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Global Virtual Speaker Program
The Comedy of Mis-translation in Postwar Japanese White-Collar Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Airriesss is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Literature and Visual Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently working on a book manuscript concerning the figure of the salaryman, or male white-collar worker staged across mass media in Japan’s era of high economic growth (1954-1971). Her research interests also include recession-era media cultures, travel film, and media theory.
Amidst Japan’s explosive economic growth of the 1950s and ‘60s, the salaryman, or male whitecollar worker, became the subject of mass media attention across popular journalism, fiction, and film. This talk focuses on the representation of the salaryman and corporation as it was sustained in hundreds of studio comedies in the postwar period. Many of these salaryman comedies center on Japan’s close economic relationship to the United States, as workers and corporate management ideologies travel between the two countries. Throughout, the failure to appropriately translate meaning across different languages and cultures drives the plot forward, producing comedic misunderstandings that act as obstacles to corporate success. This paper argues that mistranslation, as well as the politics of communication breakdown, animates Japan’s shifting geopolitical status, postwar gender relations, and wartime memory.
This event is organized by Dr. David Humphrey and is part of the Asian Studies Center's Global Virtual Speaker Program with sponsorship from the Japan Council Endowment. For more information on GVSP, please visit the Asian Studies Center GVSP webpage.
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Ghost Particle: North American Premiere
Documentary Screening
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Abrams Planetarium
6:00 p.m. EDT
Screening Info
Ghost Particle (2021) is a science documentary that follows international efforts to understand the universe by studying its smallest parts with some of the world’s largest experiments. Neutrinos are invisible, essentially massless particles that pass-through matter like ghosts. They act in peculiar quantum ways and their identity-changing behaviour may hold the key to unlocking big questions about the origin of matter in the universe. The documentary includes a feature of Takaaki Kajita (2015 Nobel Prize winner) who works on physics experiments in Japan.
This film will be followed by a Q&A with international scientists including MSU's Professor Kendall Mahn from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Bryan Ramson, a staff scientist at Fermilab who is featured in the film.
Seating is first come first served. Capacity 80.
This event is part of the Astronomical Horizons lecture series hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. For more information, please visit the Astronomical Horizons webpage.
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Serling Lecture on Modern Israel:
"Secrets I Won't Take With Me" by Yossi Beilin
On October 28th, the Serling Institute is hosting a lecture featuring Yossi Beilin. The topic will be on Modern Israel: “Secrets I Won’t Take With Me.” The event will be held on Friday, October 28th from 12:30-2:00 PM in Club Spartan which is on the 3rd floor of Case Hall. It will also be livestreamed and on YouTube.
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LATTICE: Pumpkin Carving and Social Event
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Behind the International Center & Erickson Hall
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. EDT
RSVP
LATTICE members and families including children are welcome. You can bring your own pumpkins or LATTICE can also supply pumpkins.
This event is organized by LATTICE (Linking All-Types of Teachers to International Cross-Cultural Education).
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Symposium on: Confederation as a Facilitator of the Two-State Solution
Wednesday, October 30, 2022
Club Spartan (3rd floor of Case Hall), James Madison College
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT
Palestinian and Israeli veteran peace negotiators, researchers, and Middle East policy analysts, will discuss their recent 100-page document “The Holy Land Confederation as a Facilitator for the Two-State Solution.” They have presented this vision to the UN Secretary-General and to the Biden Administration, and are trying to involve Israeli and Palestinian officials and the public. The speakers all believe that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is soluble, and the best solution for Palestinians and Israelis is the establishment of two states with clear and agreed-upon borders. They believe that this can facilitate a two-state solution and have a consequential impact on the culture of peace and on closer cooperation in Israel/Palestine for the good of both peoples.
Yossi Beilin is a politician and researcher. For 24 years he has held senior positions in the Knesset and the Israeli Government. His latest ministerial role was as Minister of Justice. Taught at Tel Aviv University, Department of Political Science, for 13 years. In 2019-2020 he served as a visiting professor at NYU.
Omar M. Dajani is a professor of Law at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. In 1999, he was recruited to serve as a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel, ultimately participating in the summits at Camp David and Taba. He then joined the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), where he worked on peacebuilding initiatives and played a lead role in marshaling and organizing international efforts to support Palestinian legal and political reforms.
Hiba Husseini is the managing partner of the Law Firm of Husseini and Husseini. Under her management, the Firm serves a large domestic and international client base on a wide range of legal matters. She practiced law in Washington, DC. Ms. Husseini chairs the Legal Committee to Final Status Negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis. She has served as a legal advisor to the peace process negotiations since 1994. Ms. Husseini participates in various meetings that seek to interject innovative thinking into the hard and complex issues involved in the peace process, especially Jerusalem. possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Dr. Saliba Sarsar is a professor of Political Science at Monmouth University and a visiting scholarly collaborator at Princeton University in 2022-2023. He is also the President/CEO of the Jerusalem Peace Institute. His teaching and research interests focus on the Middle East, Palestinian-Israeli affairs, Jerusalem, and peacebuilding.
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Global Studies 2022 Signature Lecture
“When Home Isn’t a Place: Writing in an Unanchored Age”
~OMAR EL AKKAD
Thursday, November 3, 2022
108 Bessey Hall
7:00 p.m. EST
Speaker: Omar El Akkad, an award-winning novelist and journalist. In 2021, he received Canada’s most prestigious literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, for What Strange Paradise. His first novel American War (2017) was also widely acclaimed. What Strange Paradise is the story of a Syrian boy whose family flees the war, seeking refuge first in Egypt and then in Europe. The boy’s perilous journey represents the plight of many Arab, Asian, and African refugees.
“When Home Isn’t a Place: Writing in an Unanchored Age”
Please join us on Thursday November 3, 2022 at 7:00 pm in 108 Bessey Hall on the Michigan State University campus for the Global Studies 2022 Signature Lecture with Omar El Akkad.
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A Special Lecture on
The Islamic Architecture of Uzbekistan
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Islamic Center of East Lansing
Free and open to all
1:15 - 2:15 p.m. EST
Speaker: Dr. Mavlyuda Yusupova is a chair of the Department of Architecture at the Institure of Fine Arts, Uzebek Academy of Sciences. She is also a Professor at the Department of Museology at the K. Behzad Institute of Fine Arts and Design in Tashkent. She specializes in the history and theory of architecture of Central Asia, religious Asia, religious buildings and Islamic shrines, restoration of architectural monuments.
This event is made possible because of the generous support of the Templeton Religion Trust as part of a project coordinated by the MSU Muslim Studies Program, James Madison College. and Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities.
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Global Festival 2022
Sunday, November 13, 2022
MSU Union
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
The MSU Global Festival is back. Join us for cultural exhibits, live performances, world gift shops, children's activities, and more!
For more information on the event, email isp.oisslive@msu.edu. |
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16th Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference Measuring
Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres, and Squares
Conference Dates: February 23 - 24, 2023
Michigan State University, International Center
Michigan State University is hosting an international conference entitled “Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres, and Squares.” The conference investigates who is ‘the public’ in public opinion and what effect it has on politics. These questions have received a great deal of attention from scholars of American and European contexts where their contributions have taken on a universalistic overtone. Are these generalized assumptions valid in other societies – notably in Muslim-majority contexts? In addressing these questions, this conference aims to contribute to the interdisciplinary study of public opinion and ‘the public’ in Muslim contexts inside and outside of the Muslim world.
This event is organized by the MSU Muslim Studies Program.
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75th Japan-American Student Conference
Conference Dates: August 2 to August 26, 2023
Application Deadlines: December 24, 2022
Sites to Visit: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagasaki
Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) will bring together an equal number of American and Japanese university students from a variety of academic disciplines to live, travel, facilitate meaningful conversations, and develop personal research together. Over the course of this academically intensive and culturally immersive conference, delegates will build lifelong friendships, develop cross-cultural communication skills, and connect with leading professionals in many fields including US-Japan relations, all while gaining a firsthand understanding of this ever-evolving and multifaceted relationship. For more information, visit the JASC website.
To apply for the 75th JASC, fill out this form.
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