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_______________________________________________________________________________ Film Screening and Discussion of The Joy Luck Club
Thursday, April 13, 2006 6-8pm Branford TV Room Please note that dinner will be served and this special film screening will be held in lieu of our normal dinner meeting at Law School. Produced by Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Best Picture -- PLATOON) and based on the powerful #1 best-selling book, THE JOY LUCK CLUB tells the uplifting story of four remarkable friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak. Their lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the startling events and conditions that have shaped their lives -- and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children. Hailed as one of the must-see films of the year, this exceptional motion picture is sure to entertain and inspire you from beginning to end! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Special Guest Mary Lui at Thursday Dinner Meeting Thursday, March 23, 2006 @ 5:45 pm Law School Dining Hall Please note the earlier than usual dinner meeting time. Mary Lui is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History. Her primary research interests include: Asian American history, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). The book uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the cultural, social and spatial formation of New York City Chinatown from 1870-1920. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gordon Grand Lecture: President of the Asia Society, Dr. Vishakha Desai Thursday,
October 20th
4 PM
Branford
Common Room
Reminder:
No Dinner Meeting this week!
*Note:
Meet and Greet with InSight members will be held at 3:00 PM in the
Branford's Trumbull Room.
Bio:
Vishakha N. Desai is president and CEO of the Asia Society, an
international educational organization dedicated to strengthening
connections between the peoples of Asia and the United States.
She sets the directions for the Society's diverse set of programs-in
the areas of policy, business, arts, culture and education-throughout
the vast network of Asia Society's regional centers in the U.S. and in
Asia, including its New York headquarters. She is a frequent speaker
and participant at major conferences around the world addressing
business, policy and cultural issues.
Appointed president in 2004, Dr. Desai has served in various leadership positions at the Asia Society, most recently as Senior Vice President and as Director of its Museum. She is widely recognized as a leader in the museum field for developing dynamic presentations of contemporary works by Asian and Asian American artists and for conceiving innovative exhibitions of traditional Asian art within strong cultural contexts. A noted scholar, she has published extensively on traditional and contemporary arts and has served as an advisor and juror for major international projects and institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia. She has also lectured widely to business and foreign policy audiences on topics ranging from the role of culture in changing Asian societies to perceptions of the U.S. in Asia. Prior to joining the Asia Society in 1990, Dr. Desai was a curator at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston University and Columbia University. She received her B.A. in political science from Bombay University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Art History from the University of Michigan. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, Dr. Desai was awarded an honorary doctorate from Susquehanna University in 1996. She was also awarded the Asian American of the Year Award by the University of Massachusetts, and by Asian Americans for Equality, and is a recipient of the National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal. Dr. Desai serves on the boards of The Brookings Institution, Citizens for NYC, and the New York City Advisory Commission for Cultural Affairs. She served as the President of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) in 1998-99, and was on the Board from 1995-2000. She has also served on the Boards of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics), the South Asian Council of the Association of Asian Studies, the College Art Association, ArtTable, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Dr. Desai is married to Robert B. Oxnam, a China scholar, who was the Asia Society's president from 1981 to 1992. InSight Informational Meeting September 15, 8:30 @ WLH114
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