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Upcoming Events

Japan – Two Years after the 3/11 Earthquake and Tsunami

Friday, April 5, 2013 –  2 – 7 pm

Lee Hall 412

2:00 – 3:00

Aftershocks: Political and Social Reverberations of Fukushima and other Recent Earthquakes in Japan

 presented by Prof. Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus, Brown University

3:00 – 4:00

 Sichuan 2008, Fukushima 3/11 and Sino-Japanese Relations

presented by Susan Fernsebner, Professor of History, University of Mary Washington

4:00 – 5:00

Live Performance of Traditional Japanese Koto Music

by Miyuki Yoshikami

5:00 – 6:30

Live Your Dream

Documentary Film by Regge Life centering on the life of Virginia native Taylor Anderson, one of the two Americans to die in the tsunami at Fukushima, where she taught English after graduating from Randolph-Macon College. The film features interviews of local residents, including her students, and of her family who describe her lifelong interest in Japan and her adjustments–sometimes humorous–to living there.

An Afternoon with Indian Documentary Filmmaker
Pankaj Rishi Kumar

In God’s Land

followed by

Punches and Ponytails 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Trinkle 210   –   4:00 p.m 

See more at the film websites for In God’s Land and Punches and Ponytails
co-sponsored by the Dept. of Political Science