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Gen MacArthur - 1945 President Bush - 2003	Alumni College Seminar, Saturday, June 4th, 9:00AM - 4:00PM Directions Reading Materials More than half a century later, the American occupation of Japan remains a model, an ideal, of how one nation can carry out a constructive occupation of a defeated enemy. Certainly, many observers have invoked that grand experiment in demilitarization and democratization during the U.S. occupation of Iraq. In this seminar Professor Ericson will describe the American occupation of Japan in light of recent scholarship. Some of the newer interpretations of the Japanese occupation may surprise you. Professor Reinhart will describe the process leading up to the invasion of Iraq and survey the administration of its occupation. Then the professors will lead a comparative discussion that will help us understand which lessons from Japan might (or might not) apply to the current Iraq situation.

	WHAT: Alumni College Seminar! WHEN: Sat., 6/4 8:30am - 4:00pm WHERE: Beckman Auditorium, CalTech COST: $35.00 classes 1996-2005 $50 per person RSVP: Suzanne Gilman '80 gilmans@aerovironment.com
	Schedule 8:30 - 9:00 Registration & Breakfast/coffee. 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction 9:15 - 10:15 First Presentation 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:30 Second Presentation 11:30 - 12:45 Lunch 12:45 - 1:15 Afternoon mini-session 1:20 - 2:20 First break-out seiion 2:30 -3:30 Second break-out seiion 3:35 - 4:00 Questions & Answers

	A. Kevin Reinhart, Associate Professor of Religion, has taught at Dartmouth since 1983 and has received an M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of Religion from Harvard University. Professor Reinhart has received numerous awards and grants including two Fulbright Fellowships, a Newcombe Fellowship and an American Research Center-Egypt Fellowship. He spent the summer of 2003 taking part in a relief effort in Najaf and Karbala, Iraq. Professor Reinhart has finished a book manuscript that discusses how we ought to study contemporary Islam. Its working title is Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition. Professor Reinhart has lived over 11 years in various parts of the Islamic world, and has visited all of it except Southeast Asia.
	Steven Ericson was born in Tokyo, just one year after the American occupation ended. He graduated from Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan; earned his B.A. at Michigan State University--at a time when Magic Johnson was still a prepschool phenom in Lansing; and completed his doctorate in Japanese history at Harvard University. He has authored Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan and is now researching and writing a book on the policies of Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi, the “Alexander Hamilton of Japan.” He came to Dartmouth in 1989 and currently chairs the interdisciplinary Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program. He teaches courses on the history of Japan and of East Asia in general, including a senior seminar on the U.S. occupation of Japan.

Alumni College Seminar, Saturday, June 4th, 9:00AM - 4:00PM

Alumni College Seminar,
Saturday, June 4th, 9:00AM - 4:00PM