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NCSU Asian Students Association presents...
ASIA NIGHT 2007-Making of the Ultimate Boy
Band
Join 5 emcees on their journey to learning different Asian traditions and
cultures and encompassing them into acts, creating the greatest boy band EVER.
We are pleased to feature hip hop duo, Direct and Theresa Vu of Magnetic North.
Date: Saturday, Feb 3rd
Time: 7:00p-9:30p
Location: NCSU's Stewart Theater in Talley Student Center
Cost: Students- $7, Public- $10
For more information, vist:
http://www.ncsu.edu/stud_orgs/asa/asianight2007.html
Tickets can be purchased from ASA execs or reserved online:
http://www.ncsu.edu/www/ncsu/ncsu/serviceraleigh/2006/phpform/use/test4/asatickets.html
The afterparty will be at Touch
Lounge:
Doors open at 11:00pm
$5 for those who attended show
$8 for those who missed out
Directions: Take I-40W. Take Exit 284. Take LEFT onto Airport Blvd. Turn
RIGHT onto Factory Shops Rd. Touch Lounge is on the RIGHT.
If you have any questions, please email Emily, ewhon@ncsu.edu.
Hope to see you there!
The Nasher Museum
of Art
and Screen/Society
present...
Voices from the Margins:
Contemporary Chinese
Documentary Film
-- a Spring 2007 film series
The 1990s saw an explosive growth in Chinese language documentary films on both
sides
of the Taiwan Strait. New voices emerged
in Beijing, Taipei and other major cities
heralded by young filmmakers whose visions of the Chinese societies were as
refreshing
as they continue to be unrelenting. The first of its kind in North
Carolina, this film series
bring together six documentary works, spanning from 1990 to the present, that
focus on
social subjects on the margins of society in China
and Taiwan.
With styles ranging from
cinema verite to poetic and autobiographical documentary, these films offer
insight into
contemporary Chinese speaking societies in an era when the world's largest
nation is well
on its way to attaining Superpower status on the world stage. These films
juggle death,
prejudice and hardship with compassion and humor. All films have English
subtitles.
Curated by Guo-Juin Hong,
Assistant Professor, Asian & African Languages & Literature (Duke University)
Screenings take place at 7pm on Thursday
nights,
and are Free and Open to the Public.
Screening Schedule:
(7pm/Nasher
Auditorium)
Thu
Jan 25:
Bumming
in Beijing (dir.
Wu Wenguang, 1990, 90 min, China,
Chinese with English subtitles, Color, DVD) The director films the everyday lives of
five artists, all jobless and lacking official permits to live in Beijing, chronicling arts
and artists' lives before 1989.
-- followed by a Q&A with director Wu
Wenguang, appearing in person!
Thu Feb 8:
At Home in the World (dir. Wu
Wenguang, 1998, 90 min, China, Chinese with English subtitles, Color, DVD) A year after making Bumming in Beijing, in the wake of the
Tiananmen Square tragedy, the director visits the same 5 artists in Austria,
France, Italy and the United States to ask “Are you still the people you used
to be? What does it mean to be an artist in a foreign country?”
Thu Feb 22:
Out of Phoenix Bridge (dir. Li Hong, 1997, 110 min, China, Chinese with English subtitles, Color,
VHS) Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentarian,
follows two years in the lives of four young women from the countryside
who have come to Beijing
for jobs.
Thu March 8:
Urban
Sonnets (dir. Huang Si-Jia, 2002, 60 min, Taiwan, Chinese with English subtitles, Color,
DVD) A documentary about two
young people seeking dream fulfillment and careers in China, traveling across unexpected cultural
boundaries in Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Thu March 22:
No Season (dir. Wan Pei Chi,
2002, 60 min, Taiwan, Chinese with English subtitles, Color, DVD) Three
generations of women and one continuous, if disrupted and fractured, route of
migration, from China to Taiwan to the United States and back to Taiwan.
Thu April 5:
Scars on Memory (dir. Micky Chen, 2005,
50 min, Taiwan, Chinese with
English subtitles, Color, DVD)
Two gay men lose their lovers to AIDS and liver cancer in Taipei. Their
personal tragedies are an opaque window into prejudice against homosexuality
and the struggle for humanity.
Sponsored by
the Nasher
Museum of Art and the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute,
with support from
the Dept. of Asian & African Languages
& Literature,
the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology,
the Dept. of Art, Art History and Visual
Studies,
and the Film/Video/Digital Program.
EVENTS @
the Nasher Museum of Art related to the exhibition "Between Past and
Future: New Photography and Video from China" (on view through Sunday,
February
18, 2007)
GALLERY TALK
Sunday, January 21, 2007 @ 2pm
With Stan Abe, associate professor specializing in Chinese art, theory &
criticism in Duke's Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. Please
meet outside the Museum Auditorium.
TEACH-IN
Sunday, January 28, 2007 @ 3pm
Join Ralph Litzinger, director of Duke's Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; Kang
Liu, professor of Asian and African languages and literature; and Tianjian Shi,
associate professor of political science, for a teach-in to discuss Between
Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China.
LECTURE
Friday, February 9, 2007 @ 6pm
Francesca Dal Lago, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Icons of "China":
Reappropriating Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture
CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Sunday, February 18, 2007 from 12 - 4pm
Celebrate the Year of the Boar - and the last day of Between Past and Future:
New Photography and Video from China
- with live entertainment and make-and-take crafts. Co-sponsored by the
Triangle Area Chinese American
Society of North Carolina.
FILM
SERIES
Voices from the Margins: Contemporary Chinese Documentary Film
Thursday nights @ 7pm, free
January 25, February 8 & 22, March 8 & 22, April 5
See http://www.nasher.duke.edu/events_film.php
for descriptions of the films.
Ethnomusicology Job Talk and Music
Lecture-Demonstration by:
Joshua Pilzer
(UC Santa Barbara,
visiting assistant professor of music)
Entitled
"Song and the
Public Secret Histories of the Korean 'Comfort Women'"
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Talk at 1:15 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 130/132
AND
"Thresholds of
the Korean Musical Everyday"
A lecture-demonstration
on Korean music.
Friday Jan 26, 2007
3-4pm
Biddle Music
Building, Room 086
Hosted by the Dept of
African and Asian Languages and Literature.
Hello! I am contacting you in hopes that you might be able
to forward information about an important film project to members of the Asian
Students Association via email. While a number of Vietnam War movies have
made enormous waves in American culture, none have given a remotely Vietnamese
perspective. The movie "Journey from the Fall", which is due to
be released this spring (by Imaginasian Pictures), is the first Vietnamese-made
film to recount the war and its aftermath. It has been critically acclaimed at
a number of international film festivals, including Sundance. The movie
is incredibly poignant, tracing a divided family's variegated journey through
re-education camps, as boat-people (refugees) on the high sea, and as
immigrants to the United
States.
Please check out and join the film's MySpace site:
www.myspace.com/journeyfromthefall
Any grassroots support you could provide would be really appreciated!
All the best,
Jamie
Hello,
My name is Shannon Connell, and I am
contacting your organization on behalf of A Helping Hand, a local non profit
organization dedicated to helping senior citizens and adults who face temporary
or permanent disabilities by providing them with a companion service.
For the past six years, A Helping Hand has put on Valentine "Delivery and
Serenade," which is a day dedicated to delivering hand-crafted cards,
roses and serenades to our clients and more than 2000 others who reside in
continued care, assisted living communities and nursing homes around the
community.
We're currently seeking volunteers to assist with our program by delivering
valentines to local senior citizens on Saturday, Feb. 10. You can also help by having your group create
valentines for the event,
which you can drop off at our office at 1777 Fordham Blvd, Suite 202-2. Additionally, we welcome any monetary
donations to help fund the event that has brought love and support to so many
seniors over the years.
If members of your organization are interested in partaking in this wonderful
community event, please let me know. You can reach me by e-mail at smconnel@email.unc.edu, or you can
contact A Helping Hand at 919-969-7111. We would be more than happy to answer
any questions that you may have about the event or our organization. A flyer
with more details is attached.
Thank you for your time, and I sincerely hope that you will consider making
your organization a part of this great opportunity to give community seniors a Valentine's
Day they will never forget!
Sincerely,
Shannon Connell
Membership Vice President
Alpha Phi Omega
A Helping Hand Volunteer Recruiter
1. Saturday
Night calling for submissions for edition 4
DEADLINE EXTENDED for submissions: SUNDAY, JAN 28.
Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Duke is a publication
designed to share both survivor narratives and community commentaries. Since
its first release in spring 2003, Saturday Night has been used in various
classroom and extracurricular settings to foster honest dialogue to raise
awareness and ultimately aid in sexual assault prevention. It was awarded
Leading at Duke Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Campus Life"
in spring 2006.
Men and women of all races, all sexual orientations and all Duke affiliations
(students, faculty, staff, alumni) are encouraged to submit personal
narratives, reflective essays, poems or artworks for the fourth edition. Scope
of submissions includes, but is not limited to:
-stories of survivors and secondary survivors (families and friends)
-commentaries and reflections by any Duke community members on the issue of
sexual assault
-reader responses to past Saturday Night articles.
The publication is meant to honor those who have been
affected by sexual assault while offering a measure of healing through the
sharing of stories. The issues surrounding sexual assault are not just a
survivor's issues. They are our own as well. Help us break the silence.
DEADLINE for submissions: SUNDAY, JAN 28. All submitters are guaranteed
confidentiality; all selected submissions are published anonymously. Find out
more at www.duke.edu/web/saturdaynight/submissions.html
Submissions/Questions can be sent to saturdaynightduke@gmail.com
2. "What is Sexual Assault" Campaign
Have you heard of Duke's ethical definition of sexual assault? What does it
mean to you? How do you make sense of it?
Saturday Night's "What is Sexual Assault Campaign" provides an online
forum to share anonymously what sexual assault means to you. www.duke.edu/web/saturdaynight/guestbook.html
There is no correct answer. Let us hear what you think. Please see sample
responses below.
A. What does sexual assault look like at Duke?
"It looks like two of my best friends- I never anticipated that I would be
forced to be so personally affected and confronted by this issue when I first
arrived at this school."
"Ugly. Secretive. Widespread."
B. Is there a gray area when it comes to sexual assault at Duke?
"Absolutely not. Despite what some of my peers think, my short skirt,
flirty behavior, and high heels are not an invitation"
"Yes, there's a gray area, especially when people fail to communicate with
each other… "
C. How can sexual assault be reduced?
"We need to stop having an attitude that sexual assault is a woman's
issue..... "
"I think there are two keys: education and communication.... "
The Asia Pacific Leadership Program
NEW
FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE
Entering its sixth year, the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the
center of excellence for leadership education in the Asia Pacific region. The APLP
is a graduate certificate program combining the development of regional
expertise with the enhancement of individual leadership capacity. Based
at the East-West Center
in Honolulu, Hawaii, the program is creating a network of
dynamic leaders from around the world who are familiar with the critical issues
and cultures of the Asia Pacific region and trained to work collaboratively.
The program involves intensive coursework and field studies. All
participants receive an APLP Entry Fellowship valued at approximately $10,000.
Participants
The Asia Pacific Leadership Program seeks outstanding individuals with high
leadership potential from across the Asia Pacific region, North
America and beyond. All participants have at least a
Bachelors degree with the majority having graduate degrees as well. At
least 20 countries are represented in each cohort. APLP Fellows come
together from all walks of life, including areas as diverse as government,
business, NGOs, health sciences, media, monastic orders, and the academe.
Participants
will gain a broad regional perspective, become knowledgeable about the critical
challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region, and be trained to exercise
collaborative leadership and promote cooperation toward the well-being of the countries
and peoples of the region. The APLP empowers future leaders with the
knowledge, skills, experiences and supportive community needed to successfully
navigate personal and regional change in the 21st century.
The program was established through generous funding support from the Freeman
Foundation.
For more information about the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, as well as
application forms and fellowship opportunities, please visit our website at:
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp
Recruitment for 2007-08 is open. Places are limited. Applications
are accepted on a rolling basis. The
deadline is February 15, 2007.
The East-West Center
is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress
in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations
of Asia, the Pacific, and the United
States. The Center contributes to a
peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous
hub for cooperative research, education, and dialogue on critical issues of
common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the
Center comes from the U.S.
government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals,
foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region
http://www.duke.edu/APSI/index.html
China facing major gender imbalance -
Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/china_gender_imbalance
Southeast
Asian leaders form trade zone - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_on_bi_ge/asean_summit
EDUCATION |
January 23, 2007
At Princeton, a Parody Raises Questions of Bias
By KAREN W. ARENSON
An article in broken English in the annual joke issue of the student daily
parodying an Asian-American student who had filed a civil rights complaint
against Princeton has sparked accusations of bias.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/education/23princeton.html?ex=1170219600&en=457685418f446fd1&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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