Beginning Kyudo Instruction: First Shot
Marion Taylor, Don Seckler, Jim Katz, Joyce Wu
Sat Jan 13, 12-05:00pm, MAC Court, Z Center
Sun Jan 14, 09am-02:00pm, Rockwell Cage
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 20.00 for instruction
Kyudo, or Japanese archery, means the "way of the bow" and was considered the highest discipline of ancient Japanese samurai. Kyudo is based on standing Zen meditation used by Zen Buddhist monks as a means of cultivating self-awareness. Beginners will receive instruction in the basic form of kyudo, the Seven Coordinations or "shichi-do," and shoot at a short-range target. Cosponsored by Byakko-kyudojo.
Contact: Joyce Wu, jowu@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT Japan Program
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CLASS FULL!! Planning for Combat: Concepts & practices for problem-solving on and off the battlefield
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parkyn, Lieutenant Colonel Roftiel Constantine, USAF, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Wehr, USA
Wed Jan 31, Thu Feb 1, 12-02:00pm, E38-714
Fri Feb 2, 10am-03:00pm, Field Trip
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Jan-2007
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
“No plan survives the first incoming round,” say skeptics of deliberate military plans. Advocates of deliberate plans say the same thing. Why?
Students will achieve a rudimentary understanding of military planning & look at use of conventional forces in the counterinsurgency role. The course includes:
• 2-hour seminar on hasty & deliberate planning;
• 2-hour practical application on planning & wargaming, in which participants will plan to employ an infantry battalion to seize insurgent leaders and an arms cache;
• a military staff ride of a local battlefield.
Lt Col Roftiel Constantine, USAF, LtCol Michael Parkyn, USMC, and LTC Michael Wehr, USA are active duty officers with experience at the tactical, operational and strategic levels of warfare, totaling 57 years of combined experience in the art of war.
Contact: Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parkyn, E38-670, mparkyn@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Political Science
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Ikebana: The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging
Hiroko Matsuyama
Tue Jan 23, 02:30-04:00pm, E38-714
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Fee: 10.00 for cost of materials
Hiroko Matsuyama, an accomplished instructor of the Ohara school of Ikebana, will show you the basics of this ancient art as you create your own flower arrangements.
Contact: Daniela Reichert, E38-728, x8-8208, dreichert@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT Japan Program
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Intermediate and Advanced Kyudo Practice
Marion Taylor, Don Seckler, Jim Katz, Peter Dourmashkin, Joyce Wu
Sat Jan 13, 08-11:00am, Rockwell Cage
Sun Jan 14, 09am-02:00pm, Rockwell Cage
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Beginning Kyudo Instruction: First Shot
Fee: 20.00 for instruction
In addition to instruction at the short-range makiwara target, intermediate students will be able to practice shooting long-distance at 28 meters.
Co-sponsored by Byakko-kyudojo.
Contact: Joyce Wu, jowu@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT Japan Program
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Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy
Tong Chen, Sean Gilbert
Thu Jan 25, 02-04:00pm, E38-714
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Fee: 8.00 for materials and instruction
Learn the fundamentals of Chinese Calligraphy. No knowledge of Chinese needed.
Contact: Sean Gilbert, E38-734, 253-5068, seang@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT China Program
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Leadership Under Fire
Ambassador Barbara Bodine
Tue Jan 9, Thu Jan 11, Tue Jan 16, Thu Jan 18, 02-04:00pm, E38-202, (E38-2nd fl conf rm)
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Dec-2006
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: memo re: your background/interest in topic
This seminar explores crisis leadership challenges. Scholars and practitioners debate the nature, form and tools of effective leadership, but what happens when stakes dramatically rise, information becomes scarce and unreliable, and the time and scope of action contract? Are conventional leadership tools still the right tools, or is crisis leadership fundamentally different?
When do you follow the rules, when do you not, and what do you do when there are no rules?
Are you prepared to face the consequences? To whom do you owe your greatest obligation? Questions of integrity, accountability.
How do you manage the media, Monday morning quarterbacks?
Readings required. Case studies @ URL.
Ambassador Bodine has been at ground zero for wars, invasions and occupations, terrorist bombings and hijackings.
Web: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/leadership/index.html
Contact: Ambassador Barbara Bodine, bbodine@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Political Science
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Putin's Russia: Friend or Foe?
Dr. Carol Saivetz
Wed Jan 17, 24, 02-03:30pm, E38-714
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This seminar will explore the current and future state of Russian-US relations. Despite the friendship between Presidents Putin and Bush, relations are increasingly tense. Nonetheless, areas of cooperation and potential cooperation still exist.
Do the two powers agree on the war on terror?
Can the US and Russia cooperate on the Iranian nuclear question?
What about European energy security?
What are the sources of Russian foreign policy? Will it change after Putin?
Strongly suggested: Read "Russia Leaves the West" By Trenin, Dmitri, in Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug2006, Vol. 85, Issue 4 (Available online via MIT Libraries - certificates required)
Session 1: Issues and Personalities
Session 2: After 2008
Contact: Dr. Carol Saivetz, csaivetz@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Political Science
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Sushi Making: Roll Sushi by Yourself
Debbie Samuels Food Writer and Food Stylist for The Boston Globe
Wed Jan 31, 02-03:30pm, E38-615
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Fee: 10.00 for cost of ingredients
The course will teach how to make Japanese sushi rolls ("makizushi").
Contact: Kelli Eagan, E38-762B, x8-0385, keagan@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT Japan Program
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