Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori was one of six invited presenters at the Kinema Club XII held at Yale University on April 13. In her paper, “Usher Unsilenced: Tokugawa Musei, Benshi Performance, and Modernist Adaptation,” Omori sought to shed light on the trans-mediatic underpinnings of Japanese popular modernism.

Lawrence Chua, postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies, recently presented a paper at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Buffalo and at the Association of Asian Studies conference in San Diego.

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann gave a paper titled “Strategic Minerals and Great Power Rivalry” at the International Studies Association annual conference in San Francisco on April 4.  In the paper, Lehmann examined the relationship between strategic minerals, including rare earth elements and oil, and great power strategic relations.

Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Africana Studies Donald Carter and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill co-authored the foreword to Geographies of Privilege (Routledge, 2013), edited by France Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener.

Associate Professor of Biology Mike McCormick co-organized a symposium on “Carbon Dynamics and the Biogeochemical Cycling of Major and Minor Elements” at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society held April 7-11 in New Orleans.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar presented a paper at a workshop titled “Local Domains/Translocal Claims: New Histories of the ‘Local’ in South Asia” organized by the South Asia Studies department, University of Pennsylvania, on April 12.

A proposal from Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi to make digital copies of the 19th- and early 20th-century Gujarati women’s journals Stri bodh (1857-1944) and Sundari subodh (1904-1921) was funded at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper at the International Studies Association annual convention in San Francisco on April 6. He gave a paper titled “The Crisis and the German Question,” and also participated on a roundtable on “The Crisis of the Greek State.”

Professor of History Shoshana Keller presented a paper at the combined British and International Slavic and East European Studies conference, held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, April 5-8.

An article by Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Patricia O’Neill on Bollywood titled “Imagining Global India: Bollywood’s Transnational Appeal,” has just been published by Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Vol 27. No. 2).