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Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology Chris Vasantkumar was an invited participant in a two-day workshop on "Himalayan Connections: Disciplines, Geographies, Trajectories" convened under the auspices of the Yale University Himalaya Initiative in New Haven on March 9-10.

Lawrence Chua, visiting assistant professor of art history, participated in several workshops recently. He presented from his ongoing research on leisure, race and nationalism in 20th-century Thai architecture at the Labour, Leisure, and Life Course from a Global Historical Perspective workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin, Feb. 13 to Feb. 15.

An essay by Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology Chris Vasantkumar titled, “What Is This 'Chinese' in Overseas Chinese? Sojourn Work and the Place of China's Minority Nationalities in Extraterritorial Chinese-ness,” has been published in this month's issue of The Journal of Asian Studies (vol. 71, no. 2).

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented on May 4 to five faculty members. Ian Rosenstein, Christopher Vasantkumar, Andrew Dykstra, Heather Buchman and Patty Kloidt were honored at the Class & Charter Day ceremony.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi, and St. Lawrence University Professor of Philosophy Erin McCarthy, co-editors of ASIANetwork Exchange: a Journal of Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, have published their first online issue of the journal. 

“China’s International Identities: The Conflicted Rising Power” in a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 4:30 p.m., in KJ’s Bradford Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Francis (Cisco) R. Bradley, postdoctoral fellow in Asian studies and visiting assistant professor of history, presented a paper titled "The Patani Knowledge Network and the Rise of Islamic Educational Institutions in Southeast Asia," at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

On Monday, Oct. 4, nine Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in Southern India performed an opening consecration ceremony of sacred dance and chanting in the Emerson Gallery atrium before beginning their creation of a sand mandala of compassion. This ancient tradition is a reminder of the Buddhist concept of impermanence.

Laura Brueck, assistant professor of Hindi Literature and South Asian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present a lecture titled “Hindi Dalit Literature: Language and Political Consciousness” on Thursday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m., in Kirner-Johnson room 101. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sudipta Sen, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, will present a lecture titled “Sacred Drops: History, Ecology, and the Ganga” on Friday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in KJ 102. It is free and open to the public.