• THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND THE EAST ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM will present The William A. Kinnison Endowed Lecture in History at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, Weaver Chapel. The Wittenberg Series event will feature John W. Dower, Ford International Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will give a talk titled "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and 9/11." Read more ...
• DIGGING ALONG ANCIENT TRAILS OF THE SILK ROAD," will be discussed by Wang Binghua, former director of the Xinjiang Institute of Archeology
(China) and one of the foremost world experts on the ancient peoples and settlements of western China at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 153, Kissell Auditorium, Koch Hall. The art, history and sociology departments, along with the East Asian and Global Studies programs, the Faculty Endowment and Freeman Foundation are co-sponsoring the presentation.
• "RETHINKING NAZISM AND RELIGION -- 'POSITIVE CHRISTIANITY BEFORE 1933'" is the title of a presentation given by Associate Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Department at Kent State University Richard Steigmann-Gall from 12:30-2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, Ness Family Auditorium, Hollenbeck Hall.
• (M)OTHERS OF THE NATION: Body Politics or Poetics, Statehood vs.
Subjecthood" will be presented by Simone James Alexander, author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women and associate professor of Africana and Diaspora Studies at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, Ness Family Auditorium, Hollenbeck Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Africana Studies program with support from Multicultural Student Programs and Women's Studies.
