Student & Alumni Notes
Alex Eble (EALC, senior) has been accepted to read for a master’s degree in “Development Studies” at the London School of Economics beginning October 1st, 2005.
David Nelson (History, Ph.D. candidate) presented a paper related to his dissertation research to the Rikkyo University Institute for Japanese Studies 20th Meeting, on January 14, 2005. The title of the paper was “Admonitions for Town Magistrates: Sengoku Sources of Justification for Early Modern Samurai Rule in Kanazawa.” This paper will be published in their journal in March.
Patsy Rahn (EALC, M.A. student) will be presenting a paper in Tokyo this March at the World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion. She will participate in the panel: “Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets, and Culture Wars,” and her paper is titled: “China: Crisis, Identity, and Proselytization.”
Jeeyoung Shin (CMCL, Ph.D. candidate, minor EALC) presented a paper “Globalization and New Korean Cinema” at the colloquium at the Department of Communication and Culture, Oct 15, 2004.
Michael Stanley-Baker will be presenting a talk about the Daoist use of herbs in early medieval China at the University of Pittsburgh’s Asian Studies Center of on the 10th. He is an associate at the Asian Studies Center for this academic year.
