Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Events

Faculty will learn about trauma-informed teaching practices that include suggestions on how to draft a syllabus, provide advance notice to students regarding the subject to be discussed, and for facilitating class discussion.

Eurocentrism, Knowledge Making and Decolonial Dialogue

Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter, CUNY) and Carlos Rivera Santana (Hispanic Studies, W&M)

Thursday March 11 3:30-5pm:

Open to Public 

AMES Colloquium Series presents: Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Multi-proxy analysis of pastoralist-landscape relationships in southern Arabia during the Holocene

A lecture presented by Professor Tamara Sonn, the 2021 Virtual Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence.  Presented in celebration of the Asian Centennial at William & Mary.

Esteemed novelist and filmmaker Alia Yunis (The Night Counter) is the premiering author of Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders, organized by Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao as part of his course OUTSIDE IN: TRANSNATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE.

“Searching for Anna May Wong,” traces the journey of actor Natasha Tina Liu, who raises the question, “If trailblazing Anna May Wong were still alive today, would she still face the same racism and challenges she experienced during her time in Hollywood?”

Author Paul Ocampo will speak on his short story "Butterfly" which appears in Maxine Hong Kingston's anthology, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), as part of Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao's series Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders.