Asian Themed Events @ USA!

Dear USA Community:

Celebrate and learn about Asia! We will be focusing on CHINESE ART APPRECIATION. The following pleasant and enlightening events are

planned:

POT LUCK DINNER. Monday, February 25, at 6:00 PM, in Alumni Hall. Please bring any kind of dish you can! RSVP to Dr. Harry Miller ( hsmiller@southalabama.edu).

Peggy and I took one of my new favorite Chinese dishes
 to the Pot Luck Dinner tonight: Sesame Noodles.
It is a cold dish with cucumber and scallions.
The Sesame sauce is made of sesame paste or tahini paste,
peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and chili oil.
(We also took pork fried rice.)

We used soba this time...reminded me of Ramen Noodles!
They are actually Japanese and made of buckwheat.
Soba (そば or 蕎麦) is the Japanese name for buckwheat.

TOMORROW's Events...

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM. Tuesday, February 26, at 3:30 PM, in the Arts and Sciences Dean's Conference Room (HUMB 122). Dr.

Katharine Burnett (University of California at Davis) will deliver a talk entitled, "Speculations on Why Originality Can't Be a 'Traditional Chinese Value' (When It Is)."

FIFTH ANNUAL ASIAN STUDIES LECTURE. Tuesday, February 26, at 7:00 PM, in the University Library Auditorium. Dr. Burnett will show us "What Originality Looks Like in Late Ming Dynasty Chinese Painting: A Case Study of Wu Bin's 'On the Way to Shanyin.'" The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Dr. Miller (hsmiller@southalabama.edu).