3:30 p.m.
This talk will discuss the interesting trends in literature and music in India from the late 1980s onwards.
3:30 p.m.
This talk considers the Filipino English teacher as a critical figure in the U.S.-Philippine program for refugee rehabilitation.
5 p.m.
This lecture examines how representations of Vietnamese refugee families show not simply the lived experiences of war, but the day to day experiences of racism and marginalization
3:30 p.m.
Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues are contested.
5 p.m.
A simple musical instrument of the Alpine shepherds, the alphorn became a source of fascination for travelers in the 19th century.
6:30 p.m.
Join experimental psychologist Steven Pinker for an enlightening conversation about rationality and the importance of using critical thinking, logic, and causation and correlation as it relates to modern society.
Registration opens March 13, 2024.
6:30 p.m.
This lecture introduces the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850.
3:30 p.m.
Ambassador Mike Michalak will explain ASEAN and why it is an increasingly important partner for US economics and trade, as well as for the growth of the Indo-Pacific region.
Noon
Associate Professor Mahelet Fikru from the Missouri University of Science and Technology speaks on the 鈥淓conomic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador.鈥�
6 p.m.
Join Jennifer Greenhill at the University of Arkansas, for her lecture Imagination Made Material: The Commercial Infrastructures of Lejaren 脿 Hiller and Douglas Leigh.