History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
History in Images, History in Words:
In Search of Facts
in Documentary Filmmaking
A lecture by Carma Hinton
Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University
Monday April 10, 2017 from 4-7 pm
at the Photonics Center (9th fl.), 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston University
My presentation will focus on the process of documentary filmmaking, especially the many challenges my team and I faced in trying to create engaging filmic narratives that are both factually accurate and encompass multiple perspectives. I will use excerpts from my films as well as out-takes to illustrate the difficulties in determining what information to include and exclude, assess the compromises involved in the choices, and explore the consequences of taking various possible paths. I will also address the different problems that a historian encounters when presenting history in images as opposed to in words: the potential and limitation of each medium and what information each might privilege or obscure. I believe that in this age of “alternative facts” and “parallel universes,” reflections on the challenges in obtaining authenticity and truth and the importance of relentlessly striving to reach this goal, take on particularly urgent meaning.
About the speaker:
Carma Hinton is an art historian and a filmmaker. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and is now Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University. Together with Richard Gordon, Hinton has directed many documentary films, including Small Happiness, All Under Heaven, To Taste a Hundred Herbs, Abode of Illusion: The Life and Art of Chang Dai-chien, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, and Morning Sun. She has won two Peabody Awards, the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival, and a National News & Documentary Emmy, among others. Hinton is currently working on a book about Chinese scrolls depicting the theme of demon quelling. Carma Hinton was born in Beijing. Chinese is her first language and culture.
Multiple Layers and One Unity: —A Case Study on Local Religion and Rituals in China, April 27
The BU Center for the Study of Asia and the CAS Department of Anthropology
are pleased to present a lecture by
DU Shuhai 杜树海
(Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Xiamen University)
Multiple Layers and One Unity: A New Way to Understand Chinese Culture—
A Case Study on Local Religion and Rituals in China
This lecture, which will be presented in Chinese, will take place at
PLS 505 (African Studies Seminar Room), 232 Bay State Road, 5th floor at 3:30 pm
Frank Korom Interview: Asian Ethnology Podcast
Asian Ethnology Podcast Interview with Frank J. Korom
Ben Dorman interviews co-editor of Asian Ethnology
asianethnology.org/page/podcastkorom
Recorded 24 November 2017, Nagoya, Japan
Asian Folklore Studies and Asian Ethnology, and the various research projects he has been involved with, including work as a museum curator.
Frank J. Korom is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Boston University and co-editor of Asian Ethnology. His research and teaching interests range from South Asian expressive traditions and contemporary religion to diaspora studies and transnationalism. He is also interested in film, ritual, and performance studies. He is also an affiliated faculty member of Harvard University’s Program on Mythology and Folklore.
The Ten Thousand Rooms Project: A Collaborative Workspace for Pre-Modern Textual Studies
The Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is pleased to present the next lecture in its Digital China Initiative Workshop Series
The Ten Thousand Rooms Project:
A Collaborative Workspace for Pre-Modern Textual Studies
by Prof. Michael Hunter
(Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University)
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from 4:30 to 5:30 pm
Abstract:
Supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Yale University, the Ten Thousand Rooms Project is an online, open-access workspace that enables collaborative work (transcriptions, translations, annotations, etc.) on pre-modern texts and objects. In this talk, Prof. Hunter will introduce the platform and discuss its history and future prospects, particularly within the context of the East Asian digital humanities scene and the emerging International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) community. Students and faculty interested in using the platform are especially encouraged to attend.
Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/4hJH7P
The lecture will take place
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from 4:30 to 5:30 pm
William James Hall, Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Boston College Colloquium—Calamity from Within: Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
Special Event: Harvard Asia Center 20th anniversary
Harvard University presents
Asia Center 20th Anniversary
Friday, April 13, 2018 from 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue
Columbia University presents
From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue:
A Symposium on the History of Art, Science,
and Religion in Jesuit China
Friday, May 4, 2018 from 10 am - 4:30 pm
in Schermerhorn Hall 612, Columbia University
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Organized by Daniel Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara
(Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology)
Speakers:
Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University of St. Louis)
Walter Melion (Emory University)
Eugenio Menegon (Boston University)
Jeffrey Muller (Brown University)
Sponsored by Columbia University's Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Dept. of Italian, Dept. of Religion, and Dept. of East Asian Languages and Culture, the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, The Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
2018 Taiwan Fellowship Program
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) has announced the 2018 Taiwan Fellowship Program. The program provides an exciting opportunity for scholars, research fellows, doctoral students, and experts from around the world to conduct research at colleges, universities, and academic institutions in Taiwan. Research may be within in the social sciences, humanities, a topic related to Taiwan, cross-Strait relations, Mainland China, the Asia-Pacific, or Sinology.In addition to one round-trip airline ticket between the Taiwan Fellowship recipient's country of residence and Taiwan (with a maximum subsidy for each area), he/she will also be awarded a monthly stipend during the research period in Taiwan. Those interested in conducting research in Taiwan from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019 are welcome to apply for the Fellowship. The open application period is from May 1 to June 30, 2018.Additional information can be found at the official website: http://taiwanfellowship.ncl.edu.tw
Schwarzman Scholars Information Session
Schwarzman Scholars Information Session
Guest: Christian Tanja, Admissions and Selection Officer
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
The event will take place at:Rafik B. Hariri Building, Room 322
Questrom School of Business, 595 Commonwealth Ave., Boston University
Register here
The Office of Fellowships and Scholarships welcomes the Schwarzman Scholars program to campus for an information session on Wednesday, April 4. BU celebrated its first Schwarzman Scholar this past fall, and we’re encouraging more students to consider this incredible opportunity in the upcoming application cycle. Students from all academic disciplines and career paths are eligible.
Schwarzman Scholars is a program designed to prepare future leaders to serve as intermediaries between China and the rest of the world by helping them understand China’s culture, economy, governance and evolving role in the world. Up to 200 Scholars chosen annually from around the world for this highly selective, fully-funded program will have an unrivaled opportunity to live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, attending lectures, traveling and developing first-hand exposure to China, its people and a global group of promising leaders. Scholars will study for a one-year Masters degree in public policy, international studies, or economics and business at Tsinghua University, one of China’s most prestigious institutes of higher education with a 100 year history of strengthening ties between China and the rest of the world and a record of producing leaders such as President Xi Jinping, former President Hu Jintao, and former Premier Zhu Rongji.
BUCSA Scholars at the AAS 2018 Annual Meeting
Boston University is well represented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Washington, DC, 22-25 March 2018. Thirteen BU faculty members are participating in a number of interesting sessions:
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Panel 22 “Saving the Soul of Our Youth:” Religious Education and Ethical Dilemmas in Southeast Asia.
Chaired by Erica Larson, Boston University
- Christian and Muslim Youth in Indonesia: Learning to Navigate Inter-Religious Boundaries. Erica Larson, Boston University
- Ethical Alternatives: Islamic Private Education among the Malaysian Middle Class. Sarah Kelman, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Internalizing Thainess: Education and Moral Development in a Northern Thai Monastery. Michael Chladek, University of Chicago
- Unburdening the Heart: Urban Youth and Buddhist Emotional Education in Contemporary Vietnam. Dat Nguyen, Boston University
Discussant: Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross
Friday, March 23, 2018
Panel 57 Waste and Economies of Recycling in India
Chaired by Frank Korom, Boston University
- Clean India! Swachh Bharat! Obstacles and Advantages. Robin Jeffrey, Institute of South Asian Studies Singapore
- Partial Interventions and Everyday Practices: Apprehending a Scrap Market in Delhi. Ishani Saraf, University of California, Davis
- “There’s No Definition of Old in This Market”: Reuse Economies in India’s e-Waste Capital. Julia Corwin, University of Minnesota
- “Black Gold”: The Recycling of Hair in India. Assa Doron, Australian National University
Discussant: Frank Korom, Boston University
Panel 135 Waiting as Care? The Ethics of Terminal Illness in Asia
Chaired by Merav Shohet, Boston University
- Waiting as Moral Navigation: AIDS and End-of-Life Care in Aceh, Indonesia. Annemarie Samuels, Leiden University
- Waiting For, Waiting On, and Waiting With: Filial Piety, Good Care, and Family in Non-Family-Based Elder Care Settings in Chengdu, China. Lillian Prueher, University Washington
- “Many People Suffer”: The Ethics of Waiting and Sustaining Family Care in Vietnam. Merav Shohet, Boston University
- (Be)Sieged: Chronic Illness, Waiting, and the Longue Durée in Kashmir. Saiba Varma, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Sarah Pinto, Tufts University
Panel 153 Writing Men and Women in Imperial Japan: Performing and Contesting Gender in Literature, 1870-1945
Chaired by Robert Tuck, University of Montana
“Modest and Proper (For a Lady Poet):” Female Kanshi Writers in Early Meiji. Robert Tuck, University of Montana
Rhetoric of Metamorphosis: Children’s Play in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s “Boy.” Wakako Suzuki, University of California, Los Angeles
Styling Gendered Selves: Dazai Osamu’s Wartime Stories. Anri Yasuda, George Washington University
The Emotional as Literary Style: Bibun and Yoshiya Nobuko. Sarah Frederick, Boston University
Discussant: James Reichert, Stanford University
Panel 178 Unpacking Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama: Internal Tensions, Regional Variations, and Current Transformations Sponsored by Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee
Chaired by Robert W. Hefner, Boston University
Contesting Conservative Mobilization: Nahdlatul Ulama, Sectarian Politics and Post-Gus Dur Identity. Greg Fealy, Australian National University
Abdurrahman Wahid and Nahdlatul Ulama: Organizational Transformations in the Muslim World
Between Blind Obedience and Irrelevance: A Political Theory of the Fatwa. Jeremy Menchik, Boston University
Religious Competition and Anti-minority Mobilization: Nahdlatul Ulama beyond East Java. Alexandre Pelletier, University of Toronto
Discussant: Robert W. Hefner, Boston University
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Panel 275 Postsocializing Queer Desires in China
Chaired by Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Rethinking Postsocialism through Queer Marxism. Petrus Liu, Boston University
- Violence and Awakening: Male Same-Sex Relations during the Cultural Revolution. Wenqing Kang, Cleveland State University
- Queering China on the Rise: A Critical Examination of Homonationalism in the Chinese Context. Wei Wei, East China Normal University
Discussant: Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
Panel 349 Gender, Local Identity, Public Space, and Art Patronage: New Dimensions in Chinese Religion from the Ming to Contemporary China and Taiwan
Chaired by Robert Weller, Boston University
- Daoist Patronage and Practice of Arts, Elite Culture and Politics, and Local Society in Late Qing Nanyang. Xun Liu, Rutgers University
- Religion, Identity, and Civil Society: Neighborhood Temple Procession in Taiwan. Shin-yi Chao, University of Rochester
- Jingming Daoism and Local Jiangxi Society in the Ming. Richard Wang, University of Florida
- Female Sexuality in Communist Anti-Superstition Propaganda, 1944-1945. Xiaofei Kang, George Washington University
Discussant: Robert Weller, Boston University
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Panel 388 Leaving Our ‘Comfort Zone’: Incorporating Social Justice in East Asian (Japanese) Language Classes
Chaired by Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus, Boston University
- Why Teaching Social Justice in East Asian Language Classrooms is Necessary. Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus, Boston University
- Time for Change: How Can We Approach and Integrate Social Justice Topics in the Japanese Language Classrooms? Naemi McPherson, University of Pennsylvania
- Strategies to Promote Social Justice through Examining Conversations in Japanese as a Foreign Language Textbook: Discussing the Existing Conversations and Rewriting the Text with Reversed Gender Roles and Ethnicity. Noriko Sugimori, Kalamazoo College
Discussant: James K. Vincent, Boston University
Panel 416 Festivals, Celebrations & Events - Identities Shaping and Resistance to Hegemony by Asian Communities
Chaired by Clement Tsz Ming Tong, Carey Theological College
- Performative Celebrations as Declaration of Identity and Resistance by Chinese Immigrants in Boston. Violetta Ravagnoli, Emmanuel College Boston
- Hornbill Festival: Forging a Pan-Naga Ethnic Identity within the States of India. Inatoli K. Sema, Torch University American
- Thanksgiving in China: Reclaiming an Identity. Michel Chambon, Boston University
- People with Dyslexia and Their Identities: Celebrating Diversity at a Japanese Advocacy Event. Satsuki Kawano, University of Guelph
Discussant: John D. Wong, University of Hong Kong
Panel 438 Imaged Identities: Technology, Performance, and Visual Imagination in Republican China
Chaired by Yajun Mo, Boston College
- Of God and Machines: Media Technologies, Transnational Imaginations, and Missionary Visions of Modern China. Joseph W. Ho, Albion College
- From Physiognomy to Photography: Changes in Appearance and Political Legitimacy in Early-Twentieth-Century China. Lex Jing Lu, Clark University
- Oppositional Art: Chinese Christian Posters and the Visual Construction of National Salvation in the Interwar Years. Man-Hei Yip, Boston University
- Reframing China: Kodak and Popularizing Photography, 1920-1937. Matthew T. Combs, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Yajun Mo, Boston College
Beyond the Headlines: Transnationalism and Health in Asia
Beyond the Headlines:
Transnationalism and health in Asia
Monday March 12, 2018, 11:45 am
The event will take place at
121 Bay State Road
Health and healthcare have long been thought of as tied to place. But as public health programs and medical services become increasingly global, there is an increased circulation of people, policies, and programs, which are shaped not only in terms of their national context or geographic location, but also by regional and transnational settings. This panel will explore these themes in Asia as they relate to India’s HIV/AIDS programs and Thailand’s growing medical tourism industry and public health policies that have traveled abroad. The panel features Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University; Joseph Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University; Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Pardee School; and Rebecca Farber, PhD Candidate, Boston University Department of Sociology.
RSVP by email to EventsPS@bu.edu
This event is co-sponsored by the Pardee School of Global Studies, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the BU Department of Sociology.