Transcultural Asia: Pedagogies of Borrowing & Trading in Undergraduate Education
Asian Studies Teaching Colloquium
September 23-24, 2011
Beloit College
In recent years, scholarship in both the humanities and social sciences has promoted an increasingly
sophisticated view of a transnational and transcultural Asia. However, this destabilized conception of
Asia has proven extremely challenging to teach to undergraduates. The September 2011 colloquium,
therefore, will focus on "Transcultural Asia: Pedagogies of Borrowing & Trading in Undergraduate
Education."
Schedule
Friday, September 23
12:00-1:00 Registration, Wright Museum of Art Foyer
1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks, Logan Room, Wright Museum
1:15-2:30 "Borrowing and Lending in (Teaching About) Asian Education and Society", Logan Room,
Wright Museum
 Cross-boundary Maintenance: Engaging Students with/in Asia. Heidi Ross (Indiana University)
 Experiencing Asia through Film, Observation, and Interview. Christopher Bjork (Vassar College)
 Connecting Global with Local: Using Asia as a Case Study to Teach Ecology and Community
Engagement. Jingjing Lou (Beloit College)
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 "Teaching Central Asia", Logan Room, Wright Museum
 "Teaching Central Asia," Jonathan Z. Ludwig (Rice University)
 The Time of the Borders, film screening, with director Gulya Mirzoeva
4:45-6:00 Gallery Talk - Wright Museum of Art North Gallery – with refreshments in the Wright
Courtyard
 "Imaging the Other," Lenore Metrick-Chen (Drake University)
6:15-7:30 Dinner, Science Center Atrium
7:30 Keynote talk, Science Center Rm. 150
 "Gifted Relations: A Short, Selective, and Opinionated History of Euro-Afro-Asian Exchange,"
Don Wyatt (Middlebury College)
Saturday, September 24
8:45-9:00 Coffee and Pastries, Science Center Rm. 150
9:00-10:15 Translations and Cultural Transitions in Japanese Studies Courses, Science Center Rm. 150
 "Short-Term Study Abroad in Japan: Fostering Interdisciplinary Pedagogy," Joan Ericson
(Japanese Studies, Colorado College), Carolyn Zerbe Enns (Psychology, Cornell College), and Erin
Davis (Sociology, Cornell College)
 "Analyzing Translations of Japanese Anime: A Semiotic Approach," Noriko Akimoto Sugimori
(Kalamazoo College)
 “Short-term Teacher-Student Collaborative/Interdisciplinary Research Trip to Japan to Study the
‘Glocalization’ of Japanese International Marketing Strategies,” Mat R. Matsuda (Knox College)
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:45 Teaching Transnational History, Science Center Rm. 150
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"Remonstrance: The Moral Imperative of the Chinese Scholar-Official," Anita Andrew (Northern
Illinois University, Rob LaFleur (Beloit College)
 "Communist Dissidents as Remonstrators," John Rapp, Beloit College
12:00-1:00 Lunch, Science Center Atrium
1:00-2:15 Teaching Transnational Literature, Science Center Rm. 150
 "Russian Writers' Creative Reflection on the 'Oriental' Theme," Irina Bakanova (Russian State
University for the Humanities)
 “Taoist and Buddhist Influenced Literature and Arts ,” Hong Zeng (Carleton College)
 "When is a Novel Not a Novel: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Translations of Chinese Fiction in
Comparative Context," Daniel Youd (Beloit College)
2:15-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:45 Shabbat (film screening) with director Gulya Mirzoeva, Science Center Rm. 150
3:45-4:30 Closing Discussion, Science Center Rm. 150