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Building Global Citizenship Engagement Opportunities for Students with the U.S. fund for UNICEF The U.S. Fund for UNICEF`s Nashville Global Citizenship Fellow will highlight UNICEF’s life-saving work for children around the world, discuss the idea of global citizenship, and elaborate on opportunities for Vanderbilt Students to engage locally with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Presented…

Posted by on January 19, 2015 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesdays

LGBTQI  Speak Out Panel: Narratives of LGBTQI and Allied Identities through an International Lens The LGBTQI Life Speakers OUT program is an initiative that seeks to create dialogue within the Vanderbilt community about issues of sexual identity and gender identity and expression. In the format of panel presentations for classes, residence halls communities, or campus…

Posted by on January 16, 2015 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesdays

Socio-Cultural Influences on Girls Education in Benin Girls in Benin have a school completion rate that is lower than boys although school is free for everyone.  In the rural areas, some people do not perceive the importance of girls’ education because girls are expected to be saved for marriage and raising a family, which doesn’t…

Posted by on January 16, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: deepsouth

Presented by: Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator of LGBTQI Life and Frank Dobson, Director of The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. USA (2012) Dir: Lisa Biagiotti. Beneath layers of history, poverty and soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values in this documentary about the new American South and the people who inhabit its…

Posted by on January 15, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Mauvais Sang

Presented by: Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French and Nicolas Kline, Class of 2016. France, Switzerland (1986) Dir: Leos Carax. A mysterious new disease is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. While a serum has been formulated, it’s locked away and most of those suffering can’t get it. An electric mixture of…

Posted by on January 14, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film:Contagion

Presented by: Emily Nacol, Assistant Professor of Political Science. USA, UAE (2011) Dir: Steven Soderbergh. Follows the rapid progress of an airborne virus that kills within days. As the epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time,…

Posted by on January 14, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Death of a Japanese Salesman

Presented by: Bryan Lowe, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies. Japan (2011) Dir: Mami Sunada. A look at the last months in the life of the filmmaker’s father Tomoaki Sunada who worked for over 40 years for the same company. This documentary is based on the diary his father wrote after being diagnosed…

Posted by on December 31, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Shun Li and the Poet

Presented by: Letizia Modena, Associate Professor of Italian Italy, France (2011) Dir: Andrea Segre. A single mother from China who works as a barmaid in a waterfront tavern meets an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and also pens doggerel verse. Their meeting is a poetic escape from loneliness, a silent…

Posted by on December 31, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Motherland Afghanistan

Presented by: Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center. USA, Afghanistan (2007) Dir: Sedika Mojadidi. When the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, hopes were high that democracy would bring progress in health and education for its women. But as of 2006, adequate health care has not been met. Set against the backdrop of a land in turmoil and…

Posted by on December 31, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: deepsouth

Presented by: Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator of LGBTQI Life and Frank Dobson, Director of The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center USA (2012) Dir: Lisa Biagiotti. Beneath layers of history, poverty and soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values in this documentary about the new American South and the people who inhabit its…

Posted by on November 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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