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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 M, 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.
710 Social Science Building
(NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION!)

South Asia Seminar Series, Fall 2009 Schedule (PDF)

September 23
Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
End of War

October 7
Keya Ganguly, Professor
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Sensuous Magic: Image and Objectivity in Satyajit Ray’s "Devi"

October 21
Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor
Department of Art History, UCLA
India and Gauguin's Tahitian Nudes: Modernism in a Global Frame
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History

November 4
Emily Rook-Koepsel, Doctoral Candidate
Department of History, University of Minnesota
An All Indian Organization for All Indian Women

November 18
Chris Pinney, Professor
Department of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London
The Colonial Dromosphere: Speed, Transmission and Prosthesis in Colonial India
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History

December 2
Pashmina Murthy, Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Land Without Women: Infanticide and the Politics of Mourning


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Korea Series

The Korea Series began in fall semester 2007 with the hiring of the first post doctorate fellow in Korean Studies. The series highlights scholars focusing on Korean literature and culture from area colleges, national and international experts.

 

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East Asia Seminar Series

The East Asia Seminar Series focuses on East Asian topics from all disciplines.
All events take place from Tuesdays from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m this semester in 710 Social Science Building.

East Asia Seminar Series, Fall2009 Schedule (PDF)

October 6
David Tucker, Visiting Professor (Department of History, UMN)
Department of History, The University of Iowa
Kwantungchukuo: An Attempt to Rehabilitate the Notions of Puppet State, "State," and Colonial for Manchoukuo

November 10
Reginald Jackson, Assistant Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Mourning Reading: The Genji Scrolls' 'Tangled Script' and the Limits  of the Legible Subject

December 8
Frederik Green, Assistant Professor
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Macalester College
Nostalgia, Politics and the (In)-voluntary Exile of an Incorrigible Romantic: Xu Xu’s Postwar Writings from Hong Kong

 

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