Department of East Asian Studies at New York University

Congratulations to all the NYU Graduates!

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Good luck on your Finals! 화이팅!! 加油!! 頑張って! 🍀

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NYU Students! May 3rd, in the Great Room at 19 University Place, Professor Yoshikuni Igarashi will presenting “Television is the Message: Japan’s Early Encounters with the New Medium”.

(Zoom ID: 994 3513 5092)

This talk will focus on the role that television played in Japan’s transformation to a mass consumer society. Igarashi will gauge its underestimated socioeconomic effects on Japanese society by revisiting the early years of its introduction, when it was still a newsworthy event. The dramatic transformation that Japan experienced under the high-growth economy (1955-1972) was not only political, social, economic, and cultural but also intensely visual. Television was instrumental to how individuals came to see themselves and their nation during this period. Through television, individuals became deeply embedded in a newly emerging national space: their everyday lives viewed as part of an unfolding national drama. This new media provided viewers an expansive vision even as it taught them to internalize its conforming gaze.

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EAS Night 2022 is this Friday! 🌙
RSVP Today!

The Department of East Asian Studies is excited to announce this year's EAS NIGHT! 🌙

Join us for music, dancing, and other live and pre-recorded performances from current East Asian Studies students highlighting the cultures our Department represents. Everything from live K-pop choreography to traditional Chinese singing and Japanese live music will be there, so you don't want to miss it!

DETAILS:
Friday, April 22nd
6:30-8:30PM
19 University Place ROOM 102

There is a Zoom option as well if you can't make it in person. Please see the attached flyer for more information and your distribution. We hope to see you there!

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Join EAS for Chinese Movie Night March 31st! 🎥
We will be watching Youth (芳华), a coming of age drama directed by Feng Xiaogang!

WHEN: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM March 31st.
WHERE: Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 408 (Auditorium).

NOTE: This event is open to NYU students only.

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Join EAS for Japanese Movie Matinee March 25th, where we will be watching Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー), directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi!

This event will be on Zoom 12 pm - 3 pm.
Zoom Meeting ID: 947 9445 4627

NOTE: This event is open to NYU students only.

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Source: Drive My Car Movie Poster

Join us, Korean learners of all levels, March 31st, for the 5th Annual Korean Speech Competition!

Competition schedule:
Elementary 1, 2, Elementary Advanced Speakers: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Intermediate 1, 2, Intermediate Advanced Speakers: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Advanced 1, 2: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Awards:
Participation Award (all participants)
Best Pronunciation Award - $50 award to 1st place
Best Content Award - $50 award to 1st place
Best Performer Award - $50 award to 1st place

Speech Content: Anything of your choice!
Meeting ID: 956 5678 1564

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Submit your original designs to the Department of East Asian Studies Design Contest to be featured on future merchandise in our department!

⏱WHEN:
Contest is open from March 7th through April 29th

❔HOW:
Please fill out the Google Form (via the QR code) to submit your entries.

❕RULES:
- The contest is open to any students taking an EAS-sponsored course.
- The dimensions of your design need to be a maximum of 11"x11".
- The only requirement is that your design clearly reads "NYU EAS" somewhere.
- No profanities/suggestive content.
- Feel free to use as many colors as you'd like!

Your fellow EAS students will vote on the top three submissions, and our faculty will pick the grand prize winner. $100 prize will go to the winner, and $50 prize to the two runner-ups!

Join EAS on Thursday, 3/3 from 6:30-9:00 PM for Korean Movie Night! 📽️ We will be watching The Thieves by director Choi D**g Hoon!

The event will be at 12 Waverly Place, Room G08 and is open to NYU students only.

There will be a Q&A session moderated by KISO and quizzes at the end with prizes for the winners! (In collaboration with KISO)

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K-Friends is back for the Spring Semester! The next session is happening this Wednesday, February 23, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm! Anybody who is studying Korean is welcome.

K-Friends sessions are a great opportunity for you if you want to: get help with your homework, learn about Korean culture, practice conversation in Korean with Korean students, or earn extra credit!

Upcoming Bi-Weekly K-Friends Events:
2/23 (ROOM TBA), 3/9 (ROOM TBA), 3/23 (ROOM TBA), 4/6 (ROOM TBA), and 4/20 (ROOM TBA).

RSVP links on our Website.

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Japanese Film Festival Online! February 14, 2022 -February 27, 2022
Presented by the Japan Foundation, don't miss the chance to watch 16 Japanese films for FREE.

Register Link on the Spring 2022 Events Page on our Website!

Images Source: The Japan Foundation

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Joinn EAS on Tuesday, 2/15, 6 PM - 8 PM, for Japanese Movie Night! We will be watching "南極料理人 The Chef of South Polar"

Presented by the Japan Foundation

Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

Note: This event is restricted to NYU students only.

Based on two autobiographical novels by Jun Nishimura, this film centers around a research expedition living in Dome Fuji Station near the South Pole. The area, which is located far from Showa Station, has an average temperature of -54 degrees celcius and is situated 3800 meters above sea level. A cook named Nishimura (Masato Sakai) leaves his family behind in order to assist the expedition. Out in the middle of nowhere, Nishimura manages to cook extravagant meals consisting of high-class ingredients like foie gras, spiny lobster, and Matsuzaka beef in this true story of wintering party male bonding.

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Image Source: The Japan Foundation