International Education

Drawing upon our communities’ connections and engagement, the University of Richmond features a spotlight on East Asia for our 2019 cross-campus celebration of International Education Week. Events will include a podcast on the program BackStory about the interplay of Chinese and American cultures, a weeklong Eco-challenge, discussion panels featuring students and faculty, visiting scholars, film, music and more. The Festival of Lights and the pan-Asian dinner at D-Hall on November 13 will celebrate Asia in its great diversity, including cultures of southeast Asia. Next year’s International Education Week will feature South Asia as our campus continues to explore the world’s largest continent.

Why Asia Week? | How can I participate?

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
11	12	13	14	15
Wish Walk, Opening Celebration, & Lunch 12 p.m. from the Forum to the International Center	Panel: Tidying Up - The Beauty of Order in Japan 12 p.m. International Commons Nationali-TEA 1 p.m. International Gallery Deep Breaths: A Chinese-English Bilingual Poetry Reading 3 p.m. Boatwright Memorial Library Faculty Panel: Being Asian During UR's Asia Week 6 p.m. International Commons	Innovation in China Professors Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan, & Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago 2:30 p.m. Brown Alley Room Festival of Lights 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tyler Haynes Commons An all-campus event featuring student, faculty, staff and community engagement with many cultures of Asia International Dinner: 12 Countries of Asia 6-8 p.m. Heilman Dining Center	Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day: Spotlight on East Asia Multiple events from 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Asia Week Reception 4-6 p.m. International Commons By invitation only, to thank participants. Lecture: "Mother of Exiles": Refugees in American Myth and History presented by Mae Ngai 4:30 p.m. Brown Alley Room	CCE Brown Bag: Our Stories, Our Richmond: Celebrating Asian Student Voice 12:30 p.m. THC 305 Film: Don't Think I've Forgotten - Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll 3 & 7:30 p.m. Ukrop Auditorium
Weeklong Programming: East Asia EcoChallenge: Open to all UR community members - register now BackStory Podcast: Produced by Virginia Humanities. Visiting Scholars in the Classroom: Dr. Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan), Dr. Judith Farquhar (University of Chicago), and Dr. Tetsuhito Motoyama (Waseda University) co-taught classes with UR faculty in Anthropology, Religious Studies, English and Political Science. Visitors from Waseda University in Japan: Dr. Tetsuhito Motoyama and Shuhei Yamamoto represented Waseda University at info-sessions and during the Festival of Lights. Passport Café Specials: Hainan Chicken and Hainan Tofu throughout the week, plus various samplings of miso, bao buns, and banh mi sandwiches.

Asia in the Classroom

Jessica Chan, Chinese Studies
Chinese Literature and Cinema

Dan Chen, Political Science
Politics of Asia

Monti Datta, Political Science
Modern Slavery

Jane Geaney, Religious Studies
Chinese Healing Arts

Gengsong Gao, Chinese Studies
Chinese Literature

Yvonne Howell, Russian Studies
Russian literature: Bombs, Bolsheviks, Ballet

Kasongo Kapanga, French
FYS - Expansion of Europe and Asia Into Africa: The Idea of Otherness

Tze Loo, History and Global Studies
History of East Asia; teaching fall courses of HIST 199: Opium Wars, HIST 255 Meiji Japan and a first year seminar titled Collecting the Past.

Natalie McCauley, Russian Studies
Russian and East European Film (connections to Eurasian and East Russian cinema)

Andy McGraw, Music
Global Music

Melissa Ooten, WILL*
Gender and Work

Dan Pierce, Biology
Teaching Science to Tibetan Monks

Jenny Pribble, Political Science
Globalization

Bob Spires, Education
NGOs and Social Healing

Akira Suzuki, Japanese
Japanese Language and Taiko Drumming

Jonathan Wight, Economics
Economic Development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

BackStory Podcast

2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and China. The popular BackStory podcast will release "The Chinese in American History: How Afong Moy, Mayling Soong and Bruce Lee Changed the Narrative about China" -- an episode relating to the interaction of US and Chinese cultures as a prelude to UR’s panel discussion with Professors Yuen Yuen Ang and Judith Farquhar called “Innovation in China”.

East Asia EcoChallenge

Inspired by the region's variety of innovations and environmental challenges, the Office of Sustainability has created the East Asia EcoChallenge, powered by Campus EcoChallenge. Each day, our community will focus on a different theme: food, simplicty, energy, water and waste. Throughout the week, you can compete as an individual or a team to earn points (and win prizes) by completing various challenges and attending an array of Sustainability events.

Registration is now open!