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[JCA] Fall Festival (Aki Matsuri)
Saturday, October 1
4pm - 7pm
Sadler Center, Chesapeak AB

Join Japanese Culture Association on Oct 1st, 4-7PM at Sadler, Chesapeake A&B for our Aki Matsuri (Fall Festival)! There will be traditional japanese FOOD, performances and japanese games. And they are all FREE!!! Hope to see you there!

    The Bandung Spirit in the Geopolitics of Translation, Lecture by Prof. Lydia Liu
    Wednesday, October 5
    5pm
    Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332

    Lydia H. Liu is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

      The End of Engagement in US-China Relations: A Lecture by Ambassador James Keith '79
      Friday, October 7
      5:30pm
      Alan B. Miller Hall (Business School), Brinkley Commons

      The Raymond A. Mason School of Business, with the support of the W&M Confucius Institute and the Reves Center for International Studies, presents a lecture by Ambassador James Keith '79, former US Ambassador to Malaysia.

        ?The Production of Precarity: Labor Hierarchies in the South Arabian Sea?s Oil Industry?
        Thursday, October 13
        11:45am - 1pm
        James Blair Hall, Room 206

        Global Studies invites you to a lunch-time lecture: ?The Production of Precarity: Labor Hierarchies in the South Arabian Sea?s Oil Industry? by Prof. Andrea Wright


          Homecoming: W&M International Initiatives Showcase
          Saturday, October 15
          9am - 11am
          Sunken Garden, Between Wren Vista and Sunken Garden

          Homecoming Goes Global!


            Democracy's Poster Girls: Beauty Queens and Fashion Models in Cold War Japan 
            Thursday, October 20
            5pm
            James Blair Hall, Room 223

            Public Lecture by Dr. Jan Bardsley, Professor of Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and  author of Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014) 

               APIA Studies: "Religion, Identity, and the Filipino American Diaspora" by Dr. Aprilfaye Manalang
              Friday, October 21
              12pm - 1pm
              Blow Memorial Hall, Room 201

              Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies (APIA) is proud to present its inaugural Banh Mi Lunch Lecture Series.  Attendees will be served the Vietnamese sandwich, Banh Mi. For gluten and vegetarian options, please RSVP with [[fjtang]].

                Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony & Lecture: "Visible and Invisible: Aesthetics in Japanese Art"
                Thursday, October 27
                1pm - 4:15pm
                School of Education, Room 1056 (lecture) and Dogwood Room (tea ceremony)

                The Reves Center sponsors a lecture on Japanese aesthetics and a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony.

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