2017 News & Events

UBC's Sharalyn Orbaugh Presented 'What’s Queer about Postwar Manga?' Oct. 24, 2017

Poster for What’s Queer about Postwar Manga? Links to pdf version

Western Today Press Release: https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news/ubcs-sharalyn-orbaugh-to-present-what-s-queer-about-postwar-manga-oct-24open_in_new

Guest Lecturer: Professor Constantine Vaporis (University of Maryland)

Professor Constantine Vaporis

Professor Constantine Vaporis (University of Maryland) delivered the following two lectures:

March 6, 2017

"Writing the History of the Samurai--Issues and Challenges" 

and

March 7, 2017

"Performance, Display, and the Spectacular. The 'Great Peace' and Samurai Culture in Tokugawa Japan"

See his bio here.

Bayartuul Batjav discussed the history of Mongolian writing May 31, 2017

Poster for the history of Mongolian writing.