BUCSA News Archives
Workshop on Diets and Local Food Systems in Asia (Hybrid event, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Sept. 12-13, 2024)
A lot of current discussion of food systems is often framed within the context of globalisation, with a specific focus on the almost hegemonic power of transnational food complexes. However, recent developments in food systems across the Global South paint a more nuanced picture, that emphasises the multi-scalar nature of these systems. Workshop on Diets and Local Food Systems in Asia 12 Sept to 13 Sept. 2024 Hybrid Event Venue : Hybrid (Online via Zoom & AS8 04-04) 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 National University of Singapore @ KRC In this workshop, we bring together scholars based in Singapore and internationally to discuss changes occurring... More
Breath, Rhythm and Music for Your Wellbeing, with Prof. Igor Iwanek (Sept. 17, 2024)
Join CFA professor Dr. Igor Iwanek and live musicians in learning the ancient wellbeing practice of Rhythmic Breath Control! This Fall, join CFA professor Dr. Igor Iwanek and live musicians in learning the practice of Rhythmic Breath Control (RBC). Imagine your body is hardware and your mind is software. How do we keep this machine charged? RBC teaches you to create a power station for your body and mind using breath and musical rhythm. Studies have shown how we breathe relates to how healthy we are, and in this interactive session, we'll learn powerful ancient techniques designed to promote emotional resilience and holistic... More
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Rebecca Nedostup – War Being in Mid Twentieth Century China and Taiwan (Harvard Fairbank Center, Sept. 17 2024)
Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is pleased to invite you to the next Modern China Lecture Series presentation: War Being in Mid Twentieth Century China and Taiwan Rebecca Nedostup (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University) September 17, 2024 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm CGIS Knafel K262, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 The following details are taken from https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-rebecca-nedostup/ Speaker: Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University Two decades of intense hot and cold war in China and Taiwan between the 1930s and 1950s produced not only significant economic, political, and environmentalchanges, but notable consequences for the epistemological structuring... More
Witnessing War: Ogawa Kazumasa and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (at Bowdoin College Art Museum, through Dec. 15, 2024)
This exhibition explores the social, cultural, and political changes taking place in Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1868–1912) through the work of Ogawa Kazumasa. One of Japan’s most prolific early photographers and publishers, Ogawa’s oeuvre included rural landscapes, geisha in Tokyo, lush flowers, ancient temples, and international conflicts—a visual record that documented the tensions of a society in transition. This exhibition focuses on a 32-volume photographic album Ogawa published featuring scenes from the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). Featuring selections that show field hospitals, prisoners of war, exploding cannon-fire, troops on campaigns, and more, Witnessing War explores the connections between photography, propaganda, mass media, More
Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China (at the Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, CLOSES Aug. 31, 2024!!)
The next exhibition at the Leventhal Center, opening in May 2024, takes a close look at an extraordinary pair of maps from early nineteenth-century China. This exhibition, Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China, will draw viewers into conversations about Chinese material culture, the circulation of printing techniques around the world, and the different perspectives on space and place that emerge from different intellectual traditions. Click here to read an interview with Dr. Richard Pegg, the guest curator of Heaven and Earth, about these extraordinary maps https://www.leventhalmap.org/articles/interview-richard-pegg/?utm_source=emailoctopus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-01-22%20General%20Newsletter) 大清萬年一統地理全圖 Daqing wannian yitong dili quantu; Complete map of the geography of the everlasting, More
Defying Boundaries Women in Japanese Art (at the RISD Museum, Providence RI, until November 4, 2024)
Defying Boundaries: Women in Japanese Art April 27 - November 4, 2024 Asian Gallery Japanese Prints (RA 602A) Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 20 N Main St, Providence, RI 02903 This exhibition addresses often-overlooked histories and stories of women in Japanese art. Marginalized in modern and historical accounts that focused on men, these women were nevertheless very much present in Japanese visual culture. From warriors and poets memorialized in prints to pioneering Japanese artists, these works offer glimpses of those who broke boundaries and inspired generations of artists and illustrators. Also portrayed in this exhibition are famous performers of female roles, or onnagata 女方. When... More
Jenna Tang’s new translation of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, by Lin Yi-Han (Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, May 31, 2024)
The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith focuses on stories of migration, the intersection of politics and literature, and works in translation. Join us this Friday May 31, 2024 for an in-store event with translator Jenna Tang to discuss and celebrate the release of Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han. She will be in conversation with writer Grace Talusan. One of the biggest books to come out of Taiwan in the last decade and a #MeToo feminist manifesto across Asia, the novel is a chilling tale of grooming and trauma and the power structures that allow it to flourish. Insightful and unsettling, More
The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas (at the National Museum of Asian Art, Wash. DC, ongoing)
The Art of Knowing brings together highlights from our collections to explore religious and practical knowledge across time, space, and cultures. Featuring stone sculptures, gilt bronzes, and painted manuscripts from India, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia, this exhibition illuminates the critical role of visual culture in conveying Buddhist and Hindu teachings from the ninth to the twentieth centuries. From Ganesha, the god of beginnings, to goddesses who personify wisdom, the artworks on view tell individual stories and reveal ways of knowing our world. The Art of Knowing asks how artists and objects shape wisdom traditions. How do shared images and... More
Do Ho Suh: Public Figures (Contemporary Korean art exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC, April 27, 2024–April 29, 2029)
To usher in the next century of the National Museum of Asian Art, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, South Korea) was commissioned to create a special edition of his work Public Figures to be installed in front of the museum and facing the National Mall in Washington, DC. Internationally recognized for his large-scale installations, Suh was among the earliest contemporary artists featured in the museum’s groundbreaking Pavilion exhibition series and his work will be the first new sculpture to be installed outside the historic Freer Gallery of Art in over three decades. As an artist living and working between his familial roots in South Korea... More
Shan Shui Reboot: Re-envisioning Landscape for a Changing World (at the China Institute, NYC, until July 7, 2024)
“Shan Shui Reboot” presents visually spectacular and thought-provoking creations by seven young artists born between 1974 and 1992. China Institute Gallery will present a special spring exhibition, Shan Shui Reboot: Re-Envisioning Landscape for a Changing World, on view from March 7 through July 7, 2024. The exhibition highlights a new generation of artists who are reinterpreting traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of today’s global social issues and climate crisis. Shan shui refers to the time-honored painting of natural landscapes with brush and ink focused on an awareness of inner spiritual philosophy. The exhibition features the recent work of seven... More