India’s response to the global phenomenon of “youth” music and culture was initially and most clearly apparent in its commercial cinema; beginning with the “re-invention” of Hindi film actor Shammi Kapoor as a teenage idol in 1957. The majority of the Indian urban and rural audience was broadly assumed to be non-English-speaking and generally unfamiliar with foreign culture (which was largely unavailable outside India’s major cities, especially after 1952).

Chinese gazetteers are local histories that contain information about a site or a region. Gazetteers generally collect previous works concerning a place, often in a variety of genres (essays, poems, inscriptions, biographies, etc.). They are typically difficult to use even for native readers. Even locating the relative texts can prove challenging. This workshop will introduce participants to work with two large collections of Buddhist temple gazetteers published in Taiwan and China over the last 30 years.

A corollary to the traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine: "Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory."

A graduate of GSPIA and REES, Emilia Zankina is currently an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the American University in Bulgaria. Her areas of expertise include elite theory, democratization, East European transitions, and public policy analysis. Her most recent research focuses on populism, gender and political representation, and civil service reform in Eastern Europe.

Paul Goode is Associate Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues (Routledge, 2011), and has published articles in various journals including Europe-Asia Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Problems of Post-Communism. His present research focuses on nationalism and legitimacy among hybrid regimes in the post-Soviet region.

The Asian Studies Center and the Department of Anthropology invite you to talk with Dr. Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research—Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and Harry E. Preble Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this talk Dr. Abelmann will think about the changing aesthetics of desire and social mobility. She will consider the porous boundary between the radically normative and potentially transgressive in South Korea today.

A week-long summer professional development workshop for instructors from a multistate consortium of two-year colleges.

The XIXth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

Robin Blackburn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and served as editor of New Left Review. He is author of many important books, including an influential trilogy on origins and history of Atlantic slavery: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988), The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997), and The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011).