THIS WEEK: EALC Spring Reception; AAPI Allyship Event; Job Opportunities Teaching English Online
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Concentration Announcements & Opportunities |
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Join us at the EALC Spring Reception!
Tuesday, April 27 | 3:00pm ET on Zoom
Celebrate the close of the Spring Semester with us virtually, and chat with faculty, staff, and students studying East Asia.
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Allyship Series: After Atlanta, How Do Asian Americans Want Us to Show Up?
Tuesday, April 27 | 12:00 – 13:00 EDT
This event will focus on how Asian Americans are looking for support in the wake of the Atlanta killings of 6 Asian women a few weeks ago. With speakers including Harvard Professor Ju Yon Kim and alumna, professor and filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña, we will delve into the history of Anti-Asian hate in America and actions we can all take to support the Harvard Asian American Alumni community. The conversation will be facilitated by Sheryl WuDunn, author and award-winning journalist, business and finance consultant and alumni leader. Click here to register.
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Struggling with a research paper, need feedback on a draft, or just want to improve your writing?
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Monday, April 26
Monday, April 26, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Panelists:
Jaclyn Dean, Policy and Government Affairs Director, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Monami Maulik, Civil Society Liaison Officer, United Nations Network on Migration Secretariat; Founder and Executive Director, Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM)
Moderator: Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Associate Dean of International Affairs, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow on Gender Equity, Georgetown; WAPPP Leader in Practice
Monday, April 26, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
S.T. Lee Lecture on Military History, Strategy, and Policymaking
Professor Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center, University of California San Diego
Moderator: Tony Saich, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 27
Tuesday, April 27, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – Session 4: Complicity and Clothing: Xinjiang Cotton and the Fashion Industry
Moderator: Jenny Wang, Human Rights Foundation
Panelists:
Amelia Pang, Journalist of Uyghur descent, Author of new book "Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods"
Zumretay Arkin, Program & Advocacy Manager at World Uyghur Congress
1:00 a.m. – Session 5: Silence is Not an Option: Advocacy and Action
Moderator: Guillermo S. Hava, Harvard University
Panelists:
Jewher Ilham, Uyghur human rights activist
Gulchehra Hoja, Uyghur journalist
Closing Remarks:
Dr. Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, April 27, 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture
Wang Jisi, Professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Siddarth Chatterjee, U.N. Resident Coordinator in China
Joe Colombano, Former Economic Advisor to the 8th U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Baba Ahmad Jidda, Nigerian Ambassador to China
Jane Nelson, Director of the Corporate Responsibility Intiative at Harvard Kennedy School and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Afke Schaart, Senior Vice President of Global Government Affirs at Huawei
Moderator: Rock Jie Tang, MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, April 28
Wednesday, April 28, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series
Panelists:
Bhaskar Koirala, Director, Nepal Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Nepal
Sudha Ramachandran, Independent Journalist; Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India
Xiaoyu Pu, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno; Public Intellectuals Program Fellow, National Committee on United States-China Relations; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.
Frank O’Donnell, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Nonresident Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center
Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 28, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Teng Fei, Associate Professor in the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University; Deputy Director of the Berkeley-Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change
Wednesday, April 28, 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series
Luke Patey, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies
Wednesday, April 28, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Korea Colloquium
Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Discussant: Wiebke Denecke, Visiting Professor of East Asian Literatures, MIT
Chair: Karen Thornber, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 28, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mekong, China & Southeast Asian Transitions Series
Brian Eyler, Stimson Center
Carl Middleton, Chulalongkorn University
Nguyen Huong Thuy Phan, Graduate Institute – Geneva, Switzerland
Pon Souvannaseng, Bentley University,
Apichai Sunchindah, Independent development specialist, Bangkok, Thailand
Moderator:
Wisa Wisesjindawat-Fink, Michigan State University
Thursday, April 29
Thursday, April 29, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Lu Mai, Vice-Chairman of the State Council’s China Development Research Foundation (CDRF); author of The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People (Springer 2021)
Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Fairbank Center Acting Director
Moderator: Tony Saich, Harvard University
Thursday, April 29, 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Juliet Lu, Atkinson Center for Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Friday, April 30
Friday, April 30, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
How to spend the summer doing research efficiently? How do you utilize the databases in your fields? Do you have use cases or approaches to share? Share your experience and methods in using databases.
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Western Eigo is Recruiting Online English Tutors
Western Eigo is an online English teaching platform that connects Japanese students and professionals to native English tutors from the West. They are seeking to hire American and other native English speaking university students and recent graduates to teach English on their platform.
· Connect with Japanese professionals and students
· Make good money
· Extremely flexible work-schedule as you can set your own hours.
· All classes are done online over zoom so you can work from anywhere
· For the majority of classes you only need to lead a conversation in English with a non-native speaker.
· Fun and rewarding job
Requirements
· Native English speaker
· Working towards a university degree or a recent graduate (freshman welcome to apply as long as you are over 18)
Extras (not necessary, but beneficial)
· Teaching experience and knowledge of Japanese is a bonus
· An English language teaching qualification
Next Steps
1. An introduction of yourself and what & where you study/studied
2. Your resume
3. A short description of why you want to teach English at Western Eigo
4. Why you would be good at the job
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Conference/Presentation Opportunities |
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Call for Papers for the Sixteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society
University of Western Australia, School of Design, Perth, Australia
Conference Dates: 16–18 June, 2021
Location: Online
Proposal submission deadlines:
Late: May 16, 2021
The Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation, developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets and in communities. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
2021 Special Focus—Voices from the Edge: Negotiating the Local in the Global
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Asia Center Virtual Programs
Left: Photo from "Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape" (ongoing virtual exhibition)
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Student Groups
*Please be aware that student groups may not be active while courses are being held online.
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Build Your Community with the Campfire Initiative!
This new project aims to provide a means for greater connectivity between students to allow for tailored support and more explorative interactions. Through this online interface, students learn and bond via the experiences and interests that they share with one another. Serious topics provide arenas for support that allow students to be heard, whereas lighthearted topics provide areas for exploration - both are important, and they often have areas of overlap. Campfire’s systems of tags allow students to focus on either serious or lighthearted topics, or to engage with both at once if they so choose.
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Asian American Business Association
The Asian American Business Association (AABA) provides a forum for the promotion, understanding, and cross-cultural exchange of East Asian and Asian American business, social, academic, cultural, political, and community-related initiatives. Visit their website here.
Asian American Dance Troupe
For over twenty years, the Asian American Dance Troupe (AADT) has sought to spread an appreciation and awareness of Asian culture through the medium of dance. Our repertoire includes a diverse range of dance forms including traditional, ethnic minority, fusion, martial arts, modern, and hip hop. Membership in this organization shall be open to all students in good standing currently enrolled in Harvard College. Visit their website here.
Asian American Studies Working Group is a space of interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates pursuing scholarships in Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) histories, experiences, and intellectual traditions. Its goals are to build scholarly community, to explore major debates and developments in API Studies, and to enrich the research pursued by its members across Harvard University. To contact the organizers, see when the group meets next, or to learn more, visit:https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/asian-american-studies-working-group
China Education Symposium
The China Education Symposium seeks to increase the understanding and awareness of China's education issues among the Harvard community and the greater Boston Chinese community through information sharing and discussions, and to search for feasible approaches to improve China's education. Visit their website here.
China Forum
Founded in 1998, Harvard College China Forum (former Harvard China Review Annual Conference) is currently the largest China-focused conference in the New England area and annually attracts audiences from all over North America. Every spring the forum invites influential business leaders, policy shapers, and leading scholars to Harvard to address current trends and events in a wide range of topics relevant to the development of China today. Operating under the Harvard China Review framework, HCCF works together with the Harvard China Review and runs a series of sub-programs, including monthly seminars as well as an annual cultural exchange program in the summer. Visit their website here.
CinEncounters
Established in 2012, CinEncounters is a forum for critical engagement with lesser-known masterpieces of Japanese cinema from the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. From the Japanese “New Wave” to Pink, from Anime to Documentary, screenings will foster a collective exploration with the unexpected, the uncharted and the unusual currents of Japanese film. Monthly showings will offer an opportunity to gather, discuss and enjoy new encounters with films, filmmakers and the histories and stories behind them. Moreover, screenings will invite critics, filmmakers and others related to the films to join our discussions over Skype, when possible. All films are shown with English subtitles and no prior knowledge of Japanese is required.
The 2018-19 series is organized by Alexander Zahlten (EALC) and Julia Alekseyeva (RIJS Postdoctoral Fellow). If you are interested in receiving more information about the respective CinEncounters screenings, please send a brief email to: cinencounters2018@gmail.com.
Contemporary Japanese Politics
The Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group was established in 1999 with the goals of better understanding key trends in politics and foreign policy in Japan and focusing a scholarly eye on key issues. This group enables advanced Ph.D. students to circulate their works-in-progress (conference papers, draft dissertation chapters, etc.) and receive feedback, as well as faculty and postdoctoral fellows to present their research.
Chaired by Susan Pharr and Daniel Smith of the Department of Government and co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the group includes over fifty faculty, graduate students, and others, both at Harvard and across the greater Boston and New England region.
For more information, please contact Shinju Fujihira, Executive Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. For details about study group events, visit their website here.
Gaongil (Harvard College Modern Korean Studies Society)
A tight-knit organization that meets once a week to discuss various economic, social, political, cultural issues related to modern Korea. As the Korean word "Gaongil" means "Middle-Path," the organization is committed to remaining nonpartisan while encouraging free and unhindered discussion.
Anyone who is interested in joining Gaongil can come and check it out! No prior experience with Korean language or culture is needed, and the meetings are entirely in English.
Fill out the interest form here to be included in their e-mail list.
Harvard Asian American Women's Association
The Asian American Women's Association recognizes the need for a unified, open community at Harvard concerned with the issues facing women of Asian descent in Western society. The purpose of the Asian American Women's Association is to address these needs by creating a collective voice and promoting the prominence and concerns of the female Asian-American population, both within the community and without, particularly through regular discussion of pertinent issues. Visit their website here.
Harvard Buddhist Community
The HDS Buddhist Community (HBC) is a nondenominational Buddhist group serving the Harvard and Cambridge communities throughout the school year. In addition to hosting weekly meditation sittings, HBC also organizes Buddhist film screenings and discussion groups, as well as the annual Buddhism & Race Conference. HBC generally meets weekly in Andover Chapel at the Harvard Divinity School.
Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association (Harvard CSSA)
Harvard CSSA is dedicated to the goal of promoting social, intellectual, and cultural activities of Chinese students and scholars at Harvard and for other interested members in the Harvard community. It facilitates communication among its members and acts as a liaison between itself and other organizations on campus. The group works to facilitate the exchange of information between China and the United States. Its activities include sponsoring and co-sponsoring social, intellectual, and cultural events, films, and seminars. President Xu Zhang. Group e-mail is harvardcssa@gmail.com. Visit their website here.
Harvard College Japan Society
The Japan Society promotes the culture and spirit of Japan at Harvard through cultural experiences, social interaction, and community bonding. Visit their website here.
Harvard Hong Kong Society
The HHKS is dedicated to promoting unique aspects of Hong Kong culture and society, and bringing together all students who are interested in Hong Kong. Visit their website here.
Harvard-Radcliffe Chadō Society
The Chadō Society is a group of Harvard students dedicated to learning chanoyu (in English, commonly known as “Japanese tea ceremony”). Though the organization is officially an undergraduate organization, they also welcome graduate students, non-student Harvard affiliates, and non-Harvard students to learn tea in the tradition of the Urasenke school. The organization’s instructors are all members of Urasenke Boston, the local affiliate of the Kyoto-based Urasenke organization. The head of the international organization is Sen Soshitsu XVI, who is a direct descendant of one of the first Japanese tea masters, Sen no Rikyu. The current club president, Jaden Freeze, can be reached at harvardchadosociety@gmail.com. Visit their website here.
Harvard Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club
The Harvard Kung Fu Club and the Tai Chi Club are two divisions of the Harvard Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club, a club sport registered at the Malkin Athletic Center with the Harvard Department of Athletics. For more information, visit their website here.
Harvard Taiwanese Culture Society
TCS is a student-run organization at Harvard College dedicated to promoting the culture and heritage of Taiwan and of Taiwanese-Americans. From cultural events like making muaji to social events like karaoke to special events like our annual winterfest: a taste of Taiwan, our goal is to enhance awareness of Taiwanese culture and to provide a place for those interested in learning about Taiwan to meet and to discuss their interests. Visit their website here.
Harvard Vietnamese Association
The Harvard Vietnamese Association is dedicated to fostering an awareness of Vietnamese culture on campus and within the Greater Boston area, and promoting the interests of the Vietnamese student body at Harvard. Visit their website here.
Korea Caucus
The mission of Korea Caucus is to actively raise the awareness of Korea within the KSG community by sharing the country's cultural heritage through social events, serving as a bridge and resource to non-Korean students who are interested in learning more about the country. They also aim to provide a forum to address key issues facing Korea and the implications for the rest of the world through activities and events. Visit their website here.
Korean Association
The Korean Association leads the undergraduate Korean-American community's efforts to teach and learn about Korean culture and political issues. The KA additionally provides a social outlet for Korean-American students who are interested in meeting others with a shared heritage and common interests. The KA supports cultural groups including YISEI the magazine, the fan dance troupe Chunsa, and the Korean drumming group (poongmul pae) Han Ma Eum. Visit their website here.
Organization of Asian American Sisters in Service
OAASIS currently consists of 25 members who are committed to each other in three aspects: commitment in sisterhood, commitment in service, and commitment in exploring the diverse experiences of Asian and Asian American women. Our comp process for Spring 2019 will be starting soon! Please visit our website at www.oaasis.info, or our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/harvardoaasis. Any questions can be directed to compoaasis@gmail.com. OAASIS is an officially recognized student organization that welcomes students of all gender and ethnic identities.
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Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab)
CAMLab explores innovative ways of showcasing Chinese art and culture through immersive installations, exhibitions, films, digital publications, curatorial projects, and other multimedia forms. For more information, visit their website and Instagram.
Explore Asia at Harvard Map (Harvard Asia Center)
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies provides undergraduates studying China with a myriad of opportunities and resources, including funding to travel to China, information about programs in China, and opportunities to do research with respected scholars of Chinese studies. Visit their undergraduate resources page: https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/resources/undergraduate/
Free Peer Tutoring for Undergraduates
A new program implemented to replace the former Bureau of Study Council. Read more here.
The Harvard Asia Center generates and shares knowledge about Asia from a transnational and transregional perspective. With its core lectures, seminars series, and conferences, the Center engages with topics critical to Asia and its connections with other regions, bringing in notable academics, government officials, business leaders, and other specialists as featured speakers and panelists. Learn more about Asia Center lectures, events, and student grants here: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/programs-events
The Harvard-Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Chinese culture. Learn more here.
Korean Studies Portal
Japan Digital Research Center (Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)
Japan Disasters Digital Archive
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Visit their events page here: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/calendar/list
The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies is an excellent resource for EAS concentrators studying Japan. Find a calendar of Japan-related events and lectures, undergraduate grant information, and internship opportunities on their website: rijs.fas.harvard.edu
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Have an event/group you'd like featured in this newsletter? Contact Naia Poyer (EALC Program Assistant).
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