Barnard International Group

7 Dec 2009

Need a getaway? The last BIG event of the semester is this Wednesday night.  Stop by for music and photos from all over the world.  Hear stories from students who have studied abroad.  Ask questions.  Eat snacks.  Have fun! Wednesday, December 95:30-7 pmElliot Parlor

Need a getaway?

The last BIG event of the semester is this Wednesday night.  Stop by for music and photos from all over the world.  Hear stories from students who have studied abroad.  Ask questions.  Eat snacks.  Have fun!

Wednesday, December 9
5:30-7 pm
Elliot Parlor

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22 Nov 2009

BIG needs your help!

BIG is planning a study break, and we need your help! We would like to have music and a picture slideshow to go along with our next BIG event. So break out your photo albums (in Picasa or iPhoto) and your CDs (in iTunes) and share! Send any of your favorite photos or tunes to barnardinternationalgroup@gmail.com. The submissions have been great so far, so keep ‘em coming!

BIG Study Break
Wednesday December 9, 5:30-7pm
Elliot Parlor

If you have any ideas about what you’d like to see or do at this event, share them with us. We want our last event of the semester to be as much fun as possible!

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22 Nov 2009

Upcoming Event

Finding the Right Overseas Experience for You: Work, Intern, and Volunteer Abroad
Monday November 30, 5pm-6:30pm
Center for Career Education, Conference Room

Finding the right overseas opportunity, whether a job, internship, or volunteer experience, can be confusing and overwhelming because sometimes it’s hard to find the information or sometimes there are too many options. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the various options for getting overseas experience, strategies to find opportunities, and how to determine which is right for you.

This workshop will be presented by Zahara Heckscher, co-author of How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas. Her workshops are based on her own experience as a volunteer in Africa and Latin America, 6 years of research for her book and travel in over 25 countries. She is a contributing editor at TransitionsAbroad.com.

Register here.

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22 Nov 2009

The Next BIG Thing

Traveling safe and staying healthy are some of the extremely important parts of studying overseas.  Maybe you are worrying about how to get prescriptions overseas, what to do if you become ill, or how insurance works.  Maybe you are nervous about traveling alone as a young woman, having fun while remaining safe, or how to handle cultures that are different from your own.  Or maybe you have a completely unrelated question!  Either way, join us for a very informative session this week.

Tuesday November 24th
5:30 pm - 7 pm
Elliot Parlor

Representatives from Barnard Health Services and Columbia’s Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program will be there to answer your questions, as well as students who have studied abroad in previous years.

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8 Nov 2009

Paris

Now playing at the IFC Center:  Paris.  It opened back in September but there are still showings every week.  The movie is “an exuberant, kaleidoscopic love letter to the City of Lights and its inhabitants, from new immigrants and street-market vendors to university lecturers and the supermodels who rule the catwalks…”  Check it out while you still can!  English subtitles.

For more info and showtimes, check out IFC’s website.

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19 Oct 2009

Upcoming Events

“Invisible Children” Screening
Thursday October 22  6 pm-7:30 pm
C555 Lerner
For 23 years, the government of Uganda and a rebel group called the Lords Resistance Army have engaged in Africa’s longest and most costly war. This war that has led to the abduction of thousands of innocent children who are forced to become child soldiers. Come join us for a screening of the newest Invisible Children documentary and learn how you can the fight for the liberty of the thousands of abducted children and improve conditions in Northern Uganda. Free food!

Info Session for Alternative Spring Break
Thursday October 29  7:30 pm
Lerner 502
Interested in an alternative spring break that entails traveling to Honduras for a week to teach, live in a Honduran homestay, participate in community service projects, all while having the chance to visit the Mayan ruins of Copan? Then come learn more about Bilingual Education for Central America, where Jamie Koppel, founder of BECA, will be present to explain previous trips as well as discussing plans for this trip! Also, don’t miss our first fundraising event Wednesday, October 28, where we’ll be serving pumpkin bread and milk at the Halloween Film Festival. This trip will be organized with the help of CSIS, Columbia Students for International Service. Students who are interested in participating should contact Kimberly Wu (kw2237@barnard.edu).

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6 Oct 2009

Upcoming Events

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Susannah Heschel: Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, which won a National Jewish Book Award and Germany’s Geiger Prize

Intrigued with Islam: Jewish Scholars, Travelers, and Converts in Modern Europe
Tuesday, October 13, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707

Jesus as Aryan Hero: The Peculiar Conversion of Christianity into National Socialism during the Third Reich
Thursday, October 15, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707

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Caste and Contemporary India: A conference on B.R. Ambedkar
Friday-Saturday, October 16-17, 9am-5pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

A conference in honor of B.R. Ambedkar, chief architect of the Indian constitution and Columbia alumnus. Participants include President Lee C. Bollinger; Vice President Nicholas B. Dirks; Gnana Alyosius; Masood Alam Falahi; Marc Galanter; Gopal Guru; Rajkumar Hans; Christophe Jaffrelot; Pratap Mehta; Smita Narula; Balmurli Natrajan; Gyan Pandey; Sudha Rani; Anupama Rao; Nat Roberts; Palanimuthu Sivakami; Jebaroja Singh; Anand Teltumbde; Gauri Viswanthan.

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Trends in Latin American Religions: New Analyses of Pentecostalism and Charismatics
Friday, November 6, 4:30-6pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801

A discussion led by Marta Lagos, Director of Latin Barometer in Santiago; Margaret Crahan, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies; Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government. Participants also include John Burdick (Syracuse University), Timothy Steigenga (UNC Chapel Hill), David Smilde (University of Georgia), Alejandro Natal (Interdisciplinary Program for Third Sector Studies, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico), and Diana Lima (Instituto Universita¡rio de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro).

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Secularism in Contemporary India
Monday, November 16, 10:30am-12:30pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

A discussion with Chrisophe Jaffrelot, Alliance Visiting Professor (Sciences Po-CERI, Paris); Thomas Blom Hansen, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam; and Rajeev Bhargava, Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies.

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Religion, Conflict and Accommodation in India
Tuesday-Wednesday, November 17-18, 9am-5pm
Common Room, Second Floor Heyman Center for the Humanities

A workshop led by Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, and Rajeev Bhargava, Director of the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies (Delhi). Discussion will focus on the role of religion in India throughout its history, particiularly the dynamics of conflict and accommodation between Buddhists and conventional Vedic religion and among Saivas, Vaisnavas and Jains in ancient and medieval society.

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18 Sep 2009

The Next BIG Thing

After a successful pizza dinner, BIG has decided to follow up with dessert.  Please join us for our ice cream social!

Barnard International Group Ice Cream Social
Tuesday October 6  5:30 pm-7 pm
Elliot Parlor

Interested in studying abroad? Going abroad for the first time? New to Barnard? New to NYC? Have you been abroad? Did you grow up in a different country? Do you have advice or stories to share?

Then join us for ice cream and a chat! We are in viting all students interested in studying abroad, those who are studying abroad at Barnard, and those who have studied or lived in different countries in the past to share questions, experiences, and advice. Learn about different programs, countries, cities, residence options, how to adapt, and more from those who have experienced it firsthand!

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15 Sep 2009

Upcoming Events

Columbia is hosting its annual World Leaders Forum starting next week.  Registration is now open.  To register or find out more information, visit the World Leaders Forum website.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina
Monday September 21  4:30 pm

Ambassador Alvaro de Soto with Marti Ahtisaari, Former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Monday September 21  6 pm

Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand
Tuesday September 22  3:30 pm

Boris Tadic, President of Serbia
Tuesday September 22  6 pm

Kofi Annan, Columbia Global Fellow and former Secretary General of the UN
Wednesday September 23  12 pm

Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister of Nepal
Thursday September 24  2 pm

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11 Sep 2009

Upcoming Event

Australian Football League Grand Final  - St. Kilda Saints vs. Geelong Cats
Friday, September 25 into Saturday, September 26  midnight-3am
The Australian  20 W. 38th St.
Ship of Fools  1590 2nd Ave.
Eight Mile Creek  240 Mulberry St.

The Aussie Rules Grand Final is upon us!  Come out for a night of revelry, pies, wedges, Tooheys, Boags, and Coopers while we watch the Saints and the Cats duke it out.  The Australian is a bar and restaurant in midtown Manhattan.  They are currently booked for tables but will have standing room.  Ship of Fools is a sports bar on the Upper East Side and will be showing the game on 40 TVs.  Eight Mile Creek is a much smaller venue - just one TV! - in Nolita.  For those who aren’t night owls, Eight Mile Creek will likely replay the game Saturday afternoon around 12 or 12:30.

Looking for someone to go with?  Leave a comment on this post with your name and some contact information!

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