Community Outreach
CSA strives to provide programming for the University community and beyond with event opportunities focused on the Study of the Asias. Included in these activities are the South Asia Seminar Series, Korea Seminar Series, and East Asia Seminar Series which feature scholars from varied disciplines in an informal setting and open to the University community and the general public.
Please check the news & events for an updated listing.
South Asia Seminar Series
Korea Seminar Series
East Asia Seminar Series
South Asia Seminar Series
The South Asian Seminar began in 2005 as an intellectual collective group funded by the Institute for Global Studies. The South Asian Seminar Series brings scholars, writers, and filmmakers from the U of MN, local colleges and Universities as well as national and international speakers to share their ideas and scholarship with the University community and beyond.
All events will be 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in 710 Social Science Building
unless otherwise specified.
South Asia Seminar Series, Fall 2008 Schedule (PDF)
February 13, 2008
M.S.S Pandian
2008 Rama Watumull Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Center for South Asian Studies,
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Writing Ordinary Lives: Notes on Dalit Writings and Social Theory
February 27, 2008
Tom Trautmann
Department of History, University of Michigan
Finding India’s Deep History
March 12, 2008
Ananya Chatterjea
Department of Dance, University of Minnesota
Red-Stained Feet: Probing the Ground on Which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal
March 26, 2008
Venugopal Maddipati
Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
The Arrears of Familiarity: The Architectural Transformation of Colonial Bulandshahr
April 19, 2008
Valentin Y. Mudimbe
Department of Literature, Duke University
In the House of Danaos. The Gift of Life, the Gift of Fear
April 30, 2008
Suvir Kaul
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Episodes in Literary Secularism
Korea Series
The Korea Series began in fall semester 2007 with the hiring of the first post doctorate fellow in Korean Studies. The series will highlight scholars focusing on Korean literature and culture from area colleges, national and international experts.
All events are from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise specified.
Korea Seminar Series, Spring 2008 Schedule (PDF)
February 25, 2008
125 Nolte
David McCann
Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
February 26, 2008
Barbara Barker Center for Dance
7:00 p.m.
Korean Poetry Reading featuring:
David McCann
Sun Yung Shin
Edward Bok Lee
April 28, 2008
101 Walter Library
Hyaeweol Choi
Associate Professor of Korean Studies, School of International Letters & Cultures
Arizona State University
Competing Discourses on Modern Womanhood in Transcultural Korea
East Asia Seminar Series
The East Asia Seminar Series focuses on East Asian topics from all disciplines. All events take place from 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
East Asia Seminar Series, Spring 2008 Schedule (PDF)
February 13, 2008
135 Nicholson
Douglas Howland
Professor of Chinese History and Department Chair, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
The Dialectics of Chauvinism: Minority Nationalities
and Territorial Sovereignty in China
March 25, 2008
101 Walter Library
Seungjoo Yoon
Assoiciate Professor of History, Carlton College
Creating Chinese Journalists: The Case for Zhang Zhidong’s Commissioners
April 1, 2008
Nolte 125
Seon hye Choi
Lecturer, Catholic University of Korea and Visiting Researcher, Department of History, University of Minnesota
“Ethnic Groups” in pre-modern Korea, from Japan, China and Beyond
April 15, 2008
101 Walter
William Rowe
Professor of Chinese History and Director of East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Hidden Transcripts: Bao Shichen’s ‘Advice to the Prince’ (Shuochu)
RESCHEDULED
MAY 13, 2008
10:15 - 11:45
1114 Social Science Building
Noboru Tomonari
Assistant Professor of Japanese and Director of East Asian Studies, Carlton College
Searching for the Moon: The Films by Resident Koreans in Japan
