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H-ASIA ************************************************ From: Fairbank Center for East Asian Research <fairbank@fas.harvard.edu> Subject: Asia Bulletin 89 <color><param>FFFF,0000,0000</param>Asia Bulletin 89 </color>November 1, 1998 Harvard University Asia Center Calendar of Upcoming Asia-Related Events http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/EAB.html Monday, November 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m. "Daoist Religion and Society in Early Fourth Century China" China Humanities Seminar Robert Campany Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Tel. 617-495-4046 Monday, November 2 at 7:30 The Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the series: Kurosawa Remembered Film: "Throne of Blood" Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA located on the "C" branch of the Green Line Tel. 617-734-2500, Website: http://www.coolidge.org Wednesday, November 4 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Human Rights Policy Conference Sponsored by The Kennedy School of Government's Human Rights Initiative Panel topics include: the role of the media in promoting human rights, the relationship between human rights advocates and democratizers, the role of human rights organizations and NGOs in changing state policy, and reflections on the origins and consequences of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Participants include: Mary Ann Glendon, Professor of Law, Harvard University; Mort Halperin, former senior NSC official; Louis Henkin, Columbia Professor of International Law; Anna Husarska, political analyst, International Crisis Group and New Yorker correspondent; Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist; Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, Human Rights in China; and Ken Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch. Public Welcome to Panels Charles Hotel Ballroom, One Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Ingrid Tamm 617-495-5819 or Ingrid_Tamm@harvard.edu Wednesday, November 4, Lunch at 12:30, lecture at 1:00 "The Mazdean Belief in Eastern Central Asia: Literary Evidence from Excavated Documents" Guangda Zhang, Visiting Professor of Chinese History, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street You may bring your own lunch or purchase it in the Coolidge Hall cafeteria Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Telephone: 617-495-3777; Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iaas/IAAS.html Thursday, November 5 , 12:30-2:00 p.m. "Markets and People Power versus Mandarins and Party Bosses: Strains Within the Japanese System" Jacob Schlesinger, Staff Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, and author of Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Program on U.S. - Japan Relations Tel. 617-495-1890 Thursday, November 5, 4:00 p.m. "Utopia Against Utopia: Nationalism, Postmodernism, and Chinese Cultural Politics after 1989" Professor Xudong Zhang (Duke University) The Asian Cultural Studies Workshop, a panel sponsored by the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies Barker Center, Rm 114, 12 Quincy Street E-mail Atsuko Sakaki at sakaki@fas.harvard.edu Thursday, November 5, 4:00-6:00 p.m. "Zen Poetry and Realism: Reflections on Ko Un's Verse and the Nature of Poetic Quest" Korea Colloquium Nak-Chung Paik, Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor, Seoul National University Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Korea Institute Tel. 617-496-2141 Thursday, November 5, 7:00-8:30 p.m. "Feng Shui: Wisdom of the I-Ching Applied to the 21st Century" Professor Lin Yun, College of Arts & Letters, San Diego State University The Science Center, Room #277, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Sponsored by the Chinese Department at Wellesley College For more information call: 781-283-2188 Friday, November 6, 12:30 p.m. "Can Asia Recover?" Modern Asia Series Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UN Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Asia Center Tel. 617-496-6273 Friday, November 6, 4:00 p.m. "Capitals and Labor in Ancient Japan" Japan Forum Wayne Farris, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Coolidge Hall Seminar Room 3 Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Tel. 617-495-3220 November 7 and November 8, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. "The Invisible Elements in Feng Shui from the Perspective of Black Sect Tantric Buddhism" Professor Lin Yun, College of Arts & Letters, San Diego State University The Harvard Divinity School, Sperry Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by the Boston Yun She Yin Shu To register and for more information, call 617-739-6717 Monday, November 9, 12:30-2:00 p.m. "Foreign Law Firms Go Local in Tokyo-Expanded Career Opportunities for Young U.S. and Japanese Lawyers" Charles Stevens, Managing Partner, Freshfields-Tokyo Naoki Kinami, Partner, Freshfields Pound Hall 419, Harvard Law School Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies Tel. 617-495-3142 Tuesday, November 10, 12:30-2:00 p.m. "What is the Nature of the 'Japan Crisis'? Can the Japanese Polity Resolve It? A View from the Perspective of Institutional Complementarities" Aoki Masahiko, Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and director general, Research Institute, MITI Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Program on U.S. - Japan Relations Tel. 617-495-1890 Tuesday, November 10, 4:00 p.m. World Premiere of a WGBH Public Television Special: "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan" with the film's producer Judith Vecchione Taiwan Studies Workshop Discussion to follow showing of film Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Tel. 617-495-4046 Tuesday, November 10, 4:00 p.m. "International Food Security Policies of the United States Government" Food Security in Asia Seminar Series Speakers: Cheryl Christensen, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and John Lewis, Office of Agriculture and Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge Sponsored by the Asia Center Tel. 617-496-6824 for more information Thursday, November 12, 4:00 p.m. "Re-Played in Japan: Indigenizing Baseball" Japan Forum William Kelly, Yale University Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Tel. 617-495-3220 Friday, November 13, 12:30 p.m. "Indonesia in the New Millennium: America's Pacific Partner or Problem?" Modern Asia Series Edward Masters, President, The US-Indonesia Society, and former Ambassador to Indonesia and Bangladesh Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Asia Center Tel. 617-496-6273 Friday, November 13, 2:00 p.m. Taiwan Studies Workshop Parris Chang, D.P.P., Taiwan Seminar Room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Tel. 617-495-4046 Friday, November 13, 2:00 p.m. "Reversing the Gaze: The Amar Singh Diary as Ethnography of Imperial India" South Asia Seminar Susanne H. Rudolph, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and Lloyd Rudolph, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Co-sponsored by South Asia Seminar Series of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Asia Center and the Center for the Study of World Religions Tel. 617-496-6273 or 617-495-9899 Monday, November 16, 12:15 p.m. "The Impact of China's Reforms in Tibet" East Asia Colloquium Arthur Holcombe, Former Resident Coordinator for UN Activities in China Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Tel. 617-495-4046 Monday, November 16, 4:00 p.m. "Empress Wu at Longmen: A Buddhist Self-Portrait?" China Humanities Seminar Amy McNair Seminar Room 2, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Tel. 617-495-4046 Monday, November 16 at 7:30 The Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the series: Kurosawa Remembered Film: "Rashomon" Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA located on the "C" branch of the Green Line Tel. 617-734-2500, Website: http://www.coolidge.org Ongoing through January 3, 1999 Exhibition: "Symbol and Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes" Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts More information can be found at the Harvard University Art Museums' World Wide Website: http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/ For general information concerning the Harvard University Art Museums, please call (617) 495-9400. For more information on HUAM events, please contact the Friends, Fellows, and Special Programs Office at (617) 495-4544. ______________________________________________________________________________ All events are open to the public and are held at Harvard University unless otherwise noted. Send submissions of upcoming Asia-related events in the New England area to Oona Patrick at the Asia Center by mail, fax or e-mail: opatrick@fas.harvard.edu. To receive a free e-mail subscription to the Asia Bulletin, please send a message to majordomo@fas.harvard.edu. Leave the subject line blank and include only the following text in the body of the message: subscribe eab-list. Paper copies of the Bulletin sent to Harvard University addresses are free, but an annual $10 subscription fee is charged for those delivered outside of Harvard's University Mail Service ($15 for non-US addresses). The Bulletin is also available at the Asia Center website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/EAB.html ______________________________________________________________________________ Harvard University Asia Center * 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel. 617-496-6273 * Fax 617-495-9976 * asiactr@fas.harvard.edu or fairbank@fas.harvard.edu ==================================================
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