Mount Holyoke College Asian Studies Program

Come watch the Five College Japanese Speech Contest! It will be on Saturday, April 2nd at 2pm Online!

Come watch the Five College Japanese Speech Contest! It will be on Saturday, April 2nd at 2pm Online!

Mark your calendars for March 25th! Come join us for the Asian Studies Tea! It will be in the Great Room at 12:30pm! Hope to see you there!

Spring 2022 Korean Q&A

Spring 2022 Korean Language Table

The University of Pennsylvania invites Mount Holyoke students to attend a conference on aesthetics, social change, and the politics of culture in South India that is being held in honor of Mount Holyoke's own Indira Peterson. The conference will be held across November 9th and 10th, 2019 at The Inn at Penn, 3600 Sansom Street.

To learn more about the conference schedule, please visit this link: https://www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu/events

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New Cultural Histories of South India
Aesthetics, Social Change, and the Politics of Culture
(A conference in honor of Professor Indira V. Peterson).

November 9-10, 2019
The Inn at Penn
3600 Sansom Street
Conference Schedule:
https://www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu/events.

Sascha Ebeling, Elaine Fisher, Stephen Hughes, Lisa Mitchell, Anna Seastrand, Caleb Simmons, Davesh Soneji, Archana Venkatesan, Amanda Weidman.

Building on Professor Indira Peterson’s many contributions to the study of South Indian cultural history, this conference focuses on the practice, performance, reception, and circulation of aesthetic traditions in this region. Following Professor Peterson’s lead, papers will redress the implicit privileging of “the literary” in questions of aesthetics by using a far more capacious understanding of the subject, moving beyond the highly self-contained mode of “intellectual history” that has dominated the study of aesthetic traditions. Participants in this conference have developed deeper engagements with critical social history to understand the politics of cultural production in this region. The conference papers thus integrate the study of aesthetic traditions in South India into complex accounts of social and historical change, demonstrating how these traditions were shaped by, and in turn shaped, the worlds around them. Papers will explore the intersection of aesthetic traditions (both in form and practice), with wider formations of religion, caste, language, and power across various periods and sub-regions of South India.]

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Arabic calligraphy workshop on October 28th and made it a successful, fun event!

If you're interested in learning more about Arabic at Mount Holyoke College, please see the attached flyer for information about who to contact!

The Korean Language Program at MHC hosted a Korean cooking class on November 2nd from 12–2 p.m. in the South Mandelle Kitchen. Many of the students studying Korean participated in the class. They learned how to make the most popular Korean dish, bibimbap, which is a bowl of warm white rice topped with “namul” (sautéed and seasoned vegetables), and two popular Korean street foods, “kimbap”(seaweed rice rolls) and “tteokbokki” (spicy rice cakes). They even made “kkoma-kimbap” (a small version of kimbap) themselves! Students later moved to a common room where they enjoyed the food and listened to K-pop. Thank you to everyone who came out for the class!

The Korean Language Program at MHC is hosting a Korean cooking class this Saturday, November 2nd from 12-2 p.m. in the South Mandelle Kitchen! Come and learn how to prepare your favorite Korean dishes, or try out some delicious new foods!

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Korean Culture Month is almost upon us! Come celebrate Korean culture at the fantastic events presented by the Korean Language Program throughout all of November!

Interested in studying abroad in China? Join us at the China study abroad information session on Thursday, November 14th! Light refreshments will be served

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The Arabic Program and Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke are inviting everyone to attend an Arabic calligraphy workshop on October 28th! You will be able to learn how to write your name in Arabic! Tea and cookies will be served ☕️🍪

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On Saturday, March 30th, 2019 the 5 College Japanese Speech Contest was held at UMass College. Congratulations to all the Mount Holyoke College participants!