Listening to Brown's composition Aki Meguri Kite and looking at Voices from Japan, a collection of tanka poetry written by survivors of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, this workshop examines the power and necessity of the arts in dealing with devastation.
Experience ichigenkin and shakuhachi as they were originally played for spiritual enlightenment, heard directly under the player's ear.
During the 1910s and 1920s, a wave of Orientalism took root in Peru. Peruvian diplomatic officials dispatched to Eastern Asia turned their homes into self-fashioned Asian art museums, donned Kimonos and published travel narratives of their adventures in the “Orient.” Indigenista intellectuals imagined Japan and China as sites of revolutionary inspiration for a post-colonial global politics. Simultaneously, labor movements and state officials targeted Chinese and Japanese businesses and dwellings as sources of theft, contamination and social degradation.
CHAR The No-Man’s Island (97 minutes)
The film revolves around Rubel, a young boy who wants to attend school, but whose financial circumstances force him to become a smuggler from India to Bangladesh. Every day, he has to cross a river that forms the border between the two countries. He stays at an island named Char which is a no-man's land and is patrolled by the border security force of both countries.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWW_5lIbk2k
Discussion with Shashank Srivastava (10 minutes)
The community is invited to participate in an art installation for remembering and honoring those who are gone. No art experience necessary, just come with your heart.
We will be creating a space for people of different backgrounds to interact and connect. Through sharing and listening, learn about each other’s experiences of family, immigration, displacement, and diversity. Share your stories, and bring offerings and photos for the altar.
With roots in the principles of Zen Buddhism and in spiritual practice, these traditional Japanese instruments share and underlying aesthetic concept: the discovery of the world that lies within one note, one sound. The program includes traditional music and new compositions by Japanese and American composers.
This program is supported through the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi endowments at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Jenny Day, assistant professor History at Skidmore College will present a paper that is part of a larger project aimed at re-examining the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 from the perspectives of cultural history and the history of communication. It looks at how the war itself enabled new patterns of mobilization and socialization around new information technology, political discourse and provincial agents.
Teaching foreign language across the curriculum is a means to internationalize courses commonly taught only in English. Students develop an enriched understanding of their chosen course of study while enhancing language skills in their second language. Educators bring world languages into areas of study beyond the typical foreign language and literature classes. This prepares educators and students for the cross-cultural and multilingual demands of global society.
O. Henry and Folio Prize-winning author Akhil Sharma (India) is debuting his highly-anticipated short story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight
