Chinese - Commencement 2025 Remarks and Awards
Remarks and awards for Chinese department seniors and their families.
Mahaney Arts Center 221
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ARBC, CHNS, CLAS, CMLT, DANC, EDST, GRMN, JAPN, LHST, LITS, PHIL, RELI, RUSS, THEA - Commencement 2025 Reception
Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Classics and Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Dance, Education Studies, German, Japanese Studies, Literary Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Russian, and Theater.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
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Translating Trauma: Lin Yi-Han's novel Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise and Taiwan's #MeToo Movement
Literary translator Jenna Tang will share her experience translating Lin Yi-Han’s novel Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, which is widely recognized as the most influential novel of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement. In addition to exploring the inherent artistic questions of the work of translation itself, Jenna will touch on the intersection of trauma and literature, the process of bringing the work to English-speaking readers, and her interactions with the late author’s family.
Axinn Center 232
Open to the Public
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A Screening of Three Short Films by Taiwan Poet and Filmmaker Ye Mimi.
Poet Ye Mimi has been called “among the most innovative poets and filmmakers to have emerged in Taiwan in the twenty-first century.” She will screen three of her short films (40 minutes total): “They Are There But I Am Not,” made while Ms. Ye was at the Art Institute of Chicago; “Hail the Bodhisattva of Collected Junk,” a collaboration with Taiwanese singer Ro Sirong; and “Cease Susurrating,” which is dedicated to Ms. Ye’s late husband and is an abstracted depiction of funerals in Indonesia. All three films have English subtitles. After the screening, Ms.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
Open to the Public
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A Reading by Taiwan Poet Ye Mimi in Chinese and English.
Poet Ye Mimi has been called “among the most innovative poets and filmmakers to have emerged in Taiwan in the twenty-first century.” Her most recent books are “Poetry Tarot” and “Shamans: Poems and Essays,” both 2023. Ms. Ye is fluent in English, and she will read her a selection of her work in both Chinese and English translation. Q&A will be in English and in Chinese with English translation.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Statement on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
The faculty and staff of the Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature condemn the recent and ongoing violence and harassment directed at Chinese, Chinese Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. As a department we exist to make Chinese voices heard. We exist to create a welcoming and supportive home for each and every one of our students. We assert that Black Lives Matter, and we stand with Middlebury students, administrators, faculty, and staff who are combatting all forms of racial and gender injustice, discrimination, and violence. As teachers, scholars, and members of the Middlebury community, we pledge to continue to learn, grow, and do everything we can to help advance the College’s commitment to creating a diverse, welcoming community with full and equal participation for all individuals and groups. We will endeavor to do more to educate ourselves and our students about the ethnic and cultural diversity within China and do more to expose students to more of the Sinophone world. We invite our students to share their ideas with us as to how we can best promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the life and work of the Chinese Department.