UMaine Announces International Week Schedule

October 24, 2003 Archives

Contact: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571

ORONO — The University of Maine plans a wide variety of activities and events for its annual International Week of programming.  This year’s schedule begins on Thursday, Oct. 30 and continues through Saturday, Nov. 8 when Culturefest, UMaine’s annual celebration of diversity, takes center stage.  The complete schedule follows:

THURSDAY, OCT. 30

7 p.m.                                     

Evening Illustrated Lecture

  • Laurier Turgeon, Professor of History and Ethnology at Laval University “French Fishers and Fur Traders in the Gulf of Maine before Champlain” Turgeon contradicts the commonly held belief that the French fur trade in North America began in the 17th century with the establishment of the Chauvin trading post at Tadousac in 1600 and especially with that of Champlain at Quebec in 1608.  Turgeon  argues that there was a fairly intensive French presence in the Gulf of Maine from the 1560’s onwards — much earlier than had been previously documented.

 

Bodwell Lounge, MCA

 

MONDAY, NOV. 3

11 a.m. & Noon             

Day of the Dead: Discussion and Altars

  • The Hudson Museum will host a Day of the Dead celebration in collaboration with the Office of Student and Community Life.  Altars will be located on the third level in the Merritt Gallery.  Visit the altars all day.

 

Hudson Museum

 

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.    

Canadian Movie Week – Monday Movie

  • “Black Robe” — A graphic story of an extraordinary priest who in 1634 braved the North American wilderness and extreme cultural difference to carry his message from Europe.

 

FFA Room, Memorial Union

 

TUESDAY, NOV. 4

 

Noon-1:30 p.m.       

Canadian Distinguished Lecturer

  • Roch Carrier, award-winning Quebec author, former director of the Canadian Council for the Arts, currently National Librarian of Canada  “Canadian Culture in Contact: An Update”  Dr. Carrier will describe the impact of contact betweenCanadian and U.S. cultures within    the context of changes he has witnessed from h is perspective as a scholar, dramatist, teacher,  columnist, reporter, novelist, short story writer, children’s author, and advocate for  preserving Canada’s national memory.Luncheon provided.  RSVP to Canadian-American Center, 581-4220

 

Bodwell Lounge, MCA

 

1:30-3 p.m.                  

“European Responses to Challenges of Global Climate Change”

  • Mr. Hans-Eike von Scholz

 

Bangor Lounge, Memorial Union

 

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5

 

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.    

Canadian Movie Week — Wednesday Movie

  • “Rare Birds”  – Small town Newfoundland restaurant owner prepares to sell his failing business, but an eccentric neighbor schemes a sighting of a rare bird to bring bird watchers  to the area and boost business.

 

FFA Room, Memorial Union

 

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Alice R. Stewart Canadian Studies Graduate Lecture Series

  • Jacques Ferland — “Penobscot Depopulation and Tribal Affiliation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

  • Susan Pinette — “When Francos Became White: Teaching Franco American Ethnicity”

  • Georges Tanguay — “Protecting Canada and the U.S. Against Terrorism: Do We Need a Common        Security Perimeter?”

Box lunch provided; Bodwell Lounge, MCA

 

THURSDAY, NOV. 6

 

11 a.m.            

From Old Politics to New Diplomacy:  Lessons for the Americas From the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement”

  • Ambassador John O’Leary Former Ambassador to Chile, President of the Latin American Free Trade Association

 

Bangor Room, Memorial Union

 

11 a.m.-3 p.m. 

Study Abroad Fair

Visit the Study Abroad Fair to learn more about UMaine study abroad

  • programs throughout the world. 

 

D.P. Corbett Atrium

 

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.    

Canadian Movie Week – Thursday Movie

  • “Crac!” — and other films by Quebec animator Frederic Back

FFA Room, Memorial Union

 

12:30-1:45 p.m.             

The Globalization of Spirit vs. the Globalization of Selfishness:  Critical Contradictions of Advanced Capitalist Societies in the 21st Century

  • Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, author of The Politics of Meaning and other books

 

Bangor Lounge, Memorial Union

 

3-5:30 p.m.      

Canada-in-the-Class

  • K-12 Teachers After School Workshop

  • “Canadian Children’s Fiction:  Teaching Quebec with ‘The Hockey Sweater'”  Workshop presenting background about the Quebec of the author’s childhood, about the author himself, as well as materials and methods for teaching social studies, language arts, and reading using one of Roch Carrier’s well-loved books for children.  CEUs, handouts. Appropriate for social studies, language arts, French language and reading teachers. RSVP to Canadian-American Center, 581-4225.

 

Bodwell Lounge, MCA

 

7 p.m.             

Women’s Basketball Exhibition game

  • University of Maine vs. Austria

$10 Reserved Seats; $8 Adult General Admission; $6 Youth General Admission

 

Alfond Arena

 

7:30 p.m.                                 

The Schonberger Lecture

  • Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, author of The Politics of Meaning and other books  “Social Transformation and Psycho-Spiritual Healing:  Strategies for Peace and Justice in the Era of George Bush and Ariel Sharon”

 

D.P. Corbett

 

FRIDAY, NOV. 7

 

All day            

International Dress Day

  • Wear traditional clothing from your home country all day, and come to Coffee Hour to qualify for a door prize.

 

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.    

Canadian Movie Week — Friday Movie”When Ponds Freeze Over”

  • As a Newfoundland teen tries to save her father from drowning she goes through the ice, and swims in visually stunning and vibrant dreams of animated memories and family stories.

 

FFA Room, Memorial Union

 

8 p.m.             

Orchestra Verdi Europa

  • Based on the great traditions of the opera in Bulgaria and the rest of Europe.

 

MCA — call 581-1755 for tickets

 

SATURDAY, NOV. 8

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.        

Culturefest 2003

  • Featuring Food, Cultural Exhibits, Talent Show and Style Show.

 

Memorial Gym Field House