TAIWAN TALKS Presents:
Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature
Howard Chiang (UCD) in conversation with Hangping Xu (UCSB)
Wed., April 27, 2022, 4-6 p.m. McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Category: Event
Small Island BIG Song Performance at MCC Theater
Small Island Big Song explores the cultural connections between the descendants of the seafarers of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through the Austronesian migration. This concert will feature artists who have made a choice to maintain the cultural voice of their people, to sing in their language, and to play the instruments of their land.
Tuesday, April 26, 6 PM PST, UCSB MCC Theater
Queer Media In China
Lecture by Prof. Hongwei Bao, Associate Professor, Media Studies, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Friday April 22, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm
In-person: 6020 HSSB McCune Hall
Webinar: http://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83685296339
Passcode:625025
East Asia Center Presents: “In and Out: Laughter and Gender Politics in Li Shuangshuang (1962)” by Ping Zhu
We are pleased to announce that UCSB’s East Asia Center will be hosting Prof. Ping Zhu (University of Oklahoma) for a lecture, “In and Out: Laughter and Gender Politics in Li Shuangshuang (1962),” on April 11, 2:00–3:30pm (PST), as part of its EAC Zoom in Global Scholars Series. Please scan the QR code on the flyer to join the Zoom meeting.
Center for Taiwan Studies “Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and Beyond”
Please join us for “Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and Beyond: How do Formosan Languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?” with Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington).
4:30-6:00 p.m. PST on Thursday March 3, 2022
Please register at: https://forms.gle/88TFEMBSQ1xqmVsZ6
The Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the talk.
Guest Lecture on “Paper City” — A New Documentary on the Tokyo Fire Bombings
Please join us on Wednesday, March 2, 5:30 – 6:30 PM as we welcome Dr. David Fedman (UC Irvine) to discuss his new documentary, Paper City. The documentary will make its US premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on March 3 and March 6. The documentary examines the history and memory of the Tokyo fire bombings. For those who don’t know Dr. Fedman’s work, he is the co-director of the Japan Air Raids project and one of the most prominent public historians, in the US and Japan, of the Tokyo fire bombings. He is also the author of the recent, and wonderful, monograph, Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington, 2020). If you would like to see a small sample of his work on the fire bombings, please check out his module, “Place Annihilation” in Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.
You can watch a brief trailer for the film here.
We will meet in person at UC Santa Barbara on March 2, 5:30 – 6:30pm, in HSSB 4080. Please RSVP to Professor Sabine Frühstück directly at fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu.
