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2010-2011 Events

SPRING 2011 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM

Most lectures are open to the public. Global Lunch discussions are for students and faculty/staff only.

  • Simon Hawkins
  • Global Lunch Discussion
  •  The Uprising in Tunisia
    Professor Simon Hawkins
    Mon. Jan. 24, 12-1 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

  • Carl Pike
  • Global Lunch Discussion
  •  GMO  - Genetically Modified Organic
    Professor Carl Pike
    Mon. Feb. 7, 12-1 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

  • Egyptian/Tunisian flag
  • Faculty Roundtable discussion
  • Fears and Realities of the Protest Movements in Egypt and the Arab World 
    Professors Simon Hawkins, Sylvia Alajaji, Rob Riggs and Arabic Language Program Director Uri Horesh 
    Tues. Feb. 8, 4:30 p.m.
    Brooks House Great Room
    Co-sponsored by Africana Studies

  • Layli Miller-Muro
  • Layli Miller-Muro
  • Ending Violence Against Women: a Prescription for the Progress of Mankind
    Human rights lawyer and Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
    Mon., Feb. 21 @ 7:30 p.m.
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall
    Human Rights Awareness Week Speaker

  • Human Trafficking image
  • Human Trafficking Workshops
  • Tues.  Feb. 22 @ 11:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
    Registration is necessary -  contact Valeri.Harteg@fandm.edu
    Woods Memorial Meeting Room, Alumni Sports & Fitness Center (pizza will be served)
    Human Rights Awareness Week event

  • Ngwarsungu Chiwengo
  • Ngwarsungu Chiwengo
  • Silenced Voices and Marked Bodies: Representation and Transcendence of Congolese Trauma
    Dr. Chiwengo is a Congolese scholar of African and African-American literature
    Tues., Feb. 22 @ 7:30 p.m.
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall
    Human Rights Awareness Week Speaker

  • John Predergast's The Enough Moment
  • John Prendergast
  • How We're Fueling the Deadliest War in the World: Our Cell Phones and Congo's Conflict Minerals
    Author, human rights activist and founder of The Enough Project
    Thurs., Feb. 24 @ 7:30 p.m.
    Schnader Theater, Roschel Performing Arts Center
    Keynote speaker for Human Rights Awareness Week


  • from the documentary "Reporter" about Nicholas Kristoff
  • REPORTER
  •  A documentary film about Nicholas Kristof
    Wed. Feb. 23 @ 7:30 p.m. (90 minutes)
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall
    Human Rights Awareness Week

  • Stephanie McNulty
  • Global Lunch Discussion
  • Latin American Women & Politics
    Professor Stephanie McNulty
    Tues. March 29,  12-1 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

  • Nancy Rose Hunt & Lynn Morgan
  • Nancy Rose Hunt and Lynn Morgan
  • Women's Health and Human Rights: A Global Agenda
    Wed., March 9 @ 8 p.m.
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall
    International Women's Day Keynote Speakers

  • Miroslav Volf
  • Miroslav Volf
  • Allah: A Christian Response
    Volf is Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology
    Thurs. March 31, 8 p.m.
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall

  • Poverty & Injustice Conference 4/2011
  • Poverty & Injustice Conference 2011
  •  The F&M student organization THRI (The Human Rights Initiative) invites you to the first annual Poverty & Justice conference, held on the F&M campus April 1-3. Please click the link to learn the details.

  • Lee Ann Fujii
  • Lee Ann Fujii
  •  Re-examining the Genocide in Rwanda
    Professor Fujii is the author of Killing Neighbors: Webs of violence in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2009). 
    Tuesday, April 19 @12 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

Fall 2010  INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM

  • Organic gardens
  • Global Lunch Discussion
  • Food Sovereignty
    Professor Linda Aleci 
    Mon.  Sept. 20,  12 -1 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

  • Arab-Jew image
  • Lecture by David Rabeeya
  • The mid-20th century Arab Jewish and Palestinian Refugee Experience 
    Wed. Sept. 22 at 4:30 p.m.
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall

  • food at market
  • Global Lunch Discussion
  • In Search of the Sustainable Diet
    Professor Alexa Forrester  
    Tues. Oct. 5,  12 -1 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

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  • The Iraqi Seed Project
  • Local agriculture in a global context
    Sponsored by Center for Liberal Arts and Society (CLAS) and International Studies Program
    Tues. Sept. 28 at 5 p.m.
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall

  • Global Commons, Joseph International Center
  • Homecoming Open House
  • Join Professor Lisa Gasbarrone and Dean Patti Brown for an open house and discussion about  F&M Going Global.
    Sat. Oct. 30  2:30-4:30 p.m. 
    Joseph International Center, 701 College Ave.

  • David Turnley
  • David C. Turnley
  • Exposing Humanity 
    Tues. Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. 
    Adams Auditorium, Kaufman Hall

  • South Africa
  • Global Lunch discussion
  •  South Africa Today: Reporting Back from a Delegation of Historians
    Professor Van Gosse
    Tues. Nov. 16, 12-1 p.m.
    Joseph International Center

  • Joseph International Center
  • Humanity in the Midst of War
  •  An Introductory Course in International Humanitarian Law
    Sat. Dec. 4 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (lunch provided)
    Joseph International Center
    Registration is Required