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Professor Marilyn B. Young |
The annual J. Earl Moreland Lecture on Asia will be held at Randolph-Macon College on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Washington Room of
Washington-Franklin Hall. Professor Marilyn B. Young will present “Limited Wars, Unlimited.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Young’s lecture will address the string of post-Vietnam wars that have, one way and another, eroded an initial aversion to war formerly referred to as the Vietnam Syndrome.
Young, who earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University, is a professor of history at New York University. Her areas of expertise are U.S. - East Asian Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Third World Women and Gender. Her extensive publications include:
Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1985-1901;
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990;
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1957, (editorial committee);
Human Rights and Revolutions, (edited with Lynn Hunt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom); and
Vietnam: A History in Documents (edited with John J. Fitzgerald and A. Tom Grunfeld).
Each spring, the J. Earl Moreland Lecture on Asia brings a distinguished expert to the Randolph-Macon campus for a public lecture. The purpose of the lecture is to create greater student understanding and interest in Asian affairs through direct contact with distinguished scholars and prominent professionals. The lecture series was established through the generous donation of the late Dr. Lik Kiu Ding ’49 to commemorate Dr. J. Earl Moreland, who served as president of R-MC from 1939-67.
A reception will follow Professor Young’s lecture.
For more information, contact
History Professor Thomas Porter, director of the
Asian Studies Program, at (804) 752-7243 or
tporter@rmc.edu.