UK Asian Studies Research Forum II

This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will bring together scholars from across campus whose research focuses on Asia. The symposium will be a space of dialogue and learning among scholars. The event will include lectures lead by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and graduate students, as well as a reception. With support from the Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization in the College of Arts & Sciences, we endeavor to foster communication among those who are researching Asia, but scattered across campus, in hopes to build a stronger community of scholars.

Feel free to drop in for all or part of the events. Registration is not necessary, but helpful. Kindly respond with name and affiliation to Doug Slaymaker, dslaym@uky.edu.

 

Planning Committee

Presentation Schedule

Chaired by Liang Luo
1:30-2:30pm
  • Computer-assisted Learning of Japanese: Koji Tanno, Japan Studies, Modern & Classical Languages Literatures & Cultures
  • Chinese is not that difficult to learn: Implications from four decades’ research: Sihui (Echo) Ke, Second Language Acquisition, Modern & Classical Languages Literatures & Cultures
  • Chinese American college students’ ethnic identity negotiation in college: How does China play a role in it?:  Yan Wang, Educational Policy
Chaired by Akiko Takenaka
2:45-4:00pm
  • Sleepless in Seoul: Understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour-cafés through neoliberal governmentality: Jonghee Lee Caldararo, Department of Geography
  • From Yellow Peril to Yellow Friend: America’s Changing Perception of Chinese and Chinese Americans during the Second World War: Sixu Liu, Department of History
  • The Reinvention of the Past: Historic Preservation, Symbolic Landscape, and Gentrification in Seoul Myung In Ji, Department of Geography
  • Training Millions of Successors: Shelly Zhou, Department of History
Chaired by Srimati Basu
4:15-5:15pm
  • The Plastic Pileup in Thailand: Illuminating Voices and Perspectives on Causes and Grassroots Solutions: Olivia Meyer, Department of Geography
  • Cultivating Health in Landscapes of Uncertainty: Mystery Kidney Disease, Environmental Risk, and Agrarian Transformation in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone: Nari Senanayake, Department of of Geography
  • Animals after Disaster: Doug Slaymaker, Japan Studies, Modern & Classical Languages Literatures & Cultures
Reception
5:30pm E S Goodbarn Weldon Suite

 

Date:
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Location:
E. S. Goodbarn | Weldon Suite | 1451 University Dr Lexington, KY 40546

Great, Greater, Greatest: Louis XIV and the Logic of Royal Glory

Great, Greater, Greatest: Louis XIV and the Logic of Royal Glory

Lecture by Hall Bjørnstad, Associate Professor of French and Director of the Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington

 
Wednesday, April 3, 3:30 p.m
Niles Gallery
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
 
Sponsored by: the College of Arts and Sciences; the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; the Department of Hispanic Studies; the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies.
Wednesday, April 3, 3:30 p.m
Niles Gallery
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
 
Sponsored by: the College of Arts and Sciences; the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; the Department of Hispanic Studies; the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies.

 

Date:
Location:
Little Library Niles Gallery

Onegin

Onegin written by Alexander Pushkin, directed by Timofey Kulyabin. In Russian with English subtitles. Sponsored by UK Russian Club, UK MCLLC, and UK SGA. Free and open to the public.

Date:
Location:
Davis Marksbury Building Hardymon Theater

Anna Karenina Musical

Showing of Anna Karenina Musical by Leo Tolstoy recorded Live at the Moscow Operetta Theatre. Free and open to the public. In Russian with English subtitles. Sponsored by the UK Russian Club, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the UK Student Government Association.

Date:
Location:
The Kentucky Theater

Sexual Ethics in Early Christianity and Contemporary Politics

David Wheeler-Reed, PhD (Toronto), currently instructor in religious studies at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT, was a post-doc visiting fellow at Yale University. His first book, Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians, was published by Yale University Press in 2017. His work 
focuses on the New Testament, the ancient family, and gender and sexuality.
Date:
Location:
WTY UKAA Auditorium

Betrayal With Integrity: Conformance and Estrangement in Translating Chinese SF

Betrayal With Integrity: Conformance and Estrangement in Translating Chinese SF

Description: A one-hour talk in which award-winning author and translator discusses the origin of Chinese science fiction through translation of Western works, and then his own translation of the Hugo-winning novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin and its reception by readers in the West. Ken prepares the audience with some background on translation theory and the modern conception of translation as a performance in cultural negotiation, and applies these academic concepts to genre literature in particular.

He concludes the talk by extending the theoretical framework of “translation” to his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, which melds Western and Chinese epic traditions by transposing a foundational narrative from one culture into another.

Date:
Location:
Marksbury Building Hardymon Theater
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