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  • Café Milano
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  • Hi Tech Burrito
  • Lonely Planet
  • Looney’s BBQ
  • Mario’s La Fiesta
  • Quizno’s
  • Reprint Mint
  • Sather Gate Jewelers
  • The Musical Offering
  • University Press Books
  • YWCA

 



 

International Education Week
November 12-16, 2007

International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and Department of Education and has been celebrated in the United States on an annual basis since 1999. Universities and schools nationwide have set aside the week to raise awareness on international exchange and cultural exchange.

In honor of the 4500+ international students and scholars on campus, Berkeley International Office is collaborating with the Berkeley Programs for Study Abroad and other campus units to observe the second annual International Education Week at UC Berkeley. We hope International Education Week will be an opportunity for you to learn something new about our global community at UC Berkeley.

 Events at UC Berkeley

  Monday, November 12

  • Martial Arts General Class, I-House Auditorium, 5-6:30 PM
  • Tango Dance Instruction, I-House Auditorium, 8-9:30 PM (partner unnecessary)
  • International Film " Water" (India, 2005), Unit 2 Recreation Room, 8pm    
  • International Film, "The Lives of Others"  (Germany, 2006), Unit 4, Foothill DC TV Lounge, 7pm
  • International Film “Dawaz,” I-House Ida/Robert Sproul Room, 
    10 PM-Midnight
    Examines the unusual skill of tightrope-walking in Uyghur culture (Kazakhstan and Pakistan)

  Tuesday, November 13

  • Kick Off Event, Sproul Plaza, 12-1pm
    International Dance Performances and Music!
  • Seminar: Ruth Gidley from Reuters Presents AlertNet, North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, 12:30-2pm, Sponsored by Journalism
  • Turkish and Korean Language Tables, I-House Dining Hall, 6:30-8PM
    These are tables at which native speakers and advanced/intermediate/beginning non-native speakers can converse informally in the given languages (not a lesson or tutoring situation.)  
    I-House members and non-residents welcome.
  • Film and Discussion:" Latcho Drom" (history of the Gypsies from India to Spain).
    Presentation by C.J. Singh, I-House Home Room, 7-10pm
  • International Film, " Kilometer Zero" (Iraq/Kurdistan, 2006), 2650 Durant, Unit 1 Central Administrative Building, lower level All Purpose Room, 8pm. A story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis in the context of the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, told from the perspective of a Kurdish soldier.
    Guest speakers: Omar Fekeiki, former Washingtom Post Special Correspondent, Baghdad and graduate student in the UCB School of Journalism, and Shayee Khanaka, UCB Librarian, Middle Eastern Collection.  Film will be followed by a Q&A discussion.
    Screening is in collaboration with Global Lens film series of San Francisco http://www.globalfilm.org/
  • International Film, "The Flute Player" (Cambodia), I-House Ida/Robert Sproul Room, 10 PM to midnight.
    A young Cambodian male seeks to rebuild the lost arts of Cambodia finding many traditional artists and art in hiding or exile to save classical art forms from extinction.  

  Wednesday, November 14

  • Workshop: 2 Year Home Residency Requirement for J-1 Visitors, I- House, 10am-11:30. Sponsored by Berkeley International Office.
  • Mega Passport Event , RSF, 11-2pm
    Apply for your U.S. passport! Music! Food! Prizes! See event details here.
  • Colloquium: Balancing To Tourism Development And Cultural Site Preservation Along The Red Sea Coast, 315A Wurster Hall, 1-2pm
    Sponsored by Environmental Design
  • Seminar: Arsenic in drinking water: ecologic and case-control studies in northern Chile: Epidemiology Research Seminar Series, 101 Morgan Hall, 1-2pm, Sponsored by Public Health
  • Lecture: Being Chinese and Modern: Three Unlikely Case Studies
    Sarah Fraser, Associate Professor, History of Art, Northwestern University,
    308J Doe Library, 4:15 pm, Sponsored by Art History
  • Career Panel:  "Acing the Job Interview: Tips and Tricks for International Students", 5:30-7pm, Barrows Hall Room 56.
    Hear about interview do's and don'ts from UC Berkeley international students.  Learn how a global perspective and language skills can be used to your advantage.
  • Ethnic Music Coffee Hour: Jazz, Brazilian and Rock! I-House Great Hall, 9-10 PM
  • SERVAS (intercultural peace and hospitality network) Dinner & Presentation
    I-House Dining Hall and Home Room, 6-9 PM, See I-House web site for more information.
  • Study Abroad Fair, Unit II All Purpose Room, 5-7pm
  • International Film, "Tsotsi" (South Africa, 2005), Unit 4, Foothill DC TV Lounge, 7pm 
  • International Film, "Motorcycle Diaries" (Argentina et al, 2004), Unit 1, Putnam Lounge, 8pm
  • International Film, "Rosenstrasse" (Germany), I-House Ida/Robert Sproul Room, 10 PM to midnight.
    German housewives in World War II Berlin mass outside of Nazi jail, braving severe intimidation and eventually winning release of their Jewish husbands. 

  Thursday, November 15

  • Lecture: “Get Rich or Try Dyin’: The Politics of Youth Development in Zambia,”Bechtel Conference Room, Alumni House, Noon-1:30 pm
    Laura Hubbard, Anthropology Lecturer
  • Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Constructing Global Citizenship at Cal:
    Research, Practice, Service     12 noon, The Geballe Room, The Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
    Speaker: Ananya Roy, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the
    Division of International & Area Studies
  • Seminar: The Specter of Affirmative Action in French Higher Education, CSHE Library, South Hall Annex , 12:15pm, Sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education
  • Lecture: "Roots and Branches: Transformations of Mobility, Identity, and the Sacred in Europe and the Middle East," 340 Stephens Hall, 5pm
  • Samba Lessons (no partner needed), I-House Auditorium, 5-6:30pm
  • Italian Cultural Theme Dinner, I-House Dining Hall, 6-8 PM
  • Seminar: International Students and the Roots of Diversity at Cal, The Bancroft Library Reading Room, 2121 Allston Way, 6pm, Sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education
  • Lecture: "The Myth of National Culture", I-House Home Room, 7:30-9pm,
    Speaker: Dr. David McGaffey
  • International Film, " Enough" (Algeria/France, 2006),   2650 Durant, Unit 1 Central Administrative Building, lower level All Purpose Room, 8pm Set in war–torn Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! follows two women on the dangerous search for the younger woman's husband, a journalist whose writings resulted in his disappearance.
    Guest speakers: Nour-El-Houdda Touafek, graduate student in the UCB Department of French and Professor Soraya Tlatli, specialist on both Algeria and on film, also of the UCB Department of French. Film will be followed by a Q&A discussion.
    Screening is in collaboration with Global Lens film series of San Francisco http://www.globalfilm.org/     

  Friday, November 16

  • Colloquium: "Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan"
    IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, 12-2pm
    sponsored by Institute of East Asian Studies
  • Lecture: "How European is Europe?", 201 Moses Hall, 3-5pm
    sponsored by Dutch Studies
  • International Film, "The Bird People in China" (Japan, 1998), Unit 1, Deutsch Lounge, 8pm      
  • International Film, " The Haunting of M," (UK), I-House Ida/Robert Sproul Room, 10 PM to Midnight.
    This ghost story, set in central Europe, centers on the plight of elderly dowager who is tormented by the spectre of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion.

Saturday, November 17

  • International Film, "Scent of Green Papaya" (Vietnam), I-House Home Room, 10 PM to midnight.
    A Vietnamese girl goes to a house as a servant, but is considered by the family mother to be reincarnation of a daughter the same age who died. 
  • ASHA for Education (student non-profit org.) Indian Cultural Performance in the I-House Auditorium, 3:30-5:30 and 6-8 PM (identical performances).