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:

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


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  What the differences are between various program types and experiences


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  How much programs cost and where you can find funding


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


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  Where to go next to begin searching for a program


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

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

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.