Clark Center for

International

Education| Newsletter

Spring 2016, April 5 – April 20

In this issue:

“Russia and its Role in Contemporary Eastern Europe”, Wednesday, April 6, at

4:30 PM Brockway Hall, Jacobus Lounge

“East, West, and In-Between: Universities in the Arab World”, Thursday, April

7, at 12:00 PM, Old Main Colloquium

“European Union Day Keynote Speaker: The EU and Belarus: From

Confrontation to Dialogue”, Tuesday, April 12, at 4:30 PM, Sperry Room 104

“Brazil's Rio Olympics: Sport Management, Socio-Economics, and Refugees”,

Wednesday, April 13, at 12 PM, Corey Union Fireplace Lounge

“Discoveries from Rapa Nui (Easter Island): New Species and Novel Ideas”,

Thursday, April 7, at 7:00 PM, Sperry Room 105

“A Conversation with Ethan Young”, Wednesday, April 6, at 4:30 PM. Sperry

Room 205

“India's Barefoot College: Women and Community Solar Energy

Development”, Tuesday, April 19, at 4:30pm, Biotechnology Building, G-10

Central Campus, Cornell University

Scholarships: Study Abroad in Transylvania at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-

Napoca, Romania

Foreign Films in SUNY Cortland’s Library: “Daresalam”

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International Events at SUNY Cortland

“Russia and its Role in Contemporary Eastern Europe” Lecture by: Talk by Dr. John Ryder, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success/ Provost & Professor of Philosophy, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE Sponsored by: the Project on Eastern and Central Europe (PECE) and the Clark Center for International Education.

With additional support from ASC and the Faculty Development Committee Small Grants Program

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM Location: Brockway Hall, Jacobus Lounge

Dr. Ryder is a former professor and alumnus from Cortland who has Chaired the Philosophy Department and served as Dean of Arts and Sciences. His talk, ‘Russia and its Role in Contemporary Eastern Europe’ deals with the changing

role of the nation in a post-soviet Europe. He has previously written a book on American thought from a Russo-Soviet lens.

“East, West, and In-Between: Universities in the Arab World”

Lecture by: Talk by Dr. John Ryder, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success/ Provost & Professor of Philosophy, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE Sponsored by: the Project on Eastern and Central Europe (PECE), the Asia-Middle Eastern Studies Committee (AMES),

and the Clark Center for International Education. With additional support from ASC and the Faculty Development

Committee Small Grants Program

Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM Location: Old Main, Colloquium

Dr. Ryder is a former professor and alumnus from Cortland who has Chaired the Philosophy Department and served as Dean of Arts and Sciences. His talk ‘ East, West, and In-Between: Universities in the Arab World’ discusses the Arab

universities through his unique lense as an American professor working as Vice President of the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

“ The EU and Belarus: From Confrontation to Dialogue”

Lecture by: Dr. Larissa G. Titarenko, Belarusian State University

Sponsored by: the Project on Eastern and Central Europe (PECE), and the Clark Center for International Education.

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM Location: Sperry, Room 104

Dr. Titarenko is a visiting Fulbright Professor from the Belarusian State University. Her talk delves into the complex relationship between the Republic of Belarus and the European

Union. Specifically the talk deals with the complexities of Belarus’ status as a buffer state between the European Union and Russia, as well as the political issues inherent in EU-Belarus cooperation.

“Brazil's Rio Olympics: Sport Management, Socio-Economics, and Refugees”

Panel by: Dr. Flavia Dantas of the Economics Department, Dr. Genevieve Birren of the Sport Management Department, and Dr. Justin Lovich of the Sport Management Department. The Panel is moderated by Dr. Alexandru Balas, Director the Clark Center for International Education, and Coordinator of the International Studies Program Sponsored by: Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 12 PM Location: Corey Union, Room 219 Fireplace Lounge

The Olympic Games will be organized for the first time in South America, and for the second time in Latin America. This panel will tackle issues related to sport governance, organizing mega-events, socio-economic impacts of such mega-events on the local communities, and also with the first Olympic Games in modern history where refugees can participate as independent athletes.

"Cortland’s Red Scare: Immigration, Radicalism, and Civil Liberties in the Post World War I Period" Lecture by: Dr. Randi Storch, Chair of the History Department Sponsored by: Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee

Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 4:30 Location: Sperry, Room 104

Americans barely paused to celebrate the end of the Great War when the nation jumped right back into conflict. This time the battlefield was in industrial workplaces and urban neighborhoods throughout the country. Discontented with the high rates of inflation, low wages and diminishing government protections, unprecedented numbers of

workers walked off their job throughout 1919. Culminating in a coordinated sequence of eight bombs exploding simultaneously in various cities at the end of 1919, labor’s post-war uprising came to a quick, crushing defeat in the form of a sweeping national red scare, resulting in hundreds of arrests, and deportations and crushing a fragile and

newly established labor movement. Cortland’s Red Scare: Immigration, Radicalism and Civil Liberties in the Post World War I period will tell the story of the city’s newly arrived Ukrainian immigrants and how they got implicated in statewide crackdown against radicalism.

“Discoveries from Rapa Nui (Easter Island): New Species and Novel Ideas” Lecture by: Dr. Jut Wynne, Assistant Research Professor at Northern Arizona University and Research Scientist with the SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center. Sponsored by: the New York State Master Teacher Program,

The Center of Innovation for Education at SUNY Cortland, and the Science Teachers Association on New York State.

Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:00 PM Location: Sperry, Room 105

Dr. Wynne's talk will tell the story of how, approximately 800 years ago, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) underwent a massive ecological shift, transforming from lush, palm-dominated woodland to grassland. This shift, timed with the arrival of the ancient Polynesians, resulted in island-wide extinctions of most native plant and animal species. However, starting in

2008, several native invertebrates – all new to science and restricted to Rapa Nui caves – have been discovered. Join us as Dr. Wynne discusses how these animals were able to survive underground and the efforts underway to protect some of the most imperiled cave animals on the planet.

“A conversation with Ethan Young” Lecture by: Ethan Young, author of Nanjing: The Burning City Sponsored by: The President’s Office, the Haines Fund, and the English Department

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM

Location: Sperry, Room 205

Join illustrator and graphic novelist Ethan Young for a discussion of his graphic novel Nanjing: The Burning City. The novel deals with the tragic World War II invasion of Nanjing by Japan, and deals with themes of war, loss, and defiance. The Burning City was an Honorable Mention in Publisher Weekly’s “Best Graphic Novels” of 2015.

International Activities in the SUNY Cortland

Area

“India's Barefoot College: Women and Community Solar Energy Development” Lecture by: Sanjit Roy, Meagan Fallone Sponsored by: Syracuse University South Asia Center, Atkinson Center; AWARE (Advancing Women in Agriculture through Research and Education); International Programs/CALS; South Asia Program TFI Funds; and the Tata-Cornell Initiative.

Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 4:30pm Location: Biotechnology Building, G-10 Central Campus, Cornell

University

This South Asia Program (SAP) event is a public lecture by Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, Founder of internationally acclaimed Barefoot College of India and CEO of Barefoot College International, Meagan Fallone. The only college built by and for the rural poor with a focus on decentralising and demystifying technology, placing it in the hands of

those most in need. Its "Barefoot Approach” to empowering communities towards self-sufficiency is grounded on the lifestyle and work style of Mahatma Gandhi. They will speak about the “barefoot solutions” that have transformed rural people—especially women—into powerful agents of change in their communities. From solar energy,

water, education, and health care to rural handicrafts, the “solutions” are unique and exemplified by the award-winning architecture of the College itself—designed and built by villagers for villagers. (Cornell University)

Fellowship, Grant & Scholarship

Announcements

Study Abroad in Transylvania at Babes-Bolyai University,

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Fall 2016 Semester

1 Scholarship: Round-Trip Flight + Monthly Stipend Paid by

the European Union’s Erasmus+ Key Action 1 Program

Deadline: April 15, 2016

Babes-Bolyai University is the largest university in Romania. Courses offered in English. You can also take courses in any of

these other languages: Romanian, Hungarian, German, and French.

Who is eligible?

Undergraduate Students in the following disciplines:

International Studies Political Science

Finances and Banking / Management /Business Administration Journalism / Communication

Public Health Modern Languages

Why?

Study in Central Europe Very international university and college town

Up to 1,200 Euros round-trip flight paid by UBB (Syracuse- Cluj-Napoca ~ 1,000 Euro)

750 Euros/month for 5 months stipend from UBB Low Cost of Living (~50 Euro/month/dorm room)

Upload applications by April 15 to the International Programs Office’s website. For more information please check the study abroad website for Babes-Bolyai University here.

Foreign Films @ SUNY Cortland

In this section, every issue, we will recommend a foreign film from the list of foreign films available online through the Memorial Library’s portal. There are approximately 160 foreign films in the

library from about 50 countries. Everyone on campus has access to these films. We would like to encourage everyone to expand their

cinematic experience by watching films from different parts of the world. For this week’s newsletter we have chosen the film “Daresalam”

“Daresalam” (Let There Be Peace) (Chad, 2000)

Access Film

“Chad-born director Issa Serge Coelo makes a more than respectable feature debut with “Daresalam,” a tale of friendship fractured by politics in the fictitious North African country of the title. Technically well-honed outing — Coelo, who trained in Paris, has also worked as a d.p. — is let down by an occasionally didactic script but otherwise forges strong characters etched by the winds of history. This is ideal fare for cable and Eurowebs.

Djimi (Haikail Zakaria) and Koni (Abdoulaye Ahmat) are childhood friends in a small village squeezed by government taxes. Following

a revolt that leads to most of the villagers being massacred, both men sign up with the rebel forces, from which Koni later leaves to join a splinter group. Djimi turns out to be the more idealistic of the pair, and Koni the more pragmatic. Smoothly edited, and mellifluously scored, pic features some striking use of landscape and desert, and even manages to mount convincing battle sequences on a slim budget. Djimi’s political education is handled rather awkwardly in a couple of dialogue sequences, but acting generally is fine. Film was shot in Chad a year ago.” (Variety)

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