News & Events
April, 2012
Celebrating Collaborations Event:
Saturday, April 21, 1:30-3:00
Winslow Teaching Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art
Journey Beyond Words: Encounters between Chinese Painting and Poetry
The pairings in Journey Beyond Words represent a conversation between artists and poets across time and art form. The nature of the relationship between the poem and painting varies and often is not a one-to-one correlation between the content of the images and words. This exhibition and presentation encourages you to consider the idea that words or images, no matter how artfully expressed, cannot convey the entirety of the artist’s inspiration. But if that is the case, how is meaning to be gained? For this, the reader and viewer must be willing to enter into a unity that cannot be expressed by a single medium. The presentation is derived from EAL237 course work.
The Five College "Hanami" Festival
Location: Smith College Campus Center Carroll Room
Time: 12:30 am to 4:00 pm, Saturday, April 14th
This Hanami Festival will celebrate the Japanese tradition of flower-viewing. There will be performances by a number of Japanese clubs and groups from the community, as well as origami, brush writing, games, yukata-wearing, and food. Please join us! Free admission and open to public.
East Asian Languages and Literatures, Annual Department Lecture
No Basis for a System of Government?
Swords in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
Friday, April 6, 4:30 p.m. at Neilson Library Browsing Room
A talk by Professor Robert Joe Cutter, Founding Director of the School of International Letters & Cultures, Arizona State University, and President of the American Oriental Society. From early in Chinese history, swords were significant symbols of power. Professor Cutter's talk will examine this tradition as a means of understanding four texts dating from the Jian'an period (196–220) at the very end of the Han Dynasty. Along the way there will be insights into the role of royal regalia and a view of the evolution of certain genres of writing. Presented by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the Connections Fund. This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.March, 2012
The Hope for Japan Campaign at Smith College
Smith Sazanami presents the HOPE FOR JAPAN CAMPAIGN this year.
11a.m. to 1p.m. from March 7 to March 9, Campus Center Lower Level.100% of the proceeds are donate to the following NGOs: The Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief, JEN, Japan NPO Center, working on the affected area through Japan Society New York.
Report from last year's campaign: Thank you very much for raising the funds for the Hope for Japan campaign. The campaign raised $1436.85 as of June 1, 2011. $436.85 was donated to the Japanese Red Cross through the consulate-general of Japan in Boston and $1000 to the following NGOs: The Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief, JEN, Japan NPO Center, working on the affected area through Japan Society New York. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. Atsuko Takahashi
Growing Old in China
Thursday, March 29 4:30-5:30p.m., Neilson Browsing Room
Janice Moulton, Philosophy Department & George Robinson, Psychology Department
Life expectancy in China is rising. In major cities, like Shanghai, life expectancy exceeds that of the United States. The elderly are now a significant demographic in China. This presentation includes photos and videos shot by the authors at the end of 2011 describing the life-styles, activities and conditions for old people in China. Topics include: aging, retirement, pensions, health care, lifespan, the role of filial piety, living arrangements, university study for seniors, post-retirement jobs and volunteer work, grandparenting, exercise, hobbies & pastimes, travel.
Sponsored by CISCO and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
The Second Five College Japanese Speech Contest:
Saturday, March 31, 1:00-4:00 p.m. (with reception to follow), Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College.
The Second Five College Japanese Speech contest will be held at Smith College. Japanese language students from five colleges will participate in this event. Students from Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst compete on four different levels: First Year, Second Year, Third Year, Fourth Year +. There will be performances (such as songs, games, and koto) collaboratively organized and performed by cross-campus Japanese student organizations. Please come and enjoy! All are welcome. The Second Five College Japanese Speech Contest is sponsored by the Five College East Asian Language Program, the Japan Foundation, and the Consulate-General of Japan in Boston.
February, 2012
A Lecture by Professor Keller Kimbrough
Wondrous Brutal Fictions:
Theater and Publishing in Seventeenth Century Japan
Monday, February 13, 5:00 p.m.
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College
A Professor of Japanese at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Keller Kimbrough will present a lecture on staged and published renditions of the sekkyoo and ko-jooruri puppet plays Sanshoo Dayuu and others, as well as the history of the early-to-mid seventeenth-century puppet theater. Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Endowed Lecture Fund Committee and the Smith College Museum of Art. This event is open to the public.
December, 2011
ACC (Associated Colleges in China) Study Abroad Information Session
Thursday, December 1st, 12-1pm, Global Studies Center Wright Hall (Brown Bag Lunch)
Are you considering study abroad in China? As of this academic year, Smith College has officially joined ACC (Associated Colleges in China) consortium program. Explore your options! Please join us for good conversation and learn useful information from past students from ACC in China.
Poster Sessions: Presented by students in the Advanced Chinese Class(CHI 350)
Thursday, December 8, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures invites you to attend the Poster Sessions presented by students in the Advanced Chinese Class (CHI 350). Students will showcase their work and discuss the resources they used to create their final project on Chinese films, with still shots from the movies. Students will present their poster projects entirely in Chinese.
November, 2011
Nature in the Visual Culture of Tang China"
Wednesday, November 2, 7pm, Wight Hall Weinstein Auditorium
Free and open to all
Chrysanthemum Poetry Reading
Presented by students in EAL 231 (The Culture of the Lyric in Traditional China) Saturday, November 12 2:00 p.m. Church Exhibition Gallery Lyman Plant House
October, 2011
Presentation of the EAL Major
Monday, October 24, 4:30-6:00p.m., Seelye 207
Have you considered begin an East Asian Languages and Literatures major? Come join us to meet the faculty and learn about the major and minor! Refreshments will be served.
The Associated Kyoto Program Informational Meeting
Thursday, October 27, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Seelye 207
The meeting will feature returnees from last year's program who will discuss their perspectives and experiences. Join us if you are interested in studying in Kyoto in your junior year. Refreshments will be served.
EAL Student Liaisons 2011-12:
Hannah Chan (Japanese); Maddie Forden (Korean); Elayna Lalikos (Chinese)
Chinese Pipa by Wu Man
Monday, October 3, 10:00-10:50 a.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall
Wu Man, the celebrated Chinese musician, talks and demonstrations at Earle Recital Hall, Smith College, who is coming to UMass to perform Pipa, the most popular musical instrument in Tang dynasty. The instrument is shown in one of the earthwares and paintings in the museum's show. She will give a concert at UMass on October 5, 7:30.
Wednesday, October 5, 7:30p.m., Bowker Auditorium at UMass Fine Arts Center. (Click here for tickets)
September, 2011
Sazanami Sushi Work Shop and Ennichi Festival
Friday, September 30, 5:00p.m.-7:00pm., Campus Center Room 103/104. Make your own Sushi and Takoyaki! $5 for the first roll, $2 for each additional roll, and more! Free tea is served.
August, 2011
Ten Chinese Lit Students Experiencing Taiwan
Ten students traveled to Taiwan this summer as part of an extension of the course "Revising the Past in Chinese Literature and Film," taught by Profesor Sujain Wu. The students documented the trip on a Weblog http://taiwantripsmith2011.blogspot.com
Affiliated Faculty Selected as NCUSCR Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Sabina Knight (Comparative Literature) for being selected by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations as a fellow for the 2011-13 Public Intellectuals Program (PIP).
2011-2012 Bridging scholarship Recipient
Congratulations to Tatiana Cassel, who has been awarded a Bridging Scholarship for study in Japan for 2011-12. Tatiana, a junior majoring in Japanese, will travel to Japan in early September to study in Kyoto, Japan at the Associated Kyoto Program, located on the campus of Doshisha University.
"Hope for Japan" fundraising events
- Events will be back in the fall semester!
Thank you very much for raising the funds for the Hope for Japan campaign. I really appreciate your generosity and support for the people in the affected regions.
The campaign raised $1436.85 as of June 1, 2011. $436.85 was donated to the Japanese Red Cross through the consulate-general of Japan in Boston and $1000 to the following NGOs: The Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief, JEN, Japan NPO Center, working on the affected area through Japan Society New York. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm! Organizer: Atsuko Takahashi
