Syllabus Class Schedule Class Notes Assignments Exams & Papers EPost Board How to Use EPost Anthro Home Page	ANTH 469A, Winter 2005 Special Studies in Anthropology Travel in East Asia
	Images: US Japanophile dressed as Buddhist pilgrim (c. 1885); Chinese and US travelers on road to Lugu Lake (2002); Beijing tourist “going ethnic” at minority festival (1990s); Filipina: DH, installation piece by Imelda Cajipe-Endaya (1995)
	Instructor: Sasha Welland [website] Office: Denny Hall M49 Office Hours: TH 12-1:30 pm or by appt. e-mail: swelland@u.washington.edu Phone: 206.685.1577 Class Times and Location: T&TH 3:30-5:20 pm / Parrington 306 Class Email List: anth469a_wi-5@u.washington.edu Class EPost Discussion Board
	Related Events Friday 2/4 Shiho Satsuka - Japan Studies Colloquium Traveling Nature, Imagining the Globe: Japanese Tourism in the Canadian Rockies 12:00 – 1:30 pm Denny Hall 212 The Canadian Rockies have captured the imagination of Japanese tourists who dream of traveling overseas. Especially at the turn of the 21st century, popular Japanese narratives depicted this vast natural landscape as a site in which to revise the meaning of “affluence” and reflect upon the problems of rapid industrialization. While these narratives emphasize the “purity” of nature, in the actual experiences of tourists, commercial entertainers and tour guides attract much of their attention. This presentation examines the social significance of nature imagined on a global scale and the enchantment of tour guides who embody cosmopolitan Japanese desires. The discussion also addresses the role of mediators in tourist interactions and commodity production. Shiho Satsuka is Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies at the Stanford Institute for International Studies. Thursday 3/3   Sasha Welland - Gallery Talk   Between Past and Future:   New Photography and Video from China   Exhibit information   7:00 – 8:00 pm   Seattle Art Museum Special Exhibition Gallery   First Thursday-Free Admission January-March (every other Thursday) Transnational Domesticity: A Film Series on the Filipino Diaspora Some 7 million Filipinos abroad constitute a diasporic population that provide important foreign remittances to the Philippines. In recognition of their sacrifice and significance to the country, they have been hailed by the state as the "New Heroes" or bagong bayani of the Philippines in the era of globalization. The displacement of these Overseas Filipinos Workers create transnational families and connect the social imaginary to multiple geographic locations. The film series looks at 4 films that tackle the issues of Philippine migration, issues that resonate with conditions not only within the Philippines but outside it as well. Thursday, January 27 The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995) Dir: Joel Lamangan; Starring Nora Aunor 6:30pm, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library Moderator: Professor Vicente Rafael, History The execution of Flor Contemplacion in Singapore caused a rift in Singapore-Philippine relations. Released only months after the execution, The Flor Contemplacion Story features Nora Aunor as the domestic worker accused of murdering a fellow domestic worker and her Singaporean ward. Thursday, February 10 Anak The Movie (2000) Dir: Rory Quintos; Starring: Vilma Santos, Claudine Barreto 6:30pm, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library Moderator:  Professor Randy Bautista, American Ethnic Studies Vilma Santos portrays a domestic helper who returns from Hong Kong and attempts to reconnect with the children she was forced to leave behind. Thursday, February 24 Milan (2004) Dir: Olivia Lamasan; Starring Claudine Barretto and Piolo Pascual 6:30pm, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library Moderator:  Professor Francisco "Kiko" Benitez, Comparative Literature Piolo Pascual plays Lino, a naive and quixotic husband searching for his wife who had gone to Italy as a domestic worker. In Milan he meets street-savvy Jenny, a pillar of the local Filipino migrant workers community who helps him search for his wife and eventually falls in love with him. Is it love or need that in the end binds them? Thursday, March 10 The Debut (2000/2001) Dir: Gene Cajayon; Starring Dante Basco, Tirso Cruz III, Eddie Garcia, Bernadette Balagtas. 6:30pm, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library Moderator:  Professor Enrique Bonus, American Ethnic Studies Ben Mercado, a talented high school senior who rejects his Filipino heritage, wishes to go to art school, but his father disapproves. The long-simmering feud between Ben and his immigrant father Roland (Tirso Cruz III) threatens to boil over and ruin the 18th birthday party of Ben's sister Rose (Bernadette Balagtas).
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