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

Events for January/Feb! 1/20

Tapestry of Dreams: 30th Anniversary of the MLK Jr. Concert; 1/23 

Resolving Conflict Across Cultures; 1/25

U.S. Foreign Policy Outlook for 2011; 1/25

Europe in the News; 1/26 

Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border Zone? - A talk by Smadar Lavie; 1/27

A Feast of Words: Encyclopedia Americana: Made in Germany?; 1/27

"Poetry and Funky Rap in Ghana: A Fieldwork Report"; 2/1 

The Skin of Memory; 2/1

Bringing the New Green Economy to Scale [Frontiers in the Environment]; 2/2

Terrorists or Victims? US-Lao Relations and Hmong Transnational Politics; 2/3

The Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia; 2/3

L'année de la France Launch Party; 2/7

Thomas Schmidinger, "Asylum Policy in Austria and Its Social Consequences"; 2/8

Author and humanitarian Izzeldin Abuelaish discusses "I Shall Not Hate; 2/10

 

 

 

December Academic and Scholarship Opportunities

Reminder: Minnesota Goes To Berlin Application Due; Dec. 3
Katherine E. Sullivan Scholarship for Study Abroad (5th Year Seniors)

December Events

World Bank President Robert Zoellick Speaking at HHH on Challenges Facing Global Economy; Dec. 1st
Europe in the News: The Radical Right and the Future of European Politics; Dec. 1st
China's Challenges: Energy, Environment, and Development; Dec. 1st
Mexican History Through the Corrido with Chuy Negrete; Dec. 3
Sexual Violence in Civil Wars; December 7th
A New Green Machine: The Future of Sustainable Enterprise; Dec. 8
Business-building Economy: Concept and Case Study in China; Dec. 9th
Report from the UN Climate Talks (COP 16) in Mexico; Dec. 9
Perspectives on Climate Change: Featuring Dr. Qin Dahe and Dr. Elizabeth Wilson; Dec. 10
Brazilian Samba and Axe Workshops w/ Eliezer Santos; Dec. 13

October/November Events

Europe in the News "Greece and the European Economy" 10/27
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America 10/27
Identity and Linguistic Conflicts in Maghrebian Literature: Talk by Hedia Khadar 10/27
Paradox Regained: Immigrant Health in 21st Century US; 11/01
South Asian Seminar Series: “Changing Perceptions of Muslim and Hindu Relations in Bundelkhand Under Mughal Rule“; 11/03
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Developemnt Talk: Silences in NGO's Discourses; 11/03
The Mexican "Dirty War" and Student Activism; 11/04
Einsatzgruppen Death Brigades Film: 11/04
A Sea Change Film Screening; 11/04
The European Diaspora: 1844-1930 Exceptionalism Revisited; 11/05
Pasteur Institute, League of Nations, and Politics of Vaccine Testing in Algiers
A Test Case for Humanity: Albert Einsteins Vision of Zionism and Peace
Women and Political Power in Humphrey's Era and Today; 11/10
South Asian Seminar: "What's Happening to Indian Democracy During These Expansionary Times"; 11/11
Concrete Revolution: Cold War War Geopolitics and the Proliferation of Dams; 11/11
Human Rights Film Premiere Event: Enemies of the People; 11/11
Internationalizing Higher Education; 11/12
African Music Ensemble; 11/12