Global Studies Events

Need-based awards for students participating in W&M-sponsored summer programs.

Application deadline for students intending to study abroad at Hertford College, University of Oxford, in Fall 2013, Academic Year 2013 - 2014, or Spring 2014.

The AidData Center for Development Policy will be adding 12 new interns to the research team this spring!

Films by Fyodor Khitruk

Professor Lara Farina, Dept. of English, West Virginia University, will address medieval practices of reading, focusing on the role of tactility: the "handling" of books suggested by religious texts.

Lecture delivered by the 2013 Kraemer Scholar-In-Residence, Dr. Muhammed Tabiu of the Department of Islamic Law at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria.

This year's W&M GFF opens with a Valentines Day-themed night, including: Turn Me On, Dammit! presented by lead actress Helene Bergsholm, 24Speed competition films, and a screening of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

WMCI China Lecture Series Professor John Herman Virginia Commonwealth University February 14, 2013 5:00 p.m., Blow Hall 332 Financing Empire in Southwest China: Copper, Land and Local Society, 1650-1750.

Friday's GFF highlights include the Iranian film Circumstance, a W&M filmmaking showcase, the French film Tomboy co-sponsored with the W&M French and Francophone Film Festival, and a late-night screening of The Fall.

"Making Muslim Sense of Japan: Anti-Colonial Japanophilia and the Constraints of a Muslim Japanology, c. 1890 - 1930" delivered by Nile Green, UCLA Department of History.

1.4 Billion Reasons is a thought provoking presentation that moves audiences to make simple lifestyle changes. These changes will enable the world's poorest to break the poverty cycle.

Highlights of Saturday's GFF programming include screenings of skate films This Ain't California and Bones Brigade, Academy Award-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild (including live video chat with crew members), and Attack the Block.

The William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble will host guest artist Simon Shaheen for a concert on February 16. Shaheen, an incredibly versatile virtuoso musician, deftly leaps from Arabic to Classical to Jazz styles.

On Sunday, the Festival will host a filmmakers' lunch, a "Film & Youth" concert featuring the W&M Wind Symphony, a screening of Le Tableau at the Muscarelle Museum and a closing reception at Andrews Hall.

Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology Present: Communities in Practice in Ancient and Modern Bolivia Reconsidering Style and Social Boundaries Before Tiwanaku

Gretchen Nutz and Nina Cavazos present their Honors research in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Art History and Religious Studies.

Lecture delivered by the 2013 Kraemer Scholar-In-Residence, Dr. Muhammed Tabiu of the Department of Islamic Law at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria.

Lecture by Helma Lutz, Woodrow Wilson Fellow 2012-2013, Sociology Professor and Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

A public lecture by Dr. Miriam Kingsberg, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder, author of Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History (University of California Press, Forthcoming 2013)

Roy Chan, Chinese Studies, will speak on "The People's Heartstrings: Female Sociality, Revolutionary Affect, and Dreams in Zong Pu's Fiction." All are welcome.

Open to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at William & Mary.