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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"Darwin's Nightmare" (107 minutes, in English and with English subtitles) (DOCUMENTARY)
Directed by Hubert Sauper
Winner Best Documentary European Film Awards, Winner Best Film Chicago Doc Festival, Winner Grand Prix Festival de Film d'Environment Paris, Academy Award Nominee Best Documentary Feature

"Gold and Jade: Emblems of Power in the Ancient Americas"
Miami University Art Museum
www.fna.muohio.edu/amu

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Por la libre (2000, Juan Carlos de Llaca) (Mexico)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"Advertising Missionaries" (52 minutes, in English) (DOCUMENTARY)
A film by Chris Hilton and Gauthier Flaunder
1997 Margaret Mead Film Festival; 1997 Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l'Homme; 1996 Amsterdam International Documentary Festival; Nominated for the 1997 Dendy Award; Finalist, 1997 Banff Festival of Mountain Films

Friday, September 8, 2006
UniDiversidad Latin Festival
5:00 -10:00 p.m. Uptown Parks, Oxford, Ohio


Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Office of Diversity Affairs with support from the Department of Anthropology, City of Oxford, Oxford Visitors & Convention Bureau, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Miami University-Hamilton, the Miami University Talawanda Partnership Office, Multicultural Concerts and Lecture Board, School of Business (Title VI B), Richard T. Farmer School of Education and Allied Professions, and U.S. Department of Education Title VI A and Title VI B.

5:00 - 6:15 pm Zelaya Mariachi Band (Mexican folk)
6:30 - 7:30 pm Sumakta Inka (Andean music)
7:45 - 8:15 pm Que Lindo Es Panama (Panamanian dancers)
8:15 - 10:00 pm Son del Caribe (Salsa band)

Food, balloon works, crafts, llama petting zoo, and much, much more!

Tuesday, September 12
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
La ley de Herodes (1999, Luis Estrada) (Mexico)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World" (62 minutes, USA, in English) (DOCUMENTARY)
Directed by John Scagliotti, a Human Rights Watch film
Official Selection San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Winner Audience Award Barcelona Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival

Thursday, September 14
Kamari Maxine Clarke, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate, Yale Law School, Yale University
Global Justice, Local Justice: Unfolding Human Rights
4:30 p.m. Heritage Room

Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures with support from the Black World Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Leadership, the Etheridge Center for Reflective Leadership, the School of Interdisciplinary Studies-Western College Program, and the Women’s Center

Monday, September 18, 2006
"Why Southern Africa Matters to the U.S."
4:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium

Presented by The African School Advancement Program (ASAP)
Sponsored by Associated Student Government

Monday, September 18, 2006
Constitution Day Program
Reading of the Constitution
In observance of the Constitution (September 17), participants will take turns reading the constitution.
7:30 p.m., MacMillan, Room 212

Want to be a reader? Contact Dr. Mary Jane Berman, Center for American and World Cultures at bermanmj@muohio.edu by September 15.
Attendees will be given a copy of a pocket constitution.
Reception following.
Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, American
Studies Program, College Democrats, College Republicans, Honors and
Scholars Program, Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, Miami University Partnership Office, and the University Libraries

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Issac Artenstein, Independent Filmmaker and Lecturer in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
"Tijuana Jews and the Mexican Jewish Experience"
4:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the American Studies Program, and the Jewish Studies Program

*Isaac Artenstein will speak about his film “Tijuana Jews”

Tuesday, September 19
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Dias de Santiago (2004, Josue Mendez) (Peru)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, September 20
Jorge G. Castaneda, Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies, New York University , Miami University-Middletown campus
“U.S./Mexico Relations in the 21st Century: Politics, Economy, and Immigration"
2:30 p.m., Dave Finkelman Auditorium (Middletown campus)

Sponsored by the Miami University Middletown campus with support from the Center for American and World Cultures
For more information, contact Darius Prier, 513-727-3353

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"Daughter of Keltoum" (101 minutes, Algeria, in French and Arabic, with English subtitles)
A film by Mehdi Charef
2006 National Women's Studies Association Film Festival; 2005 African Studies Association Film Festival; 2001 Toronto Film Festival; Kodak Award, 2002 Mons Festival of Love Films; SIGNIS Jury Award, 2003 Milan African Film Festival

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Eric Kaplan, Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati
"The Azure Sea: Right Wing Zionists and the Mediterranean"
5:00 p.m. Irvin, Room40

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program with support from the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of French and Italian

Thursday, September 21
Héctor Tobar, Journalist
Latino Americans: Reinventing the Immigrant Experience, Redefining the American Community"
4:00 p.m. Parish Auditorium, Miami University Hamilton campus

Sponsored by ALAS (MUH chapter) and the Latin American Studies Program
(Part of the UniDiversidad Program)

Tuesday, September 26
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Machuca (2004, Andres Woods) (Chile)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"Dirty, Pretty Things" (94 minutes, in English)
Directed by Stephen Frears

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Teddy Cruz, Architect , estudio Teddy Cruz
Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment
4:30 p.m. Heritage Room, Shriver Center

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of Architecture and Interior Design with support from the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Department of Geography, Etheridge Center for Reflective Leadership, School of Interdisciplinary Programs-Western College Program.

(Part of the UniDiversidad Program)

Friday, September 29
Teddy Cruz workshops
Department of Architecture and Interior Design

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of Architecture and Interior Design with support from the Department of Geography, School of Interdisciplinary Programs-Western College Program.

For more information contact Professor Diane Fellows, Department of Architecture and Interior Design, 529-6447
.

 

October 2, 2006
"Gandhi and the Non-Violent Transformation of 'Evil'"
William Jackson, Dept. of Religious Studies Indiana University-Purdue University
Harrison Hall , Room 111

Lecture : 4:00 - 5:30 P.M.
Film: 5:30 - 6:30 P.M.
Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
2006-2007 Linguistics Speakers Series
"Languages of the Middle East: Introducing Hebrew and Arabic"

6:00 - 8:00 p.m,. Bachelor Reading Room (Oxford campus)

GREAL instructors Rachel Rachovitsky and Saleh Yousef will discuss the
languages they teach in terms of structure, history, community use, and
their relationship to culture in the region. Please join us for lively
linguistic discussion afterwards, over Middle Eastern food!

Presented by the Linguistics Program in the English Department at Miami
University with support from the Center for American and World Cultures, Comparative Relgion. Office of International Education, Department of Phychology

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"In America" (105 minutes, in English)
Directed by Jim Sheridan

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest
Global Forum Luncheon
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Bankers Club, Cincinnati

Presented by the World Affairs Council of Greater Cincinnati with the Miami University Richard T. Farmer School of Business Title VI B program.

Lecture at Miami University(Oxford campus)
Poverty, Democracy and Business
5:00 p.m. Laws, Room 100

Sponsored by the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Title VI B program with the World Affairs Council of Greater Cincinnati.

Thursday, October 5
Peter Wells, Professor Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
"The Battle That Stopped Rome"
4:00 p.m. Upham Hall, Room 275


Sponsored by the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, the Center for American and World Cultures, Department of Anthropology, Department of Classics, and the Office of Liberal Education.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
India through Film: A glimpse into the world’s largest film industry
"1947 Earth: Deepa Mehta" (1998) – 104 minutes
This is a story of the Partition seen through the eyes of the young Lenny, turning her world upside down. It is the story of savagery and massacre in the name of religion. Lenny takes you into the pre-partition and post-partition era where love struggles to survive amidst hatred. The story of the division of one secular country into two countries on the basis of religion. The destruction of innocence, by greed wearing the garb of religion, was the price of this sectarian war.
7:00 p.m. Bachelor Hall, Room 101

Sponsored by Film Studies with support from the Center for American and World Cultures , the Office of Diverse Student Development, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the Western College Program, and the Women's Center.

Tuesday, October 10
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Maria, Full of Grace (2004, Josh Marston) (Colombia)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

 

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

"Bend It Like Beckham" (112 minutes, in English)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha

Thursday, October 12, 2006
India through Film: A glimpse into the world’s largest film industry
"Rang De Basanti (“Color Me Saffron”): Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra" (2006) – 162 minutes
A story about the youth of India today. A young, London-based filmmaker chances upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in the British Police Force in India during the freedom struggle. Excited about these memoirs, she makes plans to shoot a film on the Indian revolutionaries mentioned in the diaries. She comes down to Delhi, and casts a group of five college friends to play the pivotal roles of the revolutionaries. In the film both the 1930s British India and the India today run parallel and intersect with each other at crucial points. As the film reaches its resolution the line between past and present blurs, as they become one in spirit. This film has been hailed as one of the best films out of India by critics all over the world, and is also a frontrunner as India’s official entry to the Oscars.
7:00 p.m. Bachelor Hall, Room 101

Sponsored by Film Studies with support from the Center for American and World Cultures , the Office of Diverse Student Development, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the Western College Program, and the Women's Center.

Monday, October 16, 2006
Latin American Film Festival ( September 5-November 14)

Cerebrating the Life and Times of Evita: History, Literature and Film Festival -"Evita, a Life and a Passion"
7:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Discussion to follow

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Tim Wise, "Racial Legacies and Learning XVI: How to Talk About Race"
7:30 p.m. Parrish Auditorium, Miami University-Hamilton

Sponsored by Miami University Hamilton with support from the Center for
American and World Cultures and City of Hamilton, Ohio


Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Cerebrating the Life and Times of Evita: History, Literature and Film Festival -"Eva Peron" with Doris Goris
7:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Discussion to follow


For more information, contact Professor Raul Ianes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 529-5216.
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from the Center for American and World Cultures.

(Part of the UniDiversidad Program)

 

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
"The Early History of the Caribbean: an Archaeological Perspective"
with Mary Jane Berman, Department of Anthropology
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and Professor of History, Brown University
“The Asian Diaspora in Latin America: 1492 to the Present”
4:30 p.m. Pearson Hall, Room 128

Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures with support from the College of Arts and Science Diversity Initiative, the Etheridge Center for Reflective Leadership, the Department of History, the East Asian Languages Program, the Honors and Scholars Program, Office of Diversity Affairs, the Richard T. Farmer School of Business, and the Se Yung Chung International Fund of the Department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages

Thursday, October, 19, 2006
India through Film: A glimpse into the world’s largest film industry
"Deepa Mehta" (2005) – 114 minutes
Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. Water is an exquisite film about the institutionalized oppression of an entire class of women and the way patriarchal imperatives inform religious belief. This final chapter in Deepa Mehta’s trilogy was shelved the first time it was being filmed due to angry mobs destroying the sets. Mehta then restarted the film several years later with a whole new cast, in a secret location, and with a fake running title.
7:00 p.m. Bachelor Hall, Room 101

Sponsored by Film Studies with support from the Center for American and World Cultures , the Office of Diverse Student Development, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the Western College Program, and the Women's Center.

Friday, October 20, 2006
Latin American Film Festival (September 5-Novemebr 14)
Cerebrating the Life and Times of Evita: History, Literature and Film Festival - "Evita" (with Madonna)
7:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Discussion to follow

For more information, contact Professor Raul Ianes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 529-5216.
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from the Center for American and World Cultures.

(Part of the UniDiversidad Program)

Tuesday, October 24
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Guantanamera (1995, Tomas Gutierrez Alea (Cuba)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
Storms Systems and their Impact on Caribbean Environments and Peoples
with R. Hays Cummins, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Todd Hasak-Lowy, Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature,
University of Florida
Reading from Todd's book of stories, "The Task of This Translator"
5:30 p.m. Alumni, Room 1

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of English Program in Creative Writing with support from the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of French and Italian.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Forum and Discussion on Religious Climate and Diversity at Miami
University

4:30 p.m. Heritage Room, Shriver Center

Moderator: Susan Mosley-Howard, Dean of Students, Division of Student
Affairs

Presenters will speak briefly on their topics (summaries provided in
attachments). This will be followed by q and a. There will be a
reception that will begin shortly before the event begins.

Reception Facts and Figures--How Diverse are We?
Denise Krallman, Office of Institutional Research

Survey on relgiion--How Tolerant are We?
Leslie Morrow, Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Qeer
Affairs

Religious Harassment and Discrimination: a View from Student Affairs
Rob Abowitz, Office of Residence Life

Church vs. State, State vs. Church: Religion and the Constitution
John P. Forren, Honors and Scholars Program

Religion in the Classroom: Balancing Belief, Practice, and Pedagogy
James Hanges, Department of Comparative Religion

Interfaith Understanding: What are We Doing at Miami University?
Whitney Barth, Interfaith Circle
Julye Bidmead, Department of Comparative Religion

Promoting Religious Diversity and Respect: a View from the Outside
Elioiza Domingo-Snyder, Office of Diversity Affairs

Co-sponsored by the University Multicultural Council and the Center for
American and World Cultures

For more information, please call 9-8309.
Please contact the Office of Disability Resources, 529-1541 at least
one week prior to the event to request accommodations such as real time
captioning or sign language interpreters.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Todd Hasak-Lowy, Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature,
University of Florida
An academic lecture on Israeli literature of the second intifada
6:00 p.m. Irvin, Room 40

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of English Program in Creative Writing with support from the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of French and Italian.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
India through Film: A glimpse into the world’s largest film industry
"Black: Sanjay Leela Bhansali"(2005) – 124 minutes
The inspiring story of a deaf, mute and blind girl who lives in devastating isolation until one day, a battle weary teacher enters her life. With a single minded obsession, he takes up a challenge that is next to impossible – to lead this wild, uncontrollable child into the light of knowledge. Thus begins the story of two headstrong individuals. They will overcome failures, obstacles, even ridicule, as they tread the path less taken.
7:00 p.m. Bachelor Hall, Room 101

Sponsored by Film Studies with support from the Center for American and World Cultures , the Office of Diverse Student Development, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the Western College Program, and the Women's Center.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Marysa Navarro will speak on the life and times of Evita
7:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from the Center for American and World Cultures.

This is part of the “Cerebrating the Life and Times of Evita: History, Literature, and Film Festival”
For more information, contact Professor Raul Ianes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 529-5216.

(Part of the UniDiversidad Program)

Saturday, October 27-28, 2006
Steel Band
8:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium

Presented by the School of Fine Arts Department of Music
Topic: Caribbean Music

For more information contact Chris Tanner, 529-3082.

Monday, October 30, 2006
Piotr Salwa
"Mediterranean Studies: Challenging Traditional Disciplinary
Approaches"

3:00 p.m MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Monday October 30, 2006
"Remembering and Rethinking the Nicaraguan Revolution"
4:00 p.m., Harrison Hall, Room 111

Speakers:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Professor (Emerita), Department of Ethnic
Studies, California State University, Haywood
"National Liberation Movements, Indigenous Self-Determination, and U.S. Imperialism: the Contra War, A Case Study"
Ileana Rodriguez, Humanities Distinguished Professor, Department of
Spanish Literature, The Ohio State University
"Between Hope and Disenchantment: Memories and Historical Archives"
Greg Grandin, Associate Professor, Department of History, New York
University
"Empire's Workshop: Ronald Reagan's Central American Policy as Precursor to Bush's War on Terror."

Organized by Professor Peter Rose and sponsored by the Bishop Debate
Society, Center for American and World Cultures, Department of Classics,
Department of English, Department of Sociology and Gerontology,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Studies
Program, and the Grayson Kirk of the International Studies Program

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
“Floristic affinities of the West Indies”
with Vivian Negron-Ortiz, Department of Botany
3:00 - 5:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

Thursday and Friday, November 2-3, 2006.
Paul Stoller, "Living Ritual in the Village of the Sick"
3:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

Sponsors: Black World Studies, Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Dept. of Anthropology, Miami Hamilton Office of Multicultural Student Services

Thursday, November 2, 2006
"India through Film: A glimpse into the world’s largest film industry"
Sarkar: Ram Gopal Varma (2005) – 125 minutes
Inspired by the Francis Ford Coppola’s classic ‘The Godfather’, the story of this film is located in an Indian milieu and particularly so in the context of Mumbai’s power superstructure. The title character is a man who has rewritten the law. He has risen with time and circumstance to wield unchecked and autocratic authority over the people living in a so-called democratic form of governance. By nature, he possesses the ability, the charisma, the intelligence and the Machiavellian cunning to control the working of the city, in all its various aspects. He even dispenses justice when the common man cannot obtain it from the law keepers – the government, the police and the judiciary. Sarkar is a volatile film dealing with crime, greed, love, family relationships and retribution.
7:00 p.m. Bachelor Hall, Room 101

Sponsored by Film Studies with support from the Center for American and World Cultures , the Office of Diverse Student Development, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the Western College Program, and the Women's Center

Tuesday,November 7
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Cidade de Deus (2002, English Title: City of God (Brazil)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
Haiti: Environmental Predicaments in Haiti
with Mark Boardman, Institute of Environmental Sciences
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
"A Survivor's Tale: Daniel Alon Speaks Out: 1972 Munich Olympic Games Terror Attack Survivor tells his story"
5:00pm - 6:00pm, Shriver Multipurpose Room C

Sponsored by Students For Israel with support from Center for American and World Cultures, Diversity Affairs Council, Interfaith Circle, Miami Hillel, Miami University Fencing Club, and the Office of Student Affairs

Thursday, November 9, 2006
India through Film: A glimpse into the world’s largest film industry
Iqbal: Nagesh Kukunoor (2005) – 163 minutes
A movie about bravery and the willingness to follow your dream in the face of adversity. The enchanting film is set against the backdrop of the national obsession – cricket! Iqbal is an 18-year-old deaf and mute boy from a small village. He harbors one dream to make it to the Indian national cricket team. Unable to attend any kind of vocational school, Iqbal spends his time on the farms, secretly practicing his passion. His father forbids him from even being part of an academy. A shattered Iqbal picks up the pieces and enlists the help of the town drunk Mohit, who once was a promising cricketer, to coach him. And their journey begins towards the seemingly insurmountable goal of making the national team.
7 :00 p.m. Bachelor Hall, Room 101

Sponsored by Film Studies with support from the Center for American and World Cultures , the Office of Diverse Student Development, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the Western College Program, and the Women's Center

Tuesday,November 14
Latin American Film Festival (September 5 – November 14)
Deus E Brasileiro (2003 English Title: God is Brazilian (Brazil)
7:00 p.m. Art, Room 100

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Wednesday, November 15, 2006.
Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Day
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Shriver Multipurpose Rooms A,B,C

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, the Etheridge Center for Reflective Leadership, the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, the International Studies Program, the Office of Community Engagement and Service, the Office of International Education with support from the Departments of Anthropology and Geography, the Latin American Studies Program and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western College Program

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
"Coral Reefs Ecosystems of the Caribbean"
with Mark Boardman, Institute of Environmental Sciences and R. Hays Cummins, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

Thursday, November 16th, 2006.
Dr. Jinwon Lee, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea.
"Korea and Japan: Distant Neighbors."
6:00 p.m. Leonard Theatre, Peabody Hall, Room 121, Western College Campus.

Sponsored by Center for American and World Cultures, East Asian Studies, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Political Science

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Reza Aslan
"The Future of Islam: Toward The Islamic Reformation"

7:30 p.m. Heritage Room, Shriver Center
(Intersecting Lives Lecture Series)

Saturday, November 18, 2006
Ohanashi
11:00 am - 3:00 pm King Library

www.lib.muohio.edu/ohanashi

Saturday, November 18
Divali Celebration
2:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium


Sponsored by the Indian Students Association with support from the Center for American and World Cultures
The dinner will be held at Talawanda Middle School. Tickets for the performance and dinner will go on sale at the Miami University Box Office, 529-3200
Option A - Divali Performance $5.00
Option B - Divali Performance and dinner $10.00
Option C - Superpack - Divali and Global Rhythms Performance and dinner $15.00

Saturday, November 18, 2006
Global Rhythms
"Hands Across the World"
8:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium

Music from around the world including Latin America and the Caribbean.
Tickets may be purchased from the Miami University Box Office, 529-3200
Option A - Global Rhythms Performance $5.00
Option B - Global Rhythms Performance and dinner $10.00
Option C - Superpack - Divali and Global Rhythms Performance and dinner $15.00

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Professor Thomas George Caracas Garcia, Assistant Professor, Department of Music - Miami University
"Carnaval in Rio: Race, Class and Nationality in Samba School Competitions"
5:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

Seating and dinner ticket availablity are on a first come, first serve basis. Attendees to the presentation will receive a ticket to present at the door for dinner. Due to limited space only persons with a ticket will be admitted into the dinner. There will be only one admission per ticket, so be sure to pick them up when you arrive.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
"Ecotourism and Ecological Sustainability"
with Thomas Klak, Department of Geography
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

December 1st., 2006 - February 28, 2007
Exhibition - MacMillan Hall
Ransome R. Williams

Ransome R. Williams is a graduate of Miami University and studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati receiving his M.D. degree in 1952.
Ransome has enjoyed a life-long interest in the world of the arts and dabbled in many areas eventually concentrating on painting using acrylics primarily.
During the 1960s and 1970s he became more serious about expressing his active interest and began to draw and paint (and learn about painting) with
a group of professional artists. All the exhibited works date from this period.
Ransome is retired from medical practice and teaching, and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
"Where in the World is the Caribbean?" Lecture Series
Summary of Series
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212

For more information contact Professor Mark Boardman, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 529-5811.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Monday, January 15, 2007
Martin Luther King Day
MLK Memorial March and Community Celebration
10:00 a.m.
March will begin at the MLK Memorial Park uptown and end at the
Lutheran Church on S. Campus Ave.


Sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Miami's Black History
Month Committee with support fromDiversity Affairs Council, Office of
Diversity Affairs, Office of Diverse Student Development, Special
Events Funding, Center for American & World Cultures, Hillel, Office of
International Education, Kofenya, Main Street Gourmet, City of Oxford,
Oxford Police Department, Miami University Police Department, Miami
University Gospel Singers, Men of Faith, Bethel AME Youth Choir of
Cincinnati, Choraliers, MergersEloiza Domingo-Snyder Director, Office
of Diverse Student Development Home of the Center for Black Culture &
Learning Future Home of the Barahona Latino Resource Room & the Asian
American Resource Room
Contact names:
Robert Williams: President of Alpha Phi Alpha-(513)607-8989
Thomas Flynn: MLK Event Coordinator-Alpha Phi Alpha-(216)543-2651

 

Wednesday January 17, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"An Inconvenient Truth" (100 minutes, in English). Documentary, 2006 - Directed by Davis Guggenheim
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

January 18, 2007
Dr. William Leap, Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology, American University
"Globalization Comes Home: US Gay Cultures and the Consequences of Flexible Accumulation"
5:00 p.m. 115 Shideler Hall
Reception begins at 4:45 p.m.

Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Office of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Queer Affairs with support from the Department of Anthropology, the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence, the Department of Sociology and Gerontology, the Women's Center, and the Women's Studies Program

Friday, January 19, 2007
Dr. William Leap, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
American University
"(En)Visualizing Literacy: Using Print (and Digital) Posters To Promote Critical Thinking Skills for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Shriver Center, Multi-Purpose Room A
Refreshments will be served.

Co-Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures. Office of
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Services, and the Roger and Joyce
Howe Center for Writing Excellence

To register, please email: CWE@muohio.edu

Friday, January 19, 2007
Kevin Flesher, Research Director for the Centro de Estudos de
Biodiversidade, Micehlin Ecological Reserve in Igrapiúna, Brazil
"The Past, Present and Future of the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest"
3:00 p.m. 218 Pearson Hall

Co-sponsored by ALAS Hamilton, Anthropology, Botany, Center for American and World Cultures, Institute for Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, and Multicultural Services at Hamilton

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"Maria Full of Grace"(101 minutes, in English with subtitles in Spanish), Drama, 2004 - Directed by Joshua Marston.
Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film festival and two major Awards at the Berlin Film Festival
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hal

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Michael Blakey, NEH Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Historical Biology
College of William and Mary

"New York's African Burial Ground: From National Secret
to National Monument"

4:30 p.m. Heritage Room, Shriver Center

Co-Sponsored by the Black History Celebration Committee and the Center for American and World Cultures with support from the American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of History, and the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"Crash" (115 minutes, in English), Urban Drama, 2004 - Directed by Paul Haggis.
"Crash" is an Academy Award-winning drama film. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles. It won three Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing of 2005 at the 78th Academy Awards.
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Fusion
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 pm - Hall Auditorium
Dinner will follow at 5:30 pm at Lower Alexander Hall.

"Fusion" is the Asian American Association's annual cultural show that
highlights the many East Asian cultures represented on campus and our goal
is to culturally enrich Miami and Oxford students and residents. This
year, we are proud to present 7 traditional dances and 3 modern dances
from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Philippines, and Cambodia, slam poetry
artist Reggie Cabico from NYC who will be speaking about his experience as a Gay Asian-American living in the US, and a fantastic authentic dinner
following the show at Lower Alexander Hall featuring catered food from
delicious Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean restaurants.

Bus transportation from Hall Auditorium to Lower Alexander Hall will be provided.
Tickets will be $3 for the show and $5 for show and dinner. They can be
purchased at the Shriver Box office as well as at the door.

For more information, please email Huky@muohio.edu

Co-sponsored by the Asian American Association, the Association Student Government, the Center for American and World Cultures, the Indian Students Association, the Office of Diversity Affairs, the East Asian Studies Program, President Hodge, the Miami Metro, the Shriver Box Office, the Special Facilities Office and the Hall Auditorium Staff

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World" (62 minutes, in English), Documentary, 2003 - Directed by John Scagliotti, A Human Rights Watch Film
Official Selection San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Winner Audience Award Barcelona Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Annual Forum on Islam
"The Middle East in the Midwest"
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Minor with support from the
Center for American and World Cultures and the Grayson Kirk Lecture
Series.
For more information contact Professor Mark Peterson, Department of
Anthropology/International Studies Program, 513-529-5018.

Monday, February 12, 2007
Dr. Spencer Crew, President and Chief Executive Officer, The National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center
"From One Summer Came Many Seasons: Freedom Summer and the Contemporary Civil Rights Movement"
7:00 p.m. 320 King Library

Sponsored by the Miami University Libraries, Black World Studies, Miami
University Art Museum, American Studies, Department of History,School of
Interdisciplinary Studies, Western College Alumnae Association, Morgan
Memorial Lecture, Center for American and World Cultures,and the Jane
Goldflies Fund

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"Daughter of Keltoum" (101 minutes, in Arabic and French, with English subtitles) Drama, 2001 - Directed by Mehdi Charef
2006 National Women's Studies Association Film Festival; 2005 African Studies Association Film Festival; 2001 Toronto Film Festival; Kodak Award, 2002 Mons Festival of Love Films; SIGNIS Jury Award, 2003 Milan African Film Festival
7:00 p.m.212 MacMillan Hall

February 19-21, 2007
Native American programming
212 MacMillan Hall

Click here for more information:
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/

Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Racial Legacies and Learning XVII
Roberto Santiago, Miami Herald Writer
7:30 p.m. Wilks Conference Center Miami University-Hamilton

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean, Miami University-Hamilton,
Office of Multicultural Services, Miami University-Hamilton, Office of
Student Services, Miami University-Hamilton, Center for American and
World Cultures, City of Hamilton Department of Human Relations

Friday, February 23
Race, Class, and Gender Conference
Contact: Professor Cheryl Johnson, 529-4616

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
MU Students from Study Abroad Programs and MU International Students
“Transgressing Boundaries, Facing Challenges and Building Commitments”
3:00 p.m. ­ 5:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall
Reception begins at 2:45 p.m.

The goal of the special event is to create a space and an opportunity for
dialogue among Miami's international students/faculty and Miami'
students/faculty who have studied abroad---to reflect on how this overseas
experience has affected their academic and personal lives; what kinds of
actions/commitments have been made; how this process of crossing physical
and cultural boundaries has enriched their learning experiences abroad; and
how this experience has empowered, challenged and transformed their lives.

Miami University faculty with well-known experience on international
education and study abroad program will facilitate the
discussion/reflection on each round-table, as well as the closing remarks.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Miami University Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg, the Office of Continuing Education and the Office of International Education

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inagural" (59 minutes, in English) Documentary, 2005 Directed by David Sholle
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

 

Monday, March 5, 2007
Ann M. Little,(author of Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England)
"War and Gender in Colonial America and Today"
3:30 p.m. 249 Upham Hall , reception to follow in the McNiff Room, 269
Upham Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Department of History, and the Women's Studies Program.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Women of Color Luncheon
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
MPR A, B, C - Shriver Center

Sponsored by the Women's Center

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Series
"The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War" (78 minutes, in English) Documentary, 2006 - Directed by Patricia Foulkrod
Selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
7:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Thursday, March 8, 2007
Karen O. Kupperman
"Why Jamestown Matters"
4:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cutlures.

March 11-18, 2007
Spring Break
No programming


Monday, March 19, 2007
Dr. Jan Gross, Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society Princeton University
Professor Gross will speak on his recent book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation
5:00 p.m. Leonard Theatre Peabody Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education with support from the College of Arts and Science

For more information: http://his.princeton.edu/info/e47/jan_gross.html
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7018.html
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8347.html

Autgraphed copies of Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz: an
Essay in Historical Interpretation will be available for $25.00, checks
or cash only. If you already own a copy, Professor Gross will be happy
to sign it.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Yale University Folkband
"Tangled Up In Blue"
8:00 p.m. 108 Bachelor Hall

Sponsored by: American Studies and the Wilks Program, Honors and Scholars Program, the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of History

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Dr. Winfried Thielmann, Professor of German as a Foreign Language and Sociolinguistics, University of Munich
"May I call you, you'?"
5:00-7:00 p.m 142 Irvin Hall

Sponsored by GREAL and the Linguistics Program with support from the
Center for American and World Cultures
For more invormation, please contact Professor Ruth Sanders, GREAL,
513-529-2519.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Stop the Hate Rally March
7:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Robert McRuer, Associate Professor Department of English, George Washington University
"Student Writing Across and Against the Disciplines: Extending Cultural Studies Pedagogy"
12:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

This workshop addresses the particular challenges, as well as the promise, of developing student writing in courses conceptualized as interdisciplinary or even anti-disciplinary. Such courses need to attend to the possibility that disciplinary ways of knowing and writing can constrain students’ critical thinking. In this workshop, we will assess the strengths and limitations of two nondisciplinary models of writing for cultural studies classrooms. The first model combines a social science emphasis on how change happens with a humanities emphasis on how meanings are shaped and contested in language. It uses insights gained by an array of fields­such as disability studies, lgbt/queer studies, and others­as they emerged from the “cultural turn” in the humanities and social sciences as well as from a critical attention to writing and rhetoric outside the academy. In the workshop, this combinatory model will be contrasted with a more actively anti-disciplinary model. Examples of student writing about and around the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) will be used to generate discussion of these issues.
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Dr. MrRuer's presentation will be in the Great Room of McMillan Hall from noon to 1:15 on Thursday, March 22. Lunch will be provided for persons who make an advance reservation at <http://www.muohio.edu/write>www.muohio.edu/write.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Robert McRuer, Associate Professor Department of English, George Washington University
" Bad Education; or, Neoliberal Nuptials: Queer/Crip Theory in a Moment of Danger"
5:00 p.m. 115 Shideler Hall
Reception begins at 4:45 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the
Disabilities Studies Minor, and the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence

Monday, March 26 - Thursday, March 29
First Annual African Film Festival
Click here to see the poster
Click here to see program

For more information on the
Festival, contact Dr. Babacar Camara at (513) 727-3358,
camarab@muohio.edu

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Daniel Schowalter, Assistant Professor, College of Communication
Rowan University
"(Re)Imagining American Indianness in the National Museum of the
American Indian
"
5:00 p.m. 135 Kreger Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Departments of Anthropology, and Communication

April 2- April 20, 2007
Chinese Program
"China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes"

April 2- June 1, 2007
"Glimpsing China: A Miami Perspective" A Photographic Exhibit
Part of the China Program
"China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes"

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the "China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes" Committee with support from the Department of Geography

April 5 - April 8, 2007
Oxford International Film Festival
Place: TBA
Time: TBA
Contact: Stephen Murray (murraysj@muohio.edu)

Monday, April 9, 2007
Dr. LuMing Mao, Department of English, Miami University
"Engaging the Chinese Character: from Oracle Bones to a Language of Hybridity"
4:00 p.m. 115 Shideler Hall

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the "China and the World: Facing Changes/Changing Faces" Committee

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Dr. Minxin Pei, Senior Associate and Director, China Program at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"China's Uncertain Future"
4:30 p.m. 115 Shideler Hall


Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the
International Studies Program, and the Office of International Education.
(Part of "China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes")

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Dr. Yihong Pan, Department of History, Miami University
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. University Art Museum

"Rural to Urban: migrant women's stroties," read:
On the move : women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China / edited by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.

Sponsored by the "China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes" Committee

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Dr. Bob Mills, Department of English Language and Literature
King's College, London
5:00 p.m. 40 Irvin Hall

Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian with support from the Center for American and World Cultures
For more information, contact Professor Klosowska, Department of French and Italian

Friday, April 13, 2007
Kuiyi Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism - University of California San Diego
"Beyond Boundaries: Chinese Art in the 21st Century"
4:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall
A reception will follow the presentation.


Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program with support from the
Center for American and World Cultures
(Part of "China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes")

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
"College Coursework, and Extra-Curricular" 101 Tips for China Study Abroad"
Panel Discussion, Q and A, and reception
4:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

Sponsored by the Asian American Association and the "China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes" committee

Thursday, April 19,2007
"Silk Road on the Slant Walk Festival"
3:00- 7:00 p.m. Slant Walk

Sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies

Thursday, April 19,2007
Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats
7:30 p.m. Millett Assembly Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Silk Road Series, and the Performing Arts Series
(Part of "China and the World: Changing Faces/Facing Changes")

Curriculum Discount classes: $6 for students required to see the performance for class and two FREE tickets to instructors who require students to attend the performance.

Saturday, April 21, 2007
Chinese Arts Day- calligraphy, tai chi (taiji), paper folding, dim som (Chinese dumplings, demonstration and meal)
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
To register, please call 529-8309, by April 20th. Please note that you must attend the whole program and that registration is first come, first serve. Children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, Farmer School of Business, Office of Diversity Affairs, and Office of Diverse Student Development.


Tuesday, April 24, 2007
"PAUL FARMER, "A MAN WHO WOULD CURE THE WORLD
Paul Farmer, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine
"Global Vulnerability and Health Care Distribution" Lecture
7:30 p.m. Millett Assembly Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Donald C. Faber Scholar-in-Residence Fund of the Honors and Scholars Program, and the Harry Armogida Memorial Lecture Series Fund of the School of Education and Applied Professions with support from the Black World Studies Program, the Departments of Anthropology, Educational Leadership, Microbiology, Physical Education, Health, and Sports Studies, Sociology and Gerontology, the Graduate School, the Grayson-Kirk Fund of the International Studies Program, the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, the Institute of Environmental Sciences, and the Women's Center

Other events associated with Paul Farmer
Facebook Group Discussion
April 11, 2007 from 3:00-4:00p.m.
April 17, 2007 from 2:00-3:00p.m.
Miami Indian Room, Shriver Center

Tracy Kidder, "Mountains beyond Mountains"
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1298
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=940

Come and join us!
Facebook Group Discussion
http://muohio.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2251452710

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Reception honoring the Opening of the Exhibition:
A Journey for Freedom: Remembering the Mississippi Summer Project
4:30 pm-6:30 pm in Peabody Hall’s 4th floor classroom

Join us as we journey through the summer of 1964 where college students
throughout the United States joined together to fight for justice in
Mississippi. Imagine you’ve volunteered your time for a good cause. It
may give you invaluable real-world experience. It may kill you. It will
change your life forever. Come witness the story of the Freedom Summer,
in the place where the volunteers trained. Learn why the struggle for
Civil Rights in Mississippi is relevant to you. Over forty years later,
have we overcome?

On Display April 26th-May 4th in Peabody’s 4th floor classroom

Curated and Designed by Western College Program 334 and Theatre 393
with Professors Carlyle Brown, Mark McPhail and Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
as part of the "Finding Freedom Summer at Miami University" project,
Center for American and World Cultures and Department of Theatre