SPRING 2007 BULLETIN

Anne Yue-Hashimoto, Univ. of Washington; Lin Deng and Ed Lien, Asian L&L Graduate Students Presentation about Field Work in Jianyang, China Thursday, 5 April 2007, 3:30-5:00pm Thomson 317 China Colloquium, sponsored by the China Studies Program.

Book Reading Kirino Natsuo, Author of Out and Grotesque Monday, 9 April 2007, 3:30-5:00pm Communications 120 Sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. (Photograph by Watanabe Makoto.)

Edward Fowler, University of California, Irvine Edo/Tokyo from Asakusa to Azuma: Temple, Theater, Brothel, Buraku Thursday, 12 April 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm Communications 226 Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program, East Asia Center, the Simpson Center, and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

Asian L&L Colloquium Chris Hamm, University of Washington Huo Yuanjia: The Death and Birth of the Modern Chinese Martial Hero Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm Communications 226

Richard Calichman, City College of New York Overcoming Modernity: Toward a General Theory of Cultural Dissemination Thursday, 19 April 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm Communications 202 Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program, East Asia Center, the Simpson Center, the Dean's Office of the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

AP Chinese Workshop Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:30pm-4:00 pm Communications 120 The goal of this free workshop is to provide an overview of the establishment of the AP Chinese course and exam. It will introduce school administrators and Mandarin Chinese language teachers to the AP Chinese language and culture course development process, components and specifications of the AP Chinese exam, and the possible impact that the AP Chinese course and exam may bring to K-12 and college curricula. The workshop will also provide information on what curricular support and strategies K-12 teachers may need to begin their AP Chinese language and culture program, and how teachers can find appropriate resources for professional development. To register for this free workshop and for additional information, please visit: http://jsis.washington.edu/eacenter/apchinese Sponsored by the East Asia Center, the Department of Asian Languages & Literature and the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington.

Asian L&L Colloquium Stevan Harrell, University of Washington & Ergu Azhi (Lygu Ajy), Southwest Nationalities Institute in Chengdu How to Harmonize a Marriage through Ritual: Lessons from the Nuosu (Yi) Text "_Kepu Jjylur Shy-a-te_" Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm Communications 226 In this colloquium, we will briefly introduce the context and the text, and spend most of the time showing how certain passages reflect different kinds of ideas about the Nuosu ideal world order.  While we will not pay much explicit attention during the presentation to the problems of translation themselves (which would constitute a whole separate talk), we will be glad to illustrate those for the linguists and others during the question period.  We will also make available an electronic version of the original text and our current draft of its translation.

Hosea Hirata, Tufts University Title TBA Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm Communications 202 Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program, East Asia Center, the Simpson Center, and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

Asian L&L Special Event Patronage, Performance, Procession and Pilgrimage: Channels of Religious Ideas in Early Modern India Speakers include Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (University of Heidelberg), Véronique Bouiller (Paris), Hans Bakker (Groningen, the Netherlands), Jack Hawley (Columbia University), Navina Haidar (Metropolitan Museum, NY), Vasudha Dalmiya (UC Berkeley), and others Friday & Saturday, 18-19 May 2007 Thomson 317 The Department of Asian Languages and Literature, Comparative Religion Program, and South Asia Center will co-sponsor with the Scholarly Exchange Program of the College of Arts and Sciences this international symposium. See the department web site's special events page for the current list of speakers and papers. For more information: Contact: Heidi Pauwels hpauwels@u.washington.edu

Asian L&L 2007 Markus Lecture Heterodox Reasoning in Early Modern North India: To What Consequence? Professor Monika Boehm-Tettelbach, University of Heidelberg Monika Boehm-Tettelbach is an Emerita Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the South Asian Institute, University of Heidelberg. She has conducted important research on the languages, religions, history and poetics of South Asia. She is particularly well-known for her work on the major tenets of the bhakti (i.e. devotional) traditions of Northern India. Her books include Dādū. Lieder (1991), In Favour of Govinddevjī: Historical Documents Relating to a Deity of Vrindāban and Eastern Rājasthān (1999), Images of Kabīr (2002), and Bhakti in Current Research (2006). She is currently finishing a book on the founder of Jaipur, Savai Jaisingh. Other research projects include "Dādūpanthī anthologies from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" and "The Militant Ramānandīs: History and Transformation". Wednesday, 16 May 2007, 7:30 pm Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall For more information, visit the department's Annual Markus Lecture web page.

2007 Annual Markus Lecture

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