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Asian Studies Events

Posted by jdudek on April 2, 2007 in Academic Presentations

The exhibit, “Thoroughly Modern Meiko,” can be viewed through April 30 in the Special Collection room, 420 Capen Hall, M-F 9:00-5:00 p.m.  Take the elevator up from the Undergraduate Library.  The exhibit chronicles the life of Muriel Orr-Ewing (nicknamed “Meiko”), the mother of Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Dr. Peter Boyd-Bowman, who lived in Japan in the 1920s. 

There will be two sessions of Asia at Noon in April:
April 6.  Robert G. Kane, Niagara University: “The Twenty-One Demands
(1915) as Politics and History.”
April 20.  A panel of UB Sinologist faculty.  “Chinese Identity: Is There a Unique Chinese Way of Thinking and Acting?”