Ceramics and Modernity in Japan, co-edited by Louise Allison Cort and ASIANetwork facutly member Meghen Jones, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at the New York State College of Ceramics of Alfred University, offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan’s most …
McJimsey Student Essay Award Winners Winner: Christopher Truksa, The College of Idaho ASIANetwork is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Marianna McJimsey Award for the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia. The winning paper is entitled: “Trust the Process: Evaluating China’s Social Credit System,” by Christopher Truksa (’23), political economy major, with …
Wearing the Pandemic: A Transcultural Expression Organizer: Etin Anwar, Professor of Religious Studies The exhibit will display work that construes the pandemic experiences and discourses into artistic expression especially within the contexts of the Indonesian Muslim cultures. The exhibit offers an adaptation to disruption brought forth by pandemic through visual representation as seen in batik …
The new book by Susan Furukawa, Associate Professor of Japanese at Beloit College, The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs) analyzes representations of the famous sixteenth-century samurai leader.
Eight ASIANetwork member colleges exhibited a collection of 36 paintings from Myanmar, curated by Ian Holliday of the University of Hong Kong. The artwork, exhibition posters and more can be found here. A book on the paintings, Painting Myanmar’s Transition was recently published.
The U.S. Department of State and Department of Education released a Joint Statement of Principles in Support of International Education, titled, “Reengaging the World to Make the United States Stronger at Home: A Renewed U.S. Commitment to International Education.”
The new book by Terry Lautz, longstanding member of the ASIANetwork Council of Advisors, Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic, tells the stories of men and women who have lived and worked in China. Written for an audience of students and teachers, the book includes a chronology of US-China relations and suggested readings …
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Randolph-Macon College was selected for an ASIANetwork Embodied Learning Grant to support the 4-week residency of Dr. Xiao Kunbing, a scholar of tea, tea master, and filmmaker. This is the first grant given as part of a 5-year ASIANetwork program through an anonymous grant of $250,000 given in honor of Donald Clark, Professor Emeritus, Trinity University. …
Knox College was selected for a 2-year ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation teaching fellow grant. The grant will support the hiring of a postdoctoral fellow in International Relations with regional expertise in Asia. Since 2010, this program has supported 30 teaching fellows, many of whom now hold tenure-track positions at ASIANetwork member colleges and universities.
Gary DeCoker, ASIANetwork Executive Director, published “Sustaining Interdisciplinary Global Learning in a Financial Crisis” in the Association for American Colleges & University (AAC&U) Liberal Education BLOG.