Center for East Asian Studies

Lunar New Year Party 2012
Friday, Jan. 27 || 5-7 pm
ECM (Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.)
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with fun activities and East Asian food tastings. Come at 3 pm to learn how to make dumplings and sushi!

Retro Cocktail Hour’s Cinema-a-Go-Go featuring The Golden Bat
Friday, January 27 || 7 pm
Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.
The night includes two campy 1960s superhero epics: Superargo vs. Diabolicus, in which a red-suited do-gooder takes on a madman bent on stealing the world's uranium supply, and The Golden Bat, a Japanese superhero who rises from his sarcophagus to take on an army of invading extraterrestrials. http://kpr.ku.edu/retro/cinemagogo.htm

North Korea NOW
Thursday, Feb. 2 || 4 pm
Parlors ABC (5th floor), Kansas Union
Roundtable discussion of the history and culture leading up to the current events in North Korea today.

Murphy Lecture in Art History: Julie Nelson Davis, “Reading The Mirror of Yoshiwara Beauties, Compared”
Monday, February 6 || 5:15 pm
Spencer Museum of Art, Room 211
Julie Nelson Davis is Associate Professor of East Asian Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

INSIGHT Artist’s Talk: Hong Chun Zhang
Wednesday, February 8 || 7 pm
Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
Zhang will discuss her exhibit, Hay Wire, a site-specific project made for the Lawrence Arts Center.

Lecture: Yomi Braester, “The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas's Scale Models to RMB City”
Thursday, February 9 || 7 pm
The Commons, Spooner Hall
This talk will look at a pivotal moment in the history of architectural simulation, namely the introduction of Rem Koolhaas's practices and thoughts in the People's Republic of China.

Celebrating East Asian Studies Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Showcase
Thursday, February 16 || 5:30 pm / 6:30 pm (see below)
Watson Library, Third Floor West
A reception with food and music celebrating East Asia scholarship on campus will begin at 5:30 pm. A panel discussion will begin at 6:30 pm, when four East Asian faculty will discuss scholarship and the rewards of their research.

Lecture: Carl Minzner (Fordham University), “China's Turn Against Law”
Tuesday, March 13 || 7 pm
Malott Room, Kansas Union
Social stability concerns have led top Chinese leaders to question earlier reforms, even faulting these reforms for insufficiently responding to or generating surging numbers of petitions and protests.

School of Law Lecture: Carl Minzner (Fordham University), “The Rise and Fall of Chinese Legal Education: 1978-2011”
Wednesday, March 14 || 12:30 pm
Rice Room (5th floor), Green Hall

Annual Grant Goodman Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies: Carl Pflugfelder, “The History of the Penis in Modern Japan”
Wednesday, March 28 || 7:30 pm
Malott Room, Kansas Union

Lecture: Hitomi Tonomura, "Samurai Beyond Tom Cruise: Letters of a Family Man in the Fourteenth-century War"
Thursday, April 12 || 7 pm
Malott Room, Kansas Union
Who were the samurai? In the 1990s, priests at a temple near Tokyo came upon old letters sunk in the neck crevice of a Boddhisatva statue. The letters recast the meaning of violence and the samurai's reality, especially viewed against the beloved Tale of Grand Peace (Taiheiki).

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