Events
Upcoming Events
Cultural Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 from 5-7p.m. (Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library). Representatives from the Higashi Aberyu, a Sencha school, will be providing a tea demonstration. Sencha (green tea) was introduced to Japan by a Zen Monk. Ingen-Zenshi from China in the early Edo period of the 17th century. These Zen teachings were refined into "the way of tea drinking" or Sencha-do. This event is sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan at Houston.
Brown-Bags
Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 12-2 p.m. (Humanities Bldg., Room 115, Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Conference Room, also called the Dean’s Conference Room). The Chao Center for Asian Studies will be hosting a brown-bag lunch on Thursday, to provide a forum for graduate students to introduce themselves and their research. Please email chaoctr@rice.edu to RSVP.
Thursday, September 17, 2009 from 12 -1 p.m. (Humanities Bldg., Room 115, Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Conference Room, also called the Dean’s Conference Room). Are you interested in a career doing research on Asia? Join fellow Asian Studies majors and faculty to discuss research at Rice University, including seeking funding from the Asian Studies Advanced Undergraduate Research Award (AURA). Seating is limited, and a light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP before Monday, Sept. 14.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 from 12 -1 p.m. (Humanities Bldg., Room 115, Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Conference Room, also called the Dean’s Conference Room). A get together to plan a Rice Graduate Student Transnational Asia Conference. All graduate students doing work on Asia related topics are invited to be a member of this planning committee. Please save the date on your calendar and invite your friends. I look forward to seeing you there!
Thursday November 5, 2009 from 12-1 pm( Humanities Bldg, Room 118). Our speaker is Yasufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He will deliver a paper titled, "The Reinvention of Tradition in Architecture in Postwar Japan: Katsura (1960), a Photographic Collaboration by Tange Kenzo- and Ishimoto Yasuhiro."
New Scholarship on Transnational Asia (NSTA)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 from 4-6 p.m. (RH 123). Assist. Prof. Boreth Ly (Department of Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz) will speak on ancient and contemporary arts of Southeast Asia and its diaspora.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. (HUM 119). Assit. Professor Tarek Elhaik (Anthropology Department, Rice University) will deliver a talk titled “Un-Making Mestizaje and Sinophobia: Reflections on Sergio de la Torre's Video Installation 'Nuevo Dragon City' (2008)”
Transnational Symposium
Friday, November 6, 2009 from 3-5 p.m. (RH 123). Assoc. Prof. Mark Metzler, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak about international relations, business and economic history of East Asia.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 4-6 p.m. (HUM 119). Thursday, November 12, Assoc. Prof. Deepa Reddy (Anthropology and Cross-cultural Studies, University of Houston –Clearlake) will deliver a talk titled, “Hindutva in Transnational Alignments”
