EVENTS 2007 - 2008

THE ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM SPONSORS AND
CO-SPONSORS VARIOUS EVENTS EACH YEAR. 

• Title:   Spirit and Struggle: The Question of Tibet
  Date:   Wed. September 19, 2007  7:00 - 8:00 PM
  Location:  Skidmore College Campus   Tish Learning Ctr.201
  A lecture and discussion with Dr. R. Linrothe,  Professor of Art History at Skidmore College.
                       Sponsored by Asian Studies

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• Title:   Empower Dalit Women of Nepal
  Date: Wed. October 3, 2007   8:00 - 9:30 PM
  Location: Skidmore College Campus, Davis Auditorium
  Speaker: Bishnu Pariya, a DALIT woman from Nepal and founder of the human rights organization Empower Dalit Women of Nepal.
  For more information contact: http://www.edwon.org/newsevents2.htm

Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the Women's Sudies Program.

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• Title:  Indian Dance Lecture/Demonstration with Shila Mehta
  Date:  October 31, 2007      7:00 PM
  Location:  Dance Theater

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• Title:  Lunar New Year Lion Dance
  Date:  Feb. 2008
  Co-sponsored with SGA Asian Cultural Awareness

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• Title:  Lecture by Sarah Fraser
  Date:  3/17/08
  Co-sponsored with Art History Dept.

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• Title:  Lecture by Beau Sia
  Date: 3/27/08
  Co-sponosred with  SGA Asian Cultural Awareness
  

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• Title: Field Trip to Japanese Animanation Convention in Boston
  Date: 3/28/08

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• Title:  Lecture by Eliot Chang
  Date: 3/31/08
  Co-sponsor with SGA Asian Cultural Awareness

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• Title: Lecture by Ikumi Kaminishi
  Date: 4/2/08
  Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History

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• Title:  Lecture by Dr. Steven Hopkins
  Date:  Thursday, April 10, 2008
  Location:  Palamountain Hall,  Emerson Auditorium     6:00 - 7:00 PM
  Lecturer:  Dr. Steven P. Hopkins, Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College will give a lecture entitled "Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament, Marking Emotion in a Messenger Poem of Medieval South India"