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WOW: Confronting Challenges in Global Service: Advocates or Adversaries

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 OACS staff and students will reflect on their experiences in Morocco, London, South Africa and Ecuador as student volunteers over the course of four weeks. Students and staff will discuss the challenges and rewards of entering another community and how to best approach international…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: The Great Beauty

Presented by: Andrea Mirabile, Associate Professor of Italian Italy, France (2013) A journalist has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. When his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, he finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Still Life

Presented by: Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Film and English and Director, Program in Cinema & Media Arts and Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts China, Hong Kong (2006) Dir: Zhangke Jia. This haunting minimalist drama takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Presented by: Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History, Asian Studies and Islamic Studies India (1995) Dir: Aditya Chopra. A young man and woman, both of Indian descent but born and raised in Britain, fall in love during a trip to Switzerland. However, the girl’s traditional father takes her back to India to fulfill a betrothal…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday: Reconciling Volunteerism and Research with Environmental and Social Justice

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 Every day it is becoming more evident that the struggles for environmental justice and social justice overlap tremendously. As globalization leads to the degradation of delicate ecosystems, an unseen side-effect is the collapse of the often rural communities that depend on those ecosystems to…

Posted by on September 17, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Yi Yi

Presented by: Vanderbilt Undergraduate Chinese Association Taiwan, Japan (2000) Dir: Edward Yang. The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi, directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year. Yang deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is…

Posted by on September 16, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Open Your Eyes

Presented by: Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English Spain, France, Italy (1997) Dir: Alejandro Amenabar. The line between dreams and reality become increasingly blurred after a womanizing playboy is disfigured by a jilted lover in a purposeful car accident. Peeling away at the layers of his subconscious, Cesar begins to realize that reality is no…

Posted by on September 11, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: A Touch of Sin

Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts; and Nick Kline, A & S Class of 2016. China (2013) Dir: Zhangke Jia. This daring and poetic film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces of present-day China, who are driven to violent ends. Based loosely on…

Posted by on September 11, 2014 in Activities Everyone

WOW: Connecting Multicultural Populations with Disability Resources

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 Presented by: Alexander Santana, The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center/TN Disability Pathfinder Overview of Tennessee Disability Pathfinder’s Multicultural Outreach Project, which included a statewide bilingual HELPline, website resources family support group, and community trainings on a local, state, and national level, online Camino Seguro database of…

Posted by on September 10, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Platform

Presented by: Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Film and English and Director, Program in Cinema & Media Arts; and Tom McGrath, A&S Class of 2016. Hong Kong, China, Japan, France (2000) Dir: Zhangke Jia. A group of amateur theatre troupe performers’ fate mirrors the general population in China as massive socio-economic changes sweep across the…

Posted by on September 7, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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