ITS); Jeff Nugent (CLTR); Lesley Chapman (ARTS); Josh Finnell (Libraries); Kai Tsoukalas (ITS); Ahmad Khazaee (ITS); Tolga Dincer (ITS); and Padma Kaimal (ARTS).
Refreshments provided. All are welcome.
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The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts
War, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937–1948: The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts
Thursday, September 19, 2024 5pm to 6:30pm, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
This exhibition, an in-depth examination of the modern woodcut movement in the decades leading up to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, will be the first time that one of Picker Art Gallery’s most singular and important collections will be shown in its entirety.
The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts contains over 200 works made in China between 1937 and 1948. They were given to The Picker Art Gallery by Professor Emeritus Theodore Herman, who lived in the country during this period, and his wife, Evelyn Mary Chen Shiying Herman. Professor Herman taught at Colgate from 1954 to 1981 in the Geography Department and was the founding director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.
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MIST at Colgate Lecture Series
Arabs, Arab-American, and the U.S. elections
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies Program, Film and Media Studies Program and Core Communities
Hafez Al Mirazi’s broadcast experience spans over 40 years starting as a radio broadcaster at Sawt Al Arab (Voice of the Arabs) in Cairo. He taught television journalism for 11 years as a Professor of Practice at the American University in Cairo, and Also served as Washington Bureau Chief of Al Jazeera Arabic TV news channel. He was a Frequent guest on many US TV shows including Larry King Live, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Nightline and the Charlie Rose Show on PBS.
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Film Screening
Ryan Family Film Series: In Search of Bengali Harlem
by Film and Media Studies Program
Thursday, October 3, 2024 7pm
Little Hall (Golden Auditorium)
ir. Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah, 2022, 84 min, with Alaudin Ullah in person
As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of early hip-hop. He rejected his working-class Bangladeshi parents and turned his back on everything South Asian and Muslim. Now, as an actor and playwright in post-9/11 America, Alaudin wants to tell his parents’ stories, but has no idea of the lives they led as Muslim immigrants of an earlier era. In Search of Bengali Harlem follows Ullah from the streets of New York City to the villages of Bangladesh to uncover the pasts of his father, Habib, and mother, Mohima. Alaudin discovers that Habib was part of a rich lost history of mid-20th century Harlem, in which Bengali Muslim men, dodging racist Asian Exclusion laws, married into New York’s African American and Puerto Rican communities – and in which the likes of Malcolm X and Miles Davis shared space and broke bread with immigrants from the subcontinent. He also unearths the hardships and trauma that his mother overcame to become one of the first women to immigrate to the U.S. from rural Bangladesh. In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding of the complex histories of South Asians and Muslims in the United States.
Co-sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of History and Asian Studies Program
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Division of Arts and Humanities: Student Summer Research ’24 Presentations
Join us to learn more about summer research projects completed by students in the Division of Arts and Humanities
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 4:15pm to 6pm
Student-Initiated Research -
All Co-Sponsored by J. Curtiss Taylor ’54 Endowed Student Research Fund
Jordan Shapiro ’26 (EALL Advisor: Professor Yukari Hirata); Gesture and emotional affect: Do they play a role in L2 Japanese pitch accent acquisition?
Faculty-Initiated Research
Ellen Weinstock ’26 and Natalie Yale ’26 (RELG Advisor: Professor Megan Abbas); Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in Indonesia.
Wa (Evelyn) Gao ’26 (EALL Advisor: Professor John Crespi); Can You Measure Satire? A Quantitative Study of Online Cartoons from China.
Co-Sponsored as a James Madison Fellow by the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization (CFWC)
Thomas Nemec ’26 (CLAS Advisor: Professor Daniel Tober); Gibbon and His Suetonius: The Influence of Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum on Gibbon's Decline and Fall.
Refreshments provided. All are welcome.
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Living Writer Series - October 24, 2024Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of a second novel, Picking Bone from Ash, as well as a memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Good-bye, and a work of literary journalism, American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland. A member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont who has also taught at the Colgate Writers Conference, she spent the past two years living in Japan.
All Living Writers events take place at 4:30 ET in Persson Auditorium. Refreshments available.
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Living Writer Series - November 14, 2024
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the United States. His debut story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and his second, The Royal Ghosts, won the Asian American Literary Award. He is also the author of three novels, The Guru of Love, Buddha’s Orphans, and The City Son, as well as a third story collection, Mad Country. His newest novel, Darkmotherland, will be published by Soho Press in January 2025. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University.
All Living Writers events take place at 4:30 ET in Persson Auditorium. Refreshments available.
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Printmaking demonstration and workshop
Artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will lead a free woodcut printing demonstration and workshop in Colgate’s printmaking studio. Designed for participants of all abilities and experience to try their hand at creative expression through art-making in a low-stakes environment. All members of the Colgate and Hamilton communities are invited to participate.
This workshop is in collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, Clifford Gallery, the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art Gallery. Additional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.
Saturday, November 16, 2024 9:30am to 12:30pm in Little Hall, 205 (Print Studio)
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| Opportunities for Faculty and Students
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American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
AIIS Research Fellowships to India in 2025- 2026: https://www.indiastudies.org/research-fellowship-programs/
AIIS collaboration opportunity for faculty at US institutions, who want to create discipline-specific study abroad courses based in India that will provide institutionally recognized course credit for their students: https://www.indiastudies.org/program-collaboration/
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ASIANetwork Annual Conference Call for Student Submissions
ASIANetwork welcomes student participation in our conferences! The ASIANetwork conference is the leading venue for undergraduate students with an interest in Asia, Asian Americans, and the Asian diaspora to share their academic work — including course projects, research, study abroad experiences, and creative/artistic efforts — with a community of peers and educators from across the country and beyond. The ASIANetwork conference also provides opportunities for students to network with each other and meet representatives of numerous colleges and universities, foundations, and organizations such as Fulbright.
Student proposals due October 1, 2024
For more information, contact the conference program chair, Qin Fang (McDaniel College).
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