Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
A public lecture by Riko Sakurai, head of Def Jam Japan
Riko Sakurai, head of Def Jam Japan, will speak about hip-hop culture in Japan, and her experiences as a woman leading this highly visible Japanese record company. Riko has spent many years promoting and interpreting hip-hop in Japan as a writer, radio show host, MTV-Japan VJ, and now corporate leader. Her talk, in English, will include music videos by her label's Japanese rappers and R&B stars such as Dabo, Sphere of Influence, Tokona-X, S-Word, Ai, and Hi-D.
Free and open to the public.
Date: Thusday, October 16, 2003
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: 3-270
Sponsored by Foreign Languages and Literatures, Council for the Arts at MIT, Comparative Media Studies, Women's Studies, Music and Theater Arts, and MISTI Japan.
- Evening with authors Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Nora Okja Keller and Jessica Hagedorn
Opening remarks - Philip Khoury
Moderator - Isabelle de Courtivron - Evening with authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Lan Samantha Chang
Introduction -- William Corbett
Moderator -- Min Song - Roundtable: "Beyond U.S. Multiculturalism?: Asian Diasporas and New Transnational Cultures."
Homi Bhabha, Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University
Leo Ching, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Duke University
Gary Okihiro, Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Director, Asian American Studies Program, Columbia University
Introduction - Emma Teng
Moderator - Shirley Geok-lin Lim - Presentation featuring filmmaker Mira Nair
Introduction -- Shigeru Miyagawa
Moderator --Tuli Banerjee
The first in a series of annual symposia sponsored by the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies and Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT.
The Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies (CB/BS) at MIT is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to exploring the impact of crossing linguistic, national and cultural boundaries on creative practices, identity formation and cultural politics. Since its conception in 1998, the CB/BS has sponsored conferences, lecture series and other forums for academic discussion.
This year the CB/BS is initiating an annual series devoted to the exploration of the intersections between the politics of language and cultural productions in the shifting global realities of the 21st century. The theme for the first of this series is: "Beyond U.S. Multiculturalism?: Asian Diasporas and New Transnational Cultures."
Scheduled for Oct. 23-25, 2003, the weekend symposium will feature writers, filmmakers and scholars whose work engages with various aspects of the different Asian diasporas and the production of new transnational imaginaries. Participants include Homi Bhabha, Lan Samantha Chang, Leo Ching, Jessica Hagedorn, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mira Nair, Nora Okja Keller, Min Song, and Gary Okihiro.
Schedule of Events:
Thursday, October 23, 2003 - Saturday, October 25, 2003
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Date: Thursday October 23, 2003
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 10-250
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Date: Friday October 24, 2003
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 10-250
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Date: Saturday October 25, 2003
Time: 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Location: 4-237
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Date: Saturday October 25, 2003
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 10-250
Followed by A Bilingual Reading (French/English) by Shan Sa.
Shan Sa was born in Beijing in 1972, moved to Paris in 1990, and began to write in French. She published Porte de la Paix Celeste in 1997, which won the Bourse Goncourt du Premier Roman. Her second novel, Les Quatre Vies de Saule was awarded the Prix Cazes in 1999. In 2001, La Joueuse de Go appeared to wide-acclaim. She is also the author of the recently published L'impératrice.
La Joueuse de Go, a tale of love and war set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930's has been published recently in English as The Girl Who Played Go (Knopft).
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00 PM
Location: 14E-304
Sponsored by the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies and Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Professor Simon Tay is a poet and expert on environmental law in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
He is also an Associate Professor on the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, a founding member of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law at the National University of Singapore and Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and the National Environment Agency. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law.
Date: Monday, November 17, 2003
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00 PM
Location: 14S-200
Nilufer Gole
Lecture conducted in French.
Date: March 9, 2004
Time: 5:00pm
Location: 14N-313
Produced by Margarita Ribas Groeger, Adriana Guttierez, and Cynthia Conti.
This project began as a collection of interviews to document the experiences of Latinas at MIT, as a way to give voice to a group of women whose efforts and struggles are often not recognized, and who as a group are underrepresented in higher education. The stories are as diverse as the women themselves, but there are common and recurring themes - including family traditions and relations, personal and community expectations, and the quest for a sense of identity - all of which give the interviews a strong narrative unity.
Sponsored by FL&L and Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
Date: Monday, March 15, 2004
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 4-231
Scene from Lola und Bilidikid (Will be shown Monday April 26th, 2004)
by Goethe Institut Boston
Free
All Films will be viewed at MIT at 7:00-10:00 pm
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
- Getürkt (12 min)
Directed by Fatih Akin
Germany 1996, 16mm, color, 12 min.
With Fatih Akin, Mehmet Kurtulus, Cem Akin
German with English subtitles
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Auslandstournee (91 min)
Directed by Ayse Polat
Germany 1998, 16mm, color, 91 min.
With Özlem Blume, Siir Eloglu, Özay Fecht
German with English subtitles
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Die Liebenden vom Hotel von Osman (14 min)
Directed by Idil Üner
Germany 2001, 16mm, color, 14 min.
With Idil Üner, Fatih Akin
German with English subtitles
Dealer (80min)
Directed by Thomas Arslan
Germany 1998, 16mm, color, 80 min.
With Hussi Kutlucan, Birol Önel, Idil Üner
German and Turkish with English subtitles
Monday, April 26, 2004
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Lola und Bilidikid (93 min)
Directed by Kutlug Ataman
Germany 1998, color, 16mm, 93 min.
With Baki Davrak, Erdal Yildiz, Gandi Mukli
German and Turkish with English subtitles
Wir haben vergessen zurück zu kehre(59 min)
MC Kabir
Local musician, MC Kabir, along with his DJ, will hold a workshop with music, discussion, and Q/A at MIT about hip-hop and cultural diversity. The event is free and open to the public.
Kabir, a rapper who performs regularly locally and in New York, was born in London and raised in the Boston area. HIs first album "Cultural Confusion" (2001) and second album "Fuel for the Fire" (2003) explore the complexities of contemporary politics and identities. He is the son of an Italian mother and a South Asian father. Kabir will discuss his involvement with hip-hop, the local underground music scene, and the potential for hip-hop music to speak to issues of ethnicity, race, class, and world politics.
Sponsored by FL&L, Music and Theater Arts, the Kelly-Douglas Fund, Asian Panoramas (Dean Redwine Fund for Undergrad. Ed.), the Campus Committee on Race Relations, and the Council for the Arts at MIT
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Location: Killian Hall
Celebrating the recent works of Odile Cazenave, Ellen Crocker, Isabelle de Courtivron, Margaret Freeman, Eva Hoffman, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Shigeru Miyagawa, Charity Scribner, Emma Teng, Edward Baron Turk, Jing Wang, and Julian Wheatley.
Date: Monday, May 10, 2004
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 14E-304
