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Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature

Chinese CHNS

International Karaoke

Sponsored by:
Arabic, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, French and Francophone Studies, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Luso-Hispanic Studies
Join us in singing songs in a foreign language! You won’t be able to sing in English but there is still a variety to choose from: Russian, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, and others. The details will follow up in the Language House Instagrams: @russianhousemidd @midd_chinese_house @deutschhaus_middlbry @casadeespanol @arabichouse2 @jhouse_diary @casaitalianamidd @lamaisonfrancaisemidd @casadeportuguesemidd

McCullough Wilson Cafe

Closed to the Public

Photographer in a Foreign Land: Kevin Bubriski’s Documentary Projects in Nepal, Tibet and Xinjiang

Sponsored by:
Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, History of Arts and Architecture, East Asian Studies, and International & Global Studies
Kevin Bubriski’s fifty year career as a documentary photographer began in the mid 1970s with his years in the Peace Corps as a community water supply technician in Nepal’s remotest mountain villages. He has returned to Nepal numerous times, done extended documentary work in South Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the USA and has published a number of photographic books. He will be speaking retrospectively about his work in Nepal, the USA, Syria, Tibet and Xinjiang.

Johnson Classroom 204

Hopkins-Nanjing Center Visit to Middlebury

Sponsored by:
Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature
You are invited to attend an upcoming information session to learn more about the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC), a graduate educational collaboration between Nanjing University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Students take multidisciplinary coursework in Chinese, live in a bilingual community, and build professional skills for their future careers. The HNC is committed to cross-cultural learning, open academic research and inquiry, and advanced bilingual education.

Axinn Center 109

Calligraphy Demonstration and Workshop

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, History of Arts and Architecture, J Club, East Asian Studies, International & Global Studies, and ZZ Student Friends of the Art Museum
World-renowned calligrapher Masako Inkyo will be giving a calligraphy performance based on Oborozukiyo from The Tale of Genji. After her performance, she will lead two calligraphy workshops at 5:30 PM and 6:30 PM where attendees will have the opportunity to practice the art of calligraphy. You must RSVP to attend the workshop at go/inkyo or by emailing japaneseclub@middlebury.edu.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Free; registration required for workshops: go/inkyo
Open to the Public

Writing in the Age of the “Ultra-Unreal”: A Talk by Chinese Novelist Ning Ken

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and East Asian Studies
“Ultra-unreal” (chaohuan) is novelist, essayist, editor and blogger Ning Ken’s coinage to describe contemporary China, where the speed and scale of change is disorienting and the news full of stories of prosperity, progress, corruption, and inequity that defy imagination. Ning Ken is the author of five novels, including the “Heaven / Tibet,” of which Nobel Prize for Literature winner Mo Yan said, “Ning Ken combines keen political critique with penetrating analysis of human nature.” Ning Ken will talk about writing fiction about an “ultra-unreal” time and place.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Free
Open to the Public

The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Environmental Studies, and East Asian Studies
“The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry,” a talk by Amanda Kaminsky (class of ‘13). Ms. Kaminsky will talk about the social and environmental consequences of Chinese tourism in Kenya, which she has been studying as a graduate student at the Univesity of Michigan. In her Master’s thesis Ms.

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Open to the Public