NHIS Welcomes Yale History Professor Oct. 21

By Lori Wright, Media Relations

Michael R. Auslin, professor of history at Yale, will present “The War Heard Round the World: The Russo-Japanese Conflict and the Dawn of the 20th Century,” at the next New Hampshire International Seminar Friday, Oct. 21.

The seminar series is sponsored by the Center for International Education. Auslin’s lecture will be held at 4 p.m. in MUB Theatre I. Light refreshments will be served at 3:40 p.m.

Auslin specializes in U.S.-East Asian relations, Japanese foreign relations, and cultural exchange. He is the founding director of the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations at Yale, and is an affiliated faculty member of Yale’s International Security Studies. Professor Auslin is the author of Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy, which was awarded the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities by Yale in 2005. He was also the featured commentator in the 2004 PBS series Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, for which he was a script consultant. He is a frequent commentator in both American and Japanese print and television media.

In addition to being a former Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar, he is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program. At Yale, he has been awarded a Morse Fellowship in the Humanities for outstanding junior faculty, received the Director’s Award of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and been named a Research Fellow in International and Area Studies as well as a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.

For additional information, please call 2-2398.