UB College of Arts and Sciences
Asia@Noon, Brown Bag Symposia

Asia at Noon is a series of brown-bag lunch presentations normally held in 280 Park Hall on the north campus of the University at Buffalo various Fridays throughout the semester, from 12:00-1:00 pm. The presenter usually speaks for about 30 minutes, with the rest of the time devoted to Q&A and discussion. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and people from the Buffalo community are invited and encouraged to attend.

 

Spring 2013 Speakers (click titles to view pdf posters for each talk)

 

January 25
February 15

February 22

 

Art Futures: Visual Cityscapes in Seoul, South Korea

Hope Childers, Assistant Professor of Art History, Alfred University

 

March 1

 

April 17, 1975, The Annihilation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Revolutionary Theory and Urban Genocide

Ernest Sternberg, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UB

 

March 29

The Asian Miracle and the Asian Model

Kevin G. Cai, Associate Professor of Political Science and East Asian Studies, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

April 5

 

The Status of People with Disabilities in Mumbai

Sandhya Limaye, Fulbright Fellow, UB, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Center for Disability Studies and Action, School of Social Work, Tata Institue of Social Sciences, India

 

April 12

 

To view/print a pdf of this semester's Asia @ Noon schedule, click here.