Past Events
The Ullŭng Islander’s Drift through Classical and Post-classical Japanese Poetry, lecture by Jeffrey Niedermaier.
Vassar celebrates Soweto with a screening of Sifiso Khanyile’s critically acclaimed documentary Uprize!, followed by a faculty roundtable featuring Professors Mia Mask, Ismail Rashid, and Samson Opondo, along with local activist and South African native Dr. Ereshnee Naidu. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Mariam Rashid.
Campus community only, please.
Join playwright Mahesh Dattani, guest playwright and author, and the student cast of Dance Like a Man, for a compelling new play reading of his new work, Dance Like a Goddess and conversation exploring the dynamic intersection of performance and politics in modern India.
This event is free and open to the public.
In this presentation, Dr. Liu will introduce the research methods of “Clothing, Food, and Traveling,” the speaker’s new work on Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, a seventeenth-century magnum opus writing under the pseudonym of Xizhou Sheng.
This event is free and open to the public.
Professor of Chinese Studies Liang Luo examines how the White Snake legend is being reimagined through contemporary opera, film, and theater as a framework for digital-age minority activism.
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate “colonial domesticity.”
Campus community only, please.
The Asian Studies Program Annual Gandhi Lecture. Jyotsna Vaid ’76 will discuss the remarkable life of her late sister, the renowned LGBTQ+ activist Urvashi Vaid ’79.
This event is open to the public.
The screening will feature the 98-minute full version of the film, followed by a live Zoom Q&A session with director Yujiro Seki, who will share the origin story and vision behind this cross-disciplinary project. Open to the public.
At a time of both urgent need for algorithmic literacy and heightened social division, it is vital to understand the politicized grammar with which we talk and think about AI. This talk by Gerald Sim will focus on visual media whose power derives from being uniquely vivid, engaging, and visceral.
Campus community only, please.
Mae M. Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in the histories of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora. This event is open to the public.