seminar announcements

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,
We'll use this thread for seminar news. I've attached a copy of the seminar assignment guidelines to this message. To open it, simply click on the icon below. It's in .pdf format. Most of you have the free Acrobat reader already on your computer and clicking on the icon will quickly open it. If it doesn't work, please go to

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to download a free copy of the program. Don't worry -- it's safe. This is the format that the IRS and other government organizations use to distribute forms.

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,

Are you ready for the launch of our seminar? We’ll be meeting at UCLA at 9 am. Courtesy parking permits in lot 3 three have been arranged for you. Simply drive to the parking kiosk at Wyton and Hilgard, give them the magic phrase “UCLA Asia Institute” and you’ll be provided with a permit.

For directions to UCLA, please go to:
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=2390

We’ll be meeting on the 10th floor of Bunche Hall in room 10383. Bunche Hall is located immediately south of parking lot 3. You’ll walk past the Broad Art Center (under construction), Melnitz Hall (where we are screening a Japanese film Saturday), and the sculpture garden on your way to Bunche Hall (okay, extra credit time – for whom is Bunche Hall named?). We will start promptly at 9 am, so leave early. You can meander through the sculpture garden with any extra time you’ve got.

From 9 am to noon, we’ll be looking at early East Asia and East Asian geography. We’ll provide refreshments. From noon to 2 pm you are free to eat lunch at one of the campus dining halls or to bring your own lunch (we have microwaves in the dining areas). You can also use this time to tour the Fowler Museum of Cultural History on your own (admission is free, visit their website for details
http://fowler.ucla.edu) .

At 1:50 pm, we’ll reconvene at the door of the Lenart Auditorium (Fowler Museum). From 2 to 3:30 pm, we will hear and see a presentation on early Chinese family rituals and stories about family rituals. Cary Liu, curator of Asian art at Princeton University’s Art Museum is our speaker. His presentation concludes our first PVPUSD/UCLA seminar session, but we hope you’ll join us for a catered reception in the amphitheater beside the auditorium.

After enjoying the reception, you could walk down to the Hammer Museum ($5, http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/). The Hammer is open until 7 pm, so you could also wait and check out the “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architecture of Japanese Prints” exhibition that is currently there http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/96/) . At 7:30 pm, the UCLA Film Archive is opening its new series on Naruse Mikio (http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html ) . Of Naruse Miko and Saturday’s film, Kevin Thomas wrote:

“Director Naruse Mikio (1905-69) was a master at transforming the traditional "woman's picture" into an enduring expression of the human spirit under siege. With compassion but detachment, the generally pessimistic Naruse viewed people's tangled lives and deepest longings straight on, and his steadfast vision and simplicity of style could bring dignity and meaning to even the most melodramatic soap opera plots.

“The UCLA Film and Television Archive begins its retrospective of the Japanese filmmaker with one of Naruse's finest films, "Floating Clouds" (1955). It packs such an emotional wallop that it's worth adjusting to its measured pacing, ample hand-wringing and full-blown score. It is in glorious black-and-white, features some of Japan's greatest stars of the era and is based on a famous novel by Hayashi Fumiko. It's an epic-scale romantic love story set against the morally bankrupt postwar era. Takamine Hideko and Mori Masayuki are the star-crossed lovers whose ill-fated affair is bathed in ineffable poignancy.” (LA Times, Nov. 3, 2005)

So you could spend the entire day in Asia at UCLA! The formal seminar, however, only includes the following:
9 am to noon in 10383 Bunche Hall
2 to 3:30 pm in the Lenart Auditorium

[clay dube]

Click on the icon below to open a map showing the parking kiosk, parking lot, and Bunche Hall.

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Click on the icon below to download a copy of the seminar assignments.

[clay dube]

Here's a Word version of the assignments.

[clay dube]

This is in your binder, but just in case...

[Anonymous]

Clay:
We have a class scheduled for Jan.30. That is a day off for PVPUSD...It's semester break. Will this be a problem for anyone?

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,
I hope we can keep the session, though I'm loathe to intrude on your all-too-short break. I wish the district folks had let me know about this earlier. We could, perhaps, have the session earlier in the day. What do the rest of you think?

[Anonymous]

It is a work day, I will be returning from UCLA so I might be late.

[Anonymous]

I might be out of town as to take advantage of a long weekend. Could we do it a different day that week?

[Anonymous]

I was on last week and thought I saw there were extra readings for Monday. I down loaded them and started reading them, but now I can't find the referrence to them. Regardless, I was really getting into Memoirs of a Korean Queen, but it just ended in the middle. So, do you know where to find the rest of it?

[Anonymous]

This info was emailed to me from the LACOE Social Studies unit. It sounds really fun and interesting:

The Los Angeles County Office of Education

is proud to announce

Extending the Classroom:

Exploring Asian Culture in Los Angeles

A five museum workshop series sponsored by the

Southern California Social Science Association

The Donald Perryman Fund for the Social Studies

Workshop Program:

*Docent led tours that correlate museum exhibits to grade level History-Social Science curriculum

* Admission to special exhibits

* Lesson Planning ideas

* Raffle at each workshop for school bus to museum

* LAUSD one salary cred, Multi-culture Specific available to LAUSD teachers who attend four workshops

Attend one, a few or all five!!

SATURDAYS 10:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m.

* February 25, 2006 - Pacific Asian Museum

*March 18, 2006 - Korean Cultural Center

*April 22, 2006 - Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights

*May 20, 2006 - Chinese American Museum

*June 6, 2006 - Japanese American National Museum

Fee: SCSSA MEMBERS $20 for the series or $5 per workshop

NON-MEMBERS $40.00 for the series or $10 per workshop

Maps and a detailed agenda will be mailed to all registrants.

Each workshop limited to 30 participants.

More information and registration form can be found in the attached file

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For further information contact

Mark Elinson (323) 932-2203

[email protected]

or

Jackie Purdy (818)345-5446

[Anonymous]

Clay,

Have you figured out whether or not we will have class on January 30th? Just trying to figure out my plans.

Thanks,
Amy Page

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,
You have a print copy of this, but some may find it useful to have a "clickable" version as well. Some may wish to share this with their students.

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,
As noted via email, we'll cancel the Jan. 30 session and meet on Feb. 6 (3:30-6:30) instead. Morgan Pitelka will speak on women in EA history. See the readings and bibliography in the women thread in this forum.

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