Special Announcement: Global Studies Event

Escape the Winter Cold

Date: Feb 26, 2011
Time: 2-4pm & dinner
Where: Como Conservatory & Holy Land restaurant
Come spend an afternoon at the Como Conservatory with the Institute of Global Studies. This is a great opportunity to mingle with fellow students, advisors, TAs and professors.

Meet in front of Walter F. Mondale School of Law on the West Bank at 2pm. We would appreciate people with cars to let us know if they could drive students to the Como Conservatory and to dinner.
RSVP no later than Feb.22 to igspeer@umn.edu

Link to Como Conservatory: http://www.comozooconservatory.org/
Link to Holy Land: http://www.holylandbrand.com/restaurant.html

Events for February and March

Sociolinguistic Issues of Spanish in Contact; 2/14
MediterraneanArchives in Minnesota: The Collection of HMML; 2/14
American and European Perspective on Antitrust Law; 2/15
Green Job Revolution; 2/15
Understanding and Teaching the Refugee/ Immigrant Experience; 2/16
Managing Transnational Trade from the Diasporas: Italian People and Products; 2/17
Photographing Goya: The Disasters of War; 2/17
World Food Prices Aren't Too High, They're Too Low; 2/18
Constructing Han Legal Identity in Yuan, Ming and Qing China; 2/18
US and German Health Care; 2/22
Away from Democracy and Toward a Dictatorship? Hungary's New Media; 2/23 & 2/24
The Humanities through Islamic Eyes: the Beginnings; 2/24
Understanding the TransAtlantic Migration Experience: Austria and Hungry; 3/3 
A Short History of Feeding the World: American Universities and the Changing Discourses of Food-Roundtable Discussion; 3/3
Hemispheric Asian/American History; 3/7
THE WALL; 3/7
Where Have all the Towers Gone? Race, Housing and Redevelopment in American...; 3/9
Science and Politics on the Rain Forest Development Frontier [Frontiers]; 3/9
A View from the Provinces: Multiethnic Music-making in Late Ottoman Izmir; 3/10
Antihumanism: From Tumai to the posthuman: A talk by Frederic Nyrat; 3/10 
Nigeria's Past, Global Futures; 3/10
IATP Book Club, Paul Gruchow's Grass Roots: The Universe of Home; 3/15
"Peddling Encounters: Syrian Migrants and the Intimacies of Race..."; 3/21
Culture through Cuisine: France; 3/22
Managing Complex Dilemmas: Global Food Safety and Security; 3/23
Terra Populus: Linking Population and Environment [Frontiers in the Environment]; 3/30
Europe in the News; 3/30

 

January/February Academic Opportunities

Undergrad Fellowships for Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies in Berlin ; Deadline Feb 18
Note: To apply, students should submit a letter of interest and a resume to cges@umn.edu and list "LBSU application" in the subject line.
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP); Deadline for Fall 2011 Research is March 7
Hawkinson Scholarships; Deadline March 15