Connecticut College - East Asian Languages and Cultures Events

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Many events are organized by CCASA, the Asian-American Student Association.

Chinese Events | Japanese Events

Assistant Professor Yibing Huang, EALC department, poetry reading event to introduce his new book of poetry "Stone Turtle."
Calligraphy class
Go class
Mahjong demonstration
Trips to Chinatown, New York City
Chinese New Year celebration
Mid-Autumn Festival Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC and Chinatown
Lecture series: Speakers included Russell Leong, (UCLA), "Desires and Destinations: Asian-American Sexualities 'In Transit' "; Charles Laughlin (Yale), "Chinese Literature and the Nobel Prize: What Took So Long?"
A delegation from the Film and Television Program at Shanghai University with a roundtable discussion on the film "Suzhou River"
Reading and talks by contemporary Chinese writers and artists, including Xue Di, Su Tong, Nieh Hualing

Japanese Events

Department Open House on Parents' Weekend

Guest lecture on Japanese novelist, playwright Nagai Kafu by Assistant Professor Rachael Hutchinson, Colgate University
Shakuhachi master James Schlefer in concert on a traditional bamboo flute and talk on its history
Guest speaker on "Violent Democracy? Ruffians in Modern Japanese Politics," by Assistant Professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Williams College
Excursion to NYC (Kinokuniya book store, confectionery store, sushi restaurant)
Fundraising drive
Curry-Rice Party
"The Way of Tea" - Japanese Tea Ceremony (video)
Lecture series: Speakers included David Ambaras, (North Carolina State University), "Social Work and Japan's Asia, 19181945"; Eve Zimmerman (Wellesley), "'One Night, Two Nights: 'Brother-Sister Love in the Fiction of Nakagami Kenji;" and Tadanori Yamashita (Mt. Holyoke College) "What is Wabi-cha?"

East Asian Events