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News May 2008 Summer 2008 Newsletter now available! Special Theme: Asians in Diaspora Digital Asia Workshop May 15-17. April 2008 New DVD Release: On Another Playground: Japanese Popular Culture in America - now available for purchase. Now available for online purchase, special sale price: Under Another Sun: Japanese in Singapore. AEMS/Asian American Studies Film Screening: New Year Baby. Tuesday, April 15, 8pm, Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana. March 2008 New online film review: Transnational Tradeswomen February 2008 New Currents Events page: 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Now available: full-text of interview with Sufeng Song, director The Vagina Monologues: Stories from China AEMS Film Screening: The Blood of the Yingzhou district. Tuesday, February 19, 7pm, Armory 386 January 2008 Winter 2008 issue of News & Reviews is out! Digital Asia: Documentary Digital Video Workshop. May 16-17, 2008. Application Deadline: February 28 AEMS Film Screening: China Blue. Wed., January 23, 2008, 7pm, Armory 386 Coming soon: New DVD release On Another Playground: Japanese Popular culture in America - the "Soft Power" of Japan's pop culture. November 2007 AEMS will exhibit at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, San Diego - November 30-Dec. 1. New website review by Cathy Benton: A Virtual Village (India) New Current Events pages: Protests in Burma and Manufacturing in China: The Toy Scandals. AEMS Educator Workshop: Teaching about the Khmer Rouge: Cambodia (1975-1979), and Islamist Dreams, Women's Realities in Southeast Asia - November 10, 2007 9:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Springer Cultural Center Asian Film Festival 2007: Southeast Asian Popular Cinema - November 9-10, 2007 October 2007 Vietnamese Film Screening: Buffalo Boy - Wed., Oct. 17, 7:00 p.m., the Humanities Lecture Hall located on the first floor of 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana. September 2007 AEMS now has an email list! AEMS now has local and global listservs. Please email aems@uiuc.edu to be added, and please specify whether you would like to be on the global listserv, with occasional announcements regarding AEMS publications and services, or the local listserv, which in addition will announce AEMS-sponsored events in central Illinois. Fall 2007 issue of News & Reviews is out! AEMS and Japan House film screening: The Lover's Exile: Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan. Wed., Sept. 19, 5:30 pm, Japan House. August 2007 Asian Film Festival 2007 announced! Southeast Asian Popular Cinema, November 9 and 10, at Boardman's Art Theatre. AEMS seeks a part-time events coordinator - please spread the word! New Film Reviews: Surviving Chau and Gone to Pat July 2007 New Current Events Page: Hong Kong: Ten Years Later June 2007 New AEMS feature: Web Resource Reviews. Our first: a review of how-to-bow.com. Summer 2007 News & Reviews is out! Special AEMS Media Section of Education About Asia, Spring 2007 May 2007 Local Library Patrons: Be sure to check our Recent Acquisitions page each month. New AEMS feature: Online Film Reviews. Read our first: a review of Eating the Scorpion. April 2007 Discussion and Screening of Makiko’s New World with filmmaker David Plath: A follow-up to our Digital Asia Workshop. Thursday, April 19, 2007, 7-9 pm Humanities Lecture Hall, AEMS/IPRH Building, FREE AEMS/EAPS Film Screening: Drumming Out a Message: Eisa and the Okinawan Diaspora in Japan, April 26 AEMS is pleased to announce that all of the MPG videos are now available as DVDs. AEMS has joined Lincoln Trails Library System (LTLS), a consortium of over 120 libraries in central Illinois. We anticipate being able to offer the materials in our library to a wider audience. We will also be able to participate in the OCLC (WorldCat) system through this association. We are very excited to be the newest member of LTLS! March 2007 Visit the AEMS booth at the annual AAS Conference taking place in Boston , March 22-25 New AEMS/MPG Workshop: North and South Korean Relations: Teaching with the Film Repatriation, March 30 Korean Documentary Film Festival, March 29-31 New AEMS/MPG workshop: Digital Asia: Making Your Own Documentary, March 10 From February 2007 Winter 2007 News & Reviews is out! From January 2007 Please fill out our survey. From October 2006 Information about the nuclear weapon test in North Korea Q&A Session with Director of The Unforgiven Educator Workshop: Teaching Korea Through Film From September 2006 AEMS has a new website! The AEMS website has been completely redesigned and reorganized. New DVD Release from MPG: Preaching From Pictures Fourth annual AEMS/EAPS Film Festival draws an audience
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