Lecture series brings the world to local families
June 9, 2011
907-474-7902
6/9/11
The պ’ Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning will sponsor a family-friendly lecture series offering attendees insight on growing up in another culture.
The series, “Family Cultural Night,” will be held Mondays at 7 p.m. through Aug. 1 in Schaible Auditorium on the պ campus. The series features պ students and staff and faculty members. They will share their impressions of life in another country. Some of the countries included in the series are: India, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Micronesia, Germany, and the Phillipines.
For more information please contact Summer Sessions at 907-474-7021 or visit . Following is a schedule of events:
June 13—“India: Food, Culture and Bollywood,” with Shirish Patil
June 20—“Growing up in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic,” with Jamila Hla Shwe
June 27—“պ Japan: Music, Food and Education,” with Etsuko Kimura Pederson
July 11—“The Phillipines: Landscape, Food & Celebrations,” with sisters Josie Wooding and Elena Sparrow
July 18—“An Indian in Micronesia,” with Raaj Kurapati
July 25—“Germany,” with Josef Glowa
Aug. 1—“Mexico and Panama: A Contrast in Hispanic Countries,” with Juan Goula and Ana Richards
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: պ Summer Sessions at 907-474-7021 or summer@alaska.edu.
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