School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Asian Studies Program (Ref#0084385)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Deadline: Continuous – application review begins 1 February 2011
Other Conditions: Pending position clearance and availability of funds. To begin 08/01/2011.

We seek a dynamic, committed teacher and scholar in the performing arts of Asia who will contribute significantly to the Asian Studies Program and its vision of educating undergraduate and graduate students about Asia.

The successful applicant will have the ability to make Asian cultural sensibilities, knowledge, and epistemologies an integral part of his/her course work, and be able to work collaboratively with diverse groups of students and faculty within the university and in the community.

A faculty member in the Asian Studies Program has a minimal instruction load of four courses per year and is on duty for 9 months.

The selected faculty shall teach designated courses in the Asian Studies Program, conduct research and publish projects commensurate with Asian Studies Program standards appropriate to his/her rank, carry out curriculum development related to Asian Studies, and participate in Asian Studies Program committees as requested.

Must be able to contribute to and compliment the strengths of the Asian Studies Program as well as to those of the School’s Asia related National Resource Centers and be willing to provide service to the institution and academic community.

* Earned PhD from a college or university of recognized standing in the humanities or related discipline commensurate with the focus of hire (performing arts of Asia).

* Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in the performing arts of Asia, and strength in interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship.

* Have an active record in research/publication and strong instructional skills.

* Evidence of continued participation in scholarly and academic activities at the college/ university level, and a willingness and ability to enhance the image of the School and Program in the community.

Submit a letter of interest addressing the fulfillment of the minimum and any additional qualifications, a current vitae, and three letters of reference from professionals in the field competent to assess your work to Professor Michael Aung-Thwin at the address below. Official transcripts (from institution to institution) that reflect degree and course work are due at the time of hire.

Address:
Professor Michael Aung-Thwin
University of Hawaii at Manoa
School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Asian Studies Program
1890 East-West Road, Moore 413
Honolulu, HI 96822

Inquiries:
Professor Michael Aung-Thwin, Chair, Asian Studies Program; 808-956-5962; aungthwi@hawaii.edu

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Thursday, 11 March 2010
Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Illinois

The screening will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago, at 6:00 PM on Thursday, March 11. $10 General Public, $7 Students, $5 Film Center Members, $4 SAIC Students, Faculty, Staff and AIC Staff.

In celebration the release of Tran, T. Kim-Trang: The Blindness Series (1992-2006), Video Data Bank welcomes the LA-based Vietnamese/American artist Tran, T. Kim-Trang to Chicago on Thursday, March 11. As part of the ongoing SAIC Department of Film, Video and New Media, VDB and the Gene Siskel Film Center co-sponsored screening series, Conversations at the Edge, Tran will present five works from her expansive, fourteen-years-in-the-making series on blindness and its metaphors. Titles in the lineup include ekleipsis, a documentary on hysterical blindness and the Cambodian civil war, operculum, an essay on cosmetic eyelid surgery, and alexia, a meditation on word blindness, among others.

Tran, T. Kim-Trang was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990s. Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 1999 Tran presented her Blindness Series in a solo screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Two of her videos were included in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Blindness Series was featured at the 46th Robert

Flaherty Film Seminar, both in 2000. Her video project, an eight-tape series investigating blindness and its metaphors was completed in 2006. Tran has been nominated for a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts and was named a 2001 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow. The fellowship has enabled her to develop an experimental narrative feature titled Call Me Sugar, based on the life of her mother.