2012-2013 International Studies Events

Theme: Migration/Displacement/Belonging

 

Presentations for the Spring 2013 Semester:

January 17, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-Ames LIbrary  - Colloquium

Asian Studies Colloquium:

Presentation by the 2012 Technos International Week faculty and student participants:

Prof. Edgar Lehr
Bradley Gresik ('14)
Audrey Ito ('14)
Samantha Reiter ('15)
Rosa Rivera ('14)

Prof. Lehr and the students will describe their experiences during the 2012 Technos International Week trip to Japan.

Sponsored by the IS Asian Studies Team.

February 14, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. - CNS E101 - Colloquium

Asian Studies Colloquium:

Prof. MANABE Mayumi, MCLL, Japanese

Prof. Mayume will discuss her research which centers on Japanese women's literature of the 1920's

Sponsored by the IS Asian Studies Team.

February 21, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. - Davidson Room - Colloquium

Patrick Ireland, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Illinois Institute of Technology

"Crisis in the Eurozone: Social Policy, Welfare States, and Migrant Incorporation in the EU"

Sponsored by the IS Western European Studies Team.

March 21, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-Ames Library - Colloquium

Jamal Nassar
Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences
California State University, San Bernadino

"The Palestinian Diaspora and the Prospects for Peace in the Middle East"

Sponsored by the IS Diplomatic Studies Team.

March 25, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-Ames Library - Colloquium

Mariselle Meléndez
Professor of Colonial Spanish American Literature and Culture
Conrad Humanities Scholar
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign,

"Piracy and Natural Disasters: Re-envisioning the Port City of Callao in the Age of the Enlightenment"

Sponsored by the IS Latin American Studies Team.

 

Presentations from the Fall 2012 Semester:

September 10, 2012 - Beckman Auditorium - The Ames Library - 7:00 p.m.

Ecotopian Film Festival (http://www.iwu.edu/german/EcotopianFilmFest.html)
Sponsored by the IWU - International Studies Program: African Studies Team and the Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department. Contact person is Sonja Fritzsche (sfritzsch@iwu.edu).

September 13, 2012 - 5:00 p.m. - Davidson Room

Welcome Picnic
For International Studies major and minor students, international students and International Studies faculty associates.

September 17, 2012 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Taking the Road Less Traveled
Presentations by students who have studied abroad in developing countries (it's a great opportunity to have your questions answered about studying abroad)

Sponsored by the IS Development Studies Team.

September 26, 2012 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Germán Zarate-Durier
Director, Office of Diaconia (Mission and Service)
Presbyterian Church of Colombia

"Colombia's 5 million Internal Refugees: Land Loss and Human Rights Violations"

Germán Zarate-Durier works with social justice organizations devoted to victims of violence and with the Presbyterian Accompaniment Program for Peace. He believes profoundly in peace based on justice to resolve political, social and economic conflicts.

Sponsored by the IS Diplomatic and Latin American Studies Team.

October 4, 2012 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

International Studies Open House
For IS Sophomores and Juniors - where they can have their questions answered about their concentration and their  plans after graduation.

Not an IS major or minor but interested in international studies? Come to the open house and bring your questions. IS Faculty and students will be available to answer them.

October 8, 2012 - 7:00 p.m. - CNS C101

Film: All My Girls (Alle meine Mädchen)

Sponsored by the IWU - International Studies Program - Russian and Eastern European Studies Team, Women's Studies Program, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department, and  the Illinois State University  International Studies Program. Contact person: Sonja Fritzsche (sfritzsch@iwu.edu).

October 9, 2012 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Ursula Schroeter, Sociologist
Vice Chairwoman, Germany's Association of Democratic Women

"Sociologist Patriarchy? East German Policy on Women"

October 9, 2012 - 7:00 p.m. - CNS C101

       Film: If the Earth Weren't Round (Wäre die Erde nicht rund, 1981)

Q & A to follow with:
Iris Gusner, German film director
Ursula Schroeter, Sociologist

Sponsored by the IWU - International Studies Program - Russian and Eastern European Studies Team, Women's Studies Program, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department, and  the Illinois State University  International Studies Program. Contact person: Sonja Fritzsche (sfritzsch@iwu.edu).

October 11, 2012, 4:00 p.m., IWU Ames School of Art, Room 111

Asian Studies Colloquium:

Kevin Strandberg, Professor of Art, IWU

Talk and Demonstration:  "Western Artist - Non-Western Inspiration: Emulating Stylistic Aspects of Japanese Woodblock Prints in Fused Glass"

Sponsored by the IS Asian Studies Team.

October 16, 2012 – 7:00 p.m., Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Film: Dear Mandela

When the South African government promises to 'eradicate the slums' and begins to evict shack dwellers far outside the city, three friends who live in Durban's vast shantytowns refuse to be moved. Dear Mandela follows their journey from their shacks to the highest court in the land as they invoke Nelson Mandela's example and become leaders in a growing social movement. Inspiring, devastating and funny, the film offers a new perspective on the role that young people can play in political change and is a fascinating portrait of South Africa coming of age. Q&A to follow with:

Dara Kell, Film Director
The film director is an award-winning South African documentary and television editor. Her editing work includes "Jesus Camp," "The Reckoning, "Diamond at the Rock." Dara is  also a media educator and facilitates camera and editing trainings with grassroots groups across the U.S. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor o Journalism in Documentary Filmaking and Political Science.

Zodwa Nsibande and Mnikelo Ndabankulu
Activists/Leaders, South African Shack Dwellers Movement

These young leaders are embarking on a month-long tour of the U.S. to screen the award-winning documentary Dear Mandela, and to talk about the largest social movement of the poor in post apartheid South Africa. They want to engage with young people in a conversation about innovative leadership, bottom-up democracy, and the role of young people in fighting for human rights to housing, healthcare and a decent wage.

Co-sponsored by the IS African Studies Team,the Political Science Department, and the African Students Association & Friends.

October 30, 2012 - 7:00 p.m., Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Pathy Ekal, Kristen Gianaris, and Bahiyyah Khalilallah, three members of the local Congolese community, will present "Uncovering Truth about the DRC: Displacement at Home and Abroad" to discuss the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and share their experiences as African refugees in the Midwest.

November 1, 2012, Beckman Auditorium-The Ames LIbrary - 4:00 p.m. - Colloquium

Peter Magai Bul and Marketh Bul Mabior
Lost Boys of Sudan

"Lost and Found: Sudanese Refugees in the U.S."

Peter Magai Bul, Maketh Bul Mabior and John Dut Kuol will present "Lost and Found: Sudanese Refugees in the U.S.," which will highlight the men's experiences as Lost Boys in a Kenyan refugee camp, as students and employees in Chicago, and as leaders of development organizations they have established to assist their communities in newly-established South Sudan.

Co-sponsored by the IS African Studies Team and the African Students Association & Friends.

November 1, 2012, 7:00 p.m., Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

"God Grew Tired of Us" (Directed by Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker, 2006) is a film that tells the story of three Lost Boys of Sudan who are selected from a refugee camp in Kenya to come and live in different U.S. cities. Peter, Maketh, and John will be on hand after the film to answer questions.

Co-sponsored by the IS African Studies Team, the African Students Association & Friends, the Provost's Office and the Department of Sociology & Anthropology.

November 4, 2012 - 6:00 p.m. - Hansen Student Center, Main Court

African Culture Night
Join the African Students Association for A slice of Africa , an evening of African cuisine, music and dance, fashion and entertainment

November 7, 2012 - Davidson Room - 5:15 p.m.
Hunger Banquet

Experience the inequities in how people from around the world eat.
Tickets will be available in mid-October.
$5.00/ each - limited to 50 tickets

Sponsored by the IS Development Studies Team

November 12, 2012 - 7:00 p.m., Davidson Room

Film: The Other Sky

Sponsored by IS-Russian and East European Studies Team and MCLL.

November 13, 2012 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library - Colloquium

Birgit Beumers, Ph.D.
University of Bristol, UK

Topic: "A Hero of our Time? The Gastarbeiter in Recent Russian Cinema"

November 15, 2012 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Asian Studies Colloquium:

Prof. Edgar Lehr, Biology, IWU

Exhibit and description of 38 paintings Prof. Lehr collected while doing research in Vietnam in the early 1990's. The paintings depict the American War in Vietnam from a (north) Vietnamese perspective.

Sponsored by the IS Asian Studies Team.

November 27-30, 2012 - Exhibit, Hansen Student Center

Windows & Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan is the powerful outcome of the American Friends Service Committee's call to artists in the Chicago Public Art Group and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program to contribute works of art to a traveling memorial to civilians who have died in the war in Afghanistan. In addition to the pieces American artists created for the exhibit are drawings that depict the war by children who live in Kabul. The exhibit, which will be on display in the second floor balcony of the Hansen Student Center from Tuesday, Nov. 27 - Friday, Nov. 30, will open with a reception on Tuesday, November 27 from 4 - 6 pm.

November 27, 2012 - 4:00-6:00 p.m., Hansen Student Center

Reception for: Windows & Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan

The exhibit is sponsored by the IWU chapter of Amnesty International, the IS Development Studies Team, and the Bloomington-Normal Citizens for Peace & Justice.