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Windows on Iran
Iranian-American scholar posts daily updates on election-related turmoil in Iran
June 22,
2009 --
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An Iranian-American scholar at Washington University in St. Louis has been posting daily updates on election-related turmoil in Iran as part of her long-running electronic newsletter on cultural, political and social issues in Iran. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, posts news, filled with cell phone videos and firsthand anecdotes from friends and academic contacts within Iran, at Windows on Iran Web site. She is available for media interviews on the day-to-day news reports she's receiving from contacts within Iran and for broader discussions of the cultural context of these events, including the role of women and the unique ways that this protest is being shaped by the use of cell phones, instant messaging and other online social media.
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Tale of Genji
Campus celebrates 1000th anniversary of 'world's first novel,' April 18
April 4,
2008 --
One mark of a great novel, it's been said, is its ability to stand the "test of time" — to remain captivating to readers from generation to generation. Washington University will honor such a novel on April 18 with two campus events celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of the Tale of Genji, a central pillar of the Japanese literary canon often hailed as the world's first novel.
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Asian Studies
WUSTL hosts Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Oct. 19-21
Oct. 1,
2007 -- Marxism in China, taboo images in Tibet and war, sex work and memory in 20th century Japan will be among topics discussed as Washington University welcomes the 56th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) to St. Louis, Oct, 19-21. Program includes pre-conference workshop for K-12 teachers on Oct. 13
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Media Advisory
Bollywood stars to give talk Nov. 29
Nov. 21,
2006 -- Bollywood film star Shabana Azmi will talk about South Asian social issues filtered through her perspective as an actress and a social justice advocate at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 29, in Graham Chapel. The program is free and open to the public. Her husband, Bollywood scriptwriter Javed Akhtar, will also give remarks.
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Major Indian film actress to speak
Indian film star and social activist Shabana Azmi to give talk on 'Bollywood and Beyond'
Nov. 14,
2006 -- Major Indian film star and social activist Shabana Azmi, will give a talk at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 29, in Graham Chapel on the Washington University Danforth Campus. The lecture, "Bollywood and Beyond," will explore South Asia's socio-cultural climate. It is free and open to the public.
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Gay romance popular theme among Japanese women
'Brokeback Mountain' might be ultimate 'chick flick' in Japan, says literature expert
March 1,
2006 --
America's conflicted cultural obsession with the gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain" might seem old-fashioned in Japan where stories of love and romance between beautiful young men have been entertaining women for more than a decade, suggests Rebecca Copeland, Ph.D., a Japanese studies professor at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to movies, male-male romance is a popular theme in a variety of other Japanese pop culture media, including book-length graphic novels and comics, known as manga, and an array of animated cartoons and television action series, known as anime. All of which have developed cult followings on the Internet and among fans of late-night cable television programming, including large numbers of American teens. More...
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New age of Chinese ceramics
"Chinese Ceramics Today" at Des Lee Gallery Sept. 5-Sept. 30
Sept. 8,
2003 --
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| Wang Haichen, Garden Blues (2002), porcelain |
China boasts one of the world's oldest and richest pottery traditions, yet only in recent years have Chinese ceramicists begun to emerge as individual "studio artists," rather than collective practitioners. The Washington University School of Art's Des Lee Gallery explores this burgeoning "new age" in Chinese Ceramics Today: Between Tradition and Contemporary Expression, an exhibition of works by 23 contemporary ceramicists from mainland China and Hong Kong.
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