Campus News
Graduates Awarded Fellowships in Asia
Hillary Hempstead
Beginning this summer, eight graduates will live and work in Asia to build language fluency, cross-cultural skills, and lasting relationships.
Shansi Awards In-Asia Grants
Communications Staff
This winter term and summer, nine students will explore intellectually and socially engaging projects through an Oberlin Shansi In-Asia Grant.
A Gift of Peace and Understanding
Communications Staff
Tomoko Watanabe, founder of Asian Network of Trust- Hiroshima and co-founder of Green Legacy Hiroshima, walks with Gavin Tritt, executive director of Oberlin Shansi, and others in Tappan Square on the morning of September 8.
First-of-its-Kind Symposium on Asian Cinema
Lisa Gulasy
A series of events is taking place this weekend, including the symposium Asian Cinemas in a Global Context; the lecture “Why Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented: or Taking the Digital in Hand,” by University of Chicago Professor Tom Gunning; and the lecture “Globalization from a Local Lens: Creative Conceptions of a Taiwanese Director,” by documentary filmmaker Ho Chao-ti. The symposium is the first to explicitly bring together Indian and Chinese cinemas for discussion.
