Japanese Taiko Drums: Past, Present, and Potential Future
Woods-Penn Commons 226 Stephenson Hall, Berea, KYBerea College professor of Japanese and faculty sponsor of the Berea Japanese Taiko & Culture Club, Nathan Patton, and his students will share the Japanese musical and dance form known as taiko and discuss its past, present, and potential future.
Exploring the Heart Sūtra
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYUniversity of North Florida professor of philosophy, Sarah Mattice, will share insights into East Asia's most popular Buddhist text, the Heart Sūtra, based on her recent book, Exploring the Heart Sutra (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
JET Program Application Workshop
Stephenson Hall- Room TBDJoin Tye Ebel from the JET Program to learn about post-graduate opportunities in Japan. This workshop is for junior and senior students who are actively preparing their applications for the JET Program.
JET Program Information Session
Stephenson Hall- Room TBDJoin Tye Ebel from the JET Program to learn about post-graduate opportunities in Japan. This session is open to all students and alumni interested in learning more about the program.
Water-mamas and Mermaids: Oceanic Memory, Indian Indentured Labor, and the Caribbean Plantation
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYBerea College professor of English, Amrita Mishra, will share her research on the historical and literary legacies of indentured Indian laborers in the Caribbean during the 19th and early 20th […]
From the Rice Field to Tik Tok: A Rural Woman’s Transformation during China’s Post-Reform Era
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYBerea College professor of Chinese, Jianfen Wang, will share reflections on how rural Chinese women's lives changed as a result of the end of liberalizing reforms introduced from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.
An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, 1500–1700
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYNorth Carolina State University professor of history, Xiaolin Duan, will share her research on how ebbs and flows in Chinese silk production impacted global trade and politics between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Japanese-American Identity and Art
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYBerea College professor of art, Michael Litzau, will discuss the relationship between Japanese-American identity and art in his artistic work.