Reves Center for International Studies Events

2014 Africana-Mellon Distinguished Lecturers

We are seeking enthusiastic graduate and undergraduate students to serve as International Peer Leaders for Graduate and Undergraduate International Student Orientations in August 2014. Apply by March 10.

Applicants for summer 2014 Charles Center summer scholarships are encouraged to bring their essays in for review by Peer Scholarship Advisors. Please bring three hard copies.

This lecture on Indian music is based on recent research by ethnomusicologist Niyati Dhokai.

Haider Ala Hamoudi, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the 2014 Kraemer Scholar-in-Residence.

The Sociology Department's Schmidt Lecture on Technology and Society: Competing Visions of the Internet and Why They Matter. This year's speaker is Stephanie Ricker Schulte. Thursday, March 13th at 3:30pm in Blow Hall 201.

Professor Russel Zanca (Northeastern Illinois University)

The presentation assesses what it means to speak of successes and failures according to both Central Asian and international standards and norms, and questions whether citizens are motivated or mobilized by nationalist conceptions of Turkic-Muslim unity.

Haider Ala Hamoudi, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the 2014 Kraemer Scholar-in-Residence.

Excludes: Kanazawa University Program A (deadline passed).

The Muslim Students Association invites you to learn more about Islam.

Dr. John Flynn will lecture on a project dedicated to preserving the Congo River Basin Ecosystem.

A Lecture by Diane L. Wolf, University of California, Davis Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children, Jewish Families and the Myth of Holland's Resistance during the Holocaust Monday, March 17th, Tucker 127A 5-7pm

The German Studies Program of MLL presents a Symposium "Wim Wenders' Early Films" featuring Documentary Filmmaker Marcel Wehn (Berlin) who will screen and present his "One Who Sets Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years" with discussion to follow.

Cloud Lecturer Mark Edmundson, University of Virginia, talking on "The Soul of the Humanities".

Guest Lecture "Taxes and the Modern Citizen. How Taxes in Russia, the USSR, and the World Shaped Governments, Peoples, and Persons in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" by Pro. Yanni Kotsonis (NY University)

William & Mary alum Elizabeth Winder, a poet and biographer, will join former Writer-in-Residence Catherine Bowman in a program focusing on Sylvia Plath.

Would you like to spend a post-W&M Fulbright year teaching abroad? Come to this session to learn how to put together a competitive application for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

William & Mary Confucius Institute presents its first concert of Chinese traditional and folk music in Ewell Recital Hall at 7 pm on Friday, March 21st.

Students taking Russian at the College of W&M are going to compete with each other in Jeopardy-style game, act out skits in Russian, and recite famous Russian poems. Winners will receive unpretentious prizes!!!

Excludes: Hertford College, Oxford (deadline passed).

Putting Together Your Career Tool Kit: Hispanic Studies and Intercultural Competence.

Retired Under Secretary General of the United Nations Jacques Klein

IR Scholar Austin Strange & AidData Director Brad Parks will present on China Aid to Africa.

Margartha von Trotta's film about Hannah Arendt focuses on Arendt's coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the subsequent publication of her controversial book, and the consequences.

Sound artist and abstract turntablist Maria Chavez focuses on the values and lessons derived from chance encounters, accidents, and improvisation in her art practice.

Making a Living, Making a Difference is William & Mary's largest government and non-profit career planning event including speaker panels for advocacy, environmental and federal careers.

Join us for a talk by the Honorable Albie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (retired).

Join us for a talk by The Honorable Albie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (retired).