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).
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 centuries.
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.