with Translator Aida Bamia.
Join us on Zoom or in person for a special event with the translator of My First and Only Love, an historical Palestinian novel written by Sahar Khalifeh. Dr. Aida Bamia will give a short lecture about the book and her work as its translator, which will be followed by facilitated small group discussions of the book.
Aida Bamia is a literary translator and professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she lives. Sahar Khalifeh, born in Nablus in 1941, is an acclaimed Palestinian author. She is hailed as a feminist writer and has written eleven novels, which have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, and many other languages. She has won numerous international prizes, including the Naguib Mahfouz for Literature for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant. She lives in Jordan.
Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
Join Zoom Webinar at: edwp.educ.msu.edu/event/role-of-race-ses-inequalities-in-education/
The United States and most countries across the world struggle with the growing inequality in student performance. This talk presents data from three types of countries - developed, developing and transitional (China). The data collected as a part of PISA provide measures of opportunity to learn, SES, race, and student performance in 63 countries. The data show varying degrees of inequality related to SES both across the three types of countries as well as across individual countries. For the US, those analyses also include race. The striking findings indicate quite surprisingly to some that schooling itself contributes varying large amounts to SES and racial inequalities.
Speaker: About Dr. Schmidt: William H. Schmidt is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum Policy. He holds faculty appointments in Statistics and Education. Previously he served as National Research Coordinator and Executive Director of the US National Center which oversaw participation of the United States in the IEA sponsored Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). His current research interests focus on the effects of curriculum policy on academic achievement. He is also concerned with educational policy related to equality of opportunity through schooling.
Sponsored by the Office of International Studies in Education
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The Global Reads Webinar will be talking with Saadia Faruqi, author of SABA Honor Book A Thousand Questions, about her work and how incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American author, essayist and interfaith activist. She writes the children's early reader series Yasmin and other books for children. Her new book Yusuf Azeem Is Not A Hero details the experiences of the Muslim American community twenty years after 9/11. She lives in Houston, TX with her husband and children.
Sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, the Middle East Outreach Council, and African Studies Outreach Council, the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Book Award
Website & Zoom Link: Asia in Transition Webinar Series Information Page
In recent decades, people living in Southeast Asia have witnessed major shifts from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies, with attendant changes in migration, crop production systems, and major infrastructure (roads, dams, industrial estates). This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations. We will focus on forests, rivers, documentarians and writers, and Imaging Environmental Futures.
Zoom ID: 926 2172 1056
Passcode: kappa2022
Dr. Michael Dylan Foster, Professor of Japanese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis will explore the cultural history of the jappa, a folkloric water sprite of Japan. We will also examine other supernatural creatures form the broad category called YÅkai, and discuss the hapa-related animated film, Summer Days with Coo (2007).
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Global Virtual Speaker Program, and Japanese Studies Program
Zoom ID: 926 2172 1056
Passcode: kappa2022
Dr. Michael Dylan Foster, Professor of Japanese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis will explore the cultural history of the kappa, a folkloric water sprite of Japan. We will also examine other supernatural creatures form the broad category called yokai, and discuss the kappa-related animated film, Summer Days with Coo (2007).
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Global Virtual Speaker Program, and Japanese Studies Program
Zoom ID: 926 2172 1056
Passcode: kappa2022
Dr. Michael Dylan Foster, Professor of Japanese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis will explore the cultural history of the jappa, a folkloric water sprite of Japan. We will also examine other supernatural creatures form the broad category called YÅkai, and discuss the hapa-related animated film, Summer Days with Coo (2007).
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Global Virtual Speaker Program, and Japanese Studies Program
In-person
6:00pm-Complimentary dinner by Woody's Oasis will be served outside Wells Hall facing the International Center (Behind the Starbucks in the B-Wing)
7:00pm- Live screening of Aulcie, Wells Hall B-117 (Masks are required)
8:30pm- Live discussion with Director Dani Menkin
Aulcie (2020)| Documentary| Director: Dani Menkin
Aulcie is a documentary about an African American basketball
player from Newark, who moved to Israel to join Maccabi Tel
Aviv's basketball team, converted to Judaism, changed his name
to Elisha Ben Abraham and began dating Israeli supermodel Tami
Ben Ami. Tragically, Aulcie was eventually arrested and jailed for
narcotics smuggling, the end result of a growing addiction to
drugs. Now committed to uplifting others confronting the disease
of addiction and abuse, Aulcie works with youth in Israel and
across the world. Director Dani Menkin has captured the essence
of the harrowing tale of its adopted and much-beloved son, in the
true story of Maccabi Tel Aviv's legendary player, Aulcie.
Official Selection UNAFF2021, United Nations Association Film
Festival, Winner Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2020 San Diego International Jewish Film Festival, Winner Cannes
International Cinema Festival 2021.
Dani Menkin
A two- time Israeli Academy Award winner, Dani Menkin's narrative and
documentary films include Picture of His Life, On the Map, Aulcie, Dolphin
Boy, 39 Pounds of Love, and Is That You? His movies have been sold to
Disney and HBO. Menkin is an internationally renowned speaker and film
juror at International Festivals, as well as a film professor in universities and
colleges in Israel and the U.S. He co-founded Hey Jude Productions. Menkin
is known for exploring the courage of the human life through personal
stories. He connects the extraordinary heroes of his films to a larger context,
and their impact on the world. The result
Required Webinar Registration Link: msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l1gKfpgfRVe5N1xLDgqOBg
Join us for an exciting virtual career series featuring many MSU Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) alumni with diverse career experiences for APIDA Heritage Month!
Panelists:
This career series is sponsored by the APIDA Heritage Month Planning Committee, APIDA Student Success Committee, Career Services Network, and MSU Alumni.
Required Webinar Registration Link: msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fsj98yKmTJKAICdkl46RjQ
Join us for an exciting virtual career series featuring many MSU Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) alumni with diverse career experiences for APIDA Heritage Month!
Panelists:
Sponsored by: APIDA Student Success Committee, Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, Career Services Network and MSU Alumni
FLAS Fellowships
Global Speaker Program
Asian Studies Center Newsletter
AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies
