Are you interested in working in Asia? Planning what to do after graduation? Do you want to gain valuable international teaching and working experience? If your answer is YES! come learn more about Peace Corps volunteer work in Asia OR teaching in Japan as part of the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Program, as well as opportunities in other parts of Asia! You'll meet past program representatives and will hear about their experiences, how to apply, what kinds of applicants each program is looking for, and you can ask whatever questions are on your mind! Free and open to the public.

This lecture, delivered by Seung-Hwan Shin of the Department of English & Film Studies Program, will discuss how the western, which once seemed obsolete, came back to life in Asia today and revived interests in old Asian westerns from the 1960s and 1970s as well. Why? How could the nostalgia for a historically/culturally inexperienced West be widely accepted as intelligible and enjoyable in the East? This discussion aims to elucidate the difference/repetition dynamic at work in their nostalgia for imagined histories.

A lecture by Cecile Chu-Chin Sun of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, as part of the Asia Over Lunch series.

This session will provide useful information for Japanese-English bilingual students who are interested in working for Japanese companies.

A presentation by Sumie Okazaki, Ph.D. as part of the Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2010 Speaker Series.

Dr. Okazaki is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Dr. Okazaki conducts research on impact of immigration, community contexts, individual differences, and racial minority status on mental health of Asian American individuals and families.

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

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.

A film showing of Raga Unveiled, a documentary that celebrates the artistry and origins of North Indian classical music. Discussion with Producer/Director Gita Desai to follow.

www.ragaunveiled.com/index.html

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'