International Education Week 2012

This page includes confirmed events from BU’s inaugural International Education Week in 2012.

Sunday, November 11

• 5:00 PM Study Abroad Night at The Agganis Arena

Monday, November 12

• All Day Language Link Conversation Groups
• All Day What’s Your Global Story?
• All Day Faces of Global Health at BUSM-BUMC
• 12:00 PM Bar Mitzvah in Abuja
• 12:00 PM Mini-Language Lessons
• 6:00 PM Gastronomy at BU Lecture Series: Around the Italian Table
• 6:30 PM Women’s Health Issues in Disaster Settings

Tuesday, November 13

• All Day Language Link Conversation Groups
• All Day What’s Your Global Story?
• All day Faces of Global Health At BUSM-BUMC
• 12:30 PM Creating Global Citizens for the 21st Century: Education in and about China
• 12:00 PM Mini-Language Lessons
• 12:30 PM Can Greece and the Eurozone Live with Each Other: A Luncheon Discussion with Kevin Featherstone
• 4:00 PM International Student Panel
• 5:00 PM Responding to AIDS in Africa through Soccer
• 5:00 PM Global Issues from International Perspectives
• 5:30 PM Towards a Better Haiti: Global Health Through Research, Education, and Advocacy

Wednesday, November 14

• All Day Language Link Conversation Groups
• All Day What’s Your Global Story?
• All day Faces of Global Health At BUSM-BUMC
• 10:00 AM Music and Politics of Indonesia
• 12:00 PM Mini-Language Lessons
• 12:30 PM Europe’s Crisis and the Pathologies of Democracy
• 1:00 PM Modest Mussorgsky
• 4:00 PM International Celebration with the Admissions Office
• 5:00 PM Workshop: International Stress-Relief Techniques from Around the World
• 5:00 PM Globally Speaking: Compelling Stories of Work Experiences Abroad
• 6:00 PM International Wine Olympics: France versus the United States

Thursday, November 15

• All Day Language Link Conversation Groups
• All Day What’s Your Global Story?
• All day Faces of Global Health At BUSM-BUMC
• 12:30 PM The Role of a University in Creating Practitioners of Global Development
• 12:00 PM Mini-Language Lessons
• 4:00 PM All About Japan
• 4:00 PM Faculty Research Opportunities Abroad: Fulbrights and BU Faculty Exchanges
• 4:30 PM The U.S. Presidential Election: Perspectives from Abroad
• 4:45 PM Comparative Health Systems Panel Discussion: International Students’ Perspectives
• 5:00 PM Class Presentations: A Workshop for International Students
• 6:00 PM Reception for Turkish Art Exhibit
• 6:00 PM Workshop: International Stress-Relief Techniques from Around the World
• 6:00 PM Film Screening and Discussion on Winnie Mandela

Friday, November 16

• All Day Language Link Conversation Groups
• All Day What’s Your Global Story?
• All day Faces of Global Health At BUSM-BUMC
• 12:00 PM Lessons learned as a Partner In Health
• 12:00 PM Mini-Language Lessons
• 12:30 PM Political Islam in Mali and Somalia – Is Al Qaeda at Work in Africa?
• 2:00 PM 25 Years of Peace Corps Master’s International Program
• 3:00 PM Screening and Discussion of the Film “Crossing Borders”
• 4:00 PM Networking with the Director of the Peace Corps