EVENTS
Asian Studies Lecture/Workshop Series, 2007-2008
Presented by the Center for Asian Studies, and Department of Japanese and Chinese
[From Spring 2008 on, all events will be posted on the website for the Events of the Center for Asian Studies]
The past series:
2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-2007
Weekly events hosted by native/experienced Chinese speakers
-- Chinese Lunch Table (Friday 11:30-12:30, Goudy)
--
Cultural Hour (Friday 2-4, WLT 236)
and ...
1. A Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival)
by Professors Juwen Zhang and Keying Wu
Time: 11:20-12:30 pm, Sept. 25,
2007 (for students of Chinese)
Place: TBA
2. Butterfly Lovers Concerto: Salem Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Dr. Hekun Wu
Time: Sept. 29, 2007 (7:30 pm)
Place: Historica Elsinore Theatre, Salem, Oregon
Time: Sept. 30, 2007 (3:00 pm)
Place: Rice Auditorium (Western Oregon University)
The Chinese tale of "Butterfly Lovers" (Liang Zhu) is widely known as a Chinese version of "Romeo and Juliet," but appeared to be over a thousand years earlier. It is also the most popular folktale in China.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies
3. Field Trip to the Classical Chinese Garden and the Japanese Garden in Portland
Time: Oct.13, 2007 (9:30 am - 3 pm)
Led by Professors Miho Fujiwara and Xijuan Zhou
4. Olympics Syndrome in China
by Dr. Ina Asim, Professor of History, University of Oregon
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm, Oct. 25,
2007 (Thursday)
Place: Montag Center
5. Globalization and "Faculty Club Culture": Chinese Professorate Under Siege
by Dr. Jun Xing, Professor of Ethnic Studies, Oregon States University
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm, Nov. 1, 2007
(Thursday)
Place: Montag Center
Under the onslaught of powerful forces of privatization, massification, and internationalization, China's higher education system has been undergoing profound transformations over recent years. Caught in the middle, Chinese academics, once revered by all in society, are experiencing a serious identity crisis. Recent exposure of unethical behavior and "intellectual corruption" serves as just one symptom of a professoriate in distress. Using Peter Berger's concept of the "faculty club culture," an elite sector of the emerging global culture, Professor Xing will examine the social construction of global scholarship and how China has become, to use Philip Altbach's words, a "giant periphery" in the international knowledge system. With policy implications in mind, he will also look at recent debates over indigenous scholarship in Asian as well ethnic studies.
Dr. Jun Xing is Professor of Ethnic Studies and former Director of Academic Affairs at Oregon State University. Dr. Xing received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin cities. He taught at Carleton College, Emory University, and Colorado State University before assuming his present position at Oregon State. He is the author and editor of six books, including Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: the American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919-1937 (1996); Asian America through the Lens: History, Representation and Identity (1998); Reversing the Lens: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality through Film (2003); Teaching for Change: the Difference, Power and Discrimination Model (2006); and, Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Ethnic Minorities in Oregon (2007). Dr. Xing spent his last year in Hong Kong, working as Vice President for Programs with the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia.
6. Symposium on Sustainability: The Enviornment and the Pacific Rim
Co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the Center for Sustainable Communities
Time: Nov. 9, 2007 (Friday)
For all the events in the Spring 2008, please visit the website for the
Events of the Center for Asian Studies
For details and questions, please email Dr. J. Zhang, Juwen@willamette.edu