The first chapters in the narrative of Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world are dotted with some significant question marks. Nevertheless, it is commonly agreed that it was India that played a particularly important role as the conduit for diffusing the Islamic belief and ideas to the Malay-Indonesian world. It was only in the eighteenth century that the Middle East began to play a prominent role in the narrative of Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world.

Muriel Zhou, Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education

Dr. V. Page Fortna

-Contrary to the conventional wisdom, terrorism is not a weapon of the weak, nor is it effective.

-Civil wars involving terrorism are harder to end.

-Terrorists do not win.

Jennifer Dobbs's debut collection, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007), received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motten Book Award, and her chapbook, Song of a Mirror, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. She was also awarded a 2010 literature translation grant with Young Shil Cho from The Daesan Foundation of Korea.

Panel presenters include:

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Asst. Prof. of English, St Olaf College--'Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Overseas Korean Adoptee and Unwed Mother Advocacy'

Eleana Kim, Asst. Prof. Anthropology, University of Rochester--'The Dry Eye of Adoption Politics: Testimony, Social Justice, and Representation Among Transnational Korean Adoptees'