Global Studies Events

Amy Clinger will present her Honors thesis research in Interdisciplinary Studies.

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.

Professor Perreault (University of Montreal) to speak on a Greek Colony in Thrace

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A talk by Aercio Cunha, a Brasilia-based economist and visiting Fulbright Scholar. See full description for an abstract of the talk.

Discussion and Q&A on the current situation in the Middle East, featuring scholars in the fields of government, economics, language, history, and religion.

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."

World-renowned musician, founder of the band Junoon, and social activist, Salman Ahmad--"the Bono of South Asia"--leads his band in a free concert at the Kimball Theatre.

As emotions run high with recent events, such as the congressional hearings on Muslims, the political uprisings in the Middle East, and the continued "War on Terror", come learn the Muslim Perspective!

A talk by Jorge Terukina, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures (Hispanic Studies), sponsored by the Bellini Colloquium in Modern Languages & Literatures.

AMP & Muslim Students Association are bringing Alejandro Beutel, a recent Muslim convert. Alejandro J. Beutel is MPAC's Government Liaison. Alejandro has authored several academic papers, articles & reports on topics of Islam and international security.

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.

Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Karen Gabriel, a visiting professor from St. Stephen's College in India, will give a talk entitled "Melodrama, Bombay Cinema, and the Politics of Exclusion: The Case of Mother India / Bharat Mata."

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.

Information session on study abroad programs in Asia.

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.