BUCSA News Archives
Color and Pigments in South Asian Painting: A Conversation with Jinah Kim and Murad Mumtaz (April 15, 2021)
Williams College Museum of Art invites you to take part in a free virtual presentation: Color and Pigments in South Asian Painting: A Conversation with Jinah Kim and Murad Mumtaz Scholars of South Asian Art Murad Mumtaz and Jinah Kim discuss the material and cultural history of pigments used in South Asian painting. This free program will be presented online via Zoom. April 15, 2021 at 5:30 pm ET This event will take place virtually over Zoom. Registration is required for this free event. Click on the link below for the registration link: https://artmuseum.williams.edu/event/color-and-pigments-in-south-asian-painting-a-conversation-with-jinah-kim-and-murad-mumtaz/ About the program This conversation will touch on the uses, symbolism, and chemical composition... More
Congratulations to Prof. André de Quadros for winning the 2021 Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award from Chorus America!
Chorus America’s 2021 Awards Recognize Outstanding Choruses and Individuals Chorus America Staff | March 30, 2021 From Chorus America's awards website: Chorus America has announced the recipients of its 2021 awards program, recognizing a broad range of achievements in choral music and service to the choral field. The awards program celebrates and fosters meaningful contributions from remarkable individuals and choruses. “Chorus America is delighted to recognize the accomplishments of these incredible award winners,” said Chorus America president and CEO Catherine Dehoney. “Their artistry, their dedication, and the joy they bring to their work lift up the entire field and inspire us all.” The awards will be... More
Congrats to Prof. Eugenio Menegon (Dept of History) on his Berenson Fellowship from Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Professor Eugenio Menegon received a Berenson Fellowship for the period January-June 2022 from the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, located at Villa I Tatti near Florence. This is part of his sabbatical leave, when he will bring to completion his current book project on Europeans in Beijing in the early modern period. This Fellowship is designed for scholars who explore “Italy in the World” and address the transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures during the Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century. It is named after famed art historian and collector Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), a prominent authority on the... More
Asian and Pacific American Alumni and Student Networking Thursday (April 15, 2021)
Boston University Alumni and Friends invites you to take part in the first Asian and Pacific American Alumni and Student Networking Event Thursday, April 15, 2021 from 5-6pm ET via Zoom To register for this event, click here Please join us for the first Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) alumni and student networking event. This event will be an opportunity for current Asian- and Pacific-American students to connect with the Asian- and Pacific-American alumni, as well as create pathways for the Asian- and Pacific-American alumni from different years and programs to connect with one another. We will break out two different times: first, into different affinity... More
Prof. Eugenio Menegon to present at the UC-Berkeley Conference “Toleration in Comparative Perspective” (January 19-23, 2021)
The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion is pleased to work in conjunction with Reset Dialogues on Civilizations to host the conference “Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices, Documents” over Zoom Conference: Toleration in Comparative Perspective (January 19-23, 2021) The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion is pleased to work in conjunction with Reset Dialogues on Civilizations to host the conference“Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices, Documents” from January 19-23, 2021, over Zoom. The conference gathers scholars to talk about the ways in which religious toleration has been articulated and practiced in places and periods outside of modern “Western” history. Each day will... More
East-West Center in Washington: Asia Studies Visiting Fellowship (Applic. deadline Apr. 9, 2021)
The East-West Center in Washington (EWCW) provides three-month fellowships for individuals from the Indo-Pacific region, including the United States, to undertake research on topics of relevance to contemporary US-Indo-Pacific relations. Visit the East-West Center's website to learn more about the fellowship. Residency for this fellowship is dependent upon the re-opening of the East-West Center's office in Washington, DC and the safety of EWCW staff and fellows due to the ongoing pandemic. APPLY HERE APPLY BY: Friday, April 9, 2021 Before Midnight, 11:59 P.M. EST FOR MORE INFO: Sarah Wang E-mail: wangs@eastwestcenter.org Key Program Elements: The fellowship includes a monthly stipend while in residence at EWCW, office space... More
Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso A virtual exhibition at Worcester Art Museum (ongoing)
Enjoy some beauty from the comfort of your home! The Worcester Art Museum presents A virtual exhibition online from November 28, 2020 Experience the world of traditional kimono design and artistry still practiced by Chiso, the 465-year-old, Kyoto-based kimono house in our virtual exhibition, Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso. Click on the image below to enter this free virtual exhibition. Over the course of ten weeks, this interactive virtual exhibition reveals a new kimono theme to explore each week, leading up to the opening of the in-house exhibition, Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design. The virtual exhibition includes a rare, behind-the-scenes look at... More
Shen Wei: Painting in Motion (Special exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, museum reopens Feb. 5!)
SHEN WEI PAINTING IN MOTION DECEMBER 3, 2020 - JUNE 20, 2021 Spanning the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Hostetter and Fenway Galleries, and Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade Dancer, choreographer, painter, and filmmaker Shen Wei 沈伟 (b. 1968) moves fluidly between disciplines and cultures to create art that expresses a common spirit animating the world around us. His theory of dance seeks to align the energies inside and outside the body, approaching the body and its environment as fundamentally interconnected. As a painter, Shen Wei uses the monumental scale of the canvas to create immersive visual environments that evoke ancient Chinese landscape paintings while enlisting... More
Ezra Vogel 傅高义 , renowned Harvard expert on Asia, dies at 90
Ezra Vogel 傅高义 (July 11, 1930 — December 20, 2020) I just received the very sad news of the passing of Professor Ezra Vogel. Professor Vogel is one of the giants in the field of Asian Studies. A sociologist by training, he was perfectly fluent in both Chinese and Japanese and wrote a number of seminal studies. His early work was on the Japanese family and the middle class. He then wrote a very important book in the field of Chinese studies, Canton under Communism, which he followed up twenty years later with One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong under Reform. He became... More
Grad students-submit your China-related research for publication in the journal Sinosphere
We would like to extend an invitation to graduate students at BU's Pardee School of Global Studies to submit their papers to the 2021 edition of the Sinosphere journal. Sinosphere is an academic journal sponsored by the 21st Century China Center and the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). Our publication focuses on original graduate student research on Chinese domestic policy, national security, and foreign affairs in order to ensure that graduate students--the next generation of policy makers, analysts, and scholars--are represented in the discussion of these important topics. We hope that you will help us pass along this information to... More