Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Events

This calendar presented by Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Intimate Trauma, Cool Distance: The Photographic Politics of Postwar Japan
Thursday, March 3
3:30pm
Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332
A lecture by Professor Julia Adeney Thomas, based on Between Reality and Sex: Japanese Photography in War, Occupation, and After, a book forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
    Do you think you'd like to have an internationally-oriented career?
    Tuesday, March 15
    3pm - 5pm
    Cohen Career Center, Conference Room
    How to get started today.
      Lecture by Prof. Virginia Raguin, "Pilgrimage and Reliquaries in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam"
      Thursday, March 17
      5:15pm
      Andrews Hall, Room 201
      Public lecture by Virginia C. Raguin (Professor of Art History at College of the Holy Cross) titled "Pilgrimage and Reliquaries in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam."
        Gavan McCormack, "The Prefecture that Says "No!" - Okinawa as Japan's Tahrir Square"
        Friday, March 25
        3:30pm - 5:30pm
        Blow Memorial Hall, Room 201
        Professor Gavan McCormack will deliver the Art Matsu Lecture on Okinawa and the civic democratic activism that has evolved in Okinawa out of the 14-year long resistance to US and Japanese attempts to build a new Marine base there.
          1,000 Cranes for $1,000
          Monday, March 28 - Friday, April 1
          11am - 7pm
          Sadler Center, Terrace
          Join our campaign to fold 1,000 origami paper cranes to support the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A fundraiser sponsored by the Japanese Cultural Association.
            Study Abroad Fair: Asia Edition
            Monday, March 28
            12pm - 2pm
            Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room
            Information session on study abroad programs in Asia.
              Lecture: "Strengthening Our Position as a Destination for International Students and Scholars
              Tuesday, March 29
              4pm
              School of Education, Holly Room
              Eduardo Ochoa, President Obama's Assistant Secretary of Education (in charge of Post-secondary Education) will give a talk on the position of the U.S. as a destination for international students and scholars.
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