events
panasia festival 2006
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27The Medieval Silk Road Lecture by Ted Foss, CEAS 5-6:30pm @ INH East Lounge Understanding Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Through Song & Story 7-9pm @ Stuart |
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With events ranging from lectures and forums with distinguished academics to more prosaic cultural outreach efforts such as martial arts displays and performances by Asian musicians, the PanAsia Festival seeks to engage and inspire the minds and imagination of students, faculty, and community members. The festival itself is a testament of our willingness to openly and honestly discuss relevant issues and our relationship with American society and politics, that is, as fellow members of an increasingly diverse, complex, and multicultural America.
- PRE-FESTIVAL STUDY BREAK
8pm @ Hutch
Come get food and hear about upcoming PanAsia activities! Hosted by PanAsia, Samahan, and Looseroots.
wednesday, april 12
- OPENING CEREMONY
Shades of Race, America's Legacy of Discrimination
With guest speaker Helen Zia
8pm @ Hutch [see map]
Can the legacy of the civil rights movement be continued in the 21st Century? Has racism and hatred in America found refuge in a new socially acceptable form? Having witnessed a few decades of change from the movement in the sixties to current-day xenophobia, Helen Zia has seen the evolving landscape of race and discrimination in America. She is the author of Asian American Dreams and My Country Versus Me, and has spoken out on issues ranging from civil rights to women's rights to homophobia. Free dinner will be served at the event.
wednesday, april 19
- Shu Fa: The Way of The Brush in Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting
1-3pm @ Smart [see map]
Chinese Calligraphy Club has invited two renowned and experienced artists, Andy Hoi-Csui Chan and Gan Wei, to speak about Chinese calligraphy and ink painting. They will display some of their own artwork, and give demonstrations and instructions during a two-hour long event to be held in the Smart Museum Lobby. Students of all calligraphy and ink painting levels are invited to come learn about, practice, and enjoy these art forms. Dim sum will be served.
saturday, april 22
- Positive Images of South Asia Series
Part 1: AIDS and LGBTQ Pride in Calcutta
6-8:30pm @ Stuart [see map]
Positive Images of South Asia is a three-part series aimed at promoting awareness about development in South Asia. The first event focuses on the homosexual and transgender community, and their emergence in the field of public health and development. Mr. Jonathan Ripley, recipient of the American India Foundation Service Corps fellowship, and U of C alum, will speak about his experiences working for a year with the South India AIDS Action Programme, Chennai. ‘Calcutta Pride March 2004,' documenting India’s first LGBTQ pride march, will be screened. Film and discussion will be followed by samosas and drinks. Also see Part 2 and Part 3 descriptions. - Nixon in China From the Chinese Perspective: Art, Music, and Culture in the Nixon Era
6pm @ Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St
A panel discussion with art historian, Wu Hung, interpreter for the Nixons, Jia Zhao, violist Li Kuo Chang, and Theodore Foss of the Center for East Asian Studies. Presented by Chicago Opera Theater in anticipation of its Chicago premiere of Nixon in China opening May 17, 2006, at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. For information call 312-704-8414 or visit Chicago Opera Theater.
wednesday, april 26
- The Medieval Silk Road
Lecture by Theodore Foss
5-6:30pm @ Ida Noyes East Lounge
Theodore Foss is the Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, specializing in Chinese history and early Chinese contacts with Jesuit missionaries. His talk will explore the topic of Medieval travelers on the Silk Road, taking into account interactions of peoples, modes of communication, accuracy of written records, borrowings of motifs and ideas, and musical interactions. - Understanding Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Through the Songs and Stories of Its Survivors
7pm @ Stuart [see map]
Speaker Josh Pilzer, a graduate student in Ethnomusicology, will go period by period, from pre-WWII to the present, reconstructing those times for a small group of Korean women forced into sexual slavery under the Japanese military's "Comfort Women" system. Unlike other presentations, audience members will be given the chance to read stories, testimonies, and song texts around five comfort women to better identify with these women.
thursday, april 27
- Martial Arts Demonstration
by Hwa Rang Do, Genkikai Aikido, Wushu Clubs
7-8:30pm @ Henry Crown Multipurpose Room [see map]
Interweaved into these East Asian Martial Arts Forms are not only arts of fighting, but also philosophies and codes of ethics that guide their practitioners in their practice. Far from being simply 'traditional,' these 3 arts have come a long way in their modern development that has brought them far beyond their lands of origin. Come join these Hwa Rang Do, Genkikai Aikido and Wushu as they share their forms, philosophies and give 'live' demonstrations of their martial arts.
tuesday, may 2
- Central Asian Studies Society presents
Genghis Blues
7-9pm @ BSLC 015 [see map]
Genghis Blues is a film about the extraordinary odyssey of a U.S. musician to Tannu Tuva, in Central Asia, where nomadic people throat sing more than one note simultaneously, using vocal harmonics. A bluesman, Paul Pena, blind and recently widowed, taught himself throat singing and was by chance invited to the 1995 throat-singing symposium in Kyzyl. Helped by the "Friends of Tuva," Pena makes the arduous journey. Singing in the deep, rumbling kargyraa style, Pena gives inspired performances at the festival, composes songs in Tuvan, washes his face in sacred rivers, expresses the disorientation of blindness in foreign surroundings, and makes a human connection with everyone he meets.
friday, may 5
- Center for East Asian Studies presents
Shanghai Kunqu Troupe
7pm @ Chicago Cultural Center [78 E Washington St]
Two star performers from the Shanghai Kunqu opera troupe, Ms. Liang Guyin (female lead) and Mr. Liu Yilong (clown) join well-known actor-singer, Mr. Wen Yuhang (heroic male lead), and six accomplished Chinese musicians in a performance of classical kunqu opera, the oldest and most refined of all Chinese operatic traditions still performed.
sunday, may 7
- Positive Images of South Asia Series
Part 2: Tourism in Goa
6-8:30pm @ Stuart
Positive Images of South Asia is a three-part series aimed at promoting awareness about development in South Asia. Goa, with its beaches has become a much sought-after international tourist destination. The film ‘Goa Under Siege,' by the Magic Lantern Foundation, investigates the impact of the development of large-scale tourism on the hosts: on their ecology, economy and culture. ‘Goa Under Siege’ has participated in several festivals, national and international, including the Mumbai International Film Festival (India), Media Nord-Sud (Switzerland), Film South Asia (Nepal), Ökomedia (Germany), and has been used extensively in India. Screening will be followed by staff-led discussion, and samosas and drinks will be served. Also see Part 1 and Part 3. - Tatsu Aoki’s Jam Session (Live Jazz)
8:30pm @ C-Shop, Reynolds Club [see map]
In collaboration with Chicago Jazz Institute, we will bring Tatsu Aoki, who has fused local jazz styles with traditional Japanese instruments to create his own unique brand of Asian American Jazz. The session will include Tatsu’s group, as well as two additional artists from San Francisco.
wednesday, may 10
- PanAsia: Identities, Objects, Culture Forum
4:30pm dinner @ Reynolds Club South Lounge
5-6pm discussion [see map]
Tee shirts to cell phone charms, jade buddhas to takeout boxes, silk, music, language, images, stories, faces-- what counts as culture? Who determines it? How do we know it’s real? Join Pearl Zhang and Jessica Pan, University of Chicago along with Gene Moy, Chicago Chinese Historical Society in a roundtable discussion about objects, authenticity, identities, and culture. Hosted by the Asian Pacific American Graduate Student Collective. - The Free Burma Project presents
Living Dystopia: An Orwellian Vision Realized
Photos of Burma from 1940-2006
6-10pm @ Swift Hall 1st floor common room [see map]
A photo exhibit comprised of photos taken by students who participated in the University of Chicago Thai-Burma Border Delegation and professional documentary photographers who have done work on Burmese refugees and migrant workers. Photos will be for sale to raise money for the 2006 University of Chicago Thai-Burma Border Delegation. Refreshments will be served.
thursday, may 11
- Hive Day #2
9-11pm @ Ida Noyes 1st Floor [see map]
Hive Day #2 is a spring quarter concert featuring Asian pioneers in music. Guests will include Sulumi (1st generation Chinese electronic musician who plays minimal yet deeply textured IDM) and Artificial Lover (Japanese shamisen breakcore). Sulumi’s Shanshui Records have been publicized in the recent issue of UK’s Wire Magazine as well as China’s largest music magazine Koudai Yinyue. Artificial Lover is an underground breakcore artist known for fusing a traditional Japanese 3-stringed banjo (shamisen) with unpredictable breakbeats. - Human Rights in Asia I
3:30-6:30p @ International House [see map]
The Human Rights Program of the Center for International Studies invites you to attend a two-day conference on Human Rights in Asia. The conference will bring together an international array of scholars and activists to explore some of the most pressing human rights issues and challenges facing the region today. The conference is organized into the following panels: Asian Values; Labor and Migrant Rights; LGBTQ Rights; Civil and Political Rights. See the schedule of speakers and panels here.
friday, may 12
- Human Rights in Asia II
9am - 5pm @ International House [see map]
See description above. Please visit Human Rights for details.
saturday, may 13
- Quaerens Exhibit
5-7pm @ Reynolds Marketplace [see map]
Interactive multi-media presentation to explore global issues of spirituality, race, and cultural differences. See quaerens.com for more info.
tuesday, may 16
- Positive Images of South Asia Series
Part 3: Globalization in Rajasthan
6-8:30pm @ Stuart
Positive Images of South Asia is a three-part series aimed at promoting awareness about grassroots development in South Asia. The 9-minute documentary ‘Carrying Their Voices’ documents the innovative use of video footage by an NGO based in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Local villagers, in an attempt to save fertile land from being taken over by a cement factory, recorded footage of the damage done and successfully convinced local authorities to protect the land. Film will be followed by staff-led discussion about the economic processes at work, and samosas and drinks will be served. Also see Part 1 and Part 2.
wednesday, may 17
- Quaerens Exhibit Talk
7:30-8:30pm @ Bartlett Trophy Room [see map]
Jeff Ming Liou will lead a discussion on the Quaerens Exhibit. Jeff will discuss the Bible's holistic, multi-perspectives approach to justice and ethics, and how it can lead to distinctive conclusions about what justice is, and how best to pursue it. Also see quaerens.com for more info.
thursday, may 18
- Japanese Animation Society presents
Anime Masquerade Skit
6-8pm @ BSLC 001 [see map]
JAS will show the evolution of an anime masquerade skit by first showing the series that inspired the skit, then performing the skit, and finishing with a study break with food often found at conventions where the skits are performed. The skits are two 2-minute long shows packed full of anime references, dancing, fighting, and on-stage costume changes. This event will attempt to introduce one of the odder aspects of anime culture to the campus community.
friday, may 19
- CLOSING CEREMONY
A Celebration of Asians in America: Heart of Grace
Performance by H. T. Chen & Dancers
3pm @ Bartlett 1st floor dance room [see map]
Free dinner reception after the show.
H.T. Chen & Dancers is an innovative modern dance company, creating an uniquely Asian-American expression by embodying its cultural heritage. This show is an opportunity to explore the emergence of Asians in America through dynamic performances, audience participation, and demonstrations. Audiences will also be treated to a sneak-peak of Chen’s newest work, Shift. See htchendance.org for more info.
saturday, may 20
- Nixon in China
Trip sponsored by CUSA
7:30-10pm @ Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater is deeply proud to present the Chicago premiere of John Adams’ groundbreaking Nixon in China. This contemporary American opera radically reinvented the notion of musical drama upon its premiere in 1987. Based on the former President’s visit to China in 1972, it provides a profound examination of the human struggles of two couples—Richard and Pat Nixon and Chairman Mao and his wife. Sung in English with English supertitles. [PanAsia Festival will provide subsidized tickets at $5/ticket. Those interested can contact Shirley Yang at syang1@uchicago.edu. The tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis.]
saturday, may 27
Sponsors
Student Government Finance Committee; Office of Minority Student Affairs; Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; Center for East Asian Studies; Center for Gender Studies; Jazz Institute of Chicago
Participating RSOs
Asian American Intervarsity (AAIV), Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Coalition (APAGSC), The Free Burma Project, Calligraphy Club, Central Asian Studies Society (CASS), Chinese Undergraduate Students Association (CUSA), DOC Films, Genkikai Aikido, The Hive, Hwa Rang Do Association, Japanese Club, Japanese Animation Society (JAS), Korean Students Organization (KSO), Looseroots, Samahan, WHPK, Wushu