Students in the 360° course cluster 'Borderlands' this semester have been studying the experiences, interactions, and life in borderlands. They have focused on culture, power, ethnicity, human-environmental interactions, and (trans)nationalism. The cluster consists of three courses in Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Environmental Studies.
News & Events
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Contemporary Japanese Cinema invites you to experience Japanese culture and society through stories that depict love, loss, and friendship. This series features three films: Mixed Doubles (Dir. Ishikawa Junichi, 2017), Hanagatami (Dir. Obayashi Nobuhiko, 2017), and Mori, The Artist’s Habitat (Dir. Okita Shūichi, 2018).
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Ten Bi-Co students spent spring break experiencing culture in Japan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan’s Friendship Ties Program.
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The ASIANetwork Exchange recently published a special issue titled Digital Asia which expands upon the pedagogical research presented at the 25th Annual ASIANetwork Conference, “Digital and Beyond: Ways of Knowing Asia.” Co-edited by Prof.
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While the winter skies may be gray outside, the walls of VCAM showcase bright blue textiles in an end-of-semester exhibition The Power of Words, an exploration in traditional Japanese indigo dyeing by the students in the “Advanced Japanese” course.
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In this East Asian Languages and Cultures course students read and compare the two most iconic outlaw epics of England and China: Water Margin, about Song Jiang’s band of brothers in Shandong Province, and the many ballads about Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest.
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The art aficionado and religion major is interning in the technology department of the world-famous Philadelphia Museum of Art this summer.
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As one of three newly appointed Visual, Cultural, Arts, and Media faculty fellows, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Erin Schoneveld will help promote the many opportunities VCAM has to offer.
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Students in Prof. Shiamin Kwa’s seminar “Animals, Vegetables, Minerals” were able to travel to New York City’s Guggenheim Museum to see the exhibit “Art and China After 1989.” The trip was sponsored by a grant from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment.