China's
Population Challenges
Lecture by Barbara Pillsbury
Thursday, September 10 at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Oldenborg Center (350 N. College Way, Claremont)
(students use meal cards; others sign in at entrance)
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Thursday, January 29, 12 p.m.
Oldenborg Center
(students use meal cards; others sign in at entrance)
The November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks rekindled the issue of alleged
Pakistani support of terrorism in Kashmir. Will a new problem, driven by
shifting Western reactions, emerge this time?
Nan Yin Music: A Living Fossil of Ancient
Chinese Music
Tuesday, February 3, 5:15 p.m.
Boone Recital Hall,
Scripps Performing Arts Center
Lecture by Dr. Min Wang, Professor of
Ethnomusicology, the Arts College Faculty Ensemble of Xiamen
University, PR China
Concert by the Arts College
Faculty Ensemble of Xiamen University,
PR China
Wednesday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.
Garrison Theater
Scripps Performing Arts Center
Concert will feature traditional and contemporary
Chinese music and instruments, including the Erhu, two-stringed fiddle;
Hulusi, Chinese free-reed wind instrument; Shougu, hand drum of Xinjiang
minorities; Xiao, Chinese vertical bamboo flute; Xun, Chinese vessel
clay flute; Yangqin, Chinese dulcimer; and Zheng, Chinese zither.
Organized B the Scripps College Music Department;co-sponsored by PBI.
Contact Professor Hao Huang: 909/607-3266.
TeAda Productions presents: "Refugee Nation"
Thursday, February 5, 3:00 p.m.
Seaver Theater 100
"Refugee Nation," an interdisciplinary/multi-media performance
created by Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng in collaboration with Laotian
community members from across the U.S., has toured widely, sparking
dialogue about refugees, global politics, U.S. citizenship, and the
impact of war.
Organized by Theatre & Dance Department; co-sponsored by PBI.
Contact
Professor Joyce Lu, 909/607-4385.
R. Stanton Avery Lecture
Globalization and the Nation-State: The Future of Failures
Ronald Grigor Suny, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and
Political History, University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of
Political Science and History, University of Chicago
Thursday, February 12, 8:00 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre (170 E. 6th Street, Claremont)
In our new millennium, with the transnational shifts from old centers
of power in Europe and North America to Central and East Asia, three
great processes appear to be setting the agenda: the transformative
spread of global capitalism, the political persistence of nation-states,
and American military hegemony. Does economic globalization threaten the
nationstate or do they work together? What roles will Russia, China, and
Japan play after the current crisis of capitalism and the potential
retreat of American power?
Contact PBI, 909/607-8065.
China-Middle East Relations and China’s Energy
Strategy
Pan Guang, Director, Center for
Shanghai Cooperation, Organization Studies
Wednesday, February
13, 12 p.m.
Oldenborg Center (students use meal cards; others sign in at entrance)
A rising China impacts the world’s oil demand; while Sino-Middle
Eastern relations continue to improve. What are the international
implications of this shift in global geo-politics?
Traditional Korean String Music
Concert: Hyun-Myung Trio
Wednesday, February 18, 4:15 p.m.
Lyman Hall (Thatcher Building)
Members of the Hyun-Myung ("Sound of Strings") Trio are professional
musicians at the prestigious Korea House in Seoul, the center of
traditional Korean music, dance, and cultural activities. This rare U.S.
concert appearance by the Trio will feature some well-known folk tunes,
select pieces of court music, and three of the most famous traditional
instruments: kayagum, twelve-stringed zither; ajaeng, bowed zither; and
haegum, two-stringed spike fiddle.
Organized by the Asian Studies Program; co-sponsored by the Public
Events Committee, PBI, the Music Department, the CMC Asian Studies
Program, and the Scripps College Music Department.
Contact Professor Kyoko Kurita, 909/621-8933.
Mass Murder by Mosquito: The Yaeyama Malaria
Reparation Campaign, 1989-1997
Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History, University of
California, Santa Cruz
Friday, February 20, 3:00 p.m.
Hahn 108
Christy examines the claims lodged against the Japanese government on
behalf of Okinawans who died of malaria under World War II occupation.
He will also analyze trans-Pacific claims against Japan through the
1990s. His forthcoming book is titled, Ethnographies of the Self: The
Formation of Japanese Native Ethnology, 1910-1945.
Organized by the Department of History;co-sponsored by the Asian
Studies Program and PBI. Contact Gina Espinoza, 909/607-3075
An Inside/Outside Look at Manga Publication in the U.S.:
Dark Horse and Its Publication of Lone Wolf and Cub, Astro Boy,
Akira, CLAMP, and Beyond
Carl Gustav Horn, Editor, Dark Horse Comics
Tuesday, February 24, 4:15 p.m.
Hahn 101 (Reception to Follow)
Ever wonder who or what made the manga industry
in the U.S. grow from
a mere $60 million in the early years to $375 million today? Pomona’s
own Carl Horn ’91, editor at Dark Horse Comics, America’s third largest
comics publisher (300, Hellboy, Sin City) and second-oldest manga
publisher, will speak about the changes that have transformed the
industry and the American public’s perception of manga as well as new
directions which Dark Horse is pioneering.
Jointly sponsored by PBI, Informational Technology Services, Asian
Langs & Lits., and the Oldenborg Center for Modern Langs & International
Relations.
Contact Professor Lynne Miyake, 909/621-8931
Science and Technology in the Making of Modern
China
February 27 – 28
The 2009 Hixon conference at Harvey Mudd College. The high-tech
spectacle marking the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
showed that science and technology have played pivotal roles in China’s
dramatic rebirth, contrasting with her humiliating defeats at the hands
of Japan and Western powers at the turn of the twentieth century.
This conference, drawing together an international group of scholars
to explore the history of science and technology in modern China, is
sponsored by the Hixon Forum and the Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences at Harvey Mudd College; the Intercollegiate Program for the
Study of Science, Technology, and Society at the Claremont Colleges; the
Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College; the Center for Chinese
Studies at UCLA; and individual members of the Chinese-American
community.
Contact Marianne DeLaet,
delaet@hmc.edu; 909/607-3812 or Zuoyue Wang,
zuoyue_wang@hmc.edu;
909/607-0856.
Kenny Endo Ensemble
Wednesday, March 4, 4:15 p.m.
Lyman Hall
Much of traditional Japanese music is influenced by sources in
nature. The Kabuki theater utilses sounds such as mizu no oto, sound of
flowing water; kaze no oto, sound of wind; yuki no oto, sound of falling
snow; and other sounds indicating weather, geographic location, or
emotions involved in a particular scene.
Featured will be the odaiko, large drum; taiko set, combination of
various sized drums; kotsuzumi, hand drum from Kabuki theater; and fue,
bamboo flute. A performer, composer, and leading teacher of taiko with
numerous awards and accolades, Kenny Endo blends Japanese taiko with
rhythms from around the world into original melodies and improvisations.
Organized by the Asian Studies Program; co-sponsored by PBI, the
Theatre Department and Asian Langs & Lits.
Contact Anne Tessier: 909/607-2348
A Writer’s China
Tuesday, March 10, 4:15 p.m.,
Hahn 101
Yu Hua is one of China’s most celebrated and translated writers, the
author of four novels, numerous collections of short stories, and
several volumes of essays. His works include To Live and Chronicle of a
Blood Merchant, named two of the most influential books in China in the
1990s, as well as a memorable debut novel, Cries in the Drizzle. Just
released in English is his satirical epic Brothers, a best-seller in
China.
Organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures;
co-sponsored by PBI and the Asian Studies
Program. Contact Professor Allan Barr: 909/621-8934
Empire Strikes Back: Japan in Manchuria,
Manchuria in Japan
Louise Young, Professor of History
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Monday, March 30, 4:15 p.m.
Hahn 101
Manchuria initially occupied a peripheral position within Japan’s
wider empire; it was neither a strategic focus of foreign policy nor the
site where key innovations in imperial management took place. Yet all
this changed after 1931, as the Japanese focused their energies on the
construction of a new kind of empire in the "Northwest." Professor Young
is the author of Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of
Wartime Imperialism (University of California Press, 1998).
Organized by the Department of History;co-sponsored by the Asian
Studies Program and PBI. Contact Gina Espinoza, 909/607-3075 |
