Events are sponsored by the History Society and Asian Studies Department.
International Films
During club hours at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, there will be international films followed by discussion.
Please check the College of Arts and Sciences calendar for a complete listing of scheduled events.
Spring 2008
Colloquium: Ha Jin's War Trash (2004)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
School of Social Work Building, Room 302
12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
Panelists:
Patricia Joyce, School of Social Work
Lawrence Sullivan, Political Science
Cristina Zaccarini, History
Ha Jin's War Trash (2004) tells the story of the loneliness and suffering of Chinese POWs during the Korean War. Written in documentary style by Yu Yuan, a young Chinese officer whose knowledge of English thrusts him in the role of interpreter between the Chinese POWs and their American captors, War Trash depicts the conflict of Yu Yuan who has never become a Communist but who resists the temptation of release to Nationalist Taiwan in order to return to his fiance and aging mother on the mainland. The political conflict between Nationalist and Communist Chinese, played on by the American captors, is still another part of the story as is the ingenuity of Chinese POWs who defy the "war trash" epithet.
Professor Lawrence Sullivan will speak on the "Feathered Serpent"
Wednesday April 30, 2008
Conference Room of the Writing Center, Earle Hall Lower Level Room 11
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
(Walk through the Learning Center and the Writing Center to Room 11)
Refreshments Served!!!
Professor Lawrence Sullivan will speak on the "Feathered Serpent", one of the finest works of fiction in Chinese 20th century literature, which like George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", satirizes and criticizes the totalitarian regime of Chinese Communism. Authored by one of China's most famous women writers, Ms. Xu Xiaobin, the work is also a major contribution to women's fiction genre, tracing the life of five generations of women in a single family.
Spring 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
108 Earle Hall (Honor's College)
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Prof. Lawrence Sullivan (Translator) will read Gao Wenqian's Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary (Public Affairs, 2007). Books will be available for sale at the author's discount. All proceeds will be donated to the Honor's College Scholarship Fund.
Celebration of Chinese New Year 2008 Year of the Rat
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Blodgett Hall Room 201 - 1:00 p.m.
Demonstration of Chinese New Year Music with Chinese instruments and student and faculty performance. Adelphi's World Music Ensemble will perform on flute, gongs, bells, cymbals, sho and dizi. Brown bag lunch!
World Music Ensemble is comprised of students from Prof. Linda Wetherill's Music and Society: Major Traditions of the World.
Fall 2007
Panel Discussion on Contemporary China
Politics, Church-state Relations and Medicine in Contemporary China
Presenters will be Joseph Lee, assistant professor, Pace University, Lawrence Sullivan, associate professor, Adelphi University, and Cristina Zaccarini, assistant professor, Adelphi University.
Fall 2006
"T"ai Chi Ch'uan as a Physical Manifestation of Taoist Philosophy."
October 18, 2006
5:00 PM to 6:00 p.m.
University Center Room 313
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Sifu Mike Pekor, gold medalist and grand champion in T'ai Chi Ch'uan for form and "push hands," will discuss numerous aspects of this martial art.
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Michael Pekor, a certified hypnotist with an M.S. in sports psychology, will explain T'ai Chi Ch'uan's broader value as a philosophy and physical practice that can help westerners "escape the world of imagination" and live in the present.
As Pekor explains, "Through performing the movements gently with a relaxed attention focused on the bodily felt sense of stretching and expanding, the conscious analytical faculty of the mind is abandoned and the intuitive 'natural mind' given space."
Spring 2006
May 1, Blodgett 211 - Lana Noone on the Vietnam Babylift
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Lana Noone, winner of the "Vietnam Veteran's Torch for Tomorrow" award, will talk about the "Vietnam Babylift" Operation that began in 1975. Her book is entitled Global Mom: Notes From a Pioneer Adoptive Family (Gateway Press, 2003). The final months of the Vietnam War were a chaotic time in both countries, with intense disagreement in America about the right course of action.
"I consider Babylift to be the uniting thread of the Vietnam era," Noone said. "No matter what your politics on the Vietnam War, the best thing to do was to evacuate the children."
To learn more about Lana Noone and Babylift, go to http://www.vvaf.org/features--highlights/babylift-mother-delivers-hope.html
Noone's babylift website is on: http://www.vietnambabylift.org/
For an interview with Lana Noone:
http://www.adoptvietnam.org/adoption/babylift-noone.html
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