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U.S. ambassador to Mongolia visits WWU
3.5.10
Feature
chss | CIS | dignitaries | East Asian Studies | international | Mongolian Studies

Jonathan Addleton, the U.S. ambassador to Mongolia, visited Western’s campus on Thursday, March 4. He met with Western faculty, staff and students and toured the campus.

“We were pleased to welcome Ambassador Addleton to the Western campus and to share with him some of the innovative teaching and research activities taking place here in International Studies generally and with specific regard to Mongolia,” said Doug Nord, director of Western’s Center for International Studies.
Author to examine Vermeer's Dutch art and its relation to the global world
1.20.10
In the spotlight
chss | East Asian Studies | Liberal Studies | mcl | On-campus events

Timothy Brook, a professor in the department of history at the University of British Columbia, will draw from his recent book “Vermeer’s Hat” to discuss 17th century Dutch art and its connection to China and the expanding global world in an upcoming presentation on the Western Washington University campus. Brook will give his lecture “Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century: A China Connection?” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Communications Facility Room 115.
Baylor University professor to present lecture on the Renaissance and Japanese art
9.25.09
Campus news
art | East Asian Studies | International Studies | presentation

The Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for International Studies will present "Kuniyoshi's Faces: Ukiyo-e and the Renaissance," a presentation by Piergiacomo Petrioli, at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, in Viking Union Room 552.

Petrioli is an expert in medieval and Renaissance art and 19th-century American and English criticism of Italian Renaissance.

Currently a visiting scholar at Baylor University, Petrioli is exploring the existence of crucial links between Renaissance Tuscan aesthetics and pre-modern Japanese art.