Friday, November 30

• 9:30 AM Fall 2012 Iraq Studies Workshop
• 12:00 PM Brown Bag Lecture: "New Directions in Three-Dimensional Recording in Archaeology"
• 5:00 PM Film Screening: Soldados de Salamina
•   Javier Cercas, Film

Saturday, December 1

• 4:00 PM Singapore - Illusion or Reality: Paragon of Economic Freedom or Communist Role Model
• 7:00 PM Performance: Kamayan 2012

Monday, December 3

• 4:00 PM Relations on the Rocks: China, Japan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute
•   Relations on the Rocks: China, Japan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute
• 5:00 PM Javier Cercas: Literature, Memory, and Cinema
•   East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) Lecture
•   Casting the Sacral Vessel: Fifty Years of Technical Studies of Ancient Chinese Bronzes.
•   Javier Cercas, Round Table Discussion

Tuesday, December 4

• 6:00 PM Holiday "Meet and Greet" for faculty and graduate students
• 7:00 PM Out in the Cold: Effects of Winter Climate Change on Northern Hardwood Forests

Wednesday, December 5

• 4:30 PM An American in China: What Does the Rise of China Mean for the Rest of the World?
• 5:00 PM Beyond Aesthetics: Sacred Music as a Calling

Thursday, December 6

• 4:00 PM Erhan Bayraktar - Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Friday, December 7

• 5:00 PM “Meet and Greet” for Graduate Students and Visiting Scholars

Tuesday, December 11

• 5:00 PM African American Studies Holiday Party

Wednesday, December 12

• All Day Last Day of Classes

Monday, December 17

• All Day Finals Begin

Friday, December 21

• All Day Final Exams/Last Day of Classes Ends

Monday, December 24

• All Day Intersession-University Holiday

Tuesday, December 25

• All Day Intersession-University Holiday

Wednesday, December 26

• All Day Intersession-University Holiday