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UTD Center for Asian Studies Newsletter - December 2020

Happy NewYear!UTD Center for Asian Studies Newsletter - December2020

What We Are Looking Forward To In The First Month Of 2021

Center for Asian Studies invites you to attend three featured events in January:
  1. January 21, Thursday, 7:00-8:30PM. : Featured lecture by Prof. Andrew Rubin on the topic of "Orwell between East and West."
  2. January 27, Wednesday, 7:00PM: Annual Anlin Ku Lecture by Charles Yu and his book Interior Chinatown. (In partnership with School of Arts & Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas and Dallas Museum of Art)
  3. January 30, Saturday, 4:00-5:30PM: Asian Culture Forum-A Special Session by Prof. Michelle Cho on the role that the fans of Korean pop (K-Pop) band BTS played in the recent growth of the Black Lives Matter movement.
All the events will be virtual. Click the event title to register. Invitation link will be sent by email.
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Andrew Rubin

Professor Andrew N. Rubin is the author of Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War (Princeton Univcersity Press, 2012), and most recently, the editor of Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966-2006 (Vintage, 2019). He Has taught at Georgetown University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. He has written extensively on the work of Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, and George Orwell. His essays have appeared in journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly, History of the Present etc.
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Charles Yu

Charles Yu is a Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. Soon to be a Hulu series, his book Interior Chinatown is an inventive and personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. The Washington Post comments the book as “One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire.” The author of four novels, Charles Yu also writes for HBO's Westworld.

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Michelle Cho

Michelle Cho is assistant professor of University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focus on questions of collectivity and popular aesthetics in Korean film, media, and popular culture. She has published on Asian cinemas and Korean wave television, video, and pop music in such venues as Cinema Journal, the International Journal of Communication, The Korean Popular Culture Reader, and Asian Video Cultures (2019 “Best Edited Collection” Award winner, Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
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Faculty Spotlight - Prof. Karl Ho

Professor Karl Ho is Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Science and Associate Director of the Center for Asian Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Texas. He teaches political economy, politics and public policy in East Asia. His research focuses on East Asian elections and China-Taiwan-US relations. He is the organizer of the UTD Taiwan Democracy Symposium (https://epps.utdallas.edu/tds), hosting regular international conferences at the university on Taiwan elections and cross-Strait relations. He was awarded the Taiwan fellowship in 2018, studying Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy. His recent works were published in the books The Taiwan Voter and Taiwan's Political Re-Alignment and Diplomatic Challenges, exploring the impacts and developments of China-Taiwan relations. He is the co-Principal Investigator of the Hong Kong Election Study project, collecting election survey data since 2015. He has published articles in Journal of Electoral Studies, Electoral Studies, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of African and Asian Studies and Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Journal of African and Asian Studies, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Asian Affairs: An American Review and Asian Politics & Policy.

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Announcements

  • Non-credit Asian language courses for spring 2021 are open for registration. Courses include Mandarin Chinese (five levels from beginners to advanced), Introductory Hindi 1, Introductory Hindi 2, Conversational Japanese, Korean Beginners. The first class will start on January 25. All courses will be offered virtually online. Click here for the schedules and registration.
  • UTD announces plans for spring 2021 semester. Instructional model in spring 2021 will be same as fall 2020; in-person activities are to expand. Click here for more details.
  • UTD winter break will start on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 and run through January 1, 2021. The University will close during the break.

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