News and Events
Upcoming Events & Announcements
* Brookhaven National Laboratory's Asian Pacific American Association proudly presents: What a Beautiful Jasmine Flower: A Celebration of Chinese Culture through Dance and Music, on May 25, 2012, 4:30 pm. This event is FREE and open to the public. For more details, (flyer) please click here. For bio's on performers, click here.
* The China Studies Program of Department of Asian and Asian American Studies is proud to announce the recipients for the 2012 Shi Ming Hu/Eli Seifman Leadership Award and Chinese Studies Scholarship of $500 each---Crystal Lee for the Leadership Award and Eric Ma for the Chinese Studies Scholarship. Congratulations!
* Professor Agnes He will deliver a plenary address at the next Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), to be held in March 2013 in Texas.
* Professor Agnes He has been invited to be a faculty member at the 6th National Heritage Language Summer Research Institute, to be held on June 18-22, 2012 UCLA.
* Professor Andrew Nicholson's book, Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History, has won the 2011 award for Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion. More information about the AAR book award is available here: http://bit.ly/pGkwWJ
* Dr. Lakshmi Swaminathan has been invited to present a paper on the Sanskrit devotional lyric "SUBRAHMANYA-BHUJANGAM", during the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, which will be held from January 5 to January 10 of 2012 in New Delhi, India". Click here for Acceptance letter.
* Professor Gregory Ruf has been awarded the prestigious Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2010-11. For details, click here.
* SUNY Board of Trustees Appoints Dr. S.N. Sridhar to Distinguished Service Professor. For Press Announcement, click here.
* Prof. Sachiko Murata, Ph.D. and Prof. Agnes Weiyun He, Ph.D., have been named 2011 Guggenheim Fellows. For more details, Click here.
* Japan Center Essay Competition Award Ceremony: April 14, 2012. See the Japan Center's NEW website: http://www.sunysb.edu/japancenter
* Dr. Nerissa Balce’s panel on empire and American popular culture was accepted for the annual conference of the American Studies Association, which will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Nov. 15-18, 2012. She will be reading a paper on war and photography entitled, “Insurrectos and Insurgents.”
News and Selected Past Events
* Professor Andrew Nicholson will present a lecture on Hinduism and Yoga on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm in SAC room 311. For flier, click here.
* Language Diversity Lecture Series presents Dr. Lisa Green from the Department of Linguistices, The University of Massachusett. Dr. Green will be giving a lecture on Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:00 PM in Humanities 1006. Reception to follow in Humanities 1052. Topic: African American English Through the Years: From Hot Topics and Debates to Linguistic Research. For more information, click here!
SINGGALOT - THE TIES THAT BIND: Filipinos in America, From Colonial Subjects to Citizens is now on view until April 22, 2012, Room 201.
* Professor Agnes He has been invited to deliver a plenary speech at the 2012 Second Language Acquisition Symposium, to be held on April 12-14, 2012, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
* NEW TRADITIONS by hereandnow theater company, Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:00PM, Wang Theater. For a preview: http://vimeo.com/5442995 Flier: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wang/pdf/spring2012programs/hereandnow%20flier%20web.pdf
* SUFI FUSION with ARIF LOHAR and AROOJ AFTAB, Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7pm, Wang Theater. Flier: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wang/pdf/spring2012programs/sufi%20fusion%20web%20flier.pdf
For a preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gjaH2iuoYWE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q0YlbrncnQ
The annual Vineet Johnsingh scholarship is given to a student who demonstrates outstanding academic accomplishment or potential and promise of contribution to the fostering of a better understanding of Indian civilization. Plaase click here for more details. Deadline: April 12, 2012 TO APPLY, click here.
The Center for India Studies will award an annual scholarship for the study of Hinduism and Vedic Philosophy at Stony Brook University. Please click here for more details. Deadline: April 12, 2012 TO APPLY, click here
* TaLK/EPIK Info Session, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, from 12:00-1:00 pm in HUM 1008: www.facebook.com/koreanstudies
* The Department of Asian & Asian American Studies and Charles B. Wang Center present a lecture by John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University. Religion to Make a Nation: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Monday, March 26, 2012, 2:30 pm, Main Theatre, Wang Center. For the flier, click here.
* A Presentation on Contemporary Chinese Literature will be given by Prof. Zhizhong Zhang, Supervisor of Doctoral Students, Head of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Capital Normal University, Beijing. March 6, 2012. Click herefor more information.
* UNIVERSITY OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6:00 pm, Wang Center, Comedy, Music, Dance and Refreshments! Free and Open to All!
The exhibition details the rich history of Filipinos in America, honors early immigrant pioneers and the determined generations after them, and addresses the community and culture of Filipino Americans through historically significant photographs. Singgalot celebrates the vital contribution made by Filipino Americans to Pacific trade, military service, the arts, and civil rights activism. For the flier: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wang/programs/Singgalot%20flier%20FINALFINAL.pdf
* THE PINOYORKERS: Filipino (Pinoy) Artists and Activists Change New York, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -7:00 pm, Wang Lecture Hall 1
This electrifying discussion gives voice to some of the most compelling and accomplished FIlipino-American experiences in New York's arts and activism. Pinoyorkers features JESSICA HAGEDORN, KENNETH BAUZON, ANGEL VELASCO SHAW, and the BAYANIHAN KULTURAL KOLEKTIB. Moderated by powerhous Professor Nerissa Balce-Cortes of Stony Brook University. For the flier: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wang/programs/PINOYORKERS%20copy.pdf
* Language Diversity Lecture Series, Dr. Ricardo Otheguy, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 4:00 pm, Humanities 1006. Click here for more information.
* Fall 2011 Asian/American Programs at the Charles B. Wang Center: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wang/programs/performances.html
* "Language of the Heart and Heritage" with Prof. Agnes He. Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:00 pm (reception to follow) in Humanities 1006.
* "The Erotics of Modernities: Fin-de-Siècle Mexico and the United States" by Professor Nerissa Balace and Prof. Melissa Forbis, 4 pm, Oct. 20, 2011, Humanities 1008
* Professor Agnes He has been invited to be a faculty member at the 5th National Heritage Language Summer Research Institute, to be held on June 26-July 1, 2011, UCLA.
* Professor Agnes He has been invited to deliver a plenary speech at the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), to be held on June 17-19, 2011, University of Oregon.
* The Program in Korean Studies and the Center for Korean Studies are pleased to announce Jeen Hong Kim Scholarship, Undergraduate Award for Academic Achievement and Leadership.
* Professor Andrew Nicholson will present a paper entitled "Doxography and Identity in Medieval India" in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 21, 2011. He will be presenting as a part of an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Copenhagen on literature and identity formation in the pre-modern world. Conference website: http://cif.tors.ku.dk/calender/cifcon3/
* Professor Andrew Nicholson will present a lecture at the Free University of Berlin's Forum Transregionale Studien (Trans-regional Studies Forum) on May 24, 2011. It is entitled "Was heißt eine Gita? Textualität und Autorität in der indischen Philosophie" (What is a Gita? Textuality and Authority in Indian Philosophy). This lecture is part of the Zunkunftsphilologie (Future Philology) project at the Free University of Berlin: http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/en/zukunftsphilologie/profil/short-description.html
* Center for India Studies PREM & LATHA CHANDRAN SCHOLARSHIP IN HINDUISM STUDIES, Deadline: May 9, 2011.
Click here for information.
* Professor Andrew Nicholson was recently interviewed about his book, Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History. The interview appears on the website of its Indian publisher, Permanent Black Press. http://permanent-black.blogspot.com/2011/04/andrew-j.html
* Professor Andrew Nicholson will be giving a lecture as part of the Stony Brook Philosophy Colloquium Series at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, April 12 in Harriman 214. His talk is entitled "Orientalism and German Philosophy: Some Critical Reflections on Edward Said."
* We are saddened to inform you that on March 11, 2011, Professor Donny George Youkhanna passed away. We will miss him dearly.
* The Japan Center at Stony Brook and the Japanese Student Organization are organizing a fundraising event to support the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, on March 23rd, from 2:00 - 3:45 pm, at the Wang Center (4th Fl). Click here for the flyer.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/japan/index.shtml
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/japanese.nsf/pages/Earthquake
* Center for India Studies Gala (12/12/2010, Wang Center)
* Nerissa S. Balce organized a panel entitled, "The Afterlife of Empire and the Cold War: The Cultures of Southeast Asia in American Studies" and will be reading from her research on war, American popular novels and the discourse of counterinsurgency at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in San Antonio, TX on November 20, 2010.
* Is Japan Progressing or Regressing? Lecture by Ambassador Motoatsu Sakurai (11/30/2010, 4 p.m., Wang Center Theater)
* "Indo-US Relations: Obama Visit and After" - Lecture by Ambassador Harsh Bhasin (11/13/10, 3:00 pm, Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 1)
* Book Signing by Andrew Nicholson (11/10/2010, 1 p.m., Wang Center Lecture Hall 2)
* Nerissa S. Balce served as a featured panelist on Filipino diasporic literature, Turning Tides: A Symposium on Diasporic Literatures, hosted by Fordham University's Department of English, African &; African American Studies and the Fordham Creative Writing, Literary Studies and American Studies Programs (11/6/2010).
* Sunita Mukhi was awarded for Distinguished Leadership in Asian American Arts and Cultural Heritage by the Organization of Chinese Americans - Long Island Chapter (OCA-LI). The award ceremony was at the OCA-LI Gala (11/6/10, Dae Dong Manor Restaurant, Flushing, NY) >> The Indian Panorama article (p. 19).
* 2010 Recipients of the Hu/Seifman Memorial Awards and Scholarships
* Donny George Youkhanna'smuseum review "Learning from the Iraq Museum"in American Journal of Archeology (online) (Oct 2010)
* Aruna Sharma's new album Jazba ";Passion"; (2010) >> Happenings article
* NYS-registered Teacher Education Programs for Chinese and Japanese (September 2010) >;>; Happenings article
* Nerissa S. Balce received the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) award last fall 2009 and spring 2010 for two research projects: on Spain, the Philippines and the archives of 1898; and on American popular novels on the Philippine American War.
* Book Signing by Eriko &; Anna Sato (9/15/2009) >> Happenings article
* Symposium: Asian Languages and the Professions (4/8/2008, Wang Center)
* The acquisition of Tentaroh Inoh Collection for Japanese Studies at SBU Library (5/21/2007)
* Symposium: US-Asia: Emerging Opportunities (5/6/2004, Wang Center)
