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Past Events

Hiroshima bombing survivor and former Vassar professor Tomiko Morimoto West standing at a lectern on a dark stage with the film title, Appreciation--the Tomiko Morimoto West Story.

Film Screening: Appreciation—The Tomiko Morimoto West Story

Oct. 13, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Director/producer Michael Dwyer made this 20-minute film featuring Tomiko Morimoto West, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who taught Japanese language courses at Vassar for a decade until she retired in 1994. Both will be available for a Q&A session after the screening.

Portrait of Klaus Vieweg, Professor of Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany

Klaus Vieweg: The Beginning of Philosophy—Parmenides and Buddhism

Apr. 26, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Vieweg, Professor of Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller University and a leading expert on Hegel, will discuss the systematic and logical beginning of philosophical thinking in conjunction with Hegel’s Science of Logic. Campus community only, please.

Cancan Liao, associate professor of Chinese philosophy, Wuhan University

The I Ching Meets Western Learning: New Interpretations of the Classic of Changes in Late Ming Dynasty China

Apr. 8, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

A lecture by Dr. Cancan Liao, associate professor of Chinese philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, and a Harvard-Yenching Institute visiting scholar. Campus community only, please.