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| • PBI Events, Fall 2008 • |
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| September 25 |
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Consuming China: Measuring U.S. and Chinese Responses to the Olympics |
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| October 15 |
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Earth and Fire: Sustaining Life and Art on the Silk Road |
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| November 5 |
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The Consequences of Agent Orange / Dioxin on Natural Resources and the Environment in South Viet Nam |
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| More events and details. |
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| • Co-Sponsored Events, Fall 2008 • |
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| November 14 |
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Koreans as Japanese Soldiers During World War II: Cinematic Representation |
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| November 24 |
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Racial Harmony, Colonialist Violence, and Baseball in 1930s Taiwan |
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PBI Co-Sponsored Events: Fall 2007
PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: September 25,
2007
Lecture by: Phyllis Birnbaum
"Foujita: The Artist Caught between East and West"
Time and place: Tuesday, September 25, 4:15-5:30 p.m., Hahn 101
(followed by Reception)
Organized by PBI, co-sponsored with Pomona's Musuem of Art, Media
Studies, Asian Studies and departments of History and ALL as well as
Scripp's College's departments of Art and Art History
Contact PBI: 909 607-8065
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: October 25,
2007
Recital and Lecture by Yoko Hiraoka, a native
of Kyoto, Japan, a senior master performer of biwa, koto, shamisen and
jiuta voice.
"Classical Japanese Strings: Biwa Music and the Tale of the Heike "
Time and place: Friday, October 25, 4:15-5:30 p.m., Lyman Hall (Thatcher
Music Building)
Organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures;
co-sponsored with Asian Studies, the Music Department, the Oldenborg
Center, and PBI.
Contact Peter Flueckiger: 909 621-8936
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: November 1,
2007
Lecture of Jeffrey Wasserstrom, professor and
vice-chair of History, UC Irvice
"The Second Coming of Global Shanghai"
Time and place: Thursday, November 1, 4:15-5:30 p.m., Hahn 108 (followed
by reception)
Organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures;
co-sponsored with Asian Studies and PBI.
Contact Professor Eileen Cheng: 909 607-7109
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture-Demonstration: November 3,
2007
Presented by:
Theodore Levin, Curator
"Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia: Mystics, Nomads, and Troubadours in Central Asian Music"
Time and place: Saturday, November 3, 8:00 p.m., Lyman Auditorium
(Thatcher Music Building)The rich
diversity of Central Asian music and expressive culture is brought to
life in this lecture-demonstration featuring performers from Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Qaraqalpakstan, and Tajikistan. Theodore Levin, Parents
Distinguished Research Professor at Dartmouth College, first visited
Central Asia in 1974, and has been traveling there ever since. He is the
author of The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central
Asia (and Queens, New York), and Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound,
Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond. His most recent project is the
ten-volume CD-DVD anthology Music of Central Asia, co-produced by the
Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
More info...(pdf)
Organized by the Music Department, Co-sponsored with the Pacific Basin Institute,
Asian Studies, and Religious Studies
Contact the Music Department: 909 621-8155 (Cathy Endres)
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: November 6,
2007
Guest expert panelists will look ahead to
Northeast Asian relations after North Korea normalization. Presenters
include Daniel A. Pinkston, Director, East Asia Nonproliferation
Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Monterey
Institute of International Studies. Jing-dong Yuan, Director of
Education program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Associate
Professor of International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of
International Studies
"The Korean Peninsula: Looking Beyond the Six Party Talks"
Time and place: Thursday, November 6, 1:30-5:00 p.m., Smith Campus
Center 208
Organized by Asian Studies.
Contact Professor David Arase or Anne Tessler: 909 607-2348
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: November 13,
2007
Presentation by Janet Yang, Leading Hollywood
Producer/President and COO of American Sterling Productions. Janet
Yang produced the Joy Luck Club and was listed among "50 Most
Powerful Women in Hollywood" by Hollywood Reporter.
"Shanghai Memories: The Filming of Steven
Spielberg's 'Empire of the Sun'"
Time and place: Tuesday, November 13, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m., Albrecht
Auditorium, Claremont Graduate University.
Organized by CGU Arts and Humanities and co-sponsored with the Pacific
Basin Institute at Pomona College (PBI).
For More Information Contact: 909 607-0724
Janet Yang, executive producer of Amy Tan’s The
Joy Luck Club and called the head priestess of Hollywood’s Asian
destiny, recently assumed the presidency of American Sterling
Productions. Previously, at her own Manifest Films, she produced High
Crimes (Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman) and The Weight of Water
(Academy Award-winner Sean Penn and Elizabeth Hurley).
With Oliver Stone at Ixtlan, she also produced
The People vs. Larry Flynt, which won the 1996 Golden Globe Awards
for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Before Stone, Yang worked closely
with Steven Spielberg and his Amblin Entertainment, in1986 serving as
Spielberg's liaison in Shanghai, facilitating the historic production of
Empire of the Sun. While at Universal, she also initiated the
project Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
Born in Queens, New York in 1956, Janet Yang’s
parents emigrated to the U.S. from China, her father from Shanghai. Her
family was one of the first Chinese-American families to visit China
after the historic 1972 opening by Nixon and Kissinger. She majored in
Chinese Studies at Brown, and obtained an MBA from Columbia. Ms. Yang
lives in Santa Monica, California.
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: November 16,
2007
Lecture by Brett Walker, professor of
History, Montana State University
"The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Landscapes, Bodies, and Ceremonies"
Time and place: Friday, November 16, 3:00 p.m., Pearsons Hall, Room 101
Organized by the History Department, co-sponsored with PBI.
Contact Gina Espinoza: 909 607-3075
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Former Co-Sponsored Events
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: March 22, 2007
Guest speaker: Joshua D. Pilzer
Tentative Title: “Singing in the Lives of Korean Survivors of Japanese
Military Sexual Slavery”
Time and place: Thursday, March 22, 2007, 11 am, Boone Recital Hall,
Scripps College Performing Arts Center
Joshua Pilzer (UCSB; Ph. D., University of Chicago) will speak about his
research among the surviving "Comfort Women" in South Korea and address
how these women make music in acts of remembering, expressing, and
recovering from their traumatic experiences.
Organized by Scripps College; co-sponsored with PBI
Contact: YouYoung Kang or
909.607.8760
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: March 28, 2007
Guest speaker: Stefan Tanaka
“Time, Pasts, History: The Creation
of Modern Time in Modern Japan
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Time and place: Thursday, March 28, 2007, 4:15 pm, Hahn Building, room 108
Pomona College
Through an examination of the transformation of time in the early
decades of Meiji Japan (1868-1911), Professor Tanaka will open an
inquiry into the question of change in non-Western places. His lecture
will focus on three moments: calendrical reform in 1873, the discovery
that the Japanese archipelago had a past independent of humans (and the
gods), and the quest for history. He believes that an understanding of
the historicity of time makes two things possible: first, a query into
how societies change (rather than an explication of how societies
changed), and, second, an inquiry into history as a timekeeping
technology that frequently supports the hierarchy of West over East.
Professor Tanaka teaches modern Japanese history at the University of
California-San Diego. His lecture is drawn from his most recent book—New
Times in Modern Japan (Princeton University Press, 2004)—a study of the
introduction of Western conceptions of time to Japan. His first book,
Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (University of California
Press, 1992), was the co-winner of the American Historical Association’s
John King Fairbank Prize for the best book on East Asia in 1993.
For more information on the lecture, contact Gina Espinoza at 607-3075
or Samuel Yamashita by
samuel.yamashita@pomona.edu.
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PBI Co-Sponsored Lecture: April, 2007
Why Civilizations Can’t Climb Hills:
State and Non-State Spaces in Southeast Asian History
A lecture by James C. Scott
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 4:15 p.m., Rose Hills Theater
This talk will survey a history of conflict since the 13th century
between mountain-dwelling nomads and settled rice-growing lowland people
in Southeast Asia. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political
Science with a joint appointment in anthropology, and is the author of
several seminal works in the social sciences including: Weapons of
the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance; Seeing Like a State: How
Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; Domination
and the Arts of Resistance: The Hidden Transcripts; and The Moral
Economy of the Peasant. His lecture addresses his current research
in Burma.
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