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Youth in the Middle East – Film: Persepolis
Film: PersepolisnA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution. (1hr 36min)
Cultural Coffee Hour – Business
Join us for an evening of great conversation! It is a great way to meet new people, discuss international topics and learn about different cultures. Free coffee and cookies provided.
“The Dialogue” documentary showing
The Dialogue is a 68 minute documentary that follows four American and four Chinese university students as they travel together through Hong Kong and Southwest China. Together the students explore each others’ backgrounds and learn cross-cultural communication skills. Their shared travel adventures, the emotion of culture shock, honest confrontations and discoveries about each other become […]
Youth in the Middle East – Film: Speed Sisters
Film: Speed SistersnThe Speed Sisters are the first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East. They’re bold. They’re fearless. And they’re tearing up tracks all over Palestine. (1hr 18min)
Film Showing: “The Visitor”
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.nDiscussion to follow.
Youth in the Middle East – Film: Horses of God
A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003. (1hr 55min)
GIW Cultural Cuisine at Gundersen
The Gundersen cafeteria will be offering Cultural Cuisine as part of Global Initiatives Week. This month’s focus is Native American cuisine, including buffalo, chicken with sage, and wild rice.
GIW Film Screening “A Walk to Beautiful” by Gundersen Global Partners
For Global Initiatives Week Gundersen Global Partners will be screening the 40 minute film “A Walk to Beautiful”, which follows Ethiopian women who suffer from obstetric fistulas, an easily fixed injury that results from difficult child birth, as they get treatment in Addis Ababa.
International Faculty Panel
The International Faculty Panel will feature UWL faculty from multiple countries discussing their experiences in the U.S.nTickets: https://share.uwlax.edu/events-calendar/event/15639/.
The Postville Immigration Raid: Lessons Learned for the 21st Century
Erik Camayd-Freixas, PhD., is a professor of Hispanic studies at Florida International University (FIU). A Harvard-trained communications analyst, social theorist, and expert linguist at federal and state courts, Camayd-Freixas made international headlines with his essay, “Interpreting after the Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History: A personal Account,” and with his book, U.S Immigration Reform and […]
Youth in the Middle East – Lecture: School, Work, and Marriage: Economics & Inequality in the Middle East & North Africa
nLecture: School, Work, and Marriage: Economics & Inequality in the Middle East & North AfricanLecture by Dr. Caroline Krafft of St. Catherine UniversitynCaroline Krafft is an economist specializing in development economics, primarily labor, education, health, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. She collaborates with St. Kate’s students, international non-governmental organizations, and a global network of scholars in her research. Current projects include work on early childhood development, labor market dynamics, life […]
Cultural Coffee Hour – Gender Roles
Join us for an evening of great conversation! It is a great way to meet new people, discuss international topics and learn about different cultures. Free coffee and cookies provided.