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Prof. Laurence Launches 2008-09 Common Hour Sept. 12

Story posted September 08, 2008

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Henry Laurence

Henry C. W. Laurence, associate professor of government and Asian studies, will speak at the first Common Hour of the 2008-09 academic year at 12:30 p.m., Friday, September 12, 2008, in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

Professor Laurence will give a talk titled "You Can't Say That! Keeping Terrorists, War Crimes, and Gay Marriage Off TV."

This Common Hour talk is the Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture. Each semester the Faculty Encore Lecture features a Bowdoin faculty member chosen by members of the senior class honoring him or her as a teacher and role model.

Henry Laurence is an associate professor of government with a joint appointment in Asian studies at Bowdoin. He teaches courses in Japanese and comparative politics, media and politics, and international political economy. In 2007-2008 he was a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

He is currently writing a book on broadcasting politics that compares the BBC, PBS, and Japan's NHK. He has also written on financial politics, the "Comfort Women," Japanese gangsters, the Asian currency crisis, and satellite television.

Common Hour is open to all Bowdoin students, faculty and staff. Events are held every other Friday of the term at 12:30 p.m. Class and meeting schedules are altered so that students, faculty, and staff may attend.

The Karofsky Family Fund was established by Paul I. '66, his son David M. '93, and his brother Peter '62 in memory of their father and David's grandfather, Sydney B. Karofsky.

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