Thursday, October 2
Miyumi Trio
Tatsu Aoki (bass, shamisen)
Hide Yoshihashi (taiko, percussion)
7:30 pm Krannert Art Museum

Friday, October 3
AEMS Presents
Asian Film Festival 2008: Young in Japan
Boardman's Art Theatre
126 W. Church St., Champaign

7:00 pm- The Taste of Tea / Cha no aji (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004)

10:00 pm- Kamikaze Girls / Shimotsuma monogatari (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2004)

Saturday, October 4
AEMS Presents
Asian Film Festival 2008: Young in Japan
Boardman's Art Theatre
126 W. Church St., Champaign

1:00 pm- Family Film: Hinokio (Takahiko Akiyama, 2005)

3:30pm- Documentary: Wings of Defeat / Tokko (Risa Morimoto, 2007)

7:00 pm- Train Man / Densha Otoko (Shosuke Murakami, 2005)

9:15 pm- Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish / Joze to tora to sakana tachi (Isshin Inudou, 2003)

Sunday, October 5
AEMS Presents
Asian Film Festival 2008: Young in Japan
Boardman's Art Theatre
126 W. Church St., Champaign

1:00 pm- The Taste of Tea / Cha no aji (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004)

4:00 pm- Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish / Joze to tora to sakana tachi (Isshin Inudou, 2003)

7:00 pm- Kamikaze Girls / Shimotsuma monogatari (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2004)

For the most current information, go to www.aems.uiuc.edu

Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Northern Illinois University

Thursday, October 2 3:30-5:00 PM

"Sexuality and Nationalism on the Philippine Frontier: Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija 1848-1897" by Paul Rodell, Professor, Department of History, Georgia Southern University and Chair, Philippines Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. This lecture will be held in the Lincoln Room of the Holmes Student Center (2nd floor).

Sunday, October 12 2:00 to 5:00 PM
The opening of the new Anthropology Museum Exhibit, "Khmer Spirit: The Arts and Culture of Cambodia" will be at the Stevens Building. Music will be provided by the Cambodian Association of Illinois. For Anthropology Museum hours and directions, see http://www.niu.edu/anthro_museum/

September 16 - December 6, 2008
"Belief Made Tangible" is a NIU Art Museum fall exhibit in the Altgeld Gallery from. Curated by Prof. Catherine Raymond, Director of the Center for Burma Studies, this exhibit will showcase aspects of Burmese Buddhism manifested through sculpture, textiles, tattoos and household objects. This exhibit is offered in conjunction with the International Burma Studies Conference (http://www.grad.niu.edu/burma/BURMA_confpage_3.html). For Altgeld Gallery hours and directions, see http://www.vpa.niu.edu/museum/html/altgeldgllry.html

For Northern Illinois University campus maps, see http://www.niu.edu/maps/index.shtml

Coming Chinese Health Qigong Demonstration and Workshops

On October 16 and 17, 2008 the Department of Kinesiology & Community Health, the Office of Continuing Education and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois are sponsoring a series of workshops on Qigong, a traditional Chinese body-mind exercise designed to promote health by reducing stress. The workshops will be held at the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), 201 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign (http://www.campusrec.uiuc.edu/facilities/arc.html). In Chinese, “Qi” refers to the life force and “gong” to the application of effort in a particular discipline through practice. Qigong strives to produce a harmony of mind and spirit through a combination of movement, breath and mental discipline. It is easy to learn and one can get health benefits both physically and mentally.

The first workshop, “Chinese Health Qigong: 21st Century's Body-Mind Exercise”, will be held Thursday, October 16 from 6:30 – 8:30PM in Multipurpose Room 6 at ARC. It is free and open to the public.

"Chinese Health Qigong -- Workshop I" will be held on Friday, October 17 from 9 – 11 AM; "Chinese Health Qigong -- Workshop II" will be held from 1-3 PM. Friday workshops will be held in Multipurpose Room 4. Four most popular health Qigong routines will be taught in the workshops, which are free to the first 40 University of Illinois students who register. The public may participate; the fee for one workshop is $20; for both $35.

To register call the Office of Continuing Education at (217) 333- 2880 and for Qi-gong related questions contact Dr. Weimo Zhu at (217) 333-7503.

Chinese Moon Festival GALA

Saturday, October 4
Foellinger Auditorium
7-10 p.m.

Mark your calendars now for the upcoming Chinese Moon Festival GALA! It is going to be an amazingly fun night of Chinese dramas, traditional Chinese music performances, Tai Chi performance and much more! It is held by Chinese Students and Scholar Association annually and it is open and FREE to all!

Come and join us on October 4! Have a wonderful experience with Chinese culture!

Fall 2008 Half Course: International Environmental Issues (UP494) (CRN 52728)

Oct 20, 2008- Dec 10, 2008
5:00pm-6:20pm Tuesdays and Thursdays
Rm 19 of Temple Buell Hall
Ken Salo kensalo@uiuc.edu, 314 TBH, Tel 244-5377

This seminar introduces students to debates on the relation between international environmental issues and social inequalities. It focuses on how environmental issues are differently constructed and contested across social divisions in the global North and South. A central theme is the uneven and unequal consequences of persistent problems such as global warming, transnational dumping of toxic pollutants and corporate extraction of local subsistence resources. It introduces a critical approach that stresses a historical understanding of how international environmental issues become named and framed. It is presented in two parts. The first part focuses on a historical survey of the international political, economic and cultural forces that shape contemporary conventions and treaties. After the brief historical survey, students will select and compare the trajectory of an environmental issue in the different cultural contexts of, for example, places in N America, S America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Specially, they will analyze how local perspectives of social problems shape and are shaped by trans-local framings and international environmental discourses.

Upon completion of this seminar students should be able to:

Understand how historical shifts in political, economic and social forces shape international framings of environmental issues.

Analyze how international framings of problems shape local perspectives of environmental issues.

Evaluate the salience of a cross-cultural norm to regulate international environmental issues.

Grades are assigned for participation in class discussions, class presentations and a reflective essay on the cultural politics of a specific international environmental convention. The course is offered by the Dept of Urbana and Regional Planning and does not have any prerequisite other than a serious commitment to jointly explore the political, cultural and economic roots of our persistent environmental predicament.

For more information contact the instructor Ken Salo kensalo@uiuc.edu

IPRH Reading Group: Centers and Margins in East Asian History and Culture

The IPRH Reading Group "Centers and Margins in East Asian History and Culture" will hold its first meeting Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 7-9 PM at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities 3rd floor seminar room.

We will read 3 articles from Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton, eds., "Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier inEarly Modern China" (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2006). The readingsare: the volume's introduction, Jonathan M. Lipman, "'A Fierce and Brutal People': On Islam and Muslims in Qing Law", and James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby, "The Qing and Islam on the Western Frontier".

If you will attend, contact David Stramecky (dstrame2@illinois.edu) or Jeff Kyong-McClain (kyongmcc@illinois.edu) to obtain copies of the readings.

Japanese Language Table

Oct. 1 Wednesday
2-3 pm
EALC Library 2050 FLB

Oct. 7 Tuesday
2-3 pm
EALC Library 2050 FLB