EAST ASIA FOR TEACHERS
Newsletter of the Five College Center for East Asian Studies
Fall 2008
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CALENDAR Ongoing Exhibits * September * October Home Page * General/East Asia |
*An asterisk preceding an entry signals the Center’s or NCTA’s (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia) involvement in the activity.
§ Programs that have the symbol § are also NCTA enrichment opportunities.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Ongoing: Asia Unearthed (Fitchburg Art Museum, MA)
Sat 13 (ongoing): Re-View (Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA)
Thru Sun, Sep 21: Two Chinas: Chen Qiulin & Yun-Fei Ji (Worcester Art Museum, MA)
Thru Tue, Sep 23: Peace Masks (C.X. Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT)
Thru Sun, Sep 28: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks (Gardner Museum, Boston, MA)
Thru Sun, Oct 12: Works by Mika Tajima (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence)
Thru Sun, Oct 26: Essence of Nature in Brush and Ink (Worcester Art Museum, MA)
Thru Sun, Oct 26: Japanese Decorative Arts (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Thru Fri, Oct 31: Commitment to Peace (Historical Society, Portsmouth, NH, and State Archives, Concord, NH)
Thru Sun, Nov 9: Haiga (Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA)
Thru Sun, Dec 7: Buddhist Prints (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Thru Wed, Dec 31: Fabric Collage (Kiri) Paintings (Asian Cultural Center of Vermont, Brattleboro)
Thru Wed, Dec 31: Tibetan Painting/Chinese Neo-Calligraphy (C.X. Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT)
Thru Sun, Jan 4: Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
Thru Sun, Jan 4: The Art of Wang Hui (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)
Thru Sun, Jan 11: Art and China’s Revolution (Asia Society and Museum, NYC)
Thru Sun, Jan 25: Stage Idols, Japanese Kabuki Theater (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
Thru Sun, Feb 8: Zen Calligraphy (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
ThruMon, Mar 2: Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China (MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA)
Thru Sun, May 17: Perfect Imbalance, Exploring Chinese Aesthetics (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
Thru Sun, May 31: Visions of Kyoto (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
SEPTEMBER
Fri 12 − Sun 14: Event, Vermont Samurai Kaiju Film Festival (Asian Cultural Center of VT, Manchester)
Sat 13: Meeting, Japan-America Society of Maine (Casco Bay, ME)
Sat 13: Event, Japanese Culture Day (Japan Society Fairfield County, CT/Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY)
Sun 14: Event, Chinese Moon Festival (University of Rhode Island, Kingston)
Mon, Sep 15 − Fri, Nov 14: Exhibition, Tapestry in Architecture (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Tue 16 (1st session): Workshop, “Peace of Portsmouth” (West End Studio Theater, Portsmouth, NH)
Wed 17 & Thu 18: Performance, Taiwanese Hand Puppetry (Latchis Theater & Bellows Falls Opera House, VT)
Wed 17 & Sun 21: Film, Bird’s Nest—Herzog & De Meuron in China (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA)
Thu 18: Event, Portsmouth Peace Treaty Beat Night (The Press Room, Portsmouth, NH)
Fri 19: Film, Early Summer (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Sat 20: Performance, Odaiko New England (West Boylston, MA)
Tue 23: Seminar, Powers to Lead (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Thu 25: Film, Late Autumn (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 25: Lecture, Democratizing Undemocratic Civil Society in Japan (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Thu 25: Lecture, Memory and Invention and Personal Travel Scrapbooks (Gardner Museum, Boston, MA)
§*Fri 26 − Sat 27: Symposium, Asia in the Curriculum (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Fri 26 − Sat 27: Conference, New York Conference on Asian Studies (Hamilton College, Clinton, NY)
Fri, Sep 26 − Sun, Dec 14: Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy (China Institute, NYC)
Sat 27: Performance, Chuan-Yun Li & Robert Koenig (NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA)
Sat 27: Event, Pottery Picnic (Japan Society Fairfield County, CT, Kent)
Mon 29: Registration deadline, Olympics in East Asia (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
OCTOBER
Wed, Oct 1 − Sun, Jan 4: Exhibition, Zen Mind/Zen Brush (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA)
Thu 2: Seminar, Introduction to Chinese Characters for American Learners (Bryant University, Smithfield, RI)
Thu 2: Film, The Lady and the Beard (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 2: Lecture, Forgetting Japan's Postwar (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Thu 2 − Fri 3: Conference, Olympics in East Asia (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Fri 3: Performance, Theatre of Yugen (Buffalo Seminary High School, NY)
Fri 3: Lecture, Movement of Educated Chinese Youth to the Countryside (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Sat, Oct 4 − Sun, Jan 11: Exhibition, New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters (Japan Society, NYC)
Sun 5: Event, Double Nine Celebration/Chongyang Jie, (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
§*Tue 7 (1st session): Workshop Series, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Worcester, MA)
Tue 7: Poetry Reading, Bridge Across Time and Lanugage (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Thu 9: Film, Walk Cheerfully (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 9: Performance, Contemporary Chinese Art (C.X. Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT)
§Thu 9 − Sun 12: Conference, National Council for Geographic Education (Dearborn, MI), p. 7.
Fri 10: Conference, New England History Teachers Association (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
Sat 11: Storytelling, Umai-mono yama – the Mountain of Goodies (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
Tue 14: Event, Japanese Tea Ceremony (Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA)
Tue 14: Seminar, Origin of Agriculture and Impact on Chinese Civilization (Bryant University, Smithfield, RI)
Tue 14: Lecture, The Derge Parkhang in the History of Tibet(Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Wed 15: Application deadline, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program (Council for International Exchange of Scholars)
§*Thu 16: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Amherst, MA)
Thu 16: Lecture, What the Future Holds for the Derge Parkhang (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Thu 16 (1st session): Seminar, China (Primary Source, Watertown, MA)
Fri 17 − Sun 19: Conference, Zhejiang University Alumni Association in North America Annual Conference (University of Rhode Island, Kingston)
Fri 17 (1st session): Event, China Surprise! (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
Fri, Oct 17 − Sun, Jan 11: Exhibition, Movement (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
Sat 18: Workshop, Understanding Inner Mongolia’s Place in the People’s Republic of China (China Institute, NYC)
Sat 18: Conference, New England Regional Conference for AAS (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Tue 21: Lecture, Five College Japan Lecture Series (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
§*Tue 21: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Worcester, MA)
Thu 23: Lecture, John Lax Memorial Lecture in History (Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA)
Thu 23: Film, There Was a Father (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 23 − Sun 26: Convention, Green Mountain Anime (Hampton Inn Conference Center, Colchester, VT)
§*Fri 24: Application deadline, China Matters: Traditions and Transitions (Wesleyan U/FCCEAS, Middletown, CT)
§*Fri 24 − Sat 25: Conference, New England Association of Teachers of English (Radisson Hotel, Nashua, NH)
§*Sat 25: Seminar, Learning About China Through Archaeology (FCCEAS/Brown U, Providence, RI)
Sat 25: Workshop, Teaching about Religion Using the Cultural Studies Method (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Sat 25: Performance, Sound of the Ocean (John Hancock Hall, Boston, MA)
§*Mon 27: Conference, Connecticut Art Education Association (Holiday Inn, Waterbury, CT)
Tue 28: Lecture, Five College Japan Lecture Series (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Tue 28: Seminar, Great Travelers of Medieval Asia (Primary Source, Watertown, MA)
§*Wed 29: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Amherst, MA)
Wed, Oct 29 − Sun, Nov 2: Performances, The Golden Lotus (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
§*Thu 30: Conference, New Hampshire Council for Social Studies (Center of NH/Radisson, Manchester)
Thu 30: Film, Tokyo Story (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu, Oct 30 − Sat, Nov 15: Lectures, Considering China (Springfield Public Forum, MA)
Fri 31: Lecture, Camellia Sinensis and Chrysanthemum (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
NOVEMBER
§*Sat Nov 1: Workshop, Diversity in China (FCCEAS, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY)
Sat 1 − Sun 16: Event, Celebrating Asian Culture in Flower, Fabric, and Flavor (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
Sun 2: Performance, “Peace of Portsmouth” (West End Studio Theater, Portsmouth, NH)
§*Thu 6 (1st session): Seminar, China Matters (Wesleyan University/FCCEAS, Middletown, CT)
§*Thu 6: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Northampton, MA)
Thu 6 (1st session): Seminar, China (Primary Source, Research for Better Teaching, Acton, MA)
Thu 6: Lecture, Five College Japan Lecture Series (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Thu 6: Seminar, Understanding the Chinese Investment Community (Bryant University, Smithfield, RI)
Thu 6: Film, Tokyo Twilight (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 6: Lecture, China Behind the Headlines (World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts, Springfield)
Fri 7 (1st session): Seminar, Japan and the World after the Meiji (Primary Source, Showa Boston, MA)
§*Fri 7: Conference, Connecticut Council for the Social Studies (Central CT State University, New Britain)
§*Sat 8: Lecture/discussion, “Through Their Eyes” for the Classroom (FCCEAS, Colonial Inn, Concord, MA)
Sat 8: Storytelling The Three Magic Charms (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
Sat 8 − Sun 9: Event, Chinese Culture Weekend (Springfield Libraries & Museums, MA)
Mon 10: Conference, Maine Council for the Social Studies (Augusta Civic Center, ME)
§*Wed 12: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Worcester, MA)
Wed 12 (1st session): Seminar, Modern Topics in Asia (Primary Source, Watertown, MA)
Thu 13: Film, Ohayo (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 13: Seminar, Chinese Art (Primary Source, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
Thu 13: Lecture, Who Pays? New Jindaks for Tibetan Monasteries and Nunneries in the Kathmandu Valley(Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
Thu 13, Fri 14, & Sat 15: Performances, true (Japan Society, NYC)
Thu 13 − Sun 16: Conference, International Symposium in Theory and Research on Cross-cultural Communications and New Media (University of Rhode Island, Kingston)
Fri 14: Reception, Movement (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
Fri 14: Lecture, Five College Japan Lecture Series (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Fri 14: Lecture, Tibetan Pop Music (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Fri 14 − Sat 15: Conference, Social Pathologies & Psycho-ethnographies of Japan (Yale U, New Haven, CT)
§*Fri 14 − Sun 16: Conference, National Council for the Social Studies (Houston, TX)
§*Sat Nov 15: Workshop, East Asia Today (FCCEAS, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY)
§*Tue 18: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Worcester, MA)
Wed 19: Lecture, In the Footsteps of the Buddha (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Thu 20: Lecture, Flying Geese: How Asia Helps Shape Japan (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
§Thu 20 − Sun 23: Conference, National Council of Teachers of English (San Antonio, TX)
Fri 21: Lecture, Early 20th Century Chinese Perception of Global Order (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Mon 24: Application deadline, New Perspectives Program (Laurasian Institution)
DECEMBER
Mon 1: Application deadline, Student-Faculty Fellows Program (ASIANetwork)
§*Tue 2: Workshop, Economy and Environment in China (FCCEAS/Clark University, Worcester, MA)
Tue 2: Event, Japanese Tea Ceremony (Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA)
Thu 4: Lecture, Chinese Porcelain: The Ubiquitous Artifact (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
§*Fri 5: Conference, Vermont Alliance for the Social Studies (Equinox, Manchester, VT)
Fri 5: Event, Holiday Bazaar and Trivia Night (Primary Source, Hellenic Cultural Center, Watertown, MA)
§Thu 11: Performances, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Thu 11: Seminar, Current Status of HIV in China (Bryant University, Smithfield, RI)
Fri 12: Performance, Tzadik Music Label Series IV: Tribute to Teiji Ito (Japan Society, NYC)
Sat 13: Storytelling, Hats for the Jizos (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
Sat 20: Submission deadline, EAA Spring 2009 (Education About Asia)
Sun 21: Event, Celebrate Dongji (Boston Children’s Museum, MA)
reading our newsletter
The current and two previous issues of the newsletter can be downloaded from the Center’s website at www.smith.edu/fcceas/newsletter.html.
East Asia for Teachers is designed to help teachers and students learn more about China, Korea, and Japan. It includes descriptions of East Asia-related events, opportunities for travel in and study of East Asia, and resources for teaching about East Asia.
The newsletter offers a calendar that covers all dated events listed in the body of the newsletter. By scanning the calendar, a reader can focus on types of events and geographic locations.
Please note that the purpose of this newsletter is to provide information about East Asia. Inclusion of any listing should not be construed as an endorsement of any service, group, or individual. Also, dates and times may be subject to change, and there may be a charge for some events. Please contact the appropriate organization for details.
Readers who want more information about the Center or have comments on our newsletter can contact us at: Tel 413-585-3751; Fax 413-585-3748; Email fcceas@email.smith.edu ; web www.smith.edu/fcceas . We look forward to hearing from you.
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Director: Kathleen Woods Masalski
Assistant Director: Maureen Stephens
Administrative Assistant and Newsletter
Editor: Anita Finnell
Administrative Assistant: Sandra Di
Carlo
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Ongoing Exhibits * September * October
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