December 2009
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November 2009
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
October 2009
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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...
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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...
September 2009
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The Top 5 Things NOT to Do After Returning from... →
Click the link and find out if you’re guilty!
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Upcoming Events
Here are some events that are coming up that you might be interested in. They have been added to the calendar and the Facebook page.
The Choir of Exeter College, Oxford - A Program of Traditional English Anthems Friday, September 11 8pm-9pm Union Theological Seminary, 120th and Broadway
The New Reality of Mexico-U.S. Migration - A Lecture with Douglas S. Massey Tuesday, September 15 ...
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August 2009
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Barnard International Group's Official Calendar →
You can see a list of events on the right side of this page as well.
Hello!
Welcome to Barnard International Group’s blog! I will be using this blog to post LOTS of information, so check back regularly. I will be posting event dates, photos from students, links to student blogs, and information about international events (music, theater, food, etc.) in the city. You can subscribe to entries by clicking on the “RSS Feed” button on the top right side of...