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THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF INDIA Date 2022-04-05
Time: 19:00:00 - 19:00:00
Location: Registration: https://tinyurl.com/SFWLIndia

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Honors College, Sharper Focus Wider Lens Presents:


India is the world's largest democracy, balancing its history and traditions within a future as an economic giant and a major cultural powerhouse. Divisions in India still are rife between rural and urban, rich and poor, men and women. Come hear this expert panel explore this fascinating country.


Panel: Prabhat Barnwal, Department Of Economics; Soma Chaudhuri, Department of Sociology; Sejuti Das Gupta, James Madison College; Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, Departments of English and Journalism; Karin Zitzewitz, Department of Art, Art History & Design. Moderator: Christopher Long, Dean, College of Arts & Letters and Dean, Honors College.


 


Co-Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center

Leonard Gilman Lecture: "Funny - You Do Not Look Jewish" Date 2022-04-05
Time: 17:30:00 - 19:00:00
Location: Kellogg Center Auditorium

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Speaker: Helen Kim, Whitman College.


This talk will explore the intersections of race, religion, and Jewish identity in the context of mixedrace


families in contemporary U.S. society. Dr. Kim will discuss the research she conducted with her


partner, Noah Leavitt, for their book, JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest


Jews (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) and reflect on some connections between this work and


the current demographic landscape in the U.S.


Dr. Helen Kim is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.


Her scholarship focuses on race and American Judaism in the contemporary era. Her scholarship


has been profiled in the New York Times, NPR, and Huffington Post. Along with co-author, Noah


Leavitt, she published JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews in 2016


with University of Nebraska Press.


Co-sponsors: College of Arts and Letters, College of Social Science, James Madison College, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Residential College of Arts and Humanities, Department of History, Asian Pacific American Studies program, Department of Religious Studies.

Education Abroad 101 Date 2022-04-04
Time: 15:00:00 - 16:00:00
Location: Virtual

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Required Registration Link: Office for Education Abroad: Education Abroad 101 Webinar Registration



Want to study abroad and don't know where to begin? Come to an EA101 session and we'll help!



Topics covered include:




  • How the benefits of education abroad can play an important role in your future


  • What the differences are between various program types and experiences


  • How much programs cost and where you can find funding


  • What MSU has in place to keep you healthy and safe while abroad


  • Where to go next to begin searching for a program


  • At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures Date 2022-04-01
Time: 12:00:00 - 19:00:00
Location: 303 International Center

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Miriam Stark, professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures Date 2022-04-01
Time: 12:00:00 - 19:00:00
Location: 303 International Center

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Speaker: Miriam Stark, University of Hawai’I-Manoa.


Southern Cambodia contains a rich yet poorly understood record of early historic period occupation, between ca. 200 B.C. and A.D. 500. Chinese travelers to this region in the third and sixth centuries A.D. described walled and moated cities that housed rulers, elites, and artisans of fine goods such as precious metals, jewelry, and other crafts. Archaeological work at contemporary sites in Vietnam suggests that this area was a thriving economic center in the trade routes that linked India to China by way of mainland Southeast Asia.


 


In most areas of the world, the transition to history is associated with the appearance of writing. Indigenous writing system first appeared in the early seventh century A.D. in southern Cambodia. Yet foreign accounts suggest that the Mekong Delta housed some of the earliest states in mainland Southeast Asia many centuries before this time. In Cambodia, we know these polities (or states or mandalas) solely through documentary evidence. The Lower Mekong Archaeological Project is the first archaeological project to examine the establishment, growth, and decline of early historic period settlements in Cambodia's Mekong Delta. Work has concentrated in and around the archaeological site of Angkor Borei and its associated Phnom Da temples.


 


Professor Miriam Stark joined the University of Hawai’i-Manoa in August 1995 as a Southeast Asian archaeologist. She holds a B.A. (1984) from the University of Michigan, M.A. (1987) and PhD (1993) degrees from the University of Arizona. Her archaeological and ethnographic field experience involves field-based research in several locations of North America (first the Midwest, the sub-Arctic, and the American Southwest), the Near East (Israel and Turkey), and in Southeast Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia).In 1996 she began co-directing the [Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP) in southern Cambodia, and have continued work in this region over the last 12 years.


Sponsored by James Madison College, Dept. of History, and the Asian Studies Center.

Chai & Chat: Film Screening Date 2022-03-31
Time: 18:00:00 - 20:00:00
Location: International Center Room 303
Korea Date 2022-03-31
Time: 14:30:00 - 15:30:00
Location: Room 115 International Center

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Conversation hour with cultural events, for those learning Korean. Do you know Korean? Come practice Korean.



Sponsored by the Korean Program, Council on Korean Studies and the Asian Studies Center.

Education Abroad 101 Date 2022-03-28
Time: 15:00:00 - 16:00:00
Location: Virtual

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Required Registration Link: Office for Education Abroad: Education Abroad 101 Webinar Registration



Want to study abroad and don't know where to begin? Come to an EA101 session and we'll help!



Topics covered include:




  • How the benefits of education abroad can play an important role in your future


  • What the differences are between various program types and experiences


  • How much programs cost and where you can find funding


  • What MSU has in place to keep you healthy and safe while abroad


  • Where to go next to begin searching for a program


  • At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

Education Abroad 101 Date 2022-03-28
Time: 15:00:00 - 16:00:00
Location: Virtual

Read Description


Required Registration Link: Office for Education Abroad: Education Abroad 101 Webinar Registration



Want to study abroad and don't know where to begin? Come to an EA101 session and we'll help!



Topics covered include:




  • How the benefits of education abroad can play an important role in your future


  • What the differences are between various program types and experiences


  • How much programs cost and where you can find funding


  • What MSU has in place to keep you healthy and safe while abroad


  • Where to go next to begin searching for a program


  • At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

Chai & Chat: Eid Celebrations Date 2022-03-28
Time: 18:00:00 - 19:00:00
Location: International Center Room 303
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