Global Studies Events

Applications will be accepted for Beijing, Cape Town, Montpellier, Santiago de Compostela, Siracusa, and St. Petersburg until February 8, 2012.

A lecture by Dr. Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College and the Smithsonian Indian-American Heritage Project. Sponsored by: Asian Middle Eastern Studies Program, the India Initiative and Sociology

Speaker: Pawan Dhingra, Title of presentation: 'I Didn't Pick This Country': Immigrants' Global Trajectory and Dissatisfaction in U.S. Entrepreneurship"

Stephen Hurley and Emily Matson will present their Honors projects.

Leksa Pravdic and Jacob Lassin will present their Honors project research.

Introduced by Professor Yanfang Tang, Suzhou River is being screened as part of the annual Global Film Festival.

The fifth annual W&M Global Film Festival is scheduled for Feb 16-19. The 2012 theme is Global Film and the City. Sponsored by the Reves Center for International Studies.

Feb 16, Th 5:30 Washington 201 Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg, Canada, USA, UK 2007) Introduced by Rachel Faith

Professor David Herman, Chair of the Slavic Department at the University of Virginia, will be giving a lecture about Tolstoy and his fiction on February 17th at 3 pm.

Organized by the Chinese Student Organization at William & Mary, the parade starts at Sadler Center and ends in front of Kimball Theater at Merchant's Square.

Feature event on Global Film Festival's "China's Urban Filmmaking" co-Sponsored by the William and Mary Confucius Institute

Kraemer Lecture delivered by Asma Afsaruddin, Chair and Professor of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. This lecture is open to the public.

Lecture by Kraemer Islamic Scholar Asma Afsaruddin, Competing Visions of the Shari'a: The Real Clash in the Islamic World. Free. All are welcome. Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and the Reves Center.

Nicky Bell and Devin Braun will present their Honors project research.

Austin Strange and John Kirn will present their Honors project research.

Co-sponsored by: Reves Distinguished Lecture Series, Latin American Studies, Latin American Student Union, Department of History

Activist Mike Wilson will be speaking on campus as part of Border Awareness Week sponsored by Latin American Studies and the Latin American Students Union.

Partly funded by the Reves Center for International Studies.