https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017 ""Mobility, Technology and the Environment in Asia" October 6-8, 2017 en-us 2017-06-20 20:00:21 UTC 2023-06-02 04:44:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177028644 When: October 6, 7 and 8, 2017
Where: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Times:  Friday 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.]]> 2017-06-20 21:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177028644 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177028761 Concurrent Panels in Gerri LeBow Hall]]> 2017-06-20 21:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177028761 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177029503 2017-06-20 21:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177029503 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177029761 2017-06-20 21:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177029761 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177029890 The Study at University City hotel offers a block rate for the conference]]> 2017-06-20 21:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177029890 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030235 An exhibition of Asian art will be on display at the university's art museum "The Drexel Collection" throughout the entire conference  ]]> 2017-06-20 21:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030235 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030485 2017-06-20 21:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030485 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030563 2017-06-20 21:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030563 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030717 2017-06-20 21:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177030717 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177031173 Dr. Kendall is a past AAS President (2016-17), Chair of the Anthropology Division at the American Museum of Natural History, and the Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections.  Dr. Kendall is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.]]> 2017-06-20 21:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177031173 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177031745 The background of this Padlet is a doorframe that "frames" this year's conference.  According to The Drexel Collection, the university's first president James MacAlister received $1 million from Anthony J. Drexel in 1891. He took the money to Europe to find art to bring back to the new university museum. This door, which is a 17th Century Hindu doorframe, framed the original entrance to the museum, which was created to embrace and display eclectic cultures.]]> 2017-06-20 21:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177031745 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177032202 2017-06-20 21:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177032202 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177032249 2017-06-20 21:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177032249 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177032336 2017-06-20 21:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177032336 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302034 2017-06-23 14:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302034 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302199 Enjoy your stay even more while attending the conference]]> 2017-06-23 14:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302199 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302333 According to the University of Pennsylvania website, "Professor Mair has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. He specializes in Buddhist popular literature as well as the vernacular tradition of Chinese fiction and the performing arts. Throughout the 1990's, Professor Mair organized an interdisciplinary research project on the Bronze Age and Iron Age mummies of Eastern Central Asia. Among other results of his efforts during this period were three documentaries for television (Scientific American, NOVA and Discovery Channel), a major international conference, numerous articles, and a book, "The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West" (Thames and Hudson, 2000).  Victor H. Mair received his PhD from Harvard University in 1976. He also holds an MPhil degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).  Professor Mair specializes on Buddhist popular literature as well as the vernacular tradition of Chinese fiction and the performing arts. Professor Mair is the founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers and General Editor of the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series at the University of Hawaii Press. He has been a fellow or visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong (2002-2003), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, 1998-1999), the Institute for Research in Humanities (Kyoto University, 1995), Duke University (1993-1994), and the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1991-1992)."]]> 2017-06-23 14:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302333 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302826 2017-06-23 14:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/177302826 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/192540359 In addition to street parking, below is a map of the parking garages on campus]]> 2017-09-29 16:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/192540359 km3282 https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/192542356 On-campus visitor parking]]> 2017-09-29 17:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/km3282/MARAAS2017/wish/192542356