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Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, Don't have plans for Fall Break yet?? The I-House is organizing a trip toMayfield Dairy Farm in Athens and Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga onThursday October 9th, 2008.At Mayfield Dairy Farm , you will have an opportunity to see how ice creamand milk are made.At the Tennessee Aquarium you will get to see fish speciesfrom around the world. The cost of the

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Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff On Tuesday, October 7th, the Coffee House Series will be presenting "Guitars of Spain," a group that has musical influences of Cuba, Italy, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, and Portugal. They have performed in over 30 countries, and sure to mesmerize you with their creativity and skill!Come for an evening of romance with Latin American flair! Time: 6pm Location:

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Dear students and scholars, Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions. Title: European Crossroads: changes in tolerance? DATE: Thursday, October 2nd from 6:30 P.M.

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Dear students, faculty, and staff, This is to remind you that our fourth film will be shown on the Thursday night of Oct. 23th in Lindsey Young Auditorium in Hodges Library. It is a film about Brazilian culture. Below is a brief synopsis of the film.on DVD From German director Tom Tykwer, comes this ethereal modern-day fairy tale. Bodo (Furmann) and Sissi (Potente) come together under strange

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Dear students and scholars, Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions. Title: open forum DATE: Thursday, September 25th from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. VENUE: International

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Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff The International House is delighted to invite you to a special Coffee House this Tuesday September 30th, 2008. American games and International Games will be played and taught that night.The event will be held in the I-House Great Room from 6PM to 8PM. Snacks and Drinks will be provided. This is a FREE event, don't miss this great opportunity to learn new

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Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff This Tuesday September 23rd, the International House would like to invite you to a special Coffee House hosted by the UTK Hillel students. The event will take place in the I-House Great Room from 6pm to 8pm. On the program: learning how to make Shofar, tasting of Round Bread, and Presentation by UT students. For more information please call 865-974-4453 or

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The International House is presenting its next culture night on Wednesday September 24th. The culture night will highlight Chinese Culture. There will be traditional Chinese music and instruments, two different martialarts demonstrations, a Chinese fashion show showing many different aspectsof Chinese clothing, and of course Chinese cuisine. The event will be held in the Great Room at the

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Dear students and scholars, Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions. title: English Only: Local decisions to global issues DATE: Thursday, September 18th from 6:30

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Dear students, faculty, and staff, The International House staff is happy to announce the third film of the semester showing on next Thursday night, September 25th at 7:00p.m. in Lindsay Young Auditorium at Hodges Library. The title of the film is "Ridicule". This film was nominated at Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Below please see the plot synthesis from Rotten Tomatoes.

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Dear Students, Staff, and Faculty The International House is delighted to invite you to a special Coffee House on September 16th hosted by Evans Kariuki, a former UT student. He is going to give a talk about how African handcrafting is changing the world. The presentation will take place in the I-House great room from 6pm to 8pm. Snacks and drinks will be provided. If you have any questions

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Dear students and scholars, Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions. DATE: Thursday, September 11th from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. VENUE: International House This week in

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This is to remind you that our second film will be shown this Thursday night in Lindsey Young Auditorium in Hodges Library. It is a 1981 historical film, in which Anthony Quinn stars as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar fighting Mussolini's army prior to World War II. It was directed by Moustapha Akkad. Below is a brief synopsis of the film. In 1929, Italy was still in the 20-year long war with

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Please join the I House for a special Coffee House on Tuesday September 9th, 2008. Geoff Kenney will teach you how to prepare the famous Shrimp and Grits dish. The cooking demonstration will take place in the I-House Kitchen. Spaces are only limited for people who will be attending the cooking demo in the kitchen. So please come by the I-House and sign up for this great event no later than

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This week in Global Hour we will take a look at some issues regarding the execution of Jose Medellin in Texas on August 6, 2008. Last week in our discussion of the Russia-Georgia conflict one person referred to the role of international organizations in such conflicts. This week we will continue that line of discussion in this case with the International Court of Justice finding that this

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The International House is proud to present its first culture night of theyear. On Wednesday September 10th the I-House will host an Indian Culturenight highlighting Indian Culture. There will be Indian Classical Dance, aslide show of Indian Arts, Henna, an introduction to Indian Cinema, andIndian food. The event will be held in the Great Room at the International House onWednesday September

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Culture Nights are events presented by members of different International associations or clubs from UT and organized together with the International House. Each culture night will show some aspects of the culture in a country, such as dances, music, traditional meals and graphic presentations. It provides a great chance to be in another culture without paying the airfare! So be sure not to miss

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Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff The International House would like to invite you to its first Coffee House on September 2nd. Fernando Dreyfus, a new student from Panama will host a Salsa Class from 6 pm-8pm in the International House Great Room. Light refreshments will be provided before the Salsa lesson. If you have any questions please call 865-974-4453 or email us at ihouse@utk.edu .

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Dear students and scholars, Note the start time for Fall 08 term is 6:30 P.M. Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions. This week in Global Hour we will take a look at the

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Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff The International House is delighted to invite you to its Language Tablesprogram for this Fall 2008. The language table program allows students topractice a language with a native speaker in an informal and relaxedsetting. Below you will find the schedule with the days, times, languages,and locations. Every Monday 5:00-6:00pm - English Table, Dining Room 5:00-6

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Hi Students, Faculty and Staff! This is to remind you that our first film will be shown next Thursday night (Aug. 28) in Lindsay Young Auditorium in Hodges Library. It will be a Native American film, which is in the official selection of Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Actor of Tokyo Film Festival. The film is about saving drunk and disorderly Indians in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

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Welcome back to the new semester! As before, we will screen various culturally representative films throughout the semester, each of which will be facilitated by a guest speaker who will elaborate on the film. First, the speaker will give a short introduction focusing on the culture, background, themes of the movie or other things to look for the movie about 15 or 20 minutes. Then we will screen

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Flora is from Shenyang, the cosmopolitan city in Northeast China, where she spent most of her childhood and teenage life; but she feels like she knows more about Southern China than her hometown, for she got her undergraduate degree in Shanghai majoring in Comparative Linguistics and “minoring” in travelling! She has been to many parts of China; either due to the nature of her study or her

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Are you thinking about shopping at affordable prices and looking for more choices? On Saturday July 19th, the International House is organizing a shopping trip to Pigeon Forge Tanger Outlet Mall. Transportation will be provided. The cost of the trip that includes transportation is $3 per person. Please sign up at the International House front desk no later than Thursday July 17th at 5pm. We

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