The Walker Institute and Center for Asian Studies is glad to host a Brown Bag Luncheon with Taiwanese Visiting Scholar Dr. Chin-shou Wang. Dr. Wang will present, "A President on Trial: The Judiciary in Action in Contemporary Taiwan." Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. This event is open to the public and everyone is invited to bring their own lunch to the lecture.

Dr. Nadine Naber, Assistant Professor in the program in American Culture and the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, will present "Gendering Arab Diasporas: Between Race, Empire, and Resistance." Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and the Journal of Cultural Dynamics. This event is co-sponsored by the Islamic World Studies Program and the Walker Institute.

The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is hosting the 12th Annual Comparative Literature Conference titled "Bodies." The interdisciplinary conference will discuss the many different forms of bodies.

Leading scholars from Taiwan and the US will discuss the culture dialogue between Taiwan and Japan with topics ranging from Taiwanese coffee shops to Japanese portrait photography in "East Asian Dialogues: The Cultural Flow between Taiwan and Japan." This conference is sponsored by the Center of Asian Studies and the Walker Institute.

Dr. Hilda Sabato, Professor of History at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will present "The Republican Experiment in Nineteenth Century Latin America." She has been a fellow at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study as well as a Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University. This public lecture is sponsored by ARENA, the Department of History, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Walker Institute, honoring the 200th anniversary of the Latin American Independence movements.