UPCOMING EVENTS – Please note: all upcoming in-person events have been cancelled. Upcoming and ongoing virtual events are included below. Please check the website for updates. |
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Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Art Exhibit – Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape Photographs by Lisa Ross Exhibition curated by Lisa Ross, Holly Angell, and James Evans The photographs in this exhibition provide a moving, if disturbing, view of life for Uyghurs today, offering the viewer the chance to reflect on the “new normal” in Xinjiang and to think about the meanings of “home.” Sponsored by Committee on Inner Asia and Altaic Studies; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Harvard University Asia Center; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Photo Exhibit – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers Exhibition organized by Yong Han Poh, College ’20 This exhibit aims to showcase the vibrant migrant arts ecosystem in Singapore, a city that has both been produced by and produced waves of migration across time and space. Online archived exhibition; Previously displayed in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, CGIS South, Cambridge, from January 23 to February 20, 2020 Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Mahindra Humanities Center; supported by local migrant arts groups in Singapore, including the Migrant Workers Photography Festival and Migrant Writers of Singapore
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Photo Exhibit – Asia Insecta Photographs by Nathan Vedal, Ph.D. ‘17, graduate from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Photographs captured in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan Online archived exhibition; Previously displayed in summer 2017 Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Photo Exhibit – Magnificent Trees of Asia The Asia-related centers at Harvard periodically spotlight some of the vast Asian resources at the University. Featured in this exhibit are a selection of photographs of trees in Asia by Ernest Henry Wilson from Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library. Online archived exhibition; Previously displayed January - March, 2018 Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard China Fund, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Special thanks to the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library.
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Photo Exhibit –Shadows of Shangri La Nepal in Photographs 1975-2011 Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Documentary Photographer; 2010-2011 Robert Gardner Visiting Artist, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University Curated by Bettina Burch Online archived exhibition; Previously displayed May 22 - September 30, 2014 Sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard University Asia CenterOngoing VIRTUAL EVENT: The Thread Exhibit This online "museum exhibit" combines artwork and technology to bring light to the voices of the Rohingya people. It revolves around various pieces of artwork created by Rohingya individuals living in Cox’s Bazar and aims to build an international community that can support the Rohingya in their journey to achieving justice. Developed by a group of Harvard students, museum designers, and social activists, in partnership with the Liberation War Museum and the Harvard University Asia Center
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Art Exhibit: Baba, Babushka. Photos by Sky Russell ’20 and Dasha Bough ’21 Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Ongoing Virtual Event: Art Talk: Color in Chinese Numbered Jun Ware Ceramics Conservator Susan Costello discusses the complex chemistry of the blue-and-purple glazes of numbered Jun ware, a rare form of Chinese ceramics. Sponsored by Harvard Art Museums
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Art Talk: Painting Edo Discover early modern Japanese painting with Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art, who introduces the largest exhibition ever presented at the Harvard Art Museums, Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, selected from the collection of Robert and Betsy Feinberg. Sponsored by Harvard Art Museums
Ongoing VIRTUAL EVENT: Art Talk: Painting Edo and the Transcendence of Laughter Take a tour with graduate student intern Leah Justin-Jinich, as she guides visitors into the world of Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection to discover a unique set of Zen paintings and to see how puppies, bamboo, and laughter can lead to enlightenment.Sponsored by Harvard Art Museums
OngoingVIRTUAL EVENT: New Tours of Painting Edo Exhibition on Google Arts & Culture The Harvard Art Museums’ special exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection is organized into four short, immersive online tours, and made available on the Google Arts & Culture platform. Sponsored by Harvard Art Museums
Ongoing HarvardX: Free Online Courses from Harvard University Among the Asia-related course offerings: Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print; ChinaX Book Club: Five Authors, Five Books, Five Views of China; Contemporary China: The People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Browse the EdX website for more course offerings Ongoing through Sunday, July 12 VIRTUAL EVENT: Mini Dayak Festival 2020 The festival is a series of online virtual experiences working with local artists in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and comprising local Dayak music, dance and storytelling performances that will be aired on YouTube and Facebook. The event is held to both spread awareness towards Dayak culture and raise funds to help communities of local artists and the tourism services (local guides, cooks, boat drivers) in Central Kalimantan that have lost their primary sources of income due to the closing of national parks, as well as the provincial and international borders, due to Covid-19.
Thursday, July 9, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. VIRTUAL EVENT – Swaraj: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Birth of Indian Nationalism Dinyar Patel, Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina Moderator: Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University Sponsored by Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Friday, July 10, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. VIRTUAL EVENT – Big, If True Webinar: Fighting a Two-Front War: Censorship and Disinformation in Southeast Asia Glenda Gloria, managing editor and co-founder of Rappler Jonathan Corpus Ong, PhD, Associate Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Gabrielle Lim, researcher in the Technology and Social Change Research Project (TaSC) at the Shorenstein Center Registration required. Sponsored by Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy |
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Asia Center Bulletin Board Calls for Papers and Educational Opportunities Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University 2020-21 post-doctoral fellowship Deadline: July 15
Hong Kong University Summer Institute Rolling Admission
Call for Papers: ARC 36.1 Resilience and Archaeology: Human response to past hardship.
The Archaeological Review from Cambridge is pleased to invite submissions for our next issue (36.1), exploring the concept of resilience and how it can contribute to a better understanding of the past, particularly as to the study of change and transformation. We understand resilience as a dynamic process within a given system that links a set of adaptive capacities to a trajectory of functioning and adaptation after a disturbance. It is also a neutral framework interdisciplinary framework useful to explore social, cultural, economic, and ecological changes at different magnitudes and at different systemic and spatial scales.
Please see Call for Papers for more details, and don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions or to register interest (arc.resilience@gmail.com) by July 10, 2020. We welcome contributions from researchers at any stage of their academic career and from all related disciplines. Papers of no more than 4000 words should be submitted by August 24, 2020 for publication in April 2021.
The Archaeological Review from Cambridge (ARC) is a full peer-reviewed biannual academic journal of archaeology. It is managed and published on a non-profit, voluntary basis by postgraduate researchers in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Rooted primarily in archaeological theory and practice, ARC invites a wide range of perspectives aiming at interdisciplinary research of interest to those engaged in a variety of fields. All papers are published Open Access. Further information on the Archaeological Review from Cambridge, including submission guidelines, may be found at http://arc.soc.srcf.net. |
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