November 04, 2009
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies Presents: Peranakan Musical Cultures in Singapore
Source: The Peranakans - http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg/themuseum/abtperanakans.asp
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies invites you to a Friday-at-Noon lecture:
Peranakan Musical Cultures in Singapore
Lee Tong Soon, Department of Music, Emory University
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2009
1636 SSWB/International Institute
The Peranakan community in Singapore has made much concerted efforts in enhancing public understanding of their culture. With a mix of Chinese and Malay heritage, the roots of the Peranakan communities can be traced back to 17th century Malacca. Since the 1980s, Peranakan culture has been represented in the form of restaurants specializing in their cuisine, revival of Peranakan plays, and permanent exhibits of their architecture, dress, household paraphernalia, and crafts in museums. Such efforts complement, and indeed constitute the broader State's effort to create interests and concern on local heritage, thereby affirming the community as an integral part of the State's conception of a national culture. Peranakan musical practices in Singapore include the performance of music and songs in Peranakan plays, singing of Peranakan hymns and translations of English hymns in the Peranakan patois for Catholic masses, and dondang sayang singing sessions.
Much of the State's representation of Peranakan culture is inclined towards nostalgic and reified perspectives of Peranakan identities and belies the current state of anxiety the community faces in affirming who they are. In this presentation, I would like to explore the ways in which Peranakan music underscores the changing dynamics of Peranakan identities in Singapore. By focusing on musical activities of pre-WW2 amateur Peranakan music groups, I want to show how different musical practices of the community in early 20th century Singapore reveal shifting moments in the meanings, values, and functions of being Peranakan.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies.
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CCS faculty associate Bright Sheng's work celebrated in Chinese festival at Carnegie Hall
"Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture" will feature work by Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition and CCS faculty associate.
Bright Sheng's personal and professional experiences are in the spotlight as part of the Carnegie Hall festival's focus on modern Chinese composers and in a recent Wall Street Journal article on the first group of Chinese composers to emerge from the ashes of the Cultural Revolution.
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CCS and Confucius Institute arts offerings featured on annarbor.com
Prominent Chinese-American community activist and friend of CCS Frances Wang discusses upcoming Chinese music concert and art talks on annarbor.com.
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October 30, 2009
Grand Opening - Confucius Institute Events - November 5, 2009
Come and celebrate the grand opening of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, featuring an inaugural lecture entitled "De-familiarizing the Exotic: Appreciating the Arts of China in the 21st Century" by Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures and CCS faculty associate, as well as an evening of musical performance by the pipa virtuoso Yang Wei and members of the Chinese Ensemble of Renmin University of China.
Please click on poster for additional information.
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October 29, 2009
National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 8, 2009
Support of international activities is an integral part of the NSF's mission to sustain and strengthen the nation's science, mathematics, and engineering capabilities, and to promote the use of those capabilities in service to society. In particular, NSF recognizes the importance of enabling U.S. researchers and educators to advance their work through international collaborations, and of helping ensure that future generations of U.S. scientists and engineers gain professional experience beyond this nation's borders early in their careers.
What the Program Offers
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering:
1) first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan;
2) an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and
3) orientation to the society, culture and language.
The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. All institutes, except Japan, last approximately 8 weeks from June to August. Japan lasts approximately 10 weeks.
Award Benefits
EAPSI awardees receive a $5,000 stipend, international round-trip air fare to the host location, and are supported to attend a pre-departure orientation in the Washington, D.C. area.
Foreign co-sponsoring organizations provide additional support to cover EAPSI students' living expenses abroad during the period of the summer institutes, and provide an orientation to the science environment and culture(s) of each location.
Fields of Study
• Biological Sciences
• Computer and Information Science & Engineering
• Education (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)
• Engineering
• Geosciences
• Mathematical & Physical Sciences
• Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences
• Multidisciplinary Research
Eligibility
As of the deadline date of the application year, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
• U.S. citizen or permanent resident;
• Enrolled in a research-oriented master's or Ph.D. degree program (including joint degree programs);
• Students enrolled in joint Bachelor/Master's programs must have graduated from the undergraduate degree.
• Enrolled at a U.S. institution in the United States; and
• Pursuing studies in fields of science and engineering research and education supported by the National Science Foundation.
Previous EAPSI awardees may apply, but only to a new host location (Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan).
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October 26, 2009
AAS Dissertation Workshop, Philadelphia, March 28–31, 2010
"Popular Culture and Social Change"
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 11, 2009.
The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce plans for a ninth consecutive AAS Dissertation Workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Philadelphia next spring. The workshop will again be organized and led by David Szanton, and follow the model used in previous workshops.
No longer are Asian studies largely focused on courts and peasants, ancient cultures, classical texts, and traditional forms. Today all across the humanities and social sciences scholars are approaching and re-interpreting a rapidly changing Asia through various forms of popular culture (film, sports, TV, music, dance, radio, online networks, fiction, fashion, cuisine, fan clubs, martial arts, bars, drugs. etc.), concerned with how it is both producing and marking social, and cultural change all across the region. Intergenerational differences and tensions are growing all across the region, often with serious political consequences. Popular culture, as an alternative “unofficial view of the world,” as a form of subtle or overt resistance to the hegemonic, has become an important lens for approaching and analyzing Asia’s rapidly expanding middle classes, urbanization, consumerism, differentiation and stratification, political mobilization, geographical mobility, diasporic influences, and both transnational and globalizing sensibilities.
This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation proposals or are in early phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2) also dealing with the kinds of issues mentioned above in the context of contemporary or historic Asian states and societies.
The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of time periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns.
The workshop will be scheduled for the days immediately following the 2010 AAS annual meeting in Philadelphia. It will cover two and one-half days of intense discussion beginning the evening of Sunday, March 28, and running through the afternoon of Wed. March 31.
The AAS will be able to provide limited financial support for participants including three night’s accommodations, meals and “need-based” travel funds up to a maximum of $300. Students needing additional funds to attend the workshop are encouraged to approach their home institutions for support. It is hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting immediately prior to the workshop.
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CCS and the Global Lens 2009 Film Series: Zhang Yang's GETTING HOME, Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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October 23, 2009
Call For Papers: University of Toronto - East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference 2010
The 10th Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
13 March 2010 | University of Toronto
CALL FOR PAPERS
How might the understanding of “East Asia” – be it in terms of a geographical, historical, and cultural locus or as a space of fantasy and the imaginary – be illuminated by accounting for the ways in which desires are produced, structured, regulated, and mobilized through various institutions and discursive formations? Whether understood as lack or a productive force or a form of affective labor, desire is a concept that intersects with and imbricates a range of complex issues operating on the level of the libidinal as well as the material economy. Nationalism and imperialism, genders and sexualities, aesthetics and consumer culture, and the politics of alterity are but a few, yet are all
significant to the study of East Asia.
The East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of Toronto invites paper submissions for its 10th annual conference titled DESIRE, to be held on March 13, 2010. We seek papers that can critically interrogate the operations of desire, articulating how they are embedded in different modes of social organization at historically specific moments and bringing them into relation with larger issues of how East Asia is situated in the world. Submissions from graduate students around the world in all disciplines within and beyond the field of East Asian Studies, including history, sociology, anthropology, economy, art, literature, cultural studies, philosophy, and others are welcome.
Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):
– theories of desire and their complications in the East Asian context;
– literary and cultural representations and mediations of desire;
– the mobilization of desires and affects through cinema and other visual spectacles;
– intersections of nationalism and the construction of national identities with the constitution, regulation,
and circumscription of desire;
– the interplay of capitalism, commodity culture, and desiring production in East Asia;
– gender, sexuality, and the regimes through which desire is disciplined;
– the construction of East Asia as a space of fantasy, and its consequent structuring as object of desire.
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Linda Lim explains the tire tariff
Linda Lim, Strategy Professor, U-M Ross School of Business and CCS faculty associate, sits down for an interview on implications of the new tariff imposed on Chinese tires.
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October 21, 2009
Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Colloquium "Reconvening Asia: Embodiment, Transformation, Space"
Date: Friday October 23, 2009
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Rm 2022, Thayer Building
Papers to be given:
1) "The yoga in China: narratives of identity, syncretism, and hybridity and the study of East Asian Buddhism."
Professor Charles D. Orzech
University of North Carolina
2) "South Asian refractions in the prism of Diaspora: from ritual clowns and Sufi processions to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Bollywood movies."
Professor Pnina Werbner
Keele University
Staffordshire, UK
Papers will be available to distribution, please email harjeets@umich.edu for more information.
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October 20, 2009
CCS Photo Contest Exhibit - NOW through October 31, 2009
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China Entrepreneur Forum, October 31, 2009
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Call for Abstracts - 13th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference Facing East: Conversations and Connections
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
13th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference
Facing East: Conversations and Connections
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
February 26 - February 28, 2010
The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invites graduate students from around the world, conducting research in all disciplines, to submit abstracts for our 2010 conference:
Facing East: Conversations and Connections
As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, East Asia is exerting an unprecedented impact on global society. Now more than ever, we should explore every facet of East Asia, past and present, and engage in cooperative conversation.
The HEAS Graduate Student Conference is an annual conference which aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on East Asia. The conference is an opportunity for young scholars to present their research to both their peers and eminent scholars in East Asian Studies. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also enable participants to meet others in their field conducting similar research and forge new friendships.
We welcome submissions from graduate students in all disciplines. Papers should be related to East Asia, Inner Asia, Singapore, or Vietnam. We will consider submissions of individual papers and panel proposals.
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Update from the China Data Center
The China Data Center is pleased to report the following updates on its China Data Online services:
1. The yearbook database has been updated with about 300 additional statistical yearbooks, including China 2009 Statistical Yearbook and some other national, provincial and city statistical yearbooks
2. There is a new dynamic map service (Statistics on Map II) for statistical data, which offers dynamic maps, report, charts and living animation.
3. The China Spatial Data Reports and Maps (DemographicsNowChina), which offer spatial intelligence for demographic and business Census data retrieval and analysis. Your users should be able to get full access to all the data of Jiangxi province if your library has not subscribed to it yet.
Please visit http://chinadataonline.org for these updates. And feel free to e-mail chinadata@umich.edu if there is any question.
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October 19, 2009
The Asian Institute at the University of Toronto invites applications and participants for a dissertation workshop on "Democracy and Identity in Asia"
The Asian Institute of University of Toronto invites applications from graduate students for a dissertation workshop to be held May 13-15, 2010.
The workshop will focus on the themes of democracy and identity in any part of Asia. Applicants should be researching some aspect of the politics of identity recognition in Asia in recent decades, and the challenges it has posed to practices and understandings of democracy.
Questions to be considered include: How do emerging democracies accommodate group demands? How do historically defined notions of state and nation clash with emerging claims for ethnic, gender, and sexual identity recognition? How is the very meaning of democracy in Asia being reformulated to account for these claims? What kinds of political spaces have allowed the mobilization of identity-based movements to develop in Asia?
The workshop will take place over two or three days on the campus of the University of Toronto. It will include a small group of students and a few faculty members representing different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. The costs of the workshop, meals, and accommodations will be covered by the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto.
Travel will be subsidized up to a maximum of CDN$500 per participant. Applicants should seek additional travel grants from their home institutions, and consult with the Asian Institute if travel costs prove problematic.
APPLICATION DEADLINE is JANUARY 15, 2010:
Applications consist of two items:
1) A current curriculum vitae.
2) An 8 to 10 page double spaced dissertation proposal. Alternatively, if the work is well underway, an 8 to 10 page double spaced description of the specific issues being addressed, the
intellectual approach, and the materials being studied. Workshop participants will be selected on the content of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the
benefits of including a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and intellectual traditions. Applications should be sent by email attachment to asian.institute@utoronto.ca. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by January 31st. For further information about the workshop or eligibility, please contact asian.institute@utoronto.ca.
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October 14, 2009
American University Department of Language and Foreign Studies Chinese Tenure-Track Position to Begin AY 2010-2011
The Department of Language and Foreign Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences of American University invites applications for a Tenure-Track position in Chinese at the rank of Assistant Professor starting in August 2010. The department is seeking applicants who will demonstrate excellence in scholarship and teaching.
Possible areas of specialization: Chinese language, literature, culture, Linguistics, or Chinese culture studies.
Responsibilities: Develop a significant research agenda. Teach undergraduate courses in all levels of Mandarin Chinese, and develop content courses in civilization/culture.
Minimum qualifications: PhD (or equivalent) in Chinese literature, linguistics or culture. Near-native fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English.
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
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Oakland University Art Gallery (OUAG) - Writing an Image: Chinese Literati Art - now through November 22, 2009
All special events are held in the OUAG and are without charge, unless otherwise noted. (OUAG is on the Oakland University campus next to the MBT, I-75 exit 79, University Drive.)
Guqin concert:
"Archaic Scent of the Plum Pavilion"
with Guqin Master Wu Ziying
Friday, October 16, 8:00 p.m.
Varner Recital Hall, Oakland University
Ticket information: (248) 370-3013
Lecture:
"The Elegant and Transcendent Chinese Literati Painting"
by Marshall Wu
Senior Curator of Asian Art (emeritus), University of Michigan Museum of Art
Saturday, October 17, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Literati Painting Demonstration:
by Yu Zengshan, from Nantong, China
Saturday, October 17, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
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October 13, 2009
China Learning Seminar: Spatial Intelligence for China and Global Studies
The PowerPoint presentation is now available here.
China Learning Seminar:
Spatial Intelligence for China and Global Studies
by
Shuming Bao
China Data Center
University of Michigan
12:00PM-1:00PM, Thursday, October 22, 2009
1644 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S University Ave
Abstract: The government statistics, Census data, and GIS data provide comprehensive demographic, economic and business information for China studies. This seminar will present some spatial intelligence technologies for spatial data integration, data selection, and data analysis. It will demonstrate how space-time data of different formats and sources can be integrated, visualized, and reported in a web based system. Some applications in disaster assessment, environment, health, regional development, cultural and religious studies, and household surveys will be discussed for China and global studies.
Food and drinks will be provided. The seminar is open to public. Please register at
http://chinadatacenter.org/registration/index.htm.
For details, visit http://chinadatacenter.org/newcdc/events/CDC_seminar_2009_10_22.htm.
Please contact chinadata@umich.edu or 734-647-9610 if there are any questions.
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October 09, 2009
Hong Kong Today and Beyond: Economy and Opportunities
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October 08, 2009
CCS Alumnus Nicholas Lardy and Professor Emeritus Kenneth Lieberthal talk about new tariffs on Chinese tires
"Why Obama is taxing Chinese tires"
by Nina Easton, CNNMoney.com
10/08/2009
"U.S.-China leadership can take air out of tire spat"
by Paul Eckert, Reuters
09/14/2009
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Kenneth Lieberthal discusses China's emergence during global economic crisis
China is very likely to be the second-most-powerful country — if it isn't now, then within a decade.
"Amid the global economic crisis, China rises"
by Joe McDonald, The Associated Press
10/08/2009
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Guest Recital: MingHuan Xu, violin and Winston Choi, piano
Saturday, October 10
Guest Recital: MingHuan Xu, violin and Winston Choi, piano
E.V. Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall
8:00 PM
Representing the faculties of Roosevelt University in Chicago (Choi) and Grand Valley State University in Michigan (Xu), this internationally honored duo will present works for solo piano and violin by Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Jeffrey Mumford, Bright Sheng, Maurice Ravel, as well as the Cesar Franck sonata for piano and violin.
Chinese Canadian violinist MingHuan Xu is a multi-faceted performer with unique communicative abilities. She has delighted audiences with her passion, incredible technique, sensitivity and charisma. Her versatility allows her to perform an eclectic mix of musical styles ranging from the standard works to avant-garde contemporary repertoire. She has performed extensively as a concerto soloist, duo recitalist and chamber musician, all across China, Europe,North America and South America.
Winner of the 2002 Orléans Concours International and Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition, Canadian pianist Winston Choi is an inquisitive performer whose fresh approach to standard repertory, and masterful understanding, performance and commitment to works by living composers, make him one of today’s most dynamic young concert artists.
Free - no tickets required
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October 06, 2009
A Community between Two Nations: The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978
The University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday-at-Noon lecture presents
Friday, October 9, 2009
"A Community between Two Nations: The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978"
Han Xiaorong, Butler University
12:00 – 1:30 pm
1636 SSWB/International Institute
Market stall in Hanoi, 2006. Photo by Ryan Hoover.
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