2006-2007 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

APRIL 2007 The Department of East Asian Studies Spring 2007 Japanese Studies Lecture Series  William Haver Comparative Literature & Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Binghamton University "For a Communist Ontology" Tuesday, April 24th 5:00 P.M. 715 Broadway Third Floor Room 312 Reception to follow. This is a free event. The Department of East Asian Studies “Lecture Series in Contemporary Chinese Language and Culture” This event will be in Chinese. Ge Fei Empirical Author & Implied Author Friday, April 20, 3:30 — 5:30pm Conference room, 715 Broadway, 3rd floor All welcome. The Department of East Asian Studies Spring 2007 Japanese Studies Lecture Series  Tomiko Yoda Asian and African Languages and Literature Duke University "Girl-Time: Gender and Mass Culture in Contemporary Japan" Thursday, April 19th 5:00 P.M. 715 Broadway Third Floor Room 312 Reception to follow. This is a free event. The Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to present a reading by A group of leading Chinese Poets Xi Chuan Zhai Yongming Tang Xuaodu Luo Ying Chen Chao Zhou Zan Zhao Ye The reading is to be bilingual: Chinese and English April 17, 7:30 - 9:30pm Kimmel Center 905 Free to the public If you have questions, please contact Jun Liu at 212 998-7620 or 646 715-6852. The Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to hold a Round Table Discussion on  Translation of Poetry: from Chinese to English and Back Featured attendants from China: Tang Xiaodu, distinguished critic of contemporary Chinese poetry Chen Chao, distinguished scholar of poetry and poetics Zhai Yongming, major Chinese woman poet Luo Ying, poet and philanthropist Zhao Ye, poet and film maker Zhou Zan, woman poet and a critic of Chinese female writings Xi Chuan, poet, essayist, and translator; visiting professor at NYU Apr 16, 3:00 - 5:00pm with reception to follow 13 University Place, Room 222 All welcome The Department of East Asian Studies “Lecture Series in Contemporary Chinese Language and Culture” This event will be in Chinese. Wang, An Yi Fiction and Non-Fiction: Boundaries and Resistance Wang Anyi is one of contemporary China's most influential and innovative writers. She has written more than five million Chinese characters, winning prestigious accolades from both home and abroad numerous times. She is currently the chairperson of Shanghai Writers' Association. Among her works that have been translated into English are Baotown (1985), Lapse of Time (1988), Love in a Small Town (1988), Love on a Barren Mountain (1991), and Brocade Valley (1992). Her most challenging novel, Changhen Ge (Song of Everlasting Sorrow, 1996), is an epic tracing the trials and tribulations of a former Shanghai beauty pageant winner from the 1940s to the present. Friday, April 13, 3:30 — 5:30pm Conference room, 715 Broadway, 3rd floor All welcome. MARCH 2007 The Department of East Asian Studies Spring 2007 Japanese Studies Lecture Series Aiko Ogoshi Department of Culture, Professor of Religion Philosophy & Ethics Kinki University "War and the Concept of Judging from a Gendered Perspective: Challenges of Japanese Feminism " Tuesday, March 27th 5:00 P.M. 715 Broadway Third Floor Room 312 Reception to follow. This is a free event. The Department of East Asian Studies Spring 2007 Japanese Studies Lecture Series J. Victor Koschmann History Department Cornell University "Discovering the Nation: Marxist Historiography and National Liberation in Early Postwar Japan" Monday, March 26th 5:00 P.M. 715 Broadway Third Floor Room 312 Reception to follow. This is a free event. The Department of East Asian Studies “Lecture Series in Contemporary Chinese Language and Culture” Professor Yin Jinan 尹吉男 教授 On Contemporary Chinese Visual Arts Prof. Yin Jinan, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, is one of the most important critics of the contemporary Chinese visual arts, on which topic he has published two books: Knocking at the Door: Personal Comments on Contemporary Chinese Visual Arts, and Chinese Post-isms. He is also an art historian of traditional Chinese Painting and calligraphy, specialized in Gu Kaizhi (Ku K’ai-chih, 344--460), and landscape paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Friday, March 23rd, 4—6pm Conference room, 715 Broadway, 3rd floor This event will be in Chinese. All welcome. Please email gsas.eas.graduate@nyu.edu to inquire about our events.

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