01/31/07
Asia at Noon brown bags for Spring 2007
Posted by Jessica on January 31, 2007 in Academic Presentations
Asia at Noon brown bags for Spring 2007
Selected Fridays (except for Thursday, March 1) in Park 280
Asia at Noon is a series of brown-bag lunch gatherings at the University at Buffalo, sponsored by the Asian Studies Program. They are usually scheduled for a Friday at 12 noon, and dismiss promptly at 1:00. The presenter usually takes about 20 minutes, and the rest of the time is devoted to question and answer and discussion. The audience is comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, interested faculty, and folk from the Buffalo community.
Friday, February 2. Niharika Banerjea, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology.
“Poor Women’s Mobilization and Participatory Practices in Kolkata, India: A
Critical Review”
Friday, February 16. Robert Dentan, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus.
“From Savages to Serfs: How Malaysia Schools its Aborigines”
Thursday, March 1. Takashi Nishiyama, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY/Brockport
“The Kamikazation of War, 1944-45: What Engineers Did and Why They Did It”
Friday, March 23. Ryushin Marchaj, teacher, Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper NY.
“Enlightenment Comes from Within”
Friday, April 6. Robert G. Kane, Assistant Professor of History, Niagara University
“The Twenty-One Demands (1915) as Politics and History”
Friday, April 20. Panel of UB Sinologist faculty
