Please join us on Thursday, May 16 for Hala Auji’s dissertation defense. Her dissertation is entitled “BETWEEN SCRIPT AND PRINT: EXPLORING PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN SYRIA MISSION AND THE NASCENT PRESS IN THE ARAB WORLD, 1834-1860.” Chaired by Nancy Um, the committee also includes Professors Tom McDonough, Karen Barzman, and Fa-ti Fan (outside examiner). The defense is open to the public and will take place from 10:00-12:00 p.m. in FA 218.
Month: May 2013
Graduate Student Activities: Young-Sin Park at the Center for Korean Studies
Doctoral student Young-Sin Park will present a paper, titled “The Chosŏn Industrial Exposition of 1915,” at the last Center for Korean Studies Colloquium for the spring semester. The talk will take place next Friday, May 10, at 5pm in the AAAS Conference Room. The presentation will be in Korean. For more information, follow the link.
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Undergraduate activities: UAHA campus architectural tour with Julia Walker, TODAY
Faculty Activities: Nancy Um at the Getty Center
This Saturday, Associate Professor Nancy Um will present a paper at Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World, a symposium cosponsored by the Getty Research Institute and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute that examines the circulation of objects across regions and cultures in the early modern period (1500–1800), addressing the ways in which mobility led to new meanings, uses, and interpretations. Her paper is titled “Chairs, Writing Tables, and Chests: On the Postures of Commercial Documentation in the Early Modern Indian Ocean.”
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