Rescheduled Event - Art Matsu Distinguished Lecture with Professor Gary Okihiro

Starts: March 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Location: Sadler Center Commonwealth Auditorium
Contact: [[hxkita]]

Summary

Professor Gary Okihiro (Columbia University) will deliver this year's Matsu Lecture, titled "Okinawan Studies and Its Interventions".

Full Description

Professor Gary Okihiro is the speaker for this year's Art Matsu Distinguished Lecture, founded in honor of Art Matsu '28, one of our very first Asian American graduates from William and Mary and a pioneering football player.  Professor Okihiro is Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.  His expertise concerns Asian American studies and southern Africa.  Since earning his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976, he has authored a number of books, articles, essay that explore "Asia" broadly.  He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.  Currently, he is at work on the third volume of a trilogy (all from University of California Press) that upends conventional notions of history, space, and time in the study of a wider "Asia."  The first two books are Island World: A History of Hawai`i and the United States (2008) and Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones (2009).  His Matsu Lecture will be based on the forthcoming third and final volume of this trilogy.

This event is open to the public.  Co-sponsored by Asian Studies Initiative, East Asian Studies, American Studies, and Reves Center for International Studies.