Teaching East Asia

Film: Systems (art:21)
October 27, 2009 - 12:15 p.m. - Frable 117

Part of a PBS series on art, this film "features artists who realize complex projects through acts of appropriation or accumulation. In some instances, they create projects vast in scope, which almost elude comprehension." art:21 - season 5 (2009) - overview

Featured in this film is a Korean artist, Kimsooja (www.kimsooja.com).

Previews are available on YouTube:

Art:21 | "Systems" (October 2009) Season 5 Promo

"This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month. Visit art21.org for more information."

East Asian painting: Chrysanthemum
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 -- 12:20 - 1:20 -- Ostermayer Lab 309

Elaine Bergstrom, a painting instructor, will be giving a hands-on demonstration.

The painting shown here is a chrysanthemum done with purple watercolor, by Teaching International faculty member, Dr. Mildred Mickle, associate professor of English.

China and Globalization: The Economic, Political, and Social Transformation of Chinese Society
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 11:00 am, Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

Doug Guthrie is Professor of  Management and Daniel P. Paduano Faculty Fellow at the NYU-Stern School of Business.  In addition to his duties at Stern, Professor Guthrie also holds an appointment as Professor of Sociology on  NYU's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is Academic Director of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

Professor Guthrie's areas of expertise lie in the fields of management, leadership, corporate governance, and economic reform in China.  Recent work in these areas include "Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit:  The Emergence of Capitalism in China" (Princeton University Press), "Social Connections in China:  Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi" (Cambridge University Press), "Organizational Learning and Productivity:  The Rise of the Chinese Corporation" (Management and Organization Review), "China and Globalization:  The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society" (Routledge), and "China's Radical Transformation:  Economic Reform, Global Integration, and Political Change in the World's Largest Nation" (Polity, formthcoming).  His research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.  He has also served as the Director of the Business Institutions Initiative and the Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution at the Social Science Research Council. 

Professor Guthrie has also taught at Harvard Business School, INSEAD and the Graduate Schools of Business at Stanford University, Columbia University and Emory University.  He received his AB in Chinese Literature from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Student Research Conference
November 19, 2009 - 12:15 p.m. - Ostermayer Room, SCC

Join the student presenters as they display their semester projects on East Asia.

Fall Theatre Production
Week of November 30, 2009 - Days/Times TBA - Ostermayer Room, SCC

Dr. Breckenridge's Theater 282 (Theatre Practicum) class will work with folk tales from China, Japan, and Korea (this year's International focus cultures).

Film: He ni zai yi qi ("Together")
Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 - 4:30 pm, Frable 119

    

Terra Cotta Warriors Exhibit - National Geographic
December 5, 2009 - Washington, DC (field trip)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/terracottawarriors/

http://www.asia.si.edu/

East Asian Painting: Orchid
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 -- 12:20 - 1:20 -- Ostermayer Lab 309

Elaine Bergstrom, a painting instructor, will be giving a hands-on demonstration. This is one in a series of classes that will cover how to paint a simple watercolor or sumi-e. The subject matter to be painted will be orchids, chrysanthemums, Bamboo and Plum Blossom (Four Gentlemen)

Priority to actually paint will be given to those who sign up ahead of time. For those who do not sign up, you may watch and learn.

To sign up, send an email to Nancy Egan (nle10@psu.edu).

The drawing shown here is a plum blossom done with sumi ink, by Teaching International faculty member, Dr. Mildred Mickle, associate professor of English.

Film: The Wedding Banquet
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 - 4:30pm, Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

   

Film: Fantasy (Art:21)
October 6, 2009 - 12:15 p.m. - Ostermayer Room, SCC

Part of a PBS series on art, this film covers "four artists whose works or personal stories transport viewers to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works that seem at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind’s eye." Art21 - season 5 (2009) — overview

Featured in this film is a Chinese artist from Beijing, Cao Fei.

Previews are available on YouTube:

Art:21 | "Fantasy" (October 2009) Season 5 Promo 

Art:21 | Cao Fei | Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

"This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month. Visit art21.org for more information."

Film: Manufactured Landscape
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 12:15 to 3pm, Frable 117

  

World Food Day Teleconference
October 16, 2009 - 12 noon to 3 p.m. - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

The campus will be participating in the 26th Annual World Food Day Teleconference. This year's theme is Global Food Crisis: Opportunities, Responsibilities and Solutions.

According to the World Food Day Web Site, the program “will consider the impact of the financial crisis on those living in poverty, the responsibilities of the rest of the world and the solutions that are emerging.” 

Granny Mischief and Her Storied Accomplices: The Tales of Japanese Families in Newspaper Comics
October 20, 2009 - 12:15 p.m. - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

Akiko Hashimoto is an associate professor of sociology and Asian studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hashimoto is now at work on projects on citizenship, cultural identity and national memory in postwar Japan, and heroes and villains of Japanese popular culture.

Her publications include Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan (SUNY Press 2008, with J. Traphagan), The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (Oxford University Press 1992).

Dr. Hashimoto was educated at the University of Hamburg, London School of Economics, and Yale University. Before her appointment at the University of Pittsburgh, she was Research Associate at the United Nations University in Tokyo. She is now at work on projects on citizenship, cultural identity and national memory in postwar Japan, and heroes and villains of Japanese popular culture.