Title: “Connecting Places”
Dr. Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State University
1:45-3:00 p.m., 1/13/2018 (Saturday)
Association for Asian Studies Vice-Presidential Address
Location: Capstone Campus Room, 1st floor
Dr. Anne Feldhaus is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her work combines philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of Maharashtra, the Marathi-language region of western India. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Senior Research Fellow for the American Institute of Indian Studies, and has received several fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her areas of special interest are folk and popular Hindu traditions, medieval bhakti, and religious geography. Professor Feldhaus’s publications include Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in Maharashtra (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), and several books on Old Marathi literature. With S.G. Tulpule, she co-edited A Dictionary of Old Marathi (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Film Screenings: Selections from the Moving Images Research Collections (MIRC)
7:00-9:00 p.m., 1/13/2018 (Saturday)
Location: Columbia Museum of Art
2018 SEC/AAS will show an assortment of movie clips from special Chinese film collection from the Moving Images Research Collections (MIRC)
Short introduction of Chinese Film Collection from (MIRC)
In October of 2009, the University of South Carolina welcomed an historic gift of films from the People’s Republic of China. The gift included nearly 900 titles on 35mm and 16mm film donated by the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America (Washington, D.C.). The Embassy collection is of particular interest as a document of cultural diplomacy in that it represents what Chinese officials thought the people of the United States should see and know about China after the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1979. Films include documentaries of life in China, animated films, and full length feature films.