"Asia at Noon" Lecture Series Set at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo law student John Haberstroh will discuss "Japanese Wartime Forced Labor: Litigation by Korean and Chinese Victims" on Jan. 31 during the first lecture of the spring semester of the "Asia at Noon" brown-bag lunch series sponsored by the Asian Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.

All lectures in the series will run from noon to 1 p.m. in 280 Park Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The presenter will speak for about 20 minutes, with the rest of the hour devoted to questions and answers and discussion. The lectures are free and open to the public.

This semester's other lectures are:

o Feb. 14: Roger DesForges, UB professor of history, "The Changing Functions of Walls in China Today"

o Feb. 28: Shubha Ghosh, UB associate professor of law, and student members of the Asian American Law Students Association, "Beyond Black, White and Brown v. Board of Education: A Primer on Asian-American Jurisprudence from One Initiate"

o March 21: Lawrence Fouraker, assistant professor of history, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, "A Yakuza Recession? Japan's Mafia and the Current Slump"

o April 4: Jennifer Randall, doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, "How does Globalization Affect Our Health? A Case Study in China"

o April 18: Seon-Wook Kim, Republic of Korea, "Korean Democracy after the Presidential Election: A Philosopher's Viewpoint"

For further information about the lectures, contact UB's Asian Studies Program at 645-3474.