*International Night at the Library: Journey through Central Asia, the Silk Road

Thursday, March 26
7-9pm @Harmony Library, Community Room 

Please join Klaus Lorenz for a presentation on The Silk Road, which connected China with Europe for 1800 years. Camel caravans carried all kinds of goods, but also science and culture from Xian, China to Venice and Rome in Europe. We will travel sections of this network through the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Klaus has traveled to over 80 countries and shared many of these adventures with us at the Library Program.

 

*What is a bandit? A talk by Dr. Juan Pablo Dabove, University of Colorado Boulder

Monday, March 30: 4-5 pm

Location: Behavioral Sciences 131

Talk in Spanish

What is banditry? Have Robin Hood-like social bandits ever existed? What are the political and cultural implications of banditry? How do these questions play out in the postcolonial context of Latin America? How do social sciences and humanities think about this crucial figure? In his talk, Prof. Juan Pablo Dabove, author of Nightmares of the Lettered City. Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929, will show how the bandit trope is in constant dispute and revision. Contrasting the “realist” and the “nominalist” currents of the debate on banditry, his talk will focus specifically on the figure of Juan Moreira, a famed Argentinean rural bandit from the nineteenth century.
[This event is part of the FLL Lecture Series and the FLL graduate seminar on Outlaws: Pirates, Maroons, Bandits, Guerrilleros and Narcos in Latin American Literature, taught by Prof. Sophie Esch ]

 

 

*Presenting Isatou Ceesay, Gambian Environmental Activist

Monday March 30^th

5-6:30 p.m.

Clark A 204

 

Isatou Ceesay is the leader of a movement to collect, wash and recycle plastic bags into crocheted purses and other gifts.  She is also now featured in a children’s book: http://oneplasticbag.com/.

The Gambia is notorious for human rights issues especially when it comes to women.  Projects like Ceesay’s allow women to earn money help women to be able to get basic literacy education and stand up for themselves, not to mention the environmental benefits. See the attached flyer for details. Contact: Bethany DeHamer: betuska@gmail.com. Free and open to the public.

 

*International Language Café

April 1^st 2015

LSC Room 312

6-7:30pm

Coffee & Cookies Provided

We invite you to explore the language culture here on campus. A night of conversation, coffee and cookies for those interested in languages from around the world. Anyone who speaks or has an interest in learning a foreign language is encouraged to come. Help facilitate cross-cultural discussions through interaction with students from all over the world!

Hosted by: Global Awareness & International Affairs (GAIA)

Questions? Contact Andrew Marca: armarca@rams.colostate.edu