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Asian Studies Newsletter October 2024
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Film Screening: In Search of Bengali Harlem - October 3, 2024
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
Co-sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of History and Asian Studies Program
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Otsukimi Party - Friday, October 4, 2024
Let’s enjoy viewing the moon
with delicious Japanese Dango!
Place : Japan Center 107
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Before the party starts, we are going to
make Japanese Dango! If you are
interested, please feel free to sign up
as Dango Volunteer on the form! Let’s
enjoy making dango together from 2:00 pm at Japan Center's Kitchen! Please feel free to come!
Fill out the sign up sheet with button below.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Japanese Intern, Kotomi Shimizu email: kshimizu@colgate.edu
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Mid-Autumn Festival October 5, 2024
Join the Chinese Interest Association to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival! Food and festivities will be from 6-8pm at the ALANA Cultural Center.
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ALANA Multicultural Fashion ShowJoin alumni, family, and friends for our annual ALANA Multicultural Fashion Show, a vibrant tradition that celebrates the beauty and diversity of cultural identities within our community. Now in its third year, this exciting event will be held on Friday, October 18, at 7:30 PM during Family Weekend.
Join us — whether on campus or virtually via our livestream. Don’t miss this beautiful celebration of diversity!
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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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Building a Web-Based Resource
On September 17, 2024, a collaboration between Colgate’s Art Department, University Libraries, and Information Technology Services (ITS) presented a research study on the “Kaveri Project,” a web-based resource used for mapping ancient temples in southern India to create more of an accessible digital world for faculty research. Each major contributor took turns talking about their individual role and observations about this new resource. Team members included 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).
This event took place as part of the Division of Arts and Humanities Fall 2024 Colloquium Series.
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War, Revolution, and the Heart of China: Picker Art Gallery Exhibit OpeningThe Picker Art Gallery hosted an exhibition reception on September 19, 2024 to celebrate the opening of their new exhibition called “War, Revolution, and the Heart of China.” Visitors enjoyed food from Red Chili Restaurant in Syracuse. After opening remarks from University Museums Co-Director and Picker Art Gallery Curator Nicholas West, exhibit curator Leslie Ann Eliet spoke about the decades-long creation of the exhibit.
The exhibit is a very special installation, as there are only a few other collections of similar woodblock prints in the world outside of China. The collection on display includes trial proofs, not usually sold or distributed by artists, that provide a unique insight into the artistic process.
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Student Summer Research '24 Presentations
On Tuesday, September 24, students in the Division of Arts and Humanities presented summer research projects. After presentations, students answered questions about their research topics and processes, as well as the experience of conducting summer research at Colgate with faculty advising.
Student-Initiated Research
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.
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.
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MIST at Colgate Lecture Series
Arabs, Arab-American, and the U.S. electionsEgyptian journalist Hafez Al Mirazi came to Colgate on September 25, 2024 to give a talk on Arab-Americans and their role in U.S. elections. He discussed a timeline of events that affected various Arab nations’ relationships with the U.S., especially through the changing of U.S. presidents over the years. According to Mirazi, many of these events affected the stability of Arab nations, in turn affecting immigration levels to the U.S. With the November election quickly approaching, the topic of population demographics is especially relevant. Mirazi provided insight into how he believed candidates should effectively reach out to Arab-American communities.
The following day, on September 26, Mirazi sat down with students over lunch to hold a discussion of the previous day’s lecture. Students asked follow-up questions and received in-depth answers in a more casual and personal setting.
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Mid-Autumn Festival
Colgate’s Chinese Program hosted a Mid-Autumn Celebration in the China Center (103 Lawrence Hall) on September 27, 2024. The festivities included storytelling from Chinese Language Intern Joanna Qiao, sing-alongs led by Professor John Crespi, and performances of poetry from students learning Chinese. After a presentation on the background of the festival, guests enjoyed decorating paper lanterns and trying several different flavors of mooncake, as well as other Chinese snacks.
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