• THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM will hold "Women and War! a Multicultural Tea with the Feminists" from 4:30-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Bayley Alumni House.
• AN EAST ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM colloquium will feature Melinda Barnhardt Jud '65, independent scholar, at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 15, Ness Family Auditorium. Jud's talk is titled "A Gate in the Wall: The Memories of a Dutch East Indies Family, 1942-45 in Current Japanese Media and Society."
• THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT will present a colloquium with Pulitzer Prize winner and Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, Ness Family Auditorium.
• THE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT will present a colloquium with Professor and Deputy Dean of the School of International Affairs and Public Policy Wu Xinbo, Fudan University, Shanghai, and visiting fellow, United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, Kissell Auditorium. Xinbo will give a talk titled "A Rising and Changing China: Implications for Sino-U.S. Relations."
• THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT will present Kimberly Thompson Macuare, visiting instructor of English, in a colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 29, 131 Hollenbeck Hall. Macuare will give a talk titled "Laughing at and Laughing With Merchants," The Middle English Octavian.
• THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY will present Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Ed Beardsley, University of South Carolina, at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, March 29, Ness Family Auditorium. Beardsley's talk is titled "Franklin D. Roosevelt vs. The Great Depression.
• EAST ASIAN STUDIES will present Stan Mickel, professor of Chinese language and literature, in a colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 29, Bayley Auditorium. The title of Mickel's talk is "Concepts of Disaster in Ancient Chinese Oracle Bone Inscriptions."
