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Reception, exhibit set Thursday for visiting Chinese artists
SUNY Fredonia will host a welcoming reception for five visiting Chinese artists from the Shangyuan Art Museum Residency program on Thursday, Oct. 24, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Reed Library lobby. The artists will exhibit their work and demonstrate Chinese ink drawing techniques at the gathering, which is being hosted by the College of Visual and Performing Arts, International Education Center and Provost’s Office.
Latinos Unidos to host BombaYo! celebration this week
SUNY Fredonia will host BombaYo! for three lectures/workshops to celebrate the Afro Puerto Rican tradition of Bomba. The Latinos Unidos and Orchesis event will include a variety of Latin music for an interactive celebration. The first lecture/workshop is Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Rosch Recital Hall; the next on Thursday, Oct. 10, in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room; and the third on Friday, Oct.11 in Mason Hall Room 1080. Each starts at 8 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
SUNY Fredonia Convocation Series continues with 'Folk Song Festival'
SUNY Fredonia’s 2013 Convocation series, "Raising Cultural Awareness and Building Global Relations," continues to celebrate diversity this semester through a Folk Song Festival, designed to blend music, history and culture together to promote cultural awareness and explore multiculturalism within the community. The festival will take place Monday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m., in the Williams Center's Multipurpose Room.
Learn about study abroad programs at fair
Students interested in pursuing international educational adventures are invited to visit the Study Abroad Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m., at...
Izmir University of Economics professor to discuss condom ad campaign
Izmir University of Economics Professor Yesim Kaptan will give a presentation focused on how an advertising agency in Istanbul, Turkey, created an advertising campaign that constructed a new identity based on the intersections of race, discourse of disease and gender for Benetton condoms. The presentation -- the first of this semester's International Learning Brown Bag talks -- will take place on Monday, Sept. 9, at 1 p.m. in 127 Fenton Hall (a.k.a., the English Reading Room).
Ceremony welcomes 40 new international students
SUNY Fredonia will host a welcoming ceremony Wednesday for more than 40 international students who will be among some 230 international students who have enrolled at SUNY Fredonia this fall. These students are from Canada, China, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey and the West Indies. Fifteen graduate students from Saudi Arabia are among the new Fredonians. Flags of these students’ homelands will be placed on the Rosch stage.
Chance to visit, study India next year offered through Religious Studies course
Dr. Dale Tuggy, professor of Philosophy and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Religious Studies, created and leads the course that visits India during J-Term. “I’ve learned and taught about Indian philosophies and religions for years, and I think India is historically, politically, and economically important. It’s a huge country, bursting with peoples and cultures."
Nefin Dink's new film garners Istanbul Film Festival award
“The Memoirs of Antoine Kope,” a documentary film project now under development by SUNY Fredonia Film professor Nefin Dinc, received the Binger Lab Award at the Istanbul Film Festival. The film will be based on the memoirs of an Austro-Hungarian foot soldier stationed in Istanbul during World War I and was one of 12 projects – selected from among 159 applications – to be presented during a two-day workshop before an international jury at the festival held April 5-12. The film will be released during the centennial of the “Great War.”
Turkish Association hosts dinner Wednesday
The Turkish Association Student Club at SUNY Fredonia will host its first Turkish Dinner on Wednesday, April 17, at 6 p.m. at the Williams Center Horizon Room.
International students to be focus of April 3 'Brown Bag' talk
Student perspectives in higher education from an international viewpoint will be featured at the next College of Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 3, at noon at S204 Williams Center. Six international students – Fawaz Alrouqi, of Saudi Arabia; Gyu Eun Bark and Seungju Lee, Korea; Daniel Palm, Sweden; Meera Sinroja, India; and, Hiroshi Tominaga, Japan – will share their experiences at SUNY Fredonia and how they compare to college life in their home countries. Dr. Jack Croxton of the Department of Psychology, will moderate the panel.