So, You Want to Be a Doctor, Dentist, Vet, Chiropractor, Optometrist or Podiatrist?
Offered multiple and dates at multiple times. Please go to http://www.prehealth.buffalo.edu/workshops/index.php#wanttobe
A Life and Learning Workshop - sign up online. If you are JUST BEGINNING to explore these health professions, come to this workshop to learn what you can be doing NOW to prepare! Learn how you can improve your chances for admission to these professional health schools by knowing the prerequisite courses, information about clinical experiences, recommendation letters and admissions’ tests. Time will be reserved for questions.
Upcoming dates:
TODAY Thurs., Sept 27 2:00 - 2:50 p.m. Room 145A Student Union
Tues., October 9 1:00 - 1:50 p.m. Room 145A Student Union
Wed., October 17 2:00 - 2:50 p.m. Room 145A Student Union
ASIA AT NOON, Friday, September 7 12:00-1:00 pm. Park 280.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Assistant Professor of Sociology.
“Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life”
Scholars stress that religion was vital for the civic integration of earlier European immigrants.
However, studies of our nation’s newest immigrants largely focus only on how religion serves the immigrant community — for example, by creating job networks. Ecklund’s new book widens the inquiry to look at how Korean Americans use religion to negotiate civic responsibility, as well as to create racial and ethnic identity. The civic life of second-generation Korean Americans is increasingly significant, as they are a growing part of the politically influential American evangelical movement.
Coffee, tea, and other refreshments provided. You are welcome to bring your lunch.
Sept. 21, Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm. Asia at Noon. Michael Lazich, Associate Professor of History,
Buffalo State. “American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth Century China.” Park 280.
Sept 25, Tuesday, 7:00 pm. Screening and discussion of Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff.
Market Arcade Film & Arts Center.
Oct. 1. Deadline for advance registration for NYCAS 2007 at Binghamton University, October 26-27.
The theme of the conference is “Decentering Asia.”
Oct. 5, Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm. Asia at Noon. Jennifer Gaynor, Assistant Professor of History.
“Narrative Transformation and Sama Social Memory.” 1004 Clemens Hall
Oct. 9, Tuesday, 7:00 pm. Screening and discussion of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru. Market Arcade Film & Arts Center.
Oct. 19, Friday 12:00-1:00 pm. Asia at Noon. Craig Preston, Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies. “The Nirvana Track: Becoming a Top Scholar in Tibet.” Park 280.
Dr. Robert Daly, Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of English will be hosting a Thesis Writing workshop on Friday, October 12th, at 3:00p.m. in 212 Talbert Hall. All Honors students are welcome. It is useful for students in all phases of the writing process (even those of you who haven’t begun!) Please e-mail Karyn St. George at kcs9@buffalo.edu if you plan on attending.
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?”
Posted by Nigel Marriner on February 7, 2007 in Academic Presentations
Mountain Language and The Sniper
Mountain Language is written by Nobel Prize winning playwright, Harold Pinter. Set in a military prison in an unnamed country and time, the play deals with the oppression of the “mountain people” by a military state in which they have lost all individual rights. The mountain language is forbidden, while the oppressors use the “language of the Capital” as a violent tool.
Read more about Mountain Language http://www.crimesofwar.org/cultural/pinter01.html .
The Sniper is a new play by Anthony David and Elaine Romero. This will be the second production ever! The play is set in a bar in Tel Aviv, where an Israeli sniper confronts his girlfriend, a journalist, over a dangerous article she has published.
Shows are on Thursday, February 15, 2007 and Friday, February 16, 2007 @ 7:30 in UB’s Katharine Cornell Theatre — in the Ellicott Complex. Tickets are $5 at the door. Running time: about 45 minutes.
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
