In-Asia Grant Info Sessions
Stop by our In-Asia Grant information sessions to learn more about the In-Asia Grants we offer for winter term and summer to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students. Our first info session will be this week on Tuesday!
Info Session on Winter Term 2019 Trips to Asia
Thinking about Winter Term 2019? Interested in Asia and the environment? Next year, there will be two study trips to Asia in Winter Term 2019!
Public Talk: Cinematic Bombay — Contingency, Crisis, and Decay
Please join us for a talk on Thursday, April 26th at 4:30pm in AJLC 120 given by Professor Ranjani Mazumdar. This presentation will look at the refractions of contemporary city of Bombay, India, through three unusual films of the recent past. It is part of the Global Issues Symposium.
Indonesia Winter Term Trip Presentation
On Tuesday, April 3, The Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment will host an interesting presentation by the students and faculty participants in a Winter Term trip to Indonesia this past January.
In-Asia Grant Presentation: Bamboo Bikes in Beijing
Oberlin Shansi is proud to present the next talk in a series which will showcase the projects carried out by recipients of Shansi In-Asia Grants. These first-, second-, and third-years spent January 2018 in Asia focusing on topics ranging from bamboo bicycles in Beijing to LGBT issues in Thailand.
Professor Simon Avenell to give lecture: “Environment as Method: Postwar Japanese Activism and East Asia”
We're pleased to share an invitation to a talk being given by Dr. Simon Avenell, Professor of History, Australia National University, entitled “Environment as Method: Postwar Japanese Activism and East Asia”.
Professor Margo Machida to give lecture: "Transnational Mobilities and Global Convergences in Asian American Art”
Professor Margo Machida will be giving a lecture titled “Transnational Mobilities and Global Convergences in Asian American Art” on Tuesday, March 27th at 4:45pm in Art Classroom I (Allen Memorial Art Building).
Past Taigu Fellow to give Poetry Reading on 2/22
This Thursday (February 22), come here a poetry reading by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Oberlin '07 and Shansi Fellow to Taigu, China from 2007 to 2009.
Voices from the Epicenter: A Shansi Visiting Scholar Presentation
Voices from the Epicenter brings you the views of two Indonesian scholars from Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, who have studied the aftermath of the December 2004 Indian Ocean 9.2 magnitude earthquake and tsunami which killed approximately 250,00 people across the region in 14 countries.
Shansi Fellowship Info Session on 2/22
Are you a junior thinking about next year? A senior about to graduate? A freshman or sophomore planning for the future?
26th Annual Conference of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies
We are excited to share that on February 16-17, the 26th Annual Conference of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS) will be coming to Oberlin College.