Announcements
Postponed! Exhibition: “Portrait and Transgression”
March 4, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020 to Monday, June 1, 2020 Works by Indonesian artist Entang Wiharso
Postponed: Asian American Studies at 50: Claiming Our Space in and Beyond Academia
March 2, 2020
03/20/2020, 5:00pm-7:00pm Loan Dao, Associate Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies, Saint Mary's College of California
Asia Center's fall 2020 Visiting Scholar and Fellow application deadline is March 14, 2020
February 14, 2020
VISITING SCHOLAR
Clone of Exhibition: Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape قەسىدە: ئۇيغۇرنىڭ ئۇيقۇسىز چۈشلىرى
February 10, 2020
A new photography exhibition at Harvard University depicts everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region. The photographs, taken by Lisa Ross, depict beds and their occupants outside in the open air. Sleeping outdoors is a traditional means to keep cool in the hot desert climate for many Uyghurs, Xinjiang’s Muslim-majority ethnic group.
Exhibition: Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape قەسىدە: ئۇيغۇرنىڭ ئۇيقۇسىز چۈشلىرى
February 10, 2020
A new photography exhibition at Harvard University depicts everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region. The photographs, taken by Lisa Ross, depict beds and their occupants outside in the open air. Sleeping outdoors is a traditional means to keep cool in the hot desert climate for many Uyghurs, Xinjiang’s Muslim-majority ethnic group.