“The World at the End of the World: Colonial and Counter-Colonial Fantasies of Outer Space” A lecture by philosopher of science and religion Mary Jane Rubenstein, author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (2022).
“Make Your Home Among Strangers” – A Reading and Conversation with Jennine Capó Crucet Award-winning author Jennine Capó Crucet will read from her critically acclaimed novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, which explores the intersections of class, ethnicity, geography, and education by focusing on the experiences of a first-generation college student from Miami adjusting to a predominantly white college in New York. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.
"The Shape of Japan: Japan's Controversial Territorial Claims Against China, Taiwan, Russia, and the Koreas," by Professor Alexis Dudden On the one hand there is nothing unusual about Japan’s territorial claims: they are a piece of an aspirational foreign and domestic vision for the nation’s future. On the other hand, Tokyo’s claims to three small islands that it disputes with its neighboring countries speaks to a challenge of a more complicated nature, and one that it is important for Washington’s policy planners not simply to brush away if only because it directly impacts American security assurances to Japan.