Gender Affirmation Hormone Therapy: Taking It to the Next Level, Part II
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For this webinar, Dr. David Cohen and Dr. Sara Lubitz, presenters of the January Babs Siperstein Seminar, will be joined by Dr. Aviva Cohn and Dr. Hyon Kim, endocrinologists at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who also work with transgender medicine. The panelists will expand the content of their January seminar and answer any questions. Please click the button below for more information or to register.
Date: Monday, March 20, 2023
Time: 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Format: Webinar
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Wakamatsu Shizuko: The First Graduate of Ferris Seminary and a Progeny of RCA/Rutgers Efforts in Japan
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Professor Rui Kohiyama (Department of International Relations, Tokyo Woman's Christian University) is a specialist on the women's foreign mission movement in North America and female missionaries' work in Japan from the late 19th through early 20th centuries. She recently wrote chapters on the early history of Ferris University, which was founded in 1870 by a female missionary from the Dutch Reformed Church and later headed by Rutgers alumni. Professor Kohiyama will speak about Wakamatsu Shizuko (1864–1896)—an educator, novelist, translator, and the first graduate of Ferris Seminary—and her important role as the progeny of Reformed Church of America (RCA)/Rutgers efforts in Japan.
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: Pane Room, Alexander Library (169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Admission: Free
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William E. Griffis and Katsu Kaishu: Reading the Letters from the Griffis Collection and the Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum
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This workshop will highlight the recently rediscovered letters exchanged between William E. Griffis and Katsu Kaishu in Rutgers' William E. Griffis Collection and the Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum in Tokyo.
Noriko Ochiai, the curator of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, has been working on the Katsu Kaishu archives at the Edo-Tokyo Museum and the Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum. Yukako Otori, a lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specializes in late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. history, with a focus on childhood and immigration. She is a descendant of Takaki Saburo, who accompanied Katsu Kaishu's son, Koroku, during their studies at Rutgers in the early 1870s.
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time: 12:30–2:00 p.m.
Location: Pane Room, Alexander Library (169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Admission: Free
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2023 Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture
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Join us online on Thursday, March 23, at 4:00 p.m. for the 2023 Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture, "Researching the Underground Railroad in the Digital Age" by Professor Graham Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana Studies at Colgate University. Please click the buttons below for more information or to register.
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time: 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Format: Webinar
Photo courtesy of Colgate University.
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