Events
Spring 2018
Thursday 2/22/18
Humphrey Fellows Panel Discussion
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Rich Hall, Room 234
Monday 2/26/18
Asma Barlas (Ithaca College)
Women and Islam
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
MCC, Room 114
Wednesday, 2/28/18
IGE Year of India: Screening: Machines
Q & A with Julie Schofield, Fulbright student and Oswego alum
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Park 315
Monday 3/19/18
IGE Year of India: Scott Sorrell (Cornell University)
Gender and Sexuality in Urban India: A case-study of Bangalore
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
MCC 132
Tuesday 3/20/18
IGE Year of India: Arvind Diddi (SUNY Oswego)
Freedom of the Press in India
2:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Mahar 106
Wednesday 4/11/18
Eduardo Garcia (School of the Americas Watch)
The People’s Human Rights Observatory
10:20 - 11:15 AM
Latin American Politics, Lisa Glidden
Mahar 122
12:40 PM - 1:35 PM
Survey of Latin American Literature, Georgina Whittingham
MCC 256 (in Spanish)
1:50 PM - 2:45 PM
Spanish 102, Beatriz Salcedo-Strumpf
MCC 255
Monday 4/16/18
IGE Year of India: Graphic novel author and painter Amruta Patil
11:30-12:25
Amruta will talk about her work, and also discuss media in India in general.
Combined lectures: 215 Penfield, Speaker’s Corner Classroom
1:50-2:45
Amruta will talk about her work from the perspective of an artist and writer.
Combined lectures: 215 Penfield, Speaker’s Corner Classroom
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Reception
215 Penfield, Speaker’s Corner Classroom
Thursday 4/19/18
IGE Year of India: Noemi Marin (Florida Atlantic University)
Gandhi, Dalai Lama and Havel: Public intellectuals, Dissidents and Their Message for a World in Transition
2:20 PM - 3:40 PM
MCC 114
Monday 4/23/18
IGE Year of India: Ilerena Searle (University of Rochester)
Landscapes of accumulation: Real estate and the neoliberal imagination in contemporary India
3:00 - 4:20 PM
MCC 132
Thursday 4/26/18
IGE Year of India: Chaise LaDousa (Hamilton College)
Mind the (Language "Medium") Gap: Reflections on Education in India
2:20 - 3:15
MCC 114
Fall 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Year of India Opening Ceremony
Marano Campus Center 114
Friday, September 29, 2017
Humphrey Fellows Speed Meetings
New Location: Penfield Library Speakers Corner Classroom, 2nd floor.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Screening and Discussion of Earth, with Prof. Gerry Forbes
6:00 PM
Park 315
To mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence and partition, IGE and Cinema and Screen Studies is organizing a screening of Deepa Metha's 1998 film Earth. A discussion facilitated by Professor Emerita Geraldine Forbes will follow.
Friday, October 13, 2017
Campus visit by Sumi Somaskanda
Ms. Somaskanda is a reporter with Deutsche Welle, where she has worked as a correspondent in the field, a writer, producer and an anchor. She also reports on Germany and Europe for various international publications. Her work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Newsweek, USA Today and the Global Post.
11:30 AM - Indian Media in a Time of Rising Nationalism: Penfield Library Speakers Corner Classroom, 2nd floor
1:50 PM - Interview with Prof. Michael Riecke. Marano Auditorium (MCC 132)
3:00 PM - Meeting with students in German classes (Penfield Lake Effect Cafe)
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Saturday, October 14, 2017
Diwali Celebration
4:00 - 7:00 PM
Hart Hall, 1st floor
Diwali is the festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains. It is the triumph of light over darkness; good over evil. Celebrate with us!
Thursday, November 2, 2017
South Indian Classical Dance of Kuchipudi
Friday, November 3, 2017
Global Awareness Conference presents: Bharatanatyam dance performance by Koshala Mathuranayagam
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Global Awareness Conference presents: Shalini Kantayya
Monday, November 13, 2017
The Paradox of Digital Inclusion & Exclusion: India's Tryst with the Internet
Osama Manzar
Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Ancient Indian Science
Alok Kumar
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Physics
3:20 - 4:20 pm
Shineman 175
Drawing from his recently published book “Sciences of the Ancient Hindus”, Professor Kumar will highlight the many contributions of ancient Hindus to modern science and medicine, which include the invention of the base ten system and zero as a numeral, the system of medicine with the mind-body approach known as Ayurveda, knowledge of constellations, and many more.
Dr. Kumar is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Physics at SUNY Oswego. His has to his credit an eclectic record of contributions ranging from atomic and chemical physics to Science in the Medieval World and Science Education. Dr. Kumar is the recipients of many prestigious awards including the President Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity or Research and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of some 70 publications in atomic physics, chemical physics, history of science, and science education.
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017
International Women's Panel
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Room 201, Marano Campus Center
Featuring five panelists from the ninth cohort of Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows who are spending the 2017-2018 year at the Maxwell School in graduate academic study, professional development, networking and cultural exchange. The Humphrey Fellowship program is sponsored and funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Institute of International Education.
Hosted and moderated by Oswego's "Gender and the Workplace" class (WST 396).
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Celebrate International Education Week with the Humphrey Fellows (and pizza!)
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Artswego presents: Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic
