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World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on March 26, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Lore

Presented by Peggy Setje-Eilers, Assistant Professor of German Australia, Germany, UK (2013) Dir. Cate Shortland. What might it have been the experience of the children of Nazi parents in immediate post-war Germany? Juxtaposing the idealized, romantic ideal of the National Socialist view of Germany with the realities of children at risk in a post-war landscape,…

Posted by on March 20, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on March 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Valentino’s Ghost

Presented by Douglas Knight, Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies. USA (2013) Dir. Michael Singh. Singh makes a powerful case about the prevalence of stereotyping Arabs and Muslims in films, the media, and elsewhere. Much of the research for the film was undertaken at Vanderbilt’s Television News Archives. The director will…

Posted by on March 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: My So-Called Enemy

Presented by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center USA (2010) Dir. Lisa Gossels. In 2002, six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls participated in a U.S.-based program where they came to know their “enemies” as human beings. The coming of age story documents how they reconcile their transformative experience with the realities of life in the Middle…

Posted by on March 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on March 12, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: As I Lay Dying

Presented by Michael Kreyling, Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Chair of English, Professor of English, and Professor of American Studies. USA (2013) Dir. James Franco. What would compel a Hollywood “heartthrob” to adapt for the screen and direct William Faulkner’s seminal novel, the narrative of which comprises the streams of consciousness of multiple characters? Are Franco’s efforts…

Posted by on February 27, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: The Muslims Are Coming!

Presented by Anand Taneja, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Film Studies. USA (2011) Dir. Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah. One might think that Islamaphobia would hardly be a laughing matter, but the filmmakers extract humor from the experience of being Muslim in Islamaphobic America. English. 81 mins. Blu-ray. Co-sponsored by The Muslim Student Association….

Posted by on February 27, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on February 26, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: The Color Wheel

Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, Director of Film Studies; and Thomas C. McGrath, A&S 2016 USA (2011) Dir. Alex Ross Perry. Perry’s second film is a dark comedy that earns the designation with its sarcastic and shallow siblings on a journey through an even more hostile world. The film…

Posted by on February 20, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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