Event Archive

The Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program (FINIP), funded by the Freeman Foundation, aims to develop student leaders and strengthen the nonprofit sector in Indonesia. IIE will select and pair 10 Indonesian students pursuing U.S. degrees with 10 U.S. undergraduates and arrange internships for them to work together in an Indonesian nonprofit organization. The Summer 2010 application deadline is February 15, 2010.

Texas A&M University and the City of College Station are spearheading the organization of this community-wide festival. The event aims to promote and celebrate the international diversity and heritage of the Brazos Valley.

The China-U.S. Relations Conference: Development, Energy, and Security is scheduled for October 21-23, 2009. The conference will be held in Beijing, China at the Beijing Hotel.

Come and learn about the different cultural celebrations of the Middle East. Sample traditional foods and listen to live traditional music. There will also be activities for kids, henna painting, and Arabic calligraphy

The Gilman Scholarship offers up to $5,000 for U.S. citizen undergraduate students receiving a federal pell grant to study abroad anywhere in the world. An additional $3,000 is available for study of critical need languages.

Sardar Patel Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India in 2009

Moss lecture featuring Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki on Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:00 PM at George Bush Presidential Library Orientation Theater. Please RSVP to: siia@bushschool.tamu.edu by Wednesday, September 30, 2009.

The Confucius Institute and Chinese Students and Scholars Association are organizing the China Week in Aggieland. The weeklong event starts on the 29th of September and runs till the 3rd of October. The event will showcase a potpourri of Chinese cultural events.

Chang’an (modern Xi’an) was the capital of the Western Han in the second and first centuries B.C.E. and of the Sui and Tang dynasties, from the end of the sixth to the beginning of the tenth century C.E. In the Tang it was the largest city in the world, and its urban topography is well-known, both from archeology and from the textual record. In this lecture Dr Owen will talk about the Tang city and contemporary responses to it. Stephen Owen, whose specialty is Tang dynasty poetry and Chinese literature and poetry in general, is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. This lecture is a part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture series.

Continuing with the huge success from last Spring, Community Chinese class is back to offer free Mandarin Chinese tutorial for residents of the BCS area. Interested Sinophiles who couldn't make it to the class this semester are encouraged to download the study material.

The India Association cordially invites you to attend their celebration of Indian Independence Day on August 15, 2009, at Rudder 301, 10 am.

This program is open to scholars in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences who have received a Ph.D. or its equivalent by the time of application.

The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) International Steering Committee is seeking to select 6 aspiring researchers as PAFTAD Fellows to present papers on themes related to Asia Pacific trade and economic development. The 2009 Fellowships will take young scholars to Taipei where they will be presenting their research on October 5, 2009.

The Fifth Annual 21st Century China Symposium will be held at the University of Hawaii, Manoa from July 17 to July 19, 2009. This year's theme is "Incresing Trust in China-US Relations".