Asian Studies Travel Grant recipients will be sharing their experiences.
Light Refreshments Served
Event Archive
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
Linderman Library, Room 200
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 4:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270 (Auditorium)
A chilling film in the style of THE RING, and THE GRUDGE. When a group of teens start receiving a “One Missed Call” display on their cell phone screens, they hear terrifying voice messages documenting their very own anguished death throes! Explore the darker, deadlier side of the most personal, convenient and reliable tool of your everyday existence—your cell phone!
2003/Takashi Miike/112 min. [Synopsis © Tokyo Shock]
FREE and OPEN ONLY to Lehigh University Students/Faculty/Staff
Co-sponsored by Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Asian Studies
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 3:30pm
Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons
IT’S THE YEAR OF THE PIG!
Friday, February 22, 2019
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Williams Hall
Roemmele Global Commons
Calligraphy, JPOP Dancing,Tea Ceremony and more!
Asian Food and Prizes
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270 (Auditorium)
A wave of unexplainable suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling high school girls join hands and throw themselves from a subway platform into an oncoming train. Detective Kuroda (Audition’s Ryo Ishibashi) and the rest of the police force are baffled as the bloodbath triggers a wave of suicides across the city. When a cryptic phone call tips off police to a strange website that appears to be tracking the suicides before they happen, the question becomes, are they really suicides at all? This outrageously bizarre, wicked social critique in the form of a creepy and enigmatic detective mystery examines that despair of the disaffected Japanese youth and the influence of pop culture on their lives. From international film festival favorite to cult sensations, Suicide Club is a study of contemporary morality that is gruesome, darkly comic and vividly original. [Synopsis © TLA Releasing] 2002/Sion Sono/94 min.
FREE and OPEN ONLY TO LEHIGH UNIVERSITY FACULTY/STAFF/STUDENTS
CO-SPONSORS: Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures Department
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 4:00pm
Neville Hall, Room 003
Fall 2018・Asian Horror Film Series
The Eye (Hong Kong, 2002, Pang Brothers)
After the eye cornea transplant, a young woman starts seeing ghosts.
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
All in the original language with English subtitles.
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
Friday, October 19, 2018 - 4:00pm
Fall 2018・Asian Horror Film Series
Ghost of Mae Nak (Thailand, 2005, Mark Duffield)
A legendary female ghost both protects and haunts a newly-wed couple in contemporary Bangkok.
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
All in the original language with English subtitles.
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 4:00pm
Neville Hall, Room 003
Fall 2018・Asian Horror Film Series
Hansel and Gretel (Korea, 2007, Yim Pil-sung)
"Don't go. We'll be good." --A beautiful house with three children in the forest hides dark secrets.
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
All in the original language with English subtitles.
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 4:00pm
Neville Hall, Room 003
Fall 2018・Asian Horror Film Series
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (Japan, 2007, Kōji Shiraishi)
"Am I pretty?"--A monstrous woman in urban legend comes back to haunt a suburban town
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
All in the original language with English subtitles.
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 4:00pm
Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons
Interdisciplinary Academic Programs Dialogue and Networking
Meets 5 x 10 professional growth and success requirement! Bring a Friend...or two!
Africana Studies • Global Studies • Asian Studies • Cognitive Science
Environmental Studies • Jewish Studies • Global Citizenship
Science, Technology & Society • Health, Medicine & Society
American Studies • Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies • Classical Studies
Sustainable Development • Latin American and Latino Studies
Environmental Policy • Community Fellows
FIRST-YEAR & TRANSFER STUDENTS
Learn about interdisciplinary studies within the College of Arts & Sciences
CURRENT STUDENTS
Re-connect with classmates and faculty
FACULTY
Meet perspective and re-connect with current students
REFRESHMENTS and GIVEAWAYS!
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons
Office of Interdisciplinary Programs: 610-758-3996 | incasip@lehigh.edu
Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 5:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
Mima was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima’s character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse.
She begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. She discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn’t given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her from the shadows.
Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from illusion in order to stay alive.
Perfect Blue represents a major change from traditional anime subject matter, analysing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its psychological impact on the performer. [Synopsis © Manga Entertainment and Rex Entertainment]
(81 min. Japanese with English subtitles) Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
Co-sponsored by MLL/Asian Studies
Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 5:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
Award-winning filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivered one of the finest entries in the “J-Horror” cycle of films with this moody and spiritually terrifying film that delivers existential dread along with its frights. Setting his story in the burgeoning internet and social media scene in Japan, Kurosawa’s dark and apocalyptic film foretells how technology will only serve to isolate us as it grows more important to our lives.
A group of young people in Tokyo begin to experience strange phenomena involving missing co-workers and friends, technological breakdown, and a mysterious website which asks the compelling question, “Do you want to meet a ghost?” After the unexpected suicides of several friends, three strangers set out to explore a city which is growing more empty by the day, and to solve the mystery of what lies within a forbidden room in an abandoned construction site, mysteriously sealed shut with red packing tape.
Featuring haunting cinematography by Junichiro Hayashi (Ring, Dark Water), a dark and unsettling tone which lingers long after the movie is over, and an ahead-of-its-time story which anticipates 21st century disconnection and social media malaise, Pulse is one of the greatest and most terrifying achievements in modern Japanese horror, and a dark mirror for our contemporary digital world. [Synopsis © Arrow Video] (119 min. Japanese with English subtitles)
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff
Co-sponsored by MLL/Asian Studies
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 4:00pm
Williams Hall, Room 080
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
4:10 PM
Williams Hall, 080
Asian Studies Travel Grant recipients will be sharing their experiences.
Light Refreshments Served
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 5:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 316
Audition
オーディション
(1999, dir. Takashi Miike)
March 29, 2018
Thursday 5:00PM sharp!~6:55PM
Thursday 5:00PM sharp!~6:55PM
Lewis Lab, Room #316
Deceptively innocent at first, Takashi Miike’s Audition finds Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi, Suicide Club, The Grudge), a middle-aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and his film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura, Ichi The Killer) to get out and start dating again. To help Aoyama meet women, Yoshikawa devises a plan to hold a fake audition for a leading lady. Reluctantly agreeing, Aoyama auditions 30 young hopefuls and falls for the silent beauty Asami (model/actress Eihi Shiina), a former ballerina with a dark past. Their courtship veers from quiet romance to psycho nightmare. [Synopsis © Shout! Factory] (115 min. Japanese with English subtitles).
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff
* Extra Credit Event for Japanese Language Class!
Presented by Professor Kyoko Taniguchi
kyt213@lehigh.edu·Office: Williams 488
Co-sponsored by MLL/Asian Studies
Thursday, March 1, 2018 - 6:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
House
ハウス
(1977, dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
March 1, 2018, Thursday 6:10PM~7:40PM
Lewis Lab, Room #270 (Auditorium)
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally absurd and nightmarish, House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. Never before available on home video in the United States, it’s one of the most exciting cult discoveries in years. [Synopsis © Criterion] (88 min. Japanese with English subtitles)
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
Co-sponsored by MLL/Asian Studies.