This Saturday, April 26, is the annual Matsuri festival at the University Mall (part of the Sakura Festival). Festivities begin at 10 and continue until 3, including music, dancing, and sword and martial arts demonstrations. Student groups including the Nozomi Daiko drummers and the UA Japan Club. The full schedule is available on the Matsuri […]
Asian Studies Awards
At our annual Awards Lecture and Reception, we announced this year’s recipients of the Asian Studies Research Award and Asian Studies Outstanding Student Awards. Miranda Hartley (an Asian Studies minor and Anthropology major) received the research award for her paper “Shamans and Stressors,” and Nicholas Crenshaw received the Outstanding Student Award in acknowledgement of his […]
Awards Reception and Lecture
The annual Asian Studies Honors Week Lecture and Awards Presentation will be Tuesday, April 1 at 3:30 pm in Woods Hall 115. Dr. Nikhil Bilwakesh (UA English) will present “W.D. Fard and the Afrocentric Asian in America.” He will argue that Fard, via Elijah Muhammad’s writings within the US based Nation of Islam, offers one […]
Lecture on Representations of Asia March 4
Richard King, Professor of Buddhist and Asian Studies at the University of Kent, will present “From Mysticism to Spirituality: Colonial Legacies and the Reformulation of ‘the Mystic East’” on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in the Department of Religious Studies Aronov Lecture. The lecture is at 7:00 in 205 Gorgas Library. For more information, go to […]
Are you interested in Korea or International Business?
The Critical Languages Center is hosting a special lecture INSIGHT INTO KOREAN BUSINESS Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 at 6:30-7:30 p.m. in 30 Alston Hall […]
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Yoga workshops
Start off the new year with yoga workshops, led by Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy, who teaches yoga and dance in Mysore, India. She will present workshops at 9 and noon in Gorgas 205 on Thursday August 22. To sign up in advance or for more information, contact Betsy Myers, 205-348-6930, elmyers@ua.edu or Mangala Krishnamurthy, 205-348-2109, mkrishna@ua.edu. (See the Yoga […]