Life at the I-House
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Conversations About World Affairs, ft Dr. Yasin Sarayrah
Program: Conversations About World Affairs
Speaker: Dr. Yasin Sarayrah
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Time: 7:oopm
Location: The International House Great Room
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Spring 2008 Conversations About World Affairs Schedule
NORTH AMERICA
with Mr. Michell Hicks
Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 7:00pm
MIDDLE & SOUTH AMERICA
with Dr. Charles Hale
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. Scholar in activist research anthropology
Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 7:00pm
EUROPE
with Dr. Milian Bufon
Professor of Political Geography at University of Primorska in Slovenia
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 7:00pm
RUSSIA & NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES
with Dr. Robert Legvold
Marshall D. Shulman Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 7:00pm
NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA
with Dr. Yasin Sarayrah
Jordanian Scholar and owner of Sarayrah Translations, Knoxville
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Conversations About World Affairs, tonight ft. Dr. Robert Legvold
Program: Conversations About World Affairs
Speaker: Dr. Robert Legvold
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Time: 7:oopm
Location: The International House Great Room
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Conversations about World Affairs
We are excited to announce our first Conversations about World Affairs for the spring semester 2008! Tomorrow night, January 29th at 7pm please join us at the International House as we welcome Mr.Michell Hicks, Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. Mr.Hicks has been the Principal Chief since 2003.
The topic for tomorrow night's presentation will be governance of Native American populations. Mr.Hicks will be talking about the modern day business of running a tribe. Also a Certified Public Accountant, Mr.Hicks will help to educate us about the Eastern Band of the Cherokee.
We look forward to seeing you here! A reception with light refreshments will follow the talk.
Please call 974-4453 with any further questions.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Conversations About World Affairs ft. Mr. Melchior Mataki
Speaker: Mr. Melchior Mataki
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Conversations, Tuesday November 13, 2007 ft. Photojournalist Orlando DeGuzman
The International House would like to invite you to join us for our Conversations About World Affairs Series featuring Mr. Orlando De Guzman, a journalist and independent filmmaker based in Indonesia. Mr. De Guzman is the founder of Archipelago Productions, a television documentary company specializing in Asian current affairs and cultural programs. His lecture will focus on the transition to democracy in the Philippines and the persistent problem of impunity in Southeast Asia.
Orlando De Guzman has reported and produced television documentaries for PBS FRONTLINE/World and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Prior to his television work, De Guzman was an independent radio producer who filed ground-breaking stories for Public Radio International’s “The World” program and the BBC. De Guzman’s stories are regularly told from remote regions in Asia and often feature the views and aspirations of ordinary people undergoing extraordinary change. He has covered the Moro rebellion in the southern Philippines, the growing insurgence in Iraq in 2003, and the hidden HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma. De Guzman is originally from the Philippines and is fluent in Filipino and Bahasa Indonesia. In 2006, he was a Blakemore Fellow for Advanced Bahasa Indonesia.
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WORLD AFFAIRS
Speaker: Orlando De Guzman
Title: Transition to democracy in the Philippines and the persistent problem of impunity in Southeast Asia.
When: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7:00pm
Where: The International House Great Room
A reception will be held immediately following this event at the I~House. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Conversations About World Affairs, with the Venerable Pomnyum Sunim
It's time for another installment of Conversations About World Affairs. Our speaker this Thursday November 8, 2007 at 7pm will be the Venerable Pomnyun Sunim, founder of Good Friends: Centre for Peace, Human Rights, and Refugees. His lecture will focus on North Korea and human rights.
The Venerable Pomnyun Sunim was born in South Korea in 1953. Sunim grew up in a time when North and South Korea were in major turmoil. The differences between the two countries were reinforced by the Cold War. Sunim desired to change that. As a Buddhist monk and leader of South Korea's Jung-To (or Blessed Land) Society, he has advanced the cause of reconciliation. He also started the Good Friends: Centre for Peace, Human Rights, and Refugees, which was established in 1996. The organization, Good Friends, strives to implement peace and human rights to displaced people in Asia and other nations worldwide. In 2002, Venerable Pomnyun Sunim was elected to receive the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding.
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WORLD AFFAIRS
Speaker: The Venerable Pomnyun Sunim
Title: North Korean Refugees and human rights
When: Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 7:00pm
Where: The International House Great Room
A reception will be held immediately following this event at the I~House. We look forward to seeing you there!
Labels: CAWA
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Conversations Series featuring Suketa Mehta
As a follow up to our successful Fall debut of our Conversations About World Affairs Series, the International House would like to cordially invite you to join us for the next program featuring Suketu Mehta, world renowned author and finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize Award. Mehta's talk will focus on his experiences and his award-winning book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.Now, I know you may be wondering: Who is Suketa Mehta? Where is Bombay? What was Lost and then Found? and Why should I take time out of my day to listen to his talk? These are all great questions but to obtain the answers you don't want to miss this program. The program will take place, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 7pm in the International House Great Room.
Born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York he is a New York based author whose works have won the Kiriyama Prize, the Hutch Crossword Award, a finalist spot for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR's 'Fresh Air'.
Mehta is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. He has also written an original screenplay for 'The Goddess,' a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner, and 'Mission Kashmir', a Bollywood movie.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Download the full-color flyer (2.5 mb PDF)
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Conversation Series Kick-off, Tuesday September 18, 2007 Featuring Anna Awimbo
Now, I know you may be wondering: Who is Anna Awimbo? What is Microfinancing? and Why is it so important in Africa? These are all great questions but to obtain the answers you don’t want to miss this program.
The program will take place, Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 7pm in the International House Great Room. Ms. Awimbo has more than 10 years of experience working on women’s and youth issues to help identify alternative strategies for poverty alleviation. She speaks frequently at international and national conferences including the annual UN Global Youth Assembly.
Ms. Awimbo is a co-editor of the book, More Pathways out of Poverty, which explores new and revolutionary practices in microfinance and illustrates the challenges involved in lifting clients out of poverty.
Speaker: Anna Awimbo
Title: Microfinancing: Gaining Pace in Africa
When: Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Where: International House Great Room
A reception will be held immediately following this event at the I-House. We look forward to seeing you there!
http://web.utk.edu/~ihouse/documents/cawa-awimbo.pdf
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Conversations About World Affairs
Conversations about World Affairs is a lecture series which features a variety of speakers talking about different regions of the world. The program usually takes place on Tuesdays evenings five times a semester. Speakers present information focusing on a specific world issue or region of the world.See pictures from past Conversations About World Affairs.
Fall 2007 Schedule
September 18 - Anna Awimbo - Microcredit Summit Campaign
Title of her talk: Microfinance Gaining Pace in Africa
September 25 - Suketu Mehta - Author
Title: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
November 8 - The Venerable Pomnyun Sunim - Korean Monk
Title: North Korean Refugees and Human Rights
November 13 - Orlando de Guzman - journalist
Title: Finding Meaning and Compassion in Journalism
December 4 - Mr.Melchior Mataki - Fellow at the University of the South Pacific
Title: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: The Experiences of South Pacific Island Countries
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Monday, April 9, 2007
Freedom of the Press in Russia
Who: Dr. Ivan Zassoursky, speaking on "Freedom of the Press in Russia." Dr.Zassoursky, is currently the head of Convergence Lab, as well as Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University.
What: Conversations about World Affairs, a visiting lecture series co-sponsored by Ready for the World and the International House
Where: International House Great Room
When: Monday, April 9, 7pm
Why: This will be a great opportunity to learn about journalism and freedom of the press in Russia, as well as to learn more about Russian culture and geography.
Labels: CAWA, Guest Speaker, Russia
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Samuel Zbogar, Ambassador of Slovenia
Have you ever wondered how countries are able to join the European Union? What is that admissions process like? Or, have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be the Ambassador of a country to the United States? Below you will find an opportunity to have all those questions and more answered!
Who: The Honorable Mr. Samuel Zbogar, Ambassador of the country of Slovenia to the United States, speaking on the admission of Slovenia into the European Union.
What: Conversations about World Affairs, a visiting lecture series co-sponsored by Ready for the World and the International House
Where: International House Great Room
When: Tuesday, April 3, 7pm
Why: This will be a great opportunity to learn about the European Union and how countries are admitted.
Labels: CAWA, Guest Speaker, Slovenia
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Pendular Movements - Economic Policies in South America since WWII
The International House would like to invite you to join us for our Conversations about World Affairs program with Cecilia Zanetta, a World Bank and international financial consultant to financial institutions in Latin and Central America. This program will take place, Tuesday, February 20th at 7pm in the International House Great Room.
Dr.Cecilia Zanetta is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee. Her main areas of interest include public policy in developing countries with a focus on urban and housing policies, public sector modernization, and sub-national governments.
Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Zanetta has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and other international financial institutions in several countries in Latin and Central America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru. Dr. Zanetta's academic research is aimed at building a bridge between practice and the world of ideas to ultimately improve living conditions in developing countries.
A reception will be held at the I-House following the talk.
Labels: CAWA, Guest Speaker, South America
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