http\://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/culturalcrossings/
Coinciding with the exhibition\, “Treasures Rediscovered\: Chinese Stone Sculptures from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University\,” to be held at the University of Virginia Art Museum (January 15–March 14\, 2010)\, “Cultural Crossings\: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period” combines an international conference with a workshop on digital projects to investigate exchanges between China and neighboring cultures during the medieval period (third–tenth centuries) from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Since its establishment in the first century of the common era\, the Silk Road was a channel for the transmission of ideas\, technologies\, and artistic forms\, with far-reaching impact that stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic. In Asia\, the transmission of religious faiths along the Silk Road—most notably Buddhism—had a profound impact on the ideas\, material culture\, and languages of the region. During this period\, Buddhism spread eastward from India via both land and maritime routes. By the end of the seventh century\, the center of the Buddhist world had shifted to China\, where Indian and Central Asian Buddhist monks gathered at the capitals of the Tang (618–907) dynasty. Diplomatic missions and pilgrim-monks from the kingdoms of Korea and Japan brought this religion and other aspects of Chinese civilization back to their own countries. The fruits of these exchanges were manifested in an increasingly uniform and international Buddhist idiom\, along with other cultural elements that still remain to be explored in depth. p>\;The “Cultural Crossings” conference intends to open new avenues for research into these complex and far-reaching exchanges by breaking down traditional national and disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together specialists of the period who are engaged in research in such diverse areas as Silk Road studies\, history\, literature\, gender\, art\, and religion of the region—and putting them into productive dialogue with one another—we hope to identify areas of common interest that can foster new approaches. Understanding of transnational exchanges in such historical contexts\, moreover\, deepens our appreciation of the modern world from a global perspective.
Taking advantage of the gathering of scholars from a wide range of disciplines at the conference\, the Institute for Advanced Technology in Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia will also host a half-day workshop (March 13) to focus on collaborative scholarship that has the potential to enhance existing related digital projects in Asian art and humanities.
Within the University of Virginia\, funding for the conference and workshop has been provided by\: Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities Grant\, East Asia Center\, Medieval Studies Program\, Page-Barbour Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant\, University of Virginia Art Museum\, and Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation Grant. Additional generous support has been provided by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, Taiwan\, and the Dharma Drum Buddhist College\, Taipei.
Conference Organizer\: Dorothy Wong\, Chinese Art History\; Co-Organizers\: Gustav Heldt\, Japanese Literature\, and Eric Ramìrez-Weaver\, Medieval Art History\; Coordinator\: Anna Kim\, PhD Candidate in Renaissance Art History\; Web-site maintenance\: Daniel Weiss\, PhD candidate in Classical Art and Archaeology\; additional administrative assistance is provided by\: Graham Odell and Margaret Bierwirth\, the East Asia Center\, and student volunteers
Contact information\: culturalcrossings [at] email [dot] virginia [dot] edu
The History DMP is a four semester program that begins in the fall of the third year with an intensive colloquium on historical methods and theory. The program culminates in the fourth year with the writing of a substantial research thesis. The topics of DMP theses are as diverse as our student’s historical interests. DMP students receive a B.A. in History with one of several levels of distinction. The department bestows special honors upon several of the top DMP theses during the graduation ceremony.
Students apply for the History DMP during the spring of their second year\, regardless of whether or not they have already declared history as their major. Applications to the program are due on Monday March 29 no later than 4\:00 pm. There are sixteen spaces available in the program\; decisions on acceptance will be announced approximately two weeks after the application deadline. Students accepted into the DMP will enroll in the DMP Colloquium (HIST 4890) for fall semester.
For further details on the History DMP and a downloadable application form\, please visit\:www.virginia.edu/history/undergraduate/dmp.
There will be an information meeting about the DMP on Wednesday\, March 17 at 4\:00 pm in Maury 115. Students interested in the DMP are encouraged to attend. If you still have unanswered questions\, please contact the DMP director\, Prof. Bradly Reed at bwr4k [at] virginia [dot] edu.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T043504Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T170000Z UID:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1598 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1598 SUMMARY:Appreciating Columbia DESCRIPTION:June Carolyn Erlick\, author of A Gringa in Bogota\, returns to a bustling metropolis and the echo of a distant rural war to talk at VFH's Festival of the Book. Talk Moderated by Tico Braun.
June Carolyn Erlick\, editor-in-chief of ReVista\, the Harvard Review of Latin America\, is the author of A Gringa in Bogota\, Living in Colombia's Invisible War and Disappeared\, A Journalist Silenced. A Fulbright Fellow in Colombia and Guatemala\, Erlick was a foreign correspondent in Latin America for 14 years.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T043504Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T203000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T150000Z UID:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1448 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1448 SUMMARY:Temma Kaplan Talk DESCRIPTION:Temma Kaplan (Department of History\, Rutgers University)
Title to be announced\: Talk on women\, water\, and environmental activism
Lecture\, Thursday\, March 18\, 3\:30-5\:00PM (Claude Moore Nursing Education Building G010)
Workshop\, Friday\, March 19\, 10-11\:30AM (Nau Hall 441 )
Professor Kaplan is the author of Anarchists of Andalusia 1868-1903 (Princeton University Press\, 1977)\; Red City\, Blue Period\: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona (University of California Press\, 1992\; pb 1993)\; Crazy for Democracy\: Women's Grassroots Movements (Routledge\, 1997)\; Taking Back the Streets\: Women\, Youth\, and Direct Democracy (University of California Press\, 2004).
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T043504Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100318T230000Z UID:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1623 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1623 SUMMARY:Social Justice\: The Power of Individuals DESCRIPTION:Social Justice\: The Power of Individuals
Bob Zellner (The Wrong Side of Murder Creek) and Paul Gaston (Coming of Age in Utopia) discuss how they came to challenge racial injustice as white southerners during the civil rights movement.
Hosted by Virginia Organizing Project.
Moderated by\:
Angela M. Davis
Location\:
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street
(434)970-3113
Venue Details
The Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the American Academy of Diplomacy are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on\:
Stability &\; Reconstruction - The Jeffersonian Diplomatic Tradition and Contemporary Security\:
Lessons Learned from Afghanistan
Saturday\, March 20\, 2010
8\:30 a.m. - 12\:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public\, pre-registration required
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
Charlottesville\, VA
Introductory Remarks
James Sofka
Strategy\, Diplomacy &\; Power in the Foreign Policy of Thomas Jefferson
Lecturer\, Federal Executive Institute &\; American Military University
Panelists
Ambassador Thomas Boyatt
former Ambassador to Colombia and Burkina Faso\,
Chair of the American Academy of Diplomacy's Foreign Affairs Budget Project
Ambassador James Dobbins
Director\, International Security and Defense Policy Center\, RAND Corporation
Ambassador Robert Hunter
former Ambassador to NATO and Senior Advisor\, RAND Corporation
Andrew O'Shaughnessy
Saunders Director\, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
James Sofka
Lecturer\, Federal Executive Institute &\; American Military University
Moderator
Ambassador Ronald Neumann
President\, American Academy of Diplomacy\,
former Ambassador to Afghanistan\, Bahrain and Algeria
Where\:
Jefferson Library\, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
Directions to the Jefferson Library
RSVP to\: jhairfield [at] monticello [dot] org (Joan Hairfield)
From Granada through Afghanistan to Iraq\, the U.S. has repeatedly entered countries militarily only to find that getting out required substantial civilian effort on the ground and in international diplomacy. Each time\, the United States had to \\"reinvent the wheel\,\\" and after each event\, lessons were lost rather than learned. The American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies will host a panel discussion by experienced diplomats and scholars to present the recommendations of two significant reports\: \\"Integrating Instruments of Power and Influence\: Lessons Learned and Best Practices\,\\" which focuses on improving interagency coordination\, and \\"Foreign Affairs Budget of the Future\: Fixing the Crisis in Diplomatic Readiness\,\\" (FAB) which focuses on the need for a more robust diplomatic corps. Those recommendations have immense implications for reconstruction and stabilization efforts\, in light of the recent focus on military involvement in Afghanistan. The panelists in this discussion will discuss the historic and critical role diplomacy plays in reconstruction and stabilization and in promoting America's national security.
About the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies\:
The dual purpose of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies is research and education -- to foster Jefferson scholarship and to disseminate its findings. The activities of the Center are diverse and multidisciplinary. It is a residential site for individual Jefferson scholars and teachers\, as well as a venue for lectures\, seminars\, and conferences. The Center seeks a central role in the ongoing study of Thomas Jefferson internationally by supporting a wide range of inquiry\; by building a network of scholars\, teachers\, and resources\; by helping to define new areas of investigation\; and by promoting the application of new technologies to Jefferson scholarship. An Advisory Board of acclaimed scholars and statesmen helps guide the Center's activities.
About the American Academy of Diplomacy\:
The Academy was founded in 1983 by Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker\, U. Alexis Johnson\, and John J. McCloy to explore ways in which persons who had served in positions of major responsibility could cooperate to promote the highest standards in the practice of American diplomacy. Today\, the Academy is dedicated to strengthening the resources and tools America brings to managing its diplomatic challenges\, and accomplishes this through targeted outreach programs\, distinguished awards\, scholarships and writing competitions\, and robust\, practical\, research-based publications. Through these activities\, the Academy promotes an understanding of the importance of diplomacy to serving our nation and enhancing America's standing in the world.
Laurent Dubois (Departments of French and History\, Duke University)
The Aftershocks of History in Haiti
Rescheduled from Friday\, February 5
Workshop\, 10\:00-11\:30AM (Nau Hall 441)
Lecture\, 2-3\:30PM (Claude Moore Nursing Education Building\, G-120)
Attached is a text by Laurent Dubois for the workshop with graduate students next week. It is drawn from his new project on the history of the banjo from Africa to the Caribbean. Please note that the topic of Dubois's lecture has been changed. he will now place the earthquake in the context of the history Haiti (with promise of mention of US Policy and Jefferson). Following the talk there will be an informal roundtable for all students and faculty about organizing aid for Haiti. This will be at 4PM or 4\:30 PM and will be organized by Yari Bonilla of Religious Studies. Details forthcoming.
Professor Dubois is the author of Soccer Empire\: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press\, forthcoming)\, with John Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean\, 1789-1804\: A Brief History With Documents ( Bedford Press)\, Avengers of the New World\: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press\, 2004). A Colony of Citizens\: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean\, 1787-1804.
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The History DMP is a four semester program that begins in the fall of the third year with an intensive colloquium on historical methods and theory. The program culminates in the fourth year with the writing of a substantial research thesis. The topics of DMP theses are as diverse as our student’s historical interests. DMP students receive a B.A. in History with one of several levels of distinction. The department bestows special honors upon several of the top DMP theses during the graduation ceremony.
Students apply for the History DMP during the spring of their second year\, regardless of whether or not they have already declared history as their major. Applications to the program are due on Monday March 29 no later than 4\:00 pm. There are sixteen spaces available in the program\; decisions on acceptance will be announced approximately two weeks after the application deadline. Students accepted into the DMP will enroll in the DMP Colloquium (HIST 4890) for fall semester.
For further details on the History DMP and a downloadable application form\, please visit\:www.virginia.edu/history/undergraduate/dmp.
There will be an information meeting about the DMP on Wednesday\, March 17 at 4\:00 pm in Maury 115. Students interested in the DMP are encouraged to attend. If you still have unanswered questions\, please contact the DMP director\, Prof. Bradly Reed at bwr4k [at] virginia [dot] edu.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T043504Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T203000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T203000Z UID:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1638 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/1638 SUMMARY:William Hitchcock Talk DESCRIPTION:Please mark your calendars for William Hitchcock's talk\, \\"Human Rights\, The Geneva Conventions\, and the Challenge of Transnational History.\\" \;We will meet in Clark 107 at 3\:30-5\:00 this Wednesday\, March 31. \;A reception will follow.
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