{"id":6290,"date":"2015-03-27T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2017-06-22T04:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T08:06:36","slug":"events-bu-asian-film-week-asia-love-and-other-obsessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2015\/03\/27\/events-bu-asian-film-week-asia-love-and-other-obsessions\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENTS: BU Asian Film Week: Asia: Love and Other Obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The third bi-annual BU Asia Film Week<\/strong> is on from Monday, April 6, to Friday, April 10, 2015! Our theme this year is \u201cAsia: Love and Other Obsessions.\u201d<\/strong> The theme reflects both Asian societies\u2019 own takes on personal relationships in the face of enormous social transformations and the ways in which these relationships are presented in phantasies and stereotypes of other cultures and societies. The festival will highlight the particular features of different countries. The weeklong event will start on Monday, April 6, with a talk by our invited keynote speaker Yomi Braester (Washington University) on Wong Kar-Wai\u2019s masterpiece In the Mood for Love<\/em> (2000). All films will be screened in the afternoons and evenings. Activities also include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Indian food as well as lunch talks focusing on the theme of the film festival. We will conclude with a student symposium which this year features five short films made by COM students which will be discussed by invited student commentators from CAS. The event is sponsored by the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the BU Center for the Humanities, the Geddes Language Center and the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.<\/p>\n

Monday, April 6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Event \u201cAsia: Love and Other Obsessions\u201d<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 5 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Keynote lecture: Yomi Braester (Washington University)<\/p>\n

5 \u2013 6 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Reception (SED First floor lobby<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 8 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Hong Kong Film Screening: \u201cIn the Mood for Love\u201d Dir. Kar-Wai<\/p>\n

Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130<\/p>\n

Tuesday<\/span>,\u00a0April 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

12 \u2013 1 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Korean Lunch Talk: Jaemin Roh (BU MLCL)<\/p>\n

Location: College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 200<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 3 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Korean Film Screening: \u201cA Girl at My Door\u201d Dir. July Jung<\/p>\n

Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 537A\/C<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 9 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Korean Film Screening: \u201c3-Iron\u201d Dir Kim Ki-duk; Guest Speaker: Hyon Joo Yoo (University of Vermont)<\/p>\n

Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/span>,\u00a0April 8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

12 \u2013 1 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Sushi Lunch Talk: Anna Zielinska Elliot (BU MLCL) on Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 3 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Japanese film screening: \u201cTony Takitani\u201d Dir. Jun Ichikawa<\/p>\n

Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 533B<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 9 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Japanese film screening: \u201cVibrator\u201d Dir. Hiroki Ry\u00fbichi; Guest Speaker: Tomiko Yoda (Harvard)<\/p>\n

Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/span>,\u00a0April 9<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

12 \u2013 1 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Indian Lunch and Lecture Sunil Sharma (BU MLCL) on \u201cThe Very Tragic Tale of Devdas\u201d<\/p>\n

Location: MLCL 745 Commonwealth Avenue, STH 6th floor lounge<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 9 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Indian Film Screening: \u201cDev.D\u201d Dir. Anurag Kashyap\u00a0 Guest Speaker: Tejaswini Ganti (NYU)<\/p>\n

Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130<\/p>\n

Friday<\/span>,\u00a0April 10<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cShort films Asia\u201d Student Symposium<\/p>\n

12 \u2013 3 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Asian Lunch, students\u2019 film screenings and critiques<\/p>\n

Location: College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 200<\/p>\n

This is an educational series, conducted in conjunction with undergraduate class instruction.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Co-Sponsored by BU Center for the Study of Asia, CSA, BU Center for Humanities, Geddes Language Center, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literature<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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