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| Led by SIIS director Coit
("Chip") Blacker and Engineering professor Elisabeth
Paté-Cornell, the initiative seeks to encourage multi-disciplinary
approaches to international issues. It will focus on three broad
themes: peace and security, governance, and human health and
well being. |
| The development of international
studies is one target of a larger university endowment campaign
that also seeks new funding for the biosciences, environmental
studies, and the arts. |
| For more on this story, see
the May 4 issue of Stanford Report. |
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SPRING
LECTURES ON CAMPUS |
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| Buddha's birth
stories |
| On April 26, Michael Hahn,
of Marburg University, delivered a lecture entitled "Through
Action to Moral Perfection: The Ethics of the Buddhist Jatakas." |
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| Hahn, a visiting professor
at Berkeley this spring, is the author of The Poetic and Didactic
Literatures of Indian Buddhism (1999) and other works on Buddhist
Sanskrit literature. |
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| The lecture was the last in this year's
Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium, organized jointly
by the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies and Berkeley's Group
in Buddhist Studies. |
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| "Confucian Humanism and
the Debate on the 'Public Intellectual' in Cultural China"
was the topic of a May 9 lecture by noted Confucian scholar Tu
Weiming. |
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| Professor of Chinese History
and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies at Harvard University,
Tu is the author of Confucian Spirituality (2002) and many
other works on the Confucian tradition. |
| The lecture was offered through the spring
China Brown Bag series, sponsored by the Center for East Asian
Studies (CEAS) and the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). |
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University programs get
new leadership |
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APARC and Iranian
Studies |
| Stanford's Asia-Pacific Research
Center (APARC) and Iranian Studies Program have both appointed
new faculty directors. |
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| Replacing Andrew Walder at
APARC, a unit of the Stanford Institute for International Studies
(SIIS), will be Gi-Wook Shin (Sociology), a senior fellow of
SIIS and chair of APARC's Korean Studies Program. Formerly head of Korean studies at UCLA, Shin is
the author of Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial
Korea (1997), Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999),
and other works on contemporary Korea. |
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Appointed as first director
of Iranian Studies, a new program in the School of Humanities
and Sciences, is Abbas Milani, a research fellow of the Hoover
Institution and visiting professor of Political Science. Formerly
on the faculty of Tehran University, he is the author of The
Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian
Revolution (2000), Modernity and Its Foes in Iran
(1998), and other works on Iranian cultural and political issues. |
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