Global Studies Events

Are you a student who identifies as Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian? A student of color or otherwise marginalized? An ally?

Please Join Us for W&M COMMUNITY UNITING AGAINST ASIAN HATE

Thursday, April 1 at 8 p.m. ET

College students, sexual assault response coordinators, prevention specialists, counselors, and allies from across the Commonwealth will come together for this amazing evening of hope and healing

Closed captioning and ASL interpretation provided.

JOURNEY TO GOD’S FACE is a virtual bilingual theatre tour experience of Quito, Ecuador. Performed by Quito Eterno.

Poetry That Re/Decenters with Poets:

Juana Iris Goergen (Puerto Rico),  Azad Ashim Sharma (UK), & Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Colombia) read  their poetry.

Moderated by Prof. Emily Wilcox (Chinese) with translation by Prof. Silvia Tandeciarz (Hispanic Studies).

Join our long-serving Representative to Congress who will share his plans for education, criminal justice, healthcare and labor reform.

The Visual Politics of Africa-China Relations by Tara Mock, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, the Honors College at the University of Alabama

Friday, April 9th, 4 pm: keynote address by Professor Engerman (Yale University): "The Global Cold War from Near and Far"
Saturday, April 10th, 9:30am - 10:30: student panels on the Global Cold War

Contact gxpaci@wm.edu for Zoom link.

For OTOD: At W&M we strive to understand and change the world through collaborative research. Join us for a discussion highlighting the cultural, economic and political implications of the new administration as it relates to China. 

For OTOD: Study Abroad, Then & Now

Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer Abeer Hoque presents the finale conversation in Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders series, curated by Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao for the Asian Centennial. 

Asian and Pacific Islander Bahn Mi presents: Filipino Nurses at the Postcolonial Prelude, 1911 – 1946: A History of Mobility and Racialization to and from Seattle

Hindi Hauntology in Post-Liberalization Kolkata by Rahul Bjørn Parson, Assistant Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

SHUSENJO: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue A Documentary Film by Miki Dezaki

7PM-10PM Thursday, April 22, 2021: Group Screening & After-Film Q&A Filmmaker Conversation with Professors Tomoyuki Sasaki and Eric Han

Please join us for a talk by  Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, The University of Hawai`i - Manoa  titled "Towards understanding long-term impacts of indigenous agriculture on soils: Hawai`i as a model system"

THE ASIAN CENTURY - AMES Colloquium Series presents: "How Not To Be Secure: The Role of PMSCs in South Asian Security" by Sahar Khan

Prof. Angelo Torre (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) will be speaking on "Space for the Commons: a spatial approach to the study of early modern European local political cultures" on Friday, April 23d, at 4:30 pm.

We are delighted to share the program of our upcoming RPSS Undergraduate Research Showcase.
RPSS students present their research in history, literary, and film studies.

Join us in celebrating the end of the semester with The Russian Music Ensemble Spring Concert

Please join us for a AMES & APIA 2021 CAPSTONE CONFERENCE

THE ACTORS ARENA is a two-part master class series that educates on the ins and outs of pursuing a successful professional career in acting. April 27 & 29, 7-9pm. One on one monologue coaching available on a limited basis.

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the Arabic dept. is hosting a reading of Iraqi poetry and music. 

In this stirring choreoritual of word, song and movement, Tahlequah, assisted by ancestral forces, journeys into a dark emotional abyss and learns the freedom which comes from letting go. A co-production with Christopher Newport University. 

Please join us on Thursday, April 29th at 7 PM for the 2021 W&M Student Literary Awards Virtual Ceremony. 

A conversation with Eric Han and Tomoyuki Sasaki about the ongoing "comfort women" controversy. Please RSVP for the Zoom link.