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Asian Studies Newsletter November 2023Welcome to the November 2023 issue of the Asian Studies Newsletter.
Got an upcoming Asia-related event? Send the information to us and we will get the word out to the Colgate Asian Studies community. Just reach out to Cathy Sheridan-Lee, our Academic Department Coordinator (csheridanlee@colgate.edu), Ellie Meunier, our student assistant (emeunier@colgate.edu), or me, (jcrespi@colgate.edu) the program director.
Best regards,
John A. CrespiDirector, Asian Studies Program (2023–24)
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Asian Studies Spring Course Offering Spring 2024
CHIN 122 Elementary Chinese II
CHIN 202 Intermediate ChineseII
CHIN 266 Visual China: Moving Pictures
CHIN 304 Readings in Social Issues
CHIN 406 Readings in Modern Literature
CORE C130 Korean Peninsula
CORE C165 China
CORE C166 India
HIST 269 History of Modern South Asia
HIST 317 Gender and Nationalism
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JAPN 122 Elementary Japanese II
JAPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
JAPN 240 Gender & Sexuality Japan Cultr
JAPN 255 Hidden Japan: Tea Ceremony
JAPN 302 Advanced Japanese II
JAPN 402 Readings in Japanese II
MUSI 321 Explorations in Global Music
POSC 306 Politics in North Korea
POSC 351 Foreign Relations of East Asia
RELG 347 Religion & US Foreign Policy
UNST 410 Sem-Area/Regional/Global Study Majors and Minors
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Click below to find out your registration date and times.
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Poetry, Contemplation, and Politics in the Daodejing: Towards a New Translation of an Ancient Chinese Classics
Division of Arts & Humanities Colloquium: "Poetry, Contemplation, and Politics in the Daodejing: Towards a New Translation of an Ancient Chinese Classic" presented by Harold (Hal) Roth, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative, Brown University. Co-sponsored by Chapel House, CORE 111 (Core Conversations), Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBBI), Department of Religion, Asian Studies and University Studies.
When: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Where: ALANA Multipurpose Room, 101
Reception: 4:00PM
Lecture: 4:00 PM
Refreshments provided by Chartwells.
All are welcome.
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| Javanese Gamelan and
Shadow Puppet Performance
A Javanese Gamelan and Shadow Puppet Performance organized by Professor Megan Brankley Abbas (Religion). November 3, 2023 at 7pm in the Hall of Presidents
Shadow puppet theater, accompanied by a gamelan orchestra, is one of the most significant art forms to emerge from the Indonesian archipelago. On Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Hall of Presidents, Professor Sumarsam of Wesleyan University will lead more than a dozen musicians in performing a two-hour excerpt from the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. This public performance will be preceded by an afternoon workshop for interested students.
Wesleyan’s Javanese Gamelan Ensemble presents Javanese wayang kulit, or a shadow puppet play, that employs intricately carved leather puppets and is accompanied by a gamelan ensemble. A magnificent orchestra of bronze gongs, xylophone, drums, strings, and voices, the gamelan accompanies feasts, ceremonies, and dances.
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Diwali CelebrationDiwali is the Hindu Festival of Lights. The event, organized every fall by the Hindu Students' Association, involves fireworks outside the Hall of Presidents, a short presentation on the significance of the festival, a small ceremony, and a delicious meal. Event on Friday, November 10th, begins at 7pm in the James C. Colgate Hall, Hall of Presidents sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and Hindu Students' Association.
Fireworks will begin around 8 or 8:30 p.m.
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| Don't Miss the Exhibition!Chitra Ganesh: Architects of the Future at the Clifford Gallery, Little Hall
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Coming Soon: Asian Studies Instagram!
Asian Studies will be launching their own instagram account. You will be able to follow it here at the end of our newsletter once it is up and running.
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A Thousand Cuts documentary screening and discussion“If you don’t exercise your rights, you will lose them.”
-Maria Ressa
Event on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, A Thousand Cuts documentary screening and discussion Professors Alexander Karn (Department of History) and Anthony Farley (Gretchen Hoadley Burke ‘81 Endowed Chair of Regional Studies in the Department of Educational Studies) hosted a screening and discussion of the 2020 PBS Frontline documentary A Thousand Cuts. The documentary follows Maria Ressa, a renowned journalist and CEO of Filipino news site Rappler. Ressa became a top target of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on the news media. Her outspoken criticism of the president’s War on Drugs and policies of violence prompted attacks and misinformation campaigns from the Filipino government. Facing death threats on social media, she continued to speak out against the government’s abuses of power before getting arrested for cyber libel under the controversial Anti-Cybercrime law.
The subsequent discussion drew parallels between the attacks on democracy in the Philippines and those currently happening in the United States. The conversation addressed social patterns in the United States that warn of a similar path of corruption, touching on issues such as dehumanization, misogyny, and racism. Students wondered about possible individual actions to take in such times of political instability.
Maria Ressa authored this year’s Community Read, How to Stand Up to a Dictator. She was a 2021 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as TIME’s 2018 Person of the Year (among many other accolades). Ressa will be coming to speak at Colgate on October 28, 2023 as part of the Kerschner Family Global Leaders Series.
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Origami Stars Shine at the Tea Club Family Weekend Event
The stars were in jars for the Colgate Tea Club's Origami Lucky Stars Making event in the Lawrence Hall Japan Center on Friday October 27. Led by Tea Club members, including Tea Club President Rose Nguyen '24, students and visiting family created paper lucky stars while enjoying tea and snacks. For more information on the Colgate Tea Club, which educates and promotes tea culture on campus, contact teaclub@colgate.edu.
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Study Groups Featured at EALL Family Weekend Receptions
Study abroad was the theme at Family Weekend receptions hosted by the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department's Chinese and Japanese programs on October 28. In the China Center, Tai Pham '25 and Ryan D'Errico '25 gave visiting families a presentation on the Spring 2023 China Study Group to Taiwan. The department's Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Jack Hsueh laid out a variety of tasty Chinese-style snacks. In the Japan Center, just down the corridor in Lawrence Hall, Taylor MacDonald '24 and Ilya Bruck '24 presented on the Fall 2022 Japan Study Group. Participants and guests enjoyed making and eating authentic inari-zushi.
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