East Asian Languages & Cultures Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Decolonizing Universality? The Ethics of Hybridity in Rabindranath Tagore's "World Literature"

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community (Documentary Screening)

Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community

Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture. A roundtable discussion will immediately follow the screening with the filmmakers, Stephen J. Epstein and Timothy Tangherlini. Sponsered by the Center for Korean Studies, World Arts and Culture, The Scandinavian Section and the Center for Digital Humanities.

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by (evalyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact tango@humnet.ucla.edu

Event: Socio-Political Geography of Buddhism

The conference "The Socio-Political Geography of Buddhism in Contemporary Societies" to be held Saturday, January 12th, 2002. The conference will begin with three lectures on contemporary Buddhism in Asia, and will end with a documentary on Buddhism in the People's Republic of China. All are welcome to attend the entire event, but are particularly encouraged to view the unique film from 3:00- 4:30 in Royce 314.

Please see: www.isop.ucla.edu/buddhist/conferences.htm

-- submitted by Melissa E. Birchard (birchard@ucla.edu)

Updating the Past: The Scores for "Young Bess" and "Elizabeth"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

FEMINISM CONFRONTS DISABILITY

Registration is required. For conference schedule and to register, please go to http://www.women.ucla.edu/csw/disability/

-- submitted by Peggy Lo (pplo@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact women@women.ucla.edu

Rethinking Buddhism in Chinese History

John McRae is an associate professor of Buddhist Studies at Indiana University. As a student of East Asian Buddhism, McRae is especially interested in ideologies of spiritual cultivation and how they interact with their intellectual and cultural environments. Several years ago he became involved in a multi-year cooperative study of esoteric Buddhism and popular religion among the Bai people of Yunnan in southwest China, based on previously unpublished handwritten manuscripts, art historical materials, and ethnographic data. His colloquium presentation will use data gathered from this project to illustrate a new metaphor for understanding the role of Buddhism in Chinese Buddhist history.

-- submitted by Mark Nathan (mnathan@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact mnathan@ucla.edu

CIRA Call for Grant Proposals

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia (CIRA) at the International Studies and Overseas Programs invites research proposals from faculty and graduate students at UCLA to form research clusters to conduct innovative, collaborative, and publication- oriented research on Asia.

CIRA promotes publication-oriented research on Asia that bridges different areas, disciplines, and methodologies. Research projects that gather together scholars and/or students who work on different areas in Asia (comparative) or work on the same region from different disciplinary perspectives (interdisciplinary) will be considered for one of two grants, each lasting two years. During the first year, the project investigator(s) will organize reading group/research cluster meetings and/or small workshops with the aim to develop papers for the second year‚s conference and subsequent publication. During the second year, a formal conference will be held and papers will be readied for publication. For the first year of the grant period, a maximum of $4,000 will be available for reading sessions, workshops, or meetings. For the second year of the grant period, a maximum of $10,000 will be available for the conference. It is expected that by the close of the grant period, a solid set of papers will be available for publication either in the form of an edited volume published by the Asian Pacific Monograph Series at ISOP or another university press, or a special issue of an academic journal. The CIRA grant does not fund individual research or field trips, and is to be used primarily for on-campus activities to enhance research and exchange here.

Successful projects funded by the program will have the following characteristics: (1) Innovative conception of a comparative or interdisciplinary research project that extends or challenges existing scholarship; (2) Clearly articulated publication plan; (3) Collaboration with other scholars and/or graduate students; (4) Clear timeline of project activities that will lead to publication; (5) A reasonable budget.

Application packets should include the following: (1) Title sheet with name(s) of project investigators, title of project, and contact information; (2) 5-page description of the project; (3) List of participants and their affiliations; (4) Timeline of activities and plans for publication; (5) Budget; (6) Other supporting documents, if available (such as letters of commitment from participants, initial contact with presses, sources of supplementary funding, etc.).

Deadline: March 1, 2002

Funds will be available July 1st, 2002. The grant period for the current competition is July 1st 2002 to June 30th, 2004.

Please send 7 copies of the application packet to: Shu- mei Shih, Director, Bunche 11387, ISOP, Campus mail 148703. For questions, please write to Mani Jad, mjad@isop.ucla.edu and/or Shu-mei Shih, shih@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu@humnet.ucla.edu)

Transnational Linkages in Work and Gender: Vietnamese Workers in Electronics and Garmet Industries

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

Transnational Linkages in Work and Gender: Vietnamese Workers in Electronics and Garmet Industries

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition

Dr. Stephanie Donald is a Senior Lecturer in the Media and Communications Programme

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition

Dr. Stephanie Donald is a Senior Lecturer in the Media and Communications Programme

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

ELO's State of the Arts Symposium

Many of the leading writers, critics, publishers and readers in the field of electronic literature will unite for three nights and two days of readings, demonstratons, and presentations. Keynote speakers include novelist Robert Coover, critic Katherine Hayles, and author and publisher Jason Epstein.

Information and registration is available on our website at http://www.eliterature.org/state. Early -bird registration discount is available through March 15.

-- submitted by Jessica Pressman (jesspres@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jesspres@ucla.edu

CIRA CALL FOR PROPOSALS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

A New Call for Research Proposals For Grant Period July 2002 - June 2004

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia (CIRA) at the International Studies and Overseas Programs invites research proposals from faculty and graduate students at UCLA to form research clusters to conduct innovative, collaborative, and publication-oriented research on Asia.

CIRA promotes publication-oriented research on Asia that bridges different areas, disciplines, and methodologies. Research projects that gather together scholars and/or students who work on different areas in Asia (comparative) or work on the same region from different disciplinary perspectives (interdisciplinary) will be considered for one of two grants, each lasting two years. During the first year, the project investigator(s) will organize reading group/research cluster meetings and/or small workshops with the aim to develop papers for the second year's conference and subsequent publication. During the second year, a formal conference will be held and papers will be readied for publication. For the first year of the grant period, a maximum of $4,000 will be available for reading sessions, workshops, or meetings. For the second year of the grant period, a maximum of $10,000 will be available for the conference. It is expected that by the close of the grant period, a solid set of papers will be available for publication either in the form of an edited volume published by the Asian Pacific Monograph Series at ISOP or another university press, or a special issue of an academic journal. The CIRA grant does not fund individual research or field trips, and is to be used primarily for on-campus activities to enhance research and exchange here.

Successful projects funded by the program will have the following characteristics:

(1) Innovative conception of a comparative or interdisciplinary research project that extends or challenges existing scholarship; (2) Clearly articulated publication plan; (3) Collaboration with other scholars and/or graduate students; (4) Clear timeline of project activities that will lead to publication; (5) A reasonable budget.

Application packets should include the following:

(1) Title sheet with name(s) of project investigators, title of project, and contact information; (2) 5-page description of the project; (3) List of participants and their affiliations; (4) Timeline of activities and plans for publication; (5) Budget; (6) Other supporting documents, if available (such as letters of commitment from participants, initial contact with presses, sources of supplementary funding, etc.).

Deadline: April 10, 2002 Funds will be available July 1st, 2002.

The grant period for the current competition is July 1st 2002 to June 30th, 2004.

Please send 7 copies of the application packet to:

Shu-mei Shih, Director 11387 Bunche Hall ISOP Campus mail 148703

For questions, please write to Mani Jad, mjad@isop.ucla.edu and/or Shu-mei Shih, shih@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

Franz Rosenzweig and Political Thoelogy: Universalism, Particularism, Exceptionalism"

Monday, April 29th, 2002 Royce 306 UCLA

9:00 - 12:00 Session One "Opening the Question: Franz Rosenzweig and Political Theology"

Peter Eli Gordon (Harvard University) Dana Hollander (Michigan State University) Moshe Idel (Hebrew University) David Myers (UCLA)

1:30 - 4:30 Session Two: "Unscientific Conclusions: Between Present and Eternity"

Giorgio Agamben (University of Verona) Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) Eric Santner (University of Chicago)

7:00 Keynote Address Peter Eli Gordon Department of History, Harvard University "Rosenzweig's Nietzschean Judaism"

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is both one of the most famous and least read figures of 20th century European and North American Judaism. Besides his masterpiece, The Star of Redemption, largely written on aerograms to his mother from the trenches of WWI, Rosenzweig wrote several shorter essays and books, collaborated with Martin Buber on a monumental new translation of the Bible (as well as a radical theory of translation), and founded the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus in Frankfurt. Although he has long been revered as a great Jewish thinker, few people until recently have actually read his central work, The Star of Redemption (1921), with the attentiveness that it demanded. Increasingly, however, Rosenzweig has become the focus of intensive study in universities and seminaries, and these re-encounters have often been fruitful in unexpected and timely ways. Rosenzweig's thought has already had a great impact on a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, theology, the critical study of religion, psychoanalysis, education, and Jewish-Christian dialogue, and new implications and connections are constantly emerging. Rosenzweig's thought is both traditional in its reliance on classical Jewish texts and commentaries, and radical in its application of those concepts to a reinterpretation of human experience and possibility. Like many of his intellectual friends and relatives in Germany at the turn of the century, Rosenzweig considered converting to Christianity, as the more "rational" religion and the historical fulfillment of the Jewish revelation; but instead Rosenzweig forged a new path by returning to the texts and practices of Judaism and comparing them to those of Christianity and Islam. In the particulars of Rabbinic Jewish thought, Rosenzweig found the basis of a fundamental philosophy and ethico-political practice that would extend to embrace all people in its universal vision of redemption.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Renaissance Culture in 17th-Century China: Some Methodological Questions

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lyn@humnet.ucla.edu

The 5th Annual SCALAR Symposium

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons Chair Professor of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Assessing writing across the curriculum: First language and second language competence

-- submitted by Lyn Repath-Martos (lyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact greenb@ucla.edu