International Education Week

International Education Week 2010:
Celebrating 100 Years of Internationalization

This November 15-19, 2010, The Pennsylvania State University will celebrate International Education Week by commemorating 100 years of internationalization. In 1910, students founded Penn State’s Cosmopolitan Club to “cultivate social intercourse between students of different nationalities and thereby foster the spirit of universal brotherhood.” Today, the essence of this organization lives on in the University’s many nationality clubs, education abroad opportunities, international service learning efforts, and cultural celebrations that promote global citizenship.

The Pennsylvania State University will celebrate this year’s International Education Week with a full schedule of events. The full list is below and an easy-to-print
11" x 17” PDF version of the events list is available here.

To listen to Penn State ComRadio’s news segment on International Education Week, it is available here.

Friday, November 12

Walk for a Better Haiti
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Meet at East Halls
Hosted by: Club Kreyol
Registration: Participants can register for the walk from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the HUB on the following dates: October 15, 18, 26, and 28 and November 1, 8, 9, and 10.

Show your solidarity with the Haitian people by participating in Club Kreyol’s first annual Walk for a Better Haiti. The event will start with a speaker and continue with a walk from the Bryce Jordan Center to Atherton St. and ending at Old Main. A 5-minute moment of silence will conclude the event.

Saturday, November 13

Invention 2 Venture
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 8:40 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center
Hosted by: Penn State College of Engineering Cost: $10 for students, $30 for faculty/staff/alumni, $50 for others
Registration: Please register at www.psu-i2v.com

Entrepreneurial minds will enjoy this one-day workshop on the basics of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, with guest speakers presenting on international themes. Speakers include Paul Polak (founder of International Development Enterprises and author of Out of Poverty), Rajeev Sharma (founder and CEO of VideoMining), Paul Maina (Director of Children and Youth Empowerment Center, Kenya and Microfinance consultant), and David Adewumi (founder of innoblue and Heekya).

Monday, November 15th

Keynote Speaker: Khanjan Mehta
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: 113 IST Building
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP) & Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE)

Khanjan Mehta, senior research associate in the College of Engineering, will present about his recent experiences in Kenya mentoring the Mashavu, WishVast, and EssentialDesign teams as part of the Penn State Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) initiative. Hear the behind-the-scenes stories that the cameras didn’t capture in the Global Penn State television pilot in which Khanjan and his students tackled challenges related to health care, unemployment, renewable energy, and food production in Kenya.

Traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony
Audience: All are welcome
Time: Stop by between 12:15 and 2:30 p.m.
Location: Tea House in 34 Ritenour Building
Hosted by: Traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony (GongFu Cha) Club
Price: Free! Usually $3.00 per person, but price is waived for International Education Week

Get a sneak peek at the Traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony Club’s new Tea House in 34 Ritenour Building, which will have a grand opening in March of 2011. The price of the tea experience will be waived as a special International Education Week treat. Stop back soon for a link to the Traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony Club’s Web site, which is in progress.

PSU Traditions
Audience: All are welcome, but targeted toward international student and their families
Time: 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Foster Auditorium on the first floor of the Paterno Library
Hosted by: Penn State University Libraries

Join University Archivist Jackie Esposito for this gallery talk regarding the various Penn State histories and traditions. Especially for international students and their families, the gallery talk will take place in Foster Auditorium on the first floor of the Paterno Library.

International Student Panel Discussion
Audience: All are welcome, but targeted toward Penn state staff members Time: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: 508 Rider Building or via Polycom
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP)
Registration: Participants are encouraged to register ahead of time so that we know how many attendees to expect: http://tinyurl.com/IEWStudentPanel

Students and Scholars from different cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds will discuss their academic and social life at Penn State including their expectations prior to enrolling at Penn State. They will also share similarities and differences from a cross-cultural perspective. This program will help participants:

Understand cultural perspectives from a student point of view
Determine ways to enhance current practices and procedures
Identify programming needs for students
Determine ways to enhance support services

Tuesday, November 16th

International Opportunities Fair
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Heritage Hall, HUB
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP)

Been abroad and yearn for more? Looking for your first international experience? Visit the International Opportunities Fair to explore opportunities for volunteering, interning, and working abroad, as well as local opportunities for broadening international awareness. Fair trade coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.

“Being There: A Life in Photography,” a lecture by Maggie Steber
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Palmer Lipcon Auditorium in the Palmer Museum of Art.
Hosted by: School of Visual Arts

In this Fall 2010 School of Visual Arts John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture, Maggie Steber (a National Geographic photographer) will be giving a talk and presenting a slide show of her photographs from Haiti and other parts of the world. Her stunning images from Haiti in the 1980s-90s are published in the book Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti (published by Aperture).

Noontime Performance: Korean Rapper Terry Choi
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Ground floor of the HUB-Robeson Center
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP)

Rapper Terry Choi and singer Kevin Ho (performing artists from Korea) will share their talents with Penn State in this special noontime International Education Week performance.

Humphrey Fellow Country Presentation: China & Egypt
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
Hosted by: Humphrey Fellowship Program

The Humphrey Fellowship Program is a one-year, non-degree program of combined academic and professional development opportunities. It brings accomplished mid-career professionals from designated countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East to selected universities in the United States for public service, advanced study, professional training, and work-related experiences. Humphrey Fellows will be presenting about their countries of origin from October through December, with the presentation on China and Egypt falling during International Education Week. Please view the flyer for a full schedule of presentation dates.

Speaker: Rita Golden Gelman
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: 113 IST Building
Hosted by: Global Ambassadors (student organization) and the University Office of Global Programs (UOGP)

The Global Ambassadors student organization welcomes Rita Golden Gelman, author of Tales of a Female Nomad, to Penn State. In 1986, at the age of 48, Gelman became a modern-day nomad. Hear about her extraordinary journey and how it prompted her to create the Let’s Get Global nonprofit organization in this special International Education Week lecture.

Wednesday, November 17th

Cultural Lunch: Venezuela
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 12:00 noon
Hosted by: Global Connections
Registration: E-mail globalconnections@ip.psu.edu

Join Global Connections (a community non-profit organization) for a meal celebrating Venezuelan culture featuring a buffet lunch and presentation. Please e-mail globalconnections@ip.psu.edu to reserve a space at this event and to find out the location of the Cultural Lunch.

International Movie and Soup
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Study Abroad Lounge, 122 Agricultural Administration Building
Hosted by: College of Agricultural Sciences

The College of Agricultural Sciences invites you to the Study Abroad Lounge for some soup and to watch The Girl From Paris, a movie about a computer expert from Paris who decides to move away from the city and begins to study agriculture.

A Conversation with Lisa See
Audience: Participants in the Community Read
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP) & Penn State University Libraries
Registration: Please register for the teleconference at www.tinyurl.com/LisaSeeConvo

Critically-acclaimed bestselling author, Lisa See, will engage in a discussion about her most recent novel, Shanghai Girls. The book is a tale of two sisters who leave Shanghai, China in 1937 and venture to Los Angeles in arranged marriages. Those who have participated in the Community Read are encouraged to join Lisa via teleconference to speak to the author one-on-one about the novel that Booklist calls a “buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.”

World Affairs Forum Panel Discussion:
I Am a Muslim: Personal Reflections on Islam
Audience: All are welcome. No Charge.
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Schlow Centre Region Library, Community Room
Hosted by: Global Connections

The annual world Affairs Forum, sponsored by Global Connections, brings global issues to the community for public discussion. Global Connections is a community-based organization that fosters intercultural community and understanding.

Milking the Rhino
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 6:00 p.m. for film screening, 7:30 p.m. for Innovative Solutions Showcase
Location: HUB Auditorium
Hosted by: Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) and the Office of Student Activities EdAware Program Series

Milking the Rhino is a documentary that explores the complex relationships between people and wildlife in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides the context for students to develop appropriate, innovative and sustainable solutions to empower indigenous communities to leverage natural resources for self-determined development in Africa.

Student teams of one-four students are invited to prepare three-minute video pitches for the competition. All video pitches will be showcased and winners will be announced at the Milking the Rhino Innovative Solutions Showcase on Wednesday, November 17th at 7:30 p.m. in the HUB Auditorium. For more details, please visit: http://mtrsolutions.weebly.com/

Thursday, November 18th

International Coffee Hour
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Global Programs Lounge, 410 Boucke Building
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP) and the Penn State Vedic Society

Every Thursday from 3:30 to 5:00 pm, the Global Programs Lounge is transformed into a cosmopolitan café as international and domestic students, faculty, and staff meet to enjoy conversation and fair trade organic coffees and tea. This week’s Coffee Hour is hosted by the Penn State Vedic Society.

Noontime Performance: State College Area Irish Musicians
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Ground floor of the HUB-Robeson Center
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs (UOGP)

Consisting of Penn State students, faculty, staff, and community members, the State College Area Irish Musicians will treat the audience to a traditional Irish "seisun" jam session.

Infusing Global Topics into the Classroom
Audience: Penn State Faculty
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: 106 HUB-Robeson Center
Hosted by: University Office of Global Programs and the Human Resource Development Center Registration: Participants must register via the HRDC Web site

Today’s employers seek savvy, internationally competent graduates who are well-prepared for the 21st century’s global playing field. This program explores options for infusing global topics into the curricula. This program will help participants:

Understand the current state of the global playing field
Understand the global competency skills employers seek from recent graduates
Explore methods of incorporating global topics into the curricula in order to better prepare our students for today’s increasingly globalized world

Found in Translation: World Poetry Read by World People
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Irvings (Downstairs), 110 East College Avenue, State College
Hosted by: Global Connections
Suggested donation: $5 ($3 students)

Readers (community members, faculty, and students) from around the globe will come together for Global Connections’ 5th “UN of poetry” to share words in their native language with translations from their home countries. There is a suggested donation of $5 for community members and $3 for students at the door. All proceeds benefit Global Connections, a local United Way agency.

Friday, November 19th

Faculty Recital, Enrico Elisi (piano)
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I
Hosted by: Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture

Enjoy Italian pianist Enrico Elisi during this faculty recital. Mr. Elisi Joined the Penn State faculty in 2008. He regularly performs and gives master classes in Europe, America, and Asia. He has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras in the US, Italy, and Portugal and was featured as a recitalist in several radio broadcasts.

Throughout the Week

Visioni di Italia, an Exhibition by Alison Gleixner
Audience: All are welcome
Dates: November 15-20, 2010
Location: Patterson Building Lobby

"My exhibition will be composed of works created while abroad in Italy and various other works created in response to my international experience. Many of my pieces contain styles and techniques I learned and explored while traveling in Italy." – Alison Gleixner

International Education Week Events at Other Campuses

Penn State Greater Allegheny

Student Research Conference
Audience: All are welcome
Time: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center, Penn State Greater Allegheny
Hosted by: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Teaching International, Greener Allegheny, and Honors Programs

Students will present their work on this year's Teaching International focus on Eastern Europe and human rights, and ongoing emphasis on sustainability, local to global.

International Education Week (IEW) is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education for the purpose of celebrating the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. For more information on IEW, visit www.iew.state.gov.

List of campus events will be updated periodically.
If your college, department, or organization would like to include your event please contact Sandi Richter at 863-5973 or email at smr274@psu.edu.

International Education Week 2010:Celebrating 100 Years of Internationalization