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"Daughters of Wisdom" (2007, 68 min.), directed by Bari Pearlman, tells the unique story of how the Nangchen nuns of Kham, living on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, built their own Kala Rongo Monastery in spite of the longstanding tradition dictating that women, due to custom and socioeconomic demands, not receive educational and religious training.
This film will be introduced by Arjia Rinpoche, a high lama of the Gelupa sect of Tibetan Buddhism, formerly Head Abbot of the Kumbum Monastery in Amdo Tibet and currently the director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana. This film initiates the 2009-2010 AsiaLENS series of public film screenings and lecture/discussion programs organized by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) at the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies and planned in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum. Following the screening, viewers will be invited to join in discussion led by Arjia Rinpoche.
Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILParents and kids! Create, play, and learn together through crafts and activities from around the world. Arrive anytime between 9:30 and 11:30. The program ends at noon.
Location: Zahn Learning Center, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILParents and kids! Create, play, and learn together through crafts and activities from around the world. Arrive anytime between 9:30 and 11:30. The program ends at noon.
Location: Zahn Learning Center, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILDr. Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris is the Director of the Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity at the University of Missouri—St. Louis and presently holds the title of Assistant Professor in both Anthropology and the College of Education. She lived and worked extensively in the Pacific for 27 years with an emphasis on Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands diaspora. She currently consults for several national and international museums as an independent curator. Her talk addresses the difficulties that arise when contemporary Papua New Guinean artists appropriate traditional Papua New Guinean art designs and forms from a non-related cultural group. In a global era when images circulate world-wide on the web or in commercial products, this issue of local copyrights is critical for everyone.
Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL