• FROM STUDYING WAR TO FORGING PEACE: Building Solidarities between Rutgers and Ritsumeikan
  • Event Date: 2025-02-13
  • Event Start Time: 2:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 3:30 PM
  • Event Type: Workshop
  • Event Location: Teleconference Hall, 4th Floor, Alexander Library, New Brunswick, NJ

Workshop Overview: Bringing together students from Rutgers and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan) to explore university connections and issues of war and peace.

Opening Speakers:

  • Paul Clemens: Student Protests at Rutgers, from WWI to Vietnam-American War
  • Alexander Shaw: Language & Literature Learning from the Atomic Bombings of Japan

Student Group Presentations:

  • Ritsumeikan Students: The Peace Museum and Peace Studies at Ritsumeikan
  • Rutgers Students: Recent Student Protests at Rutgers

Breakout Group Discussions:

  • What can we learn from history?
  • How can we make a difference?

Facilitator: Rudolph Wagner

📢 Exhibit Reminder: Visit Student Protests at Rutgers on the 2nd Floor!

Sponsors: Global Asias – A School of Arts and Sciences Initiative Rutgers Global Rutgers University Libraries Department of Asian Languages and Cultures