| SEPTEMBER
26, 7:00 P.M.
 The
Cost of National Unity: Lessons for Now from Japanese History
Jane Marie Law, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions and Ritual
Studies, H. Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions, and Director
of the Religious Studies Program, Cornell University. Author of
Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese
Awaji ningy - o Tradition. Office of Multicultural Affairs Unity
Speaker.
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
OCTOBER
9, 7:00 P.M.
 Religion
and Nationalism
Henry Munson Jr., Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University
of Maine. Author of Islam and Revolution in the Middle East.
Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall
NOVEMBER
7, 7:00 P.M.
 Civilizational
Thinking and Modernity: Crisis of Cultural Narratives in Islamic
Societies
Ali Mirsepassi, Professor and Associate Dean, Gallatin School
of Individualized Study, New York University.
Author of Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization:
Negotiating Modernity in Iran.
Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall |
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Cinema
on the Edge
Film and Video Screenings
Park Hall Auditorium
September 24, 5:30 p.m.
Sansho Dayu
Directed
by Kenji Mizoguchi
September 30,
7:00 p.m.
Two Screenings cosponsored by Hillel and the Jewish studies program
- Mah-Jongg:
The Tiles That Bind
Produced
and directed by Bari Pearlman and Phyllis Heller
- The Jew in the
Lotus
Produced and
directed by Laurel Chiten
November 5,
5:30 p.m.
Landscape
in the Mist
Directed by Theo
Angelopolous
Cosponsored
by the Office of International Programs, Phi Beta Delta, and the
International Club
All screenings
will be followed by panel discussions moderated by Gina Marchetti,
associate professor of cinema and photography.
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