In the wake of the triple disasters of March 11, 2011 which devastated the Tohoku region of Japan with a massive earthquake, an enormous set of tsunami, and the catastrophic failure of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, both Japanese and foreign observers struggled to make sense of these events.  Bestor examines some ways in which Japanese culture frames disasters, and based on fieldwork in Tohoku in 2011 and 2012, how local meaning-making unfolds.

Dr. Bestor earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies  at Harvard University. His books include: Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society (edited with Victoria Bestor and Akiko Yamagata, 2011), Doing Fieldwork in Japan (2003), and Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (2004).

The Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) invites you to join the Department of Anthropology for our 13th annual Distinguished Lecture Series featuring cultrual anthropologist Dr. Thedodore Bestor. This event is free, and open to all. 

Civil War: The Untold Story is a 5-part documentary series features University of Kentucky historian Amy Murrell Taylor. The documentary will premier in April on Kentucky Educational Television.

This event will feature a film screening of Episode 4: Death Knell of the Confederacy followed by a panel discussion/Q&A with:

• Patrick Lewis, Research Associate, Kentucky Historical Society
• Amy Murrell Taylor, Associate Professor of History, UK
• Carl Westmoreland, Senior Historian, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Chris Wheeler, Producer and Director, Great Divide Pictures

FREE ADMISSION. Open to the public. Seating limited. First-come, first-served.   

Join us for a sneak-peek screening of Civil War: The Untold Story, a visually stunning new 5-part documentary series narrated by Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) and produced for public television by Great Divide Pictures.  We will show Episode 4, Death Knell of the Confederacy which focuses on the Battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the 1864 Campaign for Atlanta.

Featured as on camera historian in the series is UK Associate Professor of History Amy Murrell Taylor. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion: The Civil War in 2014: Does it still matter, and why?

The event is sponsored by the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences.     

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Title:  On the ground state of the magnetic Laplacian in corner domains

Abstract:  I will present recent results about the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian in general 3D-corner domains with Neumann boundary condition in the semi-classical limit.  The use of singular chains show that the asymptotics of the first eigenvalue is governed by a hierarchy of model problems on the tangent cones of the domain. We provide estimations of the remainder depending on the geometry and the variations of the magnetic field. This is a joint work with V. Bonnaillie-Nol and M. Dauge.

Ricardo Macip from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla will be giving a lecture about one of Oaxaca's most treasured creatures: the turtle.

El Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ricardo Macip, estará dando una charla sobre las tortugas y su importancia en Oaxaca, México.