Past Events
Seattle's Asian Art Museum presents Calligraphic Abstraction, featuring nearly a thousand years of the history of calligraphy—from the 11th century to the present day.
Tibet House presents accomplished Tibetan lama, Lama Lobsang Palden, introducing students to the movements and postures of Tibetan Yantra Yoga, ending with chanting and a relaxing silent meditation.
A/P/A Institute at NYU participates in The Literary Mews, part of the PEN World Voices Festival, for the third year in a row. Part-literary festival, part-street fair on the Washington Mews, the all-day 2015 Literary Mews presents readings and performances from the African Diaspora. Join us at 4PM for a reading and listening session highlighting the literary intersections between Asian and African diasporas in the Caribbean. Featuring writers Ifeona Fulani (Ten Days in Jamaica) and Kerry Young (Pao and Gloria). Moderated by Rishi Nath (York College).
Join UCLA's Center for Buddhist Studies as Wei-Cheng Lin explores the widespread practice of burying broken statues in a greater territory of China during the 10th through 12th centuries.
Julia Orell, postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute, gives a talk on landscape painting, cartographic practice, and geographical thought in Song-Dynasty China.
The RAND Corporation presents a panel of leading RAND analysts and senior Japanese national security policy leaders discussing the state of the U.S.-Japan alliance; important changes in Japanese foreign, national security, and defense policies; and security in East Asia.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center presents an exhibition exploring how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries, resulting in highly creative distortions of cultural realities and mythologies.
Tibet House presents monk Thupten Jinpa speaking about his book, "A FEARLESS HEART: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives".
Kate Merkel-Hess, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University, gives a talk on modernizing rural China.
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine and Lan Su Garden present a lecture series about holistic Chinese medicine.