Sue Collins presented her poster, “Star Power & the Politics of Authority During World War” in June at the International Communication Association’s annual conference held in Fukuoka, Japan. Using two ipads, her poster included film footage of both wars’ bond drives featuring Hollywood stars. As a scholar interested in war, she also traveled to Nagasaki and Hiroshima where she visited each city’s war museum and memorials.
International Studies Abroad (ISA) will host an information session discussing study abroad faculty-led opportunities. A faculty-led program is a unique study abroad program where Michigan Tech professors bring Michigan Tech students abroad to teach Michigan Tech courses.
Carlos Amador (HU) will be in attendance to discuss his Lima, Peru faculty-led program. The session will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the Wadsworth Cherry Room. This is a bring-your-own lunch session. Refreshments and dessert will be provided.
Email Vienna Chapin with questions.
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Photographer Lali Khalid’s work addresses landscape, abstraction, and documentary photography and explores themes of diaspora, identity, and home.
Lecture: 3:00-4:00 pm, Minerals and Materials Building, Room U115
Reception (open house): 4:30-6:30pm, Rozsa Gallery (“A-Space”) Lower level of the Rozsa Center
In celebration of French-Canadian Heritage Week in Michigan, the following events are planned:
- Preview Events—Saturday, Sept. 24, 11 am – 1:00 pm, Lake Linden Park
- Children’s Story Time—Saturday Sept 11am, Portage Lake District Library
- Children’s Story Time—Wednesday, Sept 28, 10:15 am, Portage Lake District Library
- Dance—Wednesday, Sept 28, 7-9 pm, Finnish American Heritage Center
- Children’s Story Time—Thursday, Sept 29, 10:15 am, Portage Lake District Library
- Performance—Thursday, Sept 29, 7-8 pm, Chassell Heritage Center
- Organ Recital—Sunday, Oct. 2, 3 pm, St. Joseph’s Church
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Join us for our weekly Conversation Table at 5 p.m. every Thursday in Walker 120 C. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, email Dany Jacob.
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The Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs announces that Ms. Heather Deering joined Michigan Tech as the new Director of the Intensive English as a Second Language (IESL) program Monday. In her new role, Deering will report directly to the Provost. She replaces former IESL Director, Dr. Beatrice Smith, who successfully led Michigan Tech’s IESL program through its inaugural and successful accreditation process.
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Assistant Professor Dana Van Kooy (HU) recently attended the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference (NASSR) at UC-Berkeley where she presented her essay, “New World Discontent and the Aesthetics of Disappearance” on a panel entitled Black Romanticism. She also participated in a special seminar on “Worldnessness and Wordlessness.”
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