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Spring 2008March 24, 2008 Pre-Departure HPAIR Luncheon. Boston University students selected to attend the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations met with faculty advisors, Professors Menegon, Fewsmith, and Grimes, as well as the Associate Provost of Undergraduate Studies to discuss the upcoming conference and the future of Asian studies at BU. For photographs of the event, please click here. Fall 2007October 23, 2007 Fall 2007 Asian Studies Reception. An occasion for undergraduate and graduate studnets in Asian Studies to meet their peers, mingle with Asian Studies faculty, enjoy some Asian refreshments, and find out more about Asian Studies at BU! For more information, contact asiabu@bu.edu. November 16, 2007: "Chinese Rap: Kuaiban and Popular Performance Arts in China". Performance by Dr. Jan Walls (see http://web.mac.com/janwwalls). Sponsored by: BU East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Program, BU Department of Modern, Languages and Comparative Literature, ASIABU (Asian Studies Initiative at Boston University), Boston Children's Museum. For more Information, contact: asiabu@bu.edu November 30 - December 1, 2007: 2007 Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Boston University. The BU Graduate Student Conference on East Asia aims to provide a forum for graduate students from various institutions and diverse disciplines to share ideas and to discuss their works in progress with peers and with leading scholars in the field of East Asian studies. As an interdisciplinary conference, the BU Graduate Conference on East Asia includes topics focusing on East Asian history and international history as pertains to East Asia, in addition to the current East Asian political, socio-economic, and cultural climates. Keynote address was given by Professor Emeritus Ezra Vogel of Harvard University, "East Asia towards the year 2010: What the Region Should, Can, and Will Do." Click here for a full schedule of events. December 1st, 2007: All in Good Taste: A Boston Tea Party. The Howard Thurman Center sponsored a tasting of teas from around the world, as well as pastries, deserts, and games. December 3rd, 2007: Discussion on Environment in Western China by Prof. Zhang Jijiao and Prof. Du Fachun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) on a WWF project, "Climate Change and its Impact on Local Environment in the Source Region of the Yangzi River," and "Ecological Migration in the West of China." Summer 2007June 20, 2007: Lecture by Dr. Cheng-Sheng Tu, Minister of Education, Taiwan Spring 2007:January 22, 2007— BU East Asian Religions Faculty Search -- Prof. Jennifer Eichman (Seton Hall University and Academia Sinica), "Chinese Buddhist Networks in the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620)." January 29, 2007— BU East Asian Religions Faculty Search -- Dr. Jason A. Josephson (Postdoctal Fellow, Princeton; Ph.D. Stanford), "The Invention of 'Religion' in Meiji Japan." February 5, 2007 — Talk in Japanese Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature -- Christian Ratcliff (Ph.D., Yale University), "The Jostle and Push: Medieval Japanese Poets in Competitive Fields of Cultural Service." February 7, 2007 —Spring 2007 Asian Studies Reception February 8, 2007 — Talk in Japanese Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature -- Keith Vincent (Ass. Prof., New York University), "Mishima Yukio: Camp, Kitsch, or Crazy?" February 12, 2007 — Talk in Japanese Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature -- Torquil Duthie (Ass. Prof., University of Pittsburgh), "The Patterning of Collective Voice in Early Japanese Poetry" February 14, 2007 — 2007 Chinese New Year Party - Sponsored by Chinese Conversation Club and BU Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature -- Samuel Perry (Ph.D., University of Chicago), "Fiction for Revolution in Early Twentieth Century Japan." February 14, 2007 — Talk in Japanese Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature -- Samuel Perry (Ph.D., University of Chicago), "Fiction for Revolution in Early Twentieth Century Japan." March 7, 2007— Roger Ames, professor of Chinese philosophy at the University of Hawai'i, editor of the important journal Philosophy East and West, and a world authority on early Chinese thought and comparative philosophy, will deliver the Rouner Memorial Lecture at BU's Institute of Philosophy and Religion. For updates, see the Institute's site at http://www.bu.edu/ipr/ March 22nd-25th, 2007— Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies April 3, 2007 — "The Taiyechi Royal Garden and Shangyanggong: New Light on Garden Archaeology of the Tang Dynasty, " Dr. Jiang Bo (Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing) April 4, 2007 — "Several Questions Concerning the Origins of Ancient Chinese Civilization," Prof. Wang Wei (Director, Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing). April 11, 2007 — "Essentializing Hybridity: Cedric Dover's conception of "the Eurasian" as an Emergent Race," Emma Teng (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT). April 26, 2007 — "Harji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang, Master of Arabic Calligraphy," Spring Cultural Event, BU Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations and Islamic Society of Boston University. A brief slideshow on Islam in China and a live presentation by master calligrapher, Haji Noor Deen. Fall 2006October 3, 2006 — Presidential Delegation from Xiamen University (PRC) visiting BU and meeting with President Brown and BU faculty and administrators October 25, 2006 —"Evil and Conventional Truth in Chinese Buddhist Thought." (Prof. Brook Ziporyn, Northwestern University). 5:00 PM, ninth floor of the Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary's Street, open to the public. November 2, 2006 — Delegation from Shandong University (PRC) visiting BU November 7, 2006 — Japanese Butoh: Performance, Lecture, Workshop — Founder of GooSayTen, Itto Morita, will hold a lecture with visuals at Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) titled "Butoh Body: Japanese Conceptions of the Body and Butoh Dance." The lecture will be followed by a reception at CURA and a Butoh workshop. November 8th, 2006 - "To the White, To the Sky," GooSayTen Butoh Dance Duo Japanese Butoh performance presented by the Japan Society of Boston.
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