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STUDY ABROAD Information Sessions! All EUROPE, ALL THE TIME! Mon., October 14 11:30-2:00 International Resource Center, EMU Info session speaker schedule: 11:30-12:00 Short term programs: Austria, England, France, Greece, Italy, Spain 12:00-12:30 Italy and France 12:30-1:00 Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden 1:00-1:30 Central Europe, Russia, NIS 1:30-2:00 Germany ie3 global internships Wed., October 16 1:00-2:30 pm International Resource Center, EMU CHINA Wed., October 23 3:30-4:30 pm International Resource Center, EMU JAPAN Tues., October 29 3:30-4:30 pm International Resource Center, EMU KOREA Tues., October 29 4:30-5:00 pm International Resource Center, EMU GERMANY Tues., November 5 3:30-4:30 pm International Resource Center, EMU STUDY ABROAD FAIR Wed., November 20 11:00-4:00 pm Fir Room, EMU Experience the World Editor Sara Delson-Boerman Production Editor » Roger Adkins Staff Writers Roger Adkins, Holly LeMasurier, Anne Williams Contributers Jeremy Arnold, Adam Bourret, Sunshine Ray Clark, William Gardner, Morgan Gates, Lucinda Jurden, Andrea Woodworth Layout/Design Emily Cooke, Oregon Daily Emerald R ■ll 111 itten by the travel bug? Want to leam about other cultures in a place warm as home? The International Resource Center (IRC), located in the EMU’s International Lounge, is your “meeting place for the world.” There you can: connect with friends, family, local newspapers and radio; watch international pro grams, videos and films; and plan trips abroad, in the United States and in Oregon. The International Lounge is where international events happen. Last year, for example, there were international films, travel talks, music and dance presentations, and the creation of a sand mandala by Tibetan Buddhist monks. This year the IRC will co-sponsor: live music at the first International Coffee Hour, September 27; international films, every Friday night after Coffee Hour; Travel Talks, including a series of programs with STA Travel on travel safety, Europe, Australia and Asia (the first is October 22). Other fall term events in the Lounge include In ternational Student Orientation, a Scandinavian Film Festival, football (soccer) nights, and an Inter national Scholars Reception. The International Resource Center is one of the [IRC offers you the world] best-kept secrets on campus. Come for events! Come to plan your travel! Come to hang out with friends! Come to enjoy! Check out the IRC website for information on 90 countries around the world: http://darkwing.uore gon.edu/~irc. Students talk with a Tibetan monk who visited the IRC. 0 .-0L ■■ 42^0^9. -^€> 42--- % » * the World Right Here on Campus Studying abroad is a wonderful opportunity, but it isn’t the only way to expand your cultural boundaries. The University of Oregon is an increasingly international community, and there are many ways to get a more worldly perspective while you are on campus. Consider this sampling of the opportunities that await you: Make new friends There are abundant oppor tunities at the UO to meet new friends from around the world!. Get involved with the International Student Asso ciation (ISA), which has an of fice adjacent to the Internation al Resource Center, on the mezzanine level of the EMU. Or stop by the ISA; Interna tional Coffee Hour, held every Friday afternoon at 4:00 pm (16:00) in the International Lounge. Or, if you’d like to es tablish an ongoing relation ship, consider joining the Con versation Friends, a program that matches American volun teers with international stu dents who want to improve their English-language skills in friendly, social interaction. Of course, there are also a variety of international clubs at the UO for people interested in culture-specific activities, in cluding “culture nights” that feature the cuisine and cus toms of particular cultures, conversation gatherings, films, and special events. Each spring, these clubs and the ISA bring us the wonderful Inter national Week, which in cludes one day of events dedi cated to each major continent or world region and culminates in International Night. Resources: • ISA: http://darkwing.uore gon/edu/~asuoisa •Conversation Friends: http://oip.uoregon.edu/ff, or call 346-3206 •International clubs: start at http://oip.uoregon.edu/iss/isg Talk the Talk One of the best ways to “be international” is to learn the language of another culture. The UO offers regular, for credit language courses in fif teen languages as well as self study courses in ten additional languages. The self-study lan guage program is administered Japan, and Korea. If film is your passion, you can also choose from a number of inter national film series and festi vals held on campus each year. The Russian and East Euro pean Studies Center, for exam ple, typically sponsors a Russ ian Film Series each year, and this year the Scandinavian Studies Program will sponsor a Scandinavian Film Series in the IRC. There is also a cross cultural International Film Series. Or try the UO Queer Film Festival (QFF), which brings to campus each Febru ary films about gay, lesbian, bi sexual, and transgender life in diverse cultures. If you’re a music buff, consider one of the university’s many performance venues that include interna tional performers, like the in ternationally acclaimed Bach Festival (June and July), or the groovy Willamette Valley Folk Festival (WVFF), which is held outdoors each May on the EMU east lawn. Musically inclined, yourself? You might also consider the School of Music’s Gamelan ensemble, which creates Pacific Rim mu sic on a variety of instruments, including the beautiful game lan. Resources: •Cultural Forum: http:// culturalforum.uoregon.edu •Museum of Art: http://uoma.uoregon.edu/ •Russian Film Series: Email <russian@darkwing>. •Scandinavian Film Series: Email <radkins@oregon>. •International Film Series: http://babel uoregon.edu/ylc/ Filmseries/filmseries.html •QFF: http://darkwing. uoregon.edu/~qff/ • Bach Festival: http ://bach fest.uoregon.edu •WVFF: http://culturalfo rum.uoregon.edu •Gamelan ensemble: Email <rhyr@oregon> or call 346 3766 Walk the Walk If you really want to show your commitment to being a member of the UO internation al community, there are several options to get more involved. Consider volunieering for this yearns FL1S Day (see the website listed:above) on April 25, 2003, or for International Week (see the ISA website list ed above). If you'd like to get both international and work experience, consider an inter national internship through ei ther Oregon's International Ed ucation, Experience and Employment (IE j) program, or through the International Studies Program (ISP). Or join with scores of other UO alum ni who have had remarkable and unique experiences abroad through the Fulbright US. Stu dent Program or the Peace Corps. With opportunities in nearly every comer of the globe, thereare few limits to where the UO can launch you. Resources: •IE3: http://ie3global.orst.edu ♦ISP: http://darkwing.uore gon.edu/-isp/ ♦Fulbright: Call 346-3207 to make an informational appointment, and see http://www.1ie.0tg •Peace Corps: http://uoca reer.uoregon .edu/pcorps/ peacecorps.htm Learn more about the world around you The U O offers numerous ways to educate yourself about the world and its many cul tures. There are ten interna tional area studies programs, like the Asian Studies Program and the Latin American Studies Program, each offering courses (and sometimes majors and minors) on the peoples, cul tures, history, and politics of the region. If you are interest ed in cross-border issues, the newly formed Center for Crit ical Theory and Transnation al Studies (CCTTS) will spon sor events and research on the increasing globalization of world cultures. Likewise, the Center for Indigenous Cul tural Survival (CICS) exam ines the experiences of indige nous peoples (like Native American peoples, the Maori peoples of New Zealand, and the Sami peoples of northern Europe) in cross-cultural per spective. In addition to special events, the center sponsors a large variety of summer-term courses on indigenous issues. In addition, the UO hosts a va riety of international confer ences each year, including two annual meetings on global eco logical topics: the Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) Conference (February), and the HOPES Eco-Design Arts Conference (April), which is sponsored by the Architecture School’s Eco logical Design Center—the same organization that spon sored the solar power project in the EMU. And of course, the International Resource Center (IRC), housed in the EMU, offers a variety of print and electronic resources on countries and cultures from around the globe, as well as in ternational television broad casts and special events. Resources: •Area studies programs: http ^/international. uoregon. edu/areastudies.html •CCTTS: http://www.uore gon.edu/~cctts •CICS: http ://www. uoregon .edu/~ cics/center.htm •CAER Conference: http ://gladstone. uoregon. edu/~caer •HOPES Conference: http ://edc. uoregon. edu/ con ferences •IRC: http://darkwing. uoregon.edu/~irc
