Event Archive

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 - 4:00pm
STEPS 101
"Acupuncture, Paradigm Shifts, and Placebos" 
 
Dr. Kin Cheung 
Assistant Professor of Asian Religions
Moravian College
 
Are Acupuncture and other aspects of Chinese medicine merely using the placebo effect to promote healing?  Dr. Cheung argues this common question does not lead to better understanding of health. A more insightful approach examines how the placebo effect is still a mystery in the contemporary bio-medical paradigm of "Western" or allopathic medicine. The Chinese medical arts provide an explanation of how psycho-physical energy, better known as qi (ch'i) 氣, connect mind-body and healing. 
 
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
4:10 p.m.
STEPS 101
 
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Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 5:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
Over Your Dead Body
喰女-クイメ-
(2014, dir. Takashi Miike)
 
February 15, 2018, Thursday 5:10PM~6:45PM
Lewis Lab, Room #270 (Auditorium)
 
From Acclaimed Horror Director Takashi Miike - Official Selection 2014 Toronto International Film Festival
"It's A Mixture Of High And Low Art Very Reminiscent Of His Masterpiece Audition In Both Structure And Style." - Fangoria
 
An actor stars in a stage version of a ghost story with his new lover. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship. Originates from the 1825 kabuki play Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan. [Synopsis © Scream Factory] (94 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)
 
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
 
 
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 4:00pm
Linderman Library, Room 200
Efron Lecture Series of Department of International Relations & Asian Studies Program present
 
"Dealing with a Nuclear North Korea"
Shen Dingli
 
With North Korea’s nuclear path down the road, one has to be realistic that Pyongyang will not accept any vision and plan of its unilateral nuclear disarmament, given whatever international sanctions imposed.  While talking about “fire and fury” by the White House or “enveloping strike” by the North, both parties have so far refrained from initiating preemption, which could yield unacceptable amount of damage for either side.  This presentation will address a mid-ground approach to addressing the nuclear issue of the North Korea – capping and freezing its nuclear wherewithal by engaging the regime, at least at this stage.
 
Shen Dingli is a professor and former Executive Dean of Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies. He has taught international security, China-US relations & other related topics. His research and publication covers China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan University. He was an Eisenhower fellow in 1996, and in 2002 an Advisor for the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, for his strategic planning of second term. He has co-edited 17 books  and published over 2,500 papers & articles worldwide.
 
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Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 5:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales “Yotsuya Ghost Story”
怪 〜ayakashi〜四谷怪談
(2006, dir. Tetsuo Imazawa)
 
February 8, 2018, Thursday 5:10PM~6:50PM
Lewis Lab, Room #270 (Auditorium)
 
Desiring to wed Lady Oiwa, an ambitious and calculating ronin named Iemon murders her father, who had opposed the marriage due to Iemon’s treacherous past. As a masterless samurai, Iemon soon grows weary and resentful of his ailing wife Oiwa and their impoverished stature, however when he is presented with an offer to marry a wealthy neighbor's beautiful granddaughter, Oiwa is duped into drinking a poison that horribly cripples her. The revelation of Iemon’s betrayal as well as the painful disfigurement causes Oiwa to kill herself, setting into motion a nightmarish curse carried out by a terrifying, vengeful spirit seeking retribution!
[Synopsis © Geneon/Pioneer] (100 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)
 
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
 
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 11:45pm

Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for one year of advanced level language study in East or Southeast Asia in approved language programs. Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are made for one year of full-time language study. This may include study in the summer preceding or following an academic year program. The Foundation encourages applicants who are applying for an academic year program to include a summer term. 

Application Deadline: December 30, 2017

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - 4:00pm
Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons

Chinese Legacy at Lehigh

Join us for a special presentation outlining the historical footsteps of Chinese students at Lehigh from the 19th century. 
 
Presenters
Professor Dong-Ning Wang, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
I-Ying Yang (’18) 
Yang Yi (‘18) 
 
 
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Monday, October 23, 2017 - 4:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 270
In a typical Japanese village, Yoichi Ono lives with his wife, Izumi and his parents. The Ono family live a frugal, but happy life as dairy farmers living in the peaceful village. One day the worst earthquake in history strikes causing a nearby nuclear power station to explode. Their neighbors, who live within the range of the nuclear power station, are forcibly ordered to evacuate by the government. But the Ono family have only half of their garden designated as within range. They then have to make a hard decision whether to take refuge or not.
 
The film, which is examining a highly relevant subject, describes the mental anguish of the family. A family that is forced to separate by an extremely unfortunate event beyond their control. The past, the present, and the future of the two couples from different generations rises to the surface. [Synopsis © Third Window Films] (133 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)
 
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff
 
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Monday, October 9, 2017 - 4:00pm
Linderman Library, Room 200
Guobin Yang
Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication & Sociology
Annenberg School for Communication & Department of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
 
The Red Guard Generation in China fell from grace when Mao put an end to the Red Guard movement in 1968 and sent youth of the generation away from cities to become peasants in rural areas. Based on the book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016), this talk argues that youth managed a deep identity crisis by turning private media such as letters and banned books into a means of personal expression and social connection. This history has far-reaching implications for understanding media, community, and solidarity in times of dejection.
 
Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a faculty in the Graduate Group of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is the author of The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016) and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009). His Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (2003) is an annotated English translation of the 6th-century Chinese classic of rhetoric and literary theory Wenxin Diaolong.
 
Co-sponsor: Visiting Lecturers Committee

 

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Monday, September 18, 2017 - 4:00pm
Neville Hall, Room #003
Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair along with the bald corpse of a young girl.  This arouses the curiosity of Yamazaki (Ren Ohsugi), a mortuary employee with a hair fetish, particularly since the girl’s hair continues to grow.  Now a mad hair-peddler with an endless stock of locks, Yamazaki hocks his wares to salons to be used for hair extensions.  Meanwhile, Yuko (Chiaki Kuriyama, KILL BILL Vol 1, BATTLE ROYALE), an up-and-coming hair stylist, is entrusted with the care of her timid and frightened niece, Mami, whose body bears the signs of abuse.  It’s not long before death surrounds them and their extension-wearing clientele.  The hair, it seems, has a life of its own, with lethal, vengeful intentions.  And Yuko and Mami must untangle the mystery before more deaths occur.  Directed by Sion Sono (SUICIDE CLUB), HAIR EXTENSIONS will make your hair stand on end! [Synopsis © Tokyo Shock] (108 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)
 
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff
 
For more information contact Professor Kyoko Taniguchi, kyt213@lehigh.edu
 
Co-sponsored by MLL/Asian Studies
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Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 10:00am
Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall
 
ZAINICHI LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Roemmele Global Commons | Williams Hall | Lehigh University
April 21-22, 2017 All Day 
Registration Required. 
 
APRIL 21
10:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 
Session 1: Change and Continuity Across the “August 1945” Divide
 
Andre Haag, “‘Good Korean’ or Race Traitor? Reorienting ‘Zainichi’ Writing from Futei Senjin to Sangokujin”
 
Jonathan Glade, “Fissuring Literary Boundaries: The Emergence of Zainichi Literature under the US Military Occupation”
 
Christina Yi, “Postcolonial Legacies and the Divided ‘I’ in Occupation-Period Japan”
 
Yinan He, Discussant, Associate Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University 
 
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Session 2: Transnationality, Intersectionality, Anti-Imperialism
 
Nathaniel Heneghan, “Digitizing Ethnic Identity-Gender and Performativity in Recent Zainichi Cinema” 
 
Nobuko Yamasaki, “A Zainichi Woman’s Body as a Battlefield”
 
Amardeep Singh, Discussant, Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University
 
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion
 
APRIL 22
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Session 3: Cold War Culture and Literary Activism (in Japanese)
 
Koji Toba, “The Circle Movement in the 1950s and its Imaginative Power in East Asia”
 
Shoya Unoda, “Cultural Activism by Zainichi Koreans in 1950s Japan: Between the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula”
 
Hideto Tsuboi, Discussant, Professor of Japanese Literature, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
 
1:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Session 4: Ideologies of Gender and Language in Literary Production
 
Cindi Textor, “The Place of Language, the Language of Place: Narrative Voice as Traveler-Translator in Yi Yangji's Yuhi
 
Catherine Ryu, “Savoring the Apple Leitmotif: Gender, Desire, and Identity in Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi and Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Akai mi’”
 
Taïeb Berrada, Discussant, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Lehigh University
 
 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion
 
Sponsors: Lehigh University-Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Asian Studies, Humanities Center and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; The Northeast Asian Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) with the support of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC); Asian Studies Center, International Studies Program, Michigan State University; The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University;The Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Hawaii; The Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia
 
Special Thanks to Han Cholsu and Kim Sungwoong
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Friday, April 21, 2017 - 10:00am
Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall
ZAINICHI LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Roemmele Global Commons | Williams Hall | Lehigh University
April 21-22, 2017 All Day 
Registration Required. 
To register visit https://3pconferenceubc2019.wixsite.com/2017
 
APRIL 21
10:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 
Session 1: Change and Continuity Across the “August 1945” Divide
 
Andre Haag, “‘Good Korean’ or Race Traitor? Reorienting ‘Zainichi’ Writing from Futei Senjin to Sangokujin”
 
Jonathan Glade, “Fissuring Literary Boundaries: The Emergence of Zainichi Literature under the US Military Occupation”
 
Christina Yi, “Postcolonial Legacies and the Divided ‘I’ in Occupation-Period Japan”
 
Yinan He, Discussant, Associate Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University 
 
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Session 2: Transnationality, Intersectionality, Anti-Imperialism
 
Nathaniel Heneghan, “Digitizing Ethnic Identity-Gender and Performativity in Recent Zainichi Cinema” 
 
Nobuko Yamasaki, “A Zainichi Woman’s Body as a Battlefield”
 
Amardeep Singh, Discussant, Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University
 
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion
 
APRIL 22
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Session 3: Cold War Culture and Literary Activism (in Japanese)
 
Koji Toba, “The Circle Movement in the 1950s and its Imaginative Power in East Asia”
 
Shoya Unoda, “Cultural Activism by Zainichi Koreans in 1950s Japan: Between the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula”
 
Hideto Tsuboi, Discussant, Professor of Japanese Literature, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
 
1:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Session 4: Ideologies of Gender and Language in Literary Production
 
Cindi Textor, “The Place of Language, the Language of Place: Narrative Voice as Traveler-Translator in Yi Yangji's Yuhi
 
Catherine Ryu, “Savoring the Apple Leitmotif: Gender, Desire, and Identity in Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi and Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Akai mi’”
 
Taïeb Berrada, Discussant, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Lehigh University
 
 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion
 
Sponsors: Lehigh University-Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Asian Studies, Humanities Center and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; The Northeast Asian Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) with the support of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC); Asian Studies Center, International Studies Program, Michigan State University; The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University;The Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Hawaii; The Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia
 
Special Thanks to Han Cholsu and Kim Sungwoong

 

 
 
 
 
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 4:00pm
Inspired by the best-selling manga and anime series, Death Note: L, change the WorLd reveals how the legendary detective “L” spends the final days of his life.  Directed by master J-horror filmmaker Hideo Nakata, Kenichi Matsuyama once again stars as L.
 
L has finally solved the “Kira” case in which countless criminals had died under mysterious circumstances, but sacrificed his own life in order to stop Kira, leaving himself with only 23 days left to live.  
 
For his final case, L goes up against a bio-terrorist group trying to wipe out humanity with a deadly mutated virus.  As L tries to formulate an antidote with a scientist, he must also save the lives of two children who have no one else to turn to.  Will L be able to save the world before it’s too late?  Witness the last 23 days of L.  [Synopsis © VIZ Pictures]
 
(129 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)
 
Free & Open only to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.
 
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 4:00pm
Williams Hall, Room 070
Asian Studies Travel Grant recipients will be  sharing their experiences.
 
Light Refreshments Served
 
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 4:00pm
Lewis Lab, Room 316
The sequel to the phenomenal hit movie Death Note (directed by renowned filmmaker Shusuke Kaneko), Death Note II: The Last Name concludes the titanic battle between the two geniuses L and Light.
 
Light Yagami has joined the investigation team in pursuit of the serial killer known as “Kira.”  While L strongly suspects Light is “Kira,” Light continues to seek out L’s real name so he can kill him using the Death Note.  Things get more unpredictable with the appearance of a second “Kira” who possesses the “Eyes of the Death God,” which enable the owner to see the true identity and life span of any person.
 
Light soon learns the identity of the second “Kira” and wants to join forces to get rid of L.  Will L be able to unmask “Kira” before he gets killed?  Which name will be the last written in the Death Note?  [Synopsis © VIZ Pictures] (140 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)
 
 
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
 
 
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Monday, February 20, 2017 - 4:00pm
Neville Hall, Room 003

Adapted from a highly popular manga, with original characters and plot twists developed only for live-action film, Death Note finally comes to life, directed by the renowned monster film master Shusuke Kaneko with a theme song by Red Hot Chili Peppers. 

Ace student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook intentionally dropped by a rogue “Shinigami” death god named Ryuk.  Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies.  Upset with the current justice system, Light takes matters into his own hands and vows to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of all evil, and become “the God of the new world.”

A mysterious detective known only as “L” quickly learns that the serial killer, nicknamed “Kira” by the public, is located in Japan.  Light realizes that L will be his greatest enemy, and a game of psychological cat and mouse between the two begins. [Synopsis © VIZ Pictures] (120 min.  Japanese with English subtitles)

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