[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!

    Supporting W&M?s International Community
    Tuesday, October 4
    12pm - 1:30pm
    Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room

    The Reves Center provides W&M faculty and staff workshops that offer knowledge, skills, and resources for supporting W&M?s diverse international community.

      Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Information Session
      Wednesday, October 5
      5pm
      Washington Hall, Room 315

      Learn more about the RPSS program, meet the faculty and other students, find out what RPSS courses will be offered in Spring 2017, and listen to stunning music by the Russian Music Ensemble! There will also be free pizza and drinks! 

        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.

          Chinese Cooking Class
          Thursday, October 6
          11am - 1pm
          Baptist Collegiate Ministry, 244 S. Boundary Street, Williamsburg, VA
          Learn to cook delicious and authentic Chinese cuisine! Dr. Ed McMahon has been teaching traditional Chinese cooking for over 20 years and has earned a certificate from a Chinese culinary institute.
            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.

              Fall Break
              Saturday, October 8 - Tuesday, October 11
              Fall Break
                Homecoming 2016
                Thursday, October 13 - Sunday, October 16
                Alumni House

                This is your Homecoming. Come celebrate with us. Join us from October 13 - 16, 2016. Relive your favorite William & Mary moments and create some new ones. Browse a detailed listing of events.

                  ?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


                    William & Mary Confucius Institute Open House 2016
                    Friday, October 14
                    1pm - 5pm
                    Rowe House, Room 101

                    Come to the Rowe House on Friday, October 14th from 1-5 PM to learn more about WMCI and enjoy Chinese refreshments!

                      Homecoming Lecture by Vadim Shneyder
                      Friday, October 14
                      3:30pm - 5pm
                      Washington Hall, Room 301

                      Vadim Shneyder will be delivering a lecture on "Russia's Capitalist Realism" on Friday, October 14, 2016 in Blow 331 at 3:30 pm

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

                        Homecoming Goes Global!


                          Annual RPSS Homecoming Reception
                          Saturday, October 15
                          5pm - 7pm
                          Pleasants Hall (Randolph Complex), Russian House
                            Canceled: English Language Resources at W&M
                            Tuesday, October 18
                            12pm - 1pm
                            Reves Center for International Studies, First Floor

                            We will reschedule this in spring 2017.

                              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) 

                                Chinese Open House!
                                Thursday, October 20
                                5pm - 6:30pm
                                Washington Hall, Room 315
                                Questions about Chinese major/minor, study abroad in China, living in Chinese House, etc. will be answered in the information session. 
                                   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]].

                                    W&M Bosnia Project Applications Due
                                    Friday, October 21
                                    5pm
                                    Location not specified

                                    Applications for the Summer 2017 Bosnia Project are due!

                                      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.