Brown University East Asian Studies DUG

Join us at 1 PM next Wednesday, May 4th in the EAS lounge for the DUG’s concentration declaration + senior send-off party! We will be welcoming our newly declared concentrators, and congratulating/bidding farewell to our graduating seniors! Free merch, delicious food and drinks, and more will be provided! Looking forward to seeing you all there:)

Vigil for 8 Lives Lost with Red Canary Song: Reflections on Gender, Migration, Race, and the Policing of Intimate Labor

Date/Time: Friday, March 18th, 2pm talk followed by interaction with art installation

Location: Talk in List Auditorium 120. List lawn. Followed by interaction with art installation at the List Art Center Lawn.

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/8-lives-vigil-tickets-291409362247
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Join us in this public event as we reflect on the year that has passed since the Atlanta massage murders of 2021. The CSSJ Human Trafficking Research Cluster will moderate a conversation with organizers, workers, and artists with Red Canary Song, a grassroots coalition of migrant workers, s*x workers, and allies working with massage workers in Flushing, Queens. Following the talk, guests are invited to interact with a public art installation, “Curtains: A Weak Armor,” created by RCS to reflect on the surveillance, visibility, and practices of community care that define our work.
The event will be followed by interaction with art installation at the List Center Lawn.

Presented by the Center for the Study of Slavery and CSSJ Justice Human Trafficking Research Cluster.

Sponsored by the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts, Department of American Studies, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, The Pembroke Center, Department of East Asian Studies.

Learn about the Massage License Decriminalization Act:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e4835857fcd934d19bd9673/t/621a30b97e85c74fcdfe0eb5/1645883578333/Press+Release+-+Massage+Decrim+Act+-+Google+Docs.pdf

8 Lives Vigil Vigil for 8 Lives Lost with Red Canary Song: Reflections on Gender, Migration, Race, and the Policing of Intimate Labor

Come celebrate the recently arrived Lunar New Year in a casual get-together with the EAS DUG!
Stop by at 3 PM this Friday (tomorrow, 2/11) at Page-Robinson 203 to enjoy free tea, yakult, and a bunch of other snacks.
Both concentrators and non-concentrators are welcome! Hope to see you there:)

Reminder: Our last EAS Study Hours is happening today (Wednesday 12/15) from 12-4 PM! We will start in the library then move down to the lounge. There will be lots of free food; come stop by and say hi or study a while!:)

Reminder: EAS Study Hours happening tomorrow (Wednesday 12/8) from 12-4 PM! There will be lots of free food; come stop by and say hi or study a while!:)

Join us over Zoom this Thursday (12/2) from 4-5 PM for a special lecture on Chinese calligraphy by guest speaker Kang Zhou from MIT!
Zoom link: https://bit.ly/EASCalligraphy

Join the EAS DUG for study hours on Wednesdays, 12/1, 12/8, and 12/15 between 12pm and 4pm in the Gerard House Lounge! We will have refreshments as well!

Join us TONIGHT at 7 PM in Sayles 205 or on Zoom for Brown's info session for GPI US, which is offering opportunities for paid mentorship, connecting with Japanese students and culture, and more for college students! See flyer for details.

The EAS Department will be hosting an open house at the Gerard House on Friday, October 8th at 4pm! Join us for coffee, cookies, and donuts, and get to know your classmates and professors! Non-concentrators are welcome:)

The Asian American Heritage Series will host its first event this Tuesday(9/21) at 5:30pm at Sayles(on the Main Green)! Please read the details below:
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Come and enjoy delicious food, meet student leaders from a diverse group of Asian organizations, watch student performances, and learn more about the Asian-American Heritage Series Program.

The event will begin at 5:30PM. You must RSVP to receive food!! As this is an IN-PERSON event, Brown University and CDC protocols will be put in place to ensure the health and safety of all students. Join us to gather and practice community- and self-care at the start of this new Fall semester.

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Time: 5:30-7:00 PM
Location: Sayles Hall

Looking for a new class? Check out EAST0534: Patriots, Communists, and Traitors in Modern Korea! (description below)
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1-2:20pm T Th; Professor Ellie Choi; Page-Robinson 303

Korean national identity (minjok) relies on selective erasure of inconvenient truths and memories that would otherwise confound commonplace assumptions about patriots, Communists, and traitors. This course is for the serious student of Korea, its history, politics, and nationalism, who seeks to understand the very foundations of Korean debates over collaboration, class, and division as they have continued to contemporary politics.

A group of students in CLPS 0300 is currently conducting a survey for a linguistics project! If you are a native or fluent speaker of Korean or Japanese, please consider helping them out by filling out the questionnaire below. Thank you!

Link to the Korean survey:
https://forms.gle/v3HWCmvUMYS3y3pAA
Link to the Japanese survey:
https://forms.gle/4ZxuB6kTdcTZeKLw5

CLPS0300 Korean Survey For the following questions, please mark which sentence is more natural to say about the person you are talking about in each of the described contexts.

We are very happy to announce that this fall, we will be offering Beginning (EAST 0100V) and Intermediate (EAST 0300V) Vietnamese! Please see the attachment for the schedule, or visit C@B.

UPDATE: This week's Chinese Language Table will be moved from today (6/9) to Sunday (6/13) at the same time (7:30 - 8:30 PM ET)! Hope to see you there :)

STARTING TONIGHT: Weekly Chinese Language Hour (Wed. 7:30-8:30 PM ET) https://brown.zoom.us/j/98348541751
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Join us for our inaugural Chinese language hour tonight to meet new people and practice conversational Chinese in a relaxed/casual setting! Students (and faculty) of all skill levels, from beginner to native, are welcome. We will be hosting this event weekly, so be sure to drop by!

(If you would like to participate but have scheduling conflicts/other issues, please reach out to this page via direct message.)

Join us on Friday, April 2 at 6:00 PM EDT for a virtual screening of Minari followed by a post-film discussion with Ellie Choi!
Discussion with Prof. Choi begins at 8:15 PM EDT.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/d5DA77tw7czV9mTC7

Professor Ellie Choi is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of East Asian Studies, where she teaches classes on Korean media, Korean youth, urban space, colonial Pyongyang and modern Korean history.

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"About the film

Directed by: Lee Isaac Chung

Starring: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Scott Haze with Yuh-Jung Youn and Will Patton

Running Time: 1 hr 55 min

A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

For more information about the film and to watch the trailer, visit: https://a24films.com/films/minari"

Join us tomorrow (Thurs. 3/25) from 4:00-5:30 PM for the talk "White Supremacy, Policing, & Asian Massage Work."

Event info: https://events.brown.edu/event/208307-white-supremacy-policing-asian-massage-work
Registration link: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wQlltMluT_-rdPD_tISXDw

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"The recent killings of Asian massage workers in Atlanta has pointed to the linked systems of white supremacy and state violence. Please join the CSSJ Human Trafficking Research Cluster in conversation with organizers and workers from Red Canary Song and Butterfly Project, two grassroots organizations of massage workers, s*x workers, and allies, as we discuss the contexts of policing migrant massage work in Providence, New York City, and Toronto.

This event is co-sponsored by East Asian Studies at Brown University and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs"

White Supremacy, Policing, & Asian Massage Work The recent killings of Asian massage workers in Atlanta has pointed to the linked systems of white supremacist and state violence. Please join the ...

Check out this talk series which starts today!

"'Politics in Command: Histories of Art and Socialism in China' is a talk series part of an independent study project initiated by Stephanie Wu and advised by David Xu Borgonjon focusing on Chinese socialist realism from the 1930s to the 1980s. Through these conversations, we hope to foster a more nuanced understanding of a vital era of Chinese art history."

More info can be found at the RSVP link here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6rQwcRc2DHhbj5AbjP1w5TP231URt3PecZuEn-ta-j4UMfA/viewform

Consider subscribing or submitting to Red Envelope Stories, a student-run weekly newsletter about Asian identity!

https://www.redenvelopestories.net/

"A newsletter to learn, share and understand the Asian experience. Weekly stories of 150 words covering relationships, immigration, self-acceptance, career pressures, food, politics, and more."

With the unpredictable threat from a nuclear armed North Korea and the negotiations of the influence of world powers, in particular China and the United States, ROK policymakers are constantly given reality checks. Please join Mr. Yonghyon Kim, The Korean Consulate General in Boston, on Oct 7, 4pm, as he discusses the ROK's opportunies and challenges in the 21st century by filling out the RSVP below by Oct 7, 12pm.

Biography:
Yonghyon Kim is Consul General of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in Boston. As a career diplomat, he brings over thirty years of diplomatic expertise and experience to his office, which he assumed in December 2017. His duties include, inter alia, protecting the interests of the ROK and overseas Koreans in New England, and furthering the development of commercial, economic, cultural and scientific relations between the ROK and the United States, in particular the New England region. Prior to his current position, CG Kim was Director-General for Korean Peninsula Peace Regime from March 2016. He also worked in the same bureau as Deputy Director-General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs for two years, starting from June 2014. He oversaw North Korea-related issues such as regional security cooperation, unification diplomacy and human rights situations. From 2005 to 2008, he was deeply involved in the Six-Party Talks process on North Korea’s denuclearization, as political officer at the ROK Embassy in Beijing. He worked mainly on Korean Peninsula security issues, among other posts, working at the ROK Embassy in Washington (1999-2001). He also served on the National Security Council in the President’s Office (2003-2004). He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1989 majoring in international relations, and studied at the Pennsylvania State University (1992-1994).

RSVP: https://forms.gle/mQgm3ANmXfxoq6e99

What if you could help stop the next pandemic? Or fight the most catastrophic consequences posed by climate change? Or tackle other pressing problems?

The Brown Effective Altruism Fellowship helps students figure out how they can do the most good with their lives—whether that’s working on one of these challenges or focusing on another problem better suited to you.

While some efforts to improve the world, such as smallpox eradication and the abolitionist movement, do a truly extraordinary amount of good, many well-intended initiatives are ineffective or even counterproductive. Indeed, doing good better is one of the defining challenges of our time.

Recognizing this need, Brown Effective Altruism is offering a virtual summer fellowship to equip students with the knowledge to help our world most effectively and the tools to think critically about their career ambitions.

To express interest and join our listserv, sign up here:
https://forms.gle/tWmLm8HTbjpTsFz26

The fellowship will take place over seven weeks from the week of June 15th until the end of July, with a minimum time commitment of 2-3 hours per week.
Learn more by checking out our syllabus here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5ql1NNJzxsBeY8YF_tr_QF96CVgBsx7eqvRcXvjpnU/edit?usp=sharing

Apply now via this form:
https://forms.gle/ateuLEmJgn5xrmxt5

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Asia Today: China marks month without any confirmed deaths BEIJING (AP) — China has gone a month without announcing any new deaths from the coronavirus and has lessthan 100 patients in treatment for COVID-19. The National Health Commission reported...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-asian-countries-that-beat-covid-19-have-to-do-it-again/

The Asian Countries That Beat Covid-19 Have to Do It Again Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan had flattened the curve. Then travelers from the US and Europe began reimporting the virus.

Could the Pandemic Ease U.S.-China Tensions? Against a backdrop of tariffs, 5G, and weakening diplomacy, COVID-19 might be a rare chance for the two countries to come together—if they can listen…

Opinion | How South Korea Solved Its Face Mask Shortage Neighborhood pharmacists and government intervention were the secret weapons.

Ken Shimura's death leaves Japanese of all generations mourning Beloved TV personality enamored people with unique movements and expressions

"The coming months will test whether the party can assuage young people’s newfound concerns, or if the pressure will build into broader discontent that chips away at the government’s legitimacy."

Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: China’s Youth How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming months will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come.

"In this presentation, Dr. Lester Ross will discuss the geopolitical issues brought by China's environmental policies and economic expansion. "

Find out more about the dynamics between the U.S. and China, and China's One Belt One Road Initiative!

When: Tuesday, January 28 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: Petteruti Lounge (Campus Center 2nd floor)

Open to ALL!

The lecture will be in English, Reception to follow. ALL are welcome!

The OFTaiwan Award—co-sponsored by TaiwaneseAmerican.org and the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Student Association (ITASA)—awards student organizations that host programming about Taiwanese heritage, culture, and identity. Recipient organizations will be selected based on their events’ and programs’ impact, content, and engagement with attendees.

- Submissions will open from January 13 to January 31, 2020.

- Winner will be announced on February 8 during the ITASA East Coast Conference at the University of Maryland - College Park. Organizations do not have to attend the ITASA conference in order to apply.

- All applicants will be notified of results by email on February 8, regardless of whether they are ultimately selected.

Introducing the OFTaiwan Award: New funding for Taiwanese American student programs Seven years ago, my friend Jenny Wang and I graduated from Rutgers University and began our professional lives in New York City. However, we both missed our time back at TASA (Taiwanese American St…

This Friday at 3 PM @ the EAS House: Come join us for our student panel on finding and funding internships in East Asia!