Monday, November 12, 2007
 Public Lecture: The Global Education
Challenge: Open Markets vs. Open Minds - Prof. Douglas Rushkoff, New York University,
best-selling author and PBS documentary filmmaker
7 p.m. - Brown Hall Auditorium
Reception immediately following lecture in the Charles C.
Sherrod Library lobby.
Douglas Rushkoff is an author,
teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people,
cultures, and institutions create, share and influence each
other’s values. His ten bestselling books have been
translated into over 30 languages. He has been invited
worldwide to lecture about media, art, society, and change.
He is Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World
Culture, on the Board of Directors of Media Ecology
Association, The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics,
and is a founding member of Technorealism. Rushkoff
frequently serves as a consultant on new media arts and
ethics to museums, governments, universities, and Fortune
500 companies and other organizations.
Rushkoff received national acclaim for his two award-winning
Frontline documentaries - The Merchants of Cool, about the
influence of corporations on youth culture, and The
Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing and
new efforts to overcome consumer resistance. He is a regular
guest on NPR, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, and Real
Time With Bill Maher. Rushkoff teaches at Interactive
Telecommunications Program, NYU, where he founded the
Narrative Lab.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
International Stories, Myths, and
Legends
Experience another
culture as told by its students. International students will
tell stories, myths, and legends about their native country.
ETSU students from China (Li Yuanyuan and Li Hui), Ghana
(Charles Odame-Ankrah), Romania (Ciprian Begu), Peru (Miguel
Ayllon), and Boliva (Diego Soriano) will be telling their stories.
7 p.m. - Brown Hall Auditorium
Announcement of the Annual
International Student Essay Competition will be held at the
end of the storytelling session.
Wednesday,
November 14, 2007
Study Abroad Fair - 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
- D. P. Culp Center
During the Study Abroad Fair,
program providers (ETSU faculty, Tennessee Consortium for
International Studies, Australearn, and others) will be
available to give students pertinent information on their
programs. Some of the featured programs are Study Abroad
experiences in France, Germany, Spain, China, Italy,
Ireland, England, and Mexico. Representatives from the
Financial Aid and Scholarship Offices will be on hand to
answer students’ questions on financing study abroad.
*International Quiz Table will be available during
Study Abroad Fair – Test your knowledge about international
travel.
Public Lecture: Life during the
Chinese Cultural
Revolution
Professor GUO Tao, Visiting Scholar,
Dean of the Center of International Cooperation and
Exchanges, North China
University of Technology - The Cultural Revolution was
launched by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong
during his last decade in power (1966-76) to renew the
spirit of the Chinese revolution. Prof. Guo’s lecture will
describe the cause and influences of the Chinese Cultural
Revolution, along with personal insights based on his
experiences during this time.
7 p.m. - Brown Hall Auditorium
Annual
International Student Essay Competition
In
celebration of International Education Week, November 12-16,
2007, International Programs and Services and the Honors
College are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual International
Students Essay Competition.
Eligible students must: 1. Be a citizen of a foreign
country, 2. Be in the United States under the F-1 or J-1
non-immigrant status, and 3. Be enrolled as a full time
student at ETSU.
Students
should submit an essay on either of the following themes for
the 2007 competition:
Being from another country, perhaps you have noticed how
important sports are in the US. You see sports images
everywhere: in advertising, in television programs, in
movies, everywhere. If you are an athlete involved in
organized sports while here, perhaps you have observed
differences in how Americans involve themselves in games as
compared with people in your homeland. If you are not an
athlete in any formal way, you will have other observations.
Have you played informal basketball or soccer (football)
games while here? Have you played Frisbee with Americans? Or
perhaps you will have formed some opinions about how
obsessed Americans are with sports, especially football,
baseball, and basketball. Are people the same in your
country? You may choose any aspect of sport or play
for your essay, as long as it concerns the differences
and/or similarities between how people in your country play
and how Americans play.
OR,
Do you
love to shop? Make that your topic. Try to explain or
analyze the impulse to shop; assuming it sometimes has to do
with something other than buying things. Is there pleasure
to be had simply from strolling down the mall, taking all
the color and glitter? Of course we buy things, too. Write
an essay about shopping in this country, comparing and
contrasting the experience with the one to be had where you
are from. Is there more or less to choose from here? (Surely
the goods are different.) Take any approach you wish: talk
about the traditional marketplaces in your home town if you
wish, using a lot of sensory information (smells, tastes,
sounds, etc.), and contrast them with the supermarkets here.
Or describe how you bought clothing at home. If everything
was pretty much the same, then write about that. If you had
more to choose from at home, write about that. Just try to
make it original and entertaining.
Cash
awards will be given to the first, second, and third place
winners in the amount of $250, $150, and $50.
Essays
will be judged on originality, perceptiveness and form.
Entrants are especially encouraged to be specific and to let
concrete sensory details and observations make up most of
the substance of the essay.
Sensory details are those that appeal to a reader’s five
senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. In other
words, a reader should know what people and places look
like, how food smells and tastes. First person (I, me)
should be used freely.
Questions about judging criteria
should go through Maria Costa (costa@etsu.edu) and will be
forwarded to the competition coordinator. Essays
should be typed and double-spaced, should be 750 to 1250
words in length, or three to five pages. The author’s name
should appear, along with the title, on a cover sheet, but
nowhere else on the manuscript. The first page of the essay
should bear the title also.
Submit your essay electronically
by emailing it to
costa@etsu.edu by 4:30 pm, November 1, 2007.
Winners
will be announced by Tuesday, November 13, following
International Stories, Myths, and Legends at Brown Hall
Auditorium.
International Photo
Fair
The International Photo Fair is
open to all students, faculty, and staff who have taken
personal photos outside the United States. Participants
should submit no more than three photos in each category.
All photos must be original photos or they cannot be
accepted. The selection of photos to be displayed will be at
the discretion of the Honors College.
This electronic photo exhibition will be displayed on the
ETSU Honors College webpage during International Education
Week (IEW) for all to enjoy. Additionally,
international photos will be displayed at the Sherrod
Library during IEW week 2007. The four categories of photos
include:
Submit digital photos in .jpg
format, resolution no less than 72 pixels per inch (ppi) and
approximate size no larger than 2 x 2.5 to Linda Wyatt at
wyattlg@etsu.edu.
Include a caption with photo indicating:
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Caption for photo to
include name, place and date taken if known;
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Name of student, faculty,
or staff;
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If student, include year of
study and program enrolled;
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If faculty or staff,
include department of unit employed.
Submission of electronic photos
allows the Honors College use of your photo as part of the
International Photo Fair Exhibition in observance of ETSU
International Education Week 2007.
Deadline to receive digital photos is Monday, November 5,
2007 at 4:30 p.m.
View Photos
Visit the
2006 Photo Gallery.
Tastes of the World
Visit ARAmark's campus dining
(3rd floor, D.P. Culp Center) all week to enjoy various selections of
treats and ethnic delicacies during
International Education Week. Menus include:
Monday - Indian: Chicken tikka
masala; cauliflower in curried tomato glaze
Tuesday - Japanese:
Teriyaki chicken; miso soup
Wednesday - German:
Knockwurst; german potato salad
Thursday - Greek: Greek
salad; greek style fish;
Friday - Chinese: Port
fried rice; szeclvan vegetable lomein; egg rolls
Any questions about International Education Week (IEW), the
essay competition, or digital photo submissions should
be directed to Linda Wyatt, Project Manager, ETSU Honors
College, at
wyattlg@etsu.edu or phone 439-6075. |
