Part of the Asia Over Lunch series. Xiuying Zou, Public Services Librarian, EAL, and Ho Nam Choi, Principle Researcher, Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information, will present the variety of Korean Studies resources available.
The making of the collective is the central question of two of director Chen Kaige's early films, Yellow Earth (1984) and The Big Parade (1985). Both films re-enact the problematic, sometimes violent process through which individuals are transformed into members of 'the People.' In Yellow Earth, this transformation hinges on the relationship between collecting folk songs and 'collecting' peasants - 'mobilizing and recruiting them into the ranks of the People.
Part of the Asia Over Lunch series. Lecture by Bell Yung, Professor, Department of Music.
Join us for a special colloquium where University of Pittsburgh graduate students will interrogate and challenge the definitions of 'national' and 'transnational' through an investigation of American, German, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Mexican, South Korean, and Japanese screen cultures.
Panelists:
Yvonne Franke, German/Film
No Home in Place: German Heimat on the Move
Olga Klimova, Slavic/Film
Beach as a Liberated Space of Teenagers: The Allegories of Optimistic Past and Pessimistic Present in Soviet Cinema of the 1970s
Contemporary corporate Hollywood is often referred to as a 'self-aware cinema of spectacle'. How are spectacles featured in action blockbusters, a genre that relies heavily upon star presence and global accessibility? How do spectacular images, paired with mythical narrative, mobilize new relations of time and space in a non-Western urban setting? This talk looks into the built-in pleasures promised by the thematic and stylistic elements in the family action genre.
Modern Japanese literary discourse often utilizes authors' traumatic experiences as meaningful not only in their lives and literary careers, but also in the trajectory of literary history. I explore one such event from the life of Uno K'ji (1891-1961) in order to question the manner wherein literary historical discourse has imagined the author for mutually irreconcilable agendas, yet into an apparently seamless narrative of modern Japanese literature.
Coffee and cookies provided
Talk by Yiju Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecture by Dr. Laura Brown. Roadsides in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, like other Indian cities, bloom with small grocery shops which offer their regular customers relatively high prices in return for the opportunity to buy goods on credit. Drawing on observations, interviews, and recordings of interactions in and around three such shops between the fall of 2005 and summer of 2008, I examine how customers and shopkeepers strive to negotiate potential conflicts in ways that preserve a sense of mutual obligation and trust.
