Upcoming Events
A lecture by Lisa Claypool, Associate Professor or Art History and Mactaggart Art Collection Curator,
University of Alberta, Canada
Wednesday, May 23
5:30p
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall
This presentation examines Bertha Lum’s and Elizabeth Keith’s
remarkable series of woodblock prints made during sojourns
in the major cities of China from the early 1900s through the 1930s.
It considers how their prints drew directly from modern Chinese
visual culture and imaginatively recast it to embody and reflect
their own enchantment with China.
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
A lecture by Dieter Kuhn, Professor Emeritus, Würzburg University, Germany
Thursday, May 31
3:00p
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall
Since the 1940s Joseph Needham and a team of international collaborators have conducted research on the
history of science in China. Dieter Kuhn, author of Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling
(1986, volume V, part 9 of the series Science and Civilisation in China, was a long-time collaborator
at the Needham Research Institute and a personal friend of Needham. He will introduce Needham's research
philosophy and will provide insights into the support and critique of Needham's work in contemporary
evaluations.
Presented by the CAPS Jeremiah Lecture Fund, the UO Confucius Institute and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
“Nostalgia”
Director Shu Haolun will introduce the film Nostalgia and host a question and answer session after the film.
Film is in Chinese with English subtitles.
Thursday, May 31
6:00p refreshments, 6:30p film
Willamette 110
Shu Haolun’s acclaimed film, Nostalgia, is described by
National Public Radio as “a cinematic ode to Shanghai’s vanishing
world.” The documentary is set in Shu’s old Shanghai
neighborhood at a time of its impending destruction.
The neighborhood, a warren of alleyways with communal
kitchens, offers a shabby but powerful sense of community,
bound by intimate interactions, a multitude of playmates and
surrogate family members, gossip and shared memories.
As China’s urban transformation creates a collective sense of
loss bordering on identity crisis, Shu’s film vividly remembers
and documents the rich minutia of daily lives that will soon be reordered by the new architecture of modernity:
Shanghai’s skyscrapers,apartment towers, and luxury malls.
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by the CAPS Jeremiah Lecture Fund
and National Resource Center for East Asian Studies, the Asian Studies Program, and
the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Past Events
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
"Overheard 2"
with guest actor Daniel Wu, a UO alumnus
7:30 pm Regal Valley River Center
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
"The Heavenly Kings"
with guest actor/director Daniel Wu, a UO alumnus
10 am Bijou Art Cinemas
"A Simple Life (Tao Jie)"
with producer-screenwriter Roger Lee, a UO alumnus
6:45pm Bijou Art Cinemas
Cosponsored by the Cinema Pacific Film Festival and the UO Confucius Institute
Cinema Pacific Film Festival website
A collaboration between the University of Oregon
and the Eugene Opera
http://www.NixonInChinaEugene.com
This year is the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Shanghai
Communiqué, the first piece in the normalization of U.S.-China
relations. We are marking this historical moment with the
following series of events, which accompany the Eugene Opera
performance of John Adams’ opera, Nixon in China,
March 16 & 18.
Press release - Nixon in China event series (02/06/12)
Exhibit:
"Nixon in China, Scenes from History and Stage"
February 19 - March 18, 2012
Papé Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Opening reception Sunday, February 19, 3pm
Archival photographs and video from the Nixon Library and Museum,
with posters and set designs of Nixon in China opera productions.
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by the
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Oregon Humanities Center.
“The Red Detachment of Women as a Model for Cultural Revolution Art”
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Professor Richard Kraus (Political Science) with screening of the
revolutionary ballet, Red Detachment of Women.
Followed by questions and discussion.
EMU Mills International Center, 4pm
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by the
Oregon Humanities Center and the Department of East
Asian Languages and Literatures.
“Jiang Qing on Stage”
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Roxane Witke, author of Comrade Chiang Ch’ing, with
participation by Laura Wayte (Eugene Opera soprano
who will play Madame Mao).
Knight Library Browsing Room, 12 noon
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored
the Oregon Humanities Center, the Department of East Asian
Languages and Literatures, and the CAPS Jeremiah Lecture
Fund and NRC for East Asian Studies.
Panel: “Nixon in China Now and in the Future”
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Eugene Opera artists Sam Helfrich (stage director), Peter Beudert (set),
and Jonna Hayden (costumes), will discuss the opera Nixon in China
and the new Eugene Opera interpretation.
Knight Library Browsing Room, 12 noon
Presented by the Eugene Opera and the UO Confucius Institute.
“Hidden Histories: the Libretto for Nixon in China”
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Theodore Foss, Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies,
University of Chicago.
The unusually literate, epic, and lyrical libretto weaves together
actual speeches from the Nixon-kissinger trip, biblical verse,
Mao's poetry and news clippings - a work of art in itself.
Knight Library Browsing Room, 4pm
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by
the Oregon Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian
Languages and Literatures.
Presentation: “Nixon in China Then and Now,”
A Conversation with Theater Director Peter Sellars
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Avant-garde theater director Peter Sellars originally
conceived of the opera and brought together composer
John Adams and poet-librettist Alice Goodman for its
creation. This year Sellars directed the opera at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Beall Hall, School of Music, 4:30pm
For ticket information: http://tickets.uoregon.edu/nixon
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by
the Clark Honors College and the Department of Theater Arts.
Ping Pong Diplomacy Tournament
Saturday, March 10, 2012
A Chinese invitation to the U.S. Ping Pong Team in 1971
provided the first public hint of improved U.S.-China relations.
Time magazine dubbed it, "The Ping heard around the world."
The UO student-run Competition Not Conflict Club announces a
tournament to remember this history!
220 Gerlinger Hall, 3p
To register, send player names to Jess Zutz at
jzutz@uoregon.edu
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and the
UO Competition Not Conflict Club.
“Reflections on the Shanghai Communiqué and U.S.-China Relations”
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Ambassador Nicholas Platt, American diplomat and participant
in the Nixon/Kissinger entourage, will reflect on his
China experiences with the Nixon-Kissinger visit, and after
will read from his memoir China Boys, and show home movies
from 1970s Beijing.
Ford Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 4pm
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by
the UO Office of Academic Affairs, the Jordan Schnitzer
Museum of Art, and the Humanities Program.
Panel: “The Shanghai Communiqué and 40 Years of U.S.-China Relations”
Monday, March 12, 2012
Nicholas Platt (former ambassador, in Nixon-Kissinger entourage)
William Kirby (TM Chang Professor Chinese Studies, Harvard University)
Shen Dingli (Dean of the Institute of International Affairs, Fudan University).
Robert Keatley (veteran journalist in Nixon-Kissinger entourage, (Asian Wall Street Journal)
Ford Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 4pm
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and cosponsored by the CAPS Jeremiah Lecture Fund and
NRC for East Asian Studies, the School of Journalism and Communication, the Department of History,
and the Asian Studies Program.
Panel: “Forty Years of U.S.-China Business Relations”
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Robert Kapp, former President U.S.-China Business Council;
Denis Simon, Vice-Provost for China Initiatives and Strategy
at Arizona State University; and Keith Davey, former
Vice-President of Ford China, join panelists from
Business Oregon, King Estate Winery, and Forrest Paints
to discuss history and current opportunities.
Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Studio One
9am – 12:30pm
Cosponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies,
the Lundquist College of Business, the UO Confucius Institute,
Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, the UO Office of
International Affairs, the Eugene Opera, and the
UO National Resource Center for East Asian Studies.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Film Screening: I Wish I Knew directed by Jia Zhangke
6:00p - 8:20p, McKenzie Hall 221
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute
Cosponsored by East Asian Languages and Literatures
"The Limits of Expression: Some Unexpected Consequences of Modern Chinese Language Reform"
A lecture by Theodore Huters (Editor, Renditions, and
Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Language reform lay at the heart of the May Fourth Movement for
modernization in China. Since then, the principal assumptions
of that period - that elimination of the classical language and all
its traces from modern Chinese was an unalloyed good - have
rarely been questioned. This lecture reexamines those
assumptions and points out some of the intellectual costs of such
radical reform.
12 noon, Knight Library Browsing Room
Friday, February 3, 2012
On Opening New Possbilities for Academic Translations
A seminar by Theodore Huters
11am, 375 McKenzie Hall
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute and co-sponsored by
the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the
Asian Studies Program, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
Jeremiah Lecture Fund and the National Resource Center for
East Asian Studies
Chinese New Year Celebration
Featuring Chinese erhu and pipa music by master artists
Wenjie Xia and Yi Zhou, of the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York
3:30 pm Buffet
4:00 pm Remarks and concert begins
Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute
“Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China”
Ezra Vogel (Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University)
Professor Vogel will speak about his new book,
which is scheduled for release fall 2011.
4 pm Knight Library Browsing Room
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute, cosponsored by the
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Jeremiah Lecture Fund,
the Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Geography.
“Book Culture and Intellectual Life on the Qing Frontier”
A lecture by Cynthia Brokaw (Professor of History, Brown University)
Cynthia Brokaw researches the history of the book
in late imperial China. Her current project, "Book
Culture on the Qing Frontier,” examines the
development of publishing and the creation of
book cultures and identities on the southwestern
frontier of the Qing Empire.
3:30 pm - Knight Library Browsing Room
(Co-organized by the UO Confucius Institute, the Departments of History, East Asian
Languages and Literatures, and the Asian Studies Program)
"Survival and Memory: Chinese Texts in Art, Attics and Archives"
An informal gallery discussion with:
- Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University)
- Bryna Goodman (University of Oregon)
- Anne Rose Kitagawa, (Jordan Schnitzer Museum Chief Curator of Collections and Asian Art)
12 noon - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Barker Gallery
(Co-organized by the JSMA and CI)
An Evening of Chinese Folk Music
Performed by an ensemble of noted musicians from
the premier Central Music Conservatory, Beijing.
7:30 pm - Beall Concert Hall
Tickets $10 (general), $5 (students & children)
Available through the EMU Ticket Office
North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
UO HEDCO Education Building, 16th and Alder, Eugene
Keynote speakers:
Walter Bisang (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Agnes He (SUNY Stony Brook)
Fu-xiang Wu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China)
For information: http://caps.uoregon.edu/?p=38
“Project 85 as X-Cultural Ecriture”
- A multimedia presentation on the reception of classical Chinese Poetry into English and into the ethical stakes at work in the face-to-face of translation.
- Claire Huot, Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Studies, University of Calgary
- Robert Majzels, Department of English, University of Calgary
Gumwood Room, Erb Memorial Union
A Photographic Slide Presentation by David Leiwei Li “Shanghai EXPO 2010: Economy, Ecology, and the 2nd Coming of Capitalism in China”
Knight Library Browsing Room
(Co-sponsored by UO CI and Oregon Humanities Center)
“Foodways in China: New Scholarly Trajectories”
• A panel discussion with:
- Ina Asim, History, University of Oregon
- Daniel Buck, Geography, University of Oregon
- Francoise Sabban, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
- Mark Swislocki, Arts and Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi
- Joanna Waley-Cohen, History, New York University
• Knight Library, Browsing Room
Symposium on China’s Role in Regulating the Global Information Economy
University of Oregon School of Law
Co-sponsored by UO CI and Oregon Law Review
Oregon Review of International Law and UO Confucius Institute welcome distinguished China technology and innovation policy experts, international and domestic, to discuss China's role in the burgeoning global information economy, from intellectual property and innovation policy to China's telecommunications industry to technological information controls.
With the world's second largest economy, the largest base of internet and mobile phone users, a leading position as an exporter of information technology, and a population that consumes domestic and global media, China's regulation of knowledge and information -- through intellectual property laws and information technology regulations -- has effects far beyond its borders.
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
FOCUS: CHINA
(co-sponsored by UO Confucius Institue)
• New films by Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Lu Chuan
• Visiting directors Liu Jiayin (Oxhide, Oxhide II) and Zhu Wen (Thomas Mao)
• Shelly Kraicer introduces “digital generation” of Chinese film
• classical Chinese film, The Goddess, with Ruan Lingyu (1934)
• Symposium with producers Terence Chang and David Linde
• Animation by Sun Xun and video art by Hung Keung at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
"Imagining Atrocity: The Nanjing Massacre on Film and the Curious Case of Scarlet Rose"
An illustrated talk by Michael Berry, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies
Mills International Center
Lecture
"Sustainability East and West: Conversation with Director Matt Briggs about Filming 'Deep Green' in China"
Knight Library Browsing Room
Lecture
"The Origins of Domesticated Water Buffalo in China: An Interdisciplinary Approach"
Li Liu, Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor in Chinese Archaeology, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Condon Hall, Room 204
Lecture
"Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Dimensions of Creative Language Use in China's Internet"
Hongyin Tao, Chinese Language and Linguistics, UCLA
Knight Library Browsing Room
Chinese New Year Celebration
Gerlinger Lounge
Lecture
"All Disease Comes from the Heart: The Pivotal Role of the Emotions in Classical Chinese Medicine"
Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc
McKenzie Hall, Room 229
Lecture
"The Magic of Concepts: Wang Yanan and his 1930s Critique of Social Science"
Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies & History, New York University
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
Film Screening
24 City, a film by Chinese Director Jia Zhangke
With introduction by Prof. Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Oberlin University Willamette 110
Thursday, October 7, 2010, 4 pm
Lecture
“Faces of Change in New Chinese Cinema:
Jia Zhangke’s 24 City "
Oberlin College
Browsing Room, Knight Library
Panel Presentation
Songs of Kunshan: Text, Music and Costume in Kun Opera Performance
Prof. Joseph Lam, University of Michigan
Prof. Kate Swatek, University of British Columbia
Prof. Alexandra Bonds, University of Oregon
Browsing Room, Knight Library
Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:30 pm
Performance and demonstration
by Yiping Le, Senior Kunqu artist, New York Kunqu Society
Virtuoso percussionist Zhen-sheng Wang and other musicians
Robinson Theater, University of Oregon
* Works from Vinie and Sandy Miller’s Lijin Collection of 20th and 21st century Chinese literati paintings
* Exquisite Chinese ceramics and scholars objects
Soreng and MacKinnon Galleries, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art University of Oregon
Sep 29, 2010 - Oct 2, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:00 pm
Opening Ceremony
Remarks start at 3:30 pm
Gerlinger Lounge
University of Oregon
Events sponsored by the UO Confucius Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Asian Studies Program, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, International Affairs, Theater Department, School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the President’s Office.
Public Lecture
"The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China"
Bryan Tilt, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University
Lawrence Hall, Room 166
4:00pm
(Cosponsored by CAPS and Confucius Institute)
Talk
"Postcards from Tomorrow Square"
James Fallows
UO White Stag Block Building in Portland
7:00pm
Cosponsored by UO Portland Program and Confucius Institute
"Where is Shanghai? Visual Art and the City"
Lisa Claypool, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities, Reed College
Mills International Center (EMU)
3:00 pm
Cosponsored by the Confucius Institute and EALL
International Workshop
"Infinite Worlds: The Cultural Biography of Chinese Classical Gardens"
UO White Stag Block Buildings in Portland.
This event is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and cosponsored by the Portland Lan Su Chinese Garden, the UO Confucius Institute, the UO Portland Programs, the Jeremiah Lecture Series Fund, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, the UO Departments of History, East Asian Language and Literatures, Arts and Administration, and Folklore, as well as support from David Easly.
Moving Screening and discussion
"Come Together Home" by Ivy Lynn
UO White Stag Block Building in Portland
5:30pm
(Cosponsored by the UO Portland Programs and Confucius Institute)