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LAS International Programs Newsletters

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LAS International On-line
Vol. 4, No. 10
February 15, 2006
Affirming a Commitment to Global Learning
www.las.iastate.edu/students/international/

LAS International On-Line is the bi-monthly on-line publication of the International Programs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. LAS International is part of LAS' on-going efforts to coordinate all aspects of international activities within the College including international studies, study abroad, exchange agreements, research and outreach.

Events

A COMPLEX TRIANGLE - Bulent Aliriza, senior associate for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of the Turkey Project, will be on campus Sunday, Feb. 19, for a lecture sponsored by the Western European Studies Program.

Aliriza will speak at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union's Great Hall. He is a recognized expert on Turkish politics and foreign policy, international relations between Turkey and the wider Turkish world, and the politics and transportation of oil from the ex-Soviet Turkish countries. He joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1994 where he established the Turkey Project, which examines Turkey's foreign and domestic policy issues.

More information on Aliriza and his Iowa State lecture is available at www.las.iastate.edu/West_Euro/events.shtml.

MULTICULTURALISM IN ECUADOR - The Latin American Studies Program will present a talk by Max Viatori, lecturer in the Department of Anthropology on Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Viatori will speak on "Neoliberalism and the Menace of Multiculturalism in Ecuador" at 4:10 p.m. that day in 1213 Hoover Hall. His talk will focus on the World Bank's first "ethnodevelopment" project, which took place in Ecuador from 1998 to 2002.
Learn more about Viatori's lecture at www.las.iastate.edu/Latin_American/events.shtml.

REEES EVENTS - The Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Program has several events scheduled over the next two weeks including:

• February 23, 302 Catt Hall, 4 p.m. - Elena Ivanova and Sergey Zherebkin will discuss their plan of institutionalizing a master's program in gender studies at Kharkiv National University in Ukraine.
  
• March 2, 302 Catt Hall, noon - "Gender and Mass Culture in Ukraine," Lena Prykhodko, graduate student from Kharkiv National University in Ukraine
  
• March 2, Sun Room, Memorial Union, 7 p.m. - "Women's Triumphs in Post-Soviet Russia," Helena Goscilo, UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.

More information on these and other REEES events are on-line at www.las.iastate.edu/REEEAS/events.shtml.

Features

THE ART OF CALLIGRAPHY - At the same time Aili Mu learned of a workshop in Chinese calligraphy, a new faculty fellowship in art history in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures was being announced.

The Jeoraldean S. McClain Art History Scholarship for Faculty was established to show how art history is an important form of language. The $4000 award was established by McClain, professor emerita of art history, to cover a portion of the expenses of travel abroad to faculty members to engage in a structured summer study program in art history.

For Mu, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, it was the perfect combination of being in the right place at the right time.

"I thought I could put the funds to good use," she said. "She gave the department a wonderful opportunity to show language is really more than most believe it is."

With the support of the scholarship Mu, who is a native of China and teaches Chinese language and culture courses at Iowa State, attended the inaugural Chinese Calligraphy Workshop in China last June. The workshop was designed for language instructors who wanted to present calligraphy within a language program.

Read more about Aili Mu's exploration of the art of calligraphy on-line at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/mu0206.shtml.