[GEO] Happy Halloween! The Global Education Office (GEO) presents the Weekly Digest

[Global Education Office]

Explore the world right here at Hampshire!
Take advantage of hosted lectures and events to become more 
knowledgeable about places and issues around the world.

Remember that all of GEO's weekly digests (since fall '07) are available 
online! Follow the link at the very bottom of this email, then click on 
"GEO Archives".

Contents

Upcoming GEO Events
- Lecture by Arshia Sattar
- A Woman's Womb: New England Premiere
- 13th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture
- Documentary Screening from Bhutan
- Africa Day

Save the Date: Study Abroad Deadlines
- Enrollment Notification

Special Information:
-Ecosa Institute, Sustainable Design

GEO Resources
- Navigating Study Abroad
- GEO Website

UPCOMING EVENTS

*Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Where’s The Narrator In An Indian Story?*
A lecture by Arshia Sattar
Fulbright Scholar, Translator of the Ramayana
Wednesday, November 3rd at 4:30pm
New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, Mount Holyoke College

*A Woman's Womb: New England Premiere*
Franklin Patterson Hall (MLH)

Wednesday 11/3/2010 5 Day(s), 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Between 1995 and 2000, more than 330,000 women and some 30,000 men were 
forcibly sterilized in Peru during the dictatorial rule of Alberto 
Fujimori. Peruvian government officials, South American decision makers, 
and Western leaders saw these poor and illiterate Quechua Indians as a 
grave new threat to the future of mankind.
A Woman's Womb, an investigative documentary produced by Temps Noir and 
designed for prime time broadcast to a wide general audience, exposes 
the scandal of coercive population control policies through interviews 
with Quechua women and officials responsible for the abuse. It also 
highlights the role played by Peruvian feminist activists in stopping 
the forced sterilizations.

For more information, write to popdev at hampshire.edu or join us at 
www.facebook.com/popdevprogram


*13th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture*
Free and open to the public! Thursday, Nov. 4th at 4pm in the Robert 
Crown Center.

Prominent Israeli journalist and author Amira Hass, and Karma Nabulsi, 
University of Oxford lecturer and a former PLO representative at the UN, 
will discuss the obstacles and possibilities for movement in the 
conflict between Israel and Palestine.


*Documentary Screening from Bhutan*
Friday 11/5/2010, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Film, Photography, and Video (Liebling Center), Abraham Ravett Screening 
Room

Lingshi is a mountain village situated at an altitude of 12,000 feet in 
the Great Himalayan region of Bhutan. It is a four-day trek through the 
wilderness from Bhutan's capital city, Thimphu. 49 year-old Ugen Tenzin 
has been Lingshi's postal runner for 26 years. This documentary follows 
his journey in the winter when the route is snowbound and in mid-summer 
when the monsoons lash out. Ugen spends twelve to fifteen days of the 
month traveling. Despite the risks and the tiring ascents and descents 
of high mountains and valleys, he plans to continue until his 
retirement. Ugen Tenzin has served as a mail runner for 36 years and 
retired at the age of 55 in January 2010. The films offer striking 
portraits of contemporary Bhutan.


*Five Colleges Africa Day 2010*
Expressing Africa: Tongues, Tastes and Trends
November 6, from 1:30 to 7:00pm, Franklin Patterson Hall.

Featuring student panels, workshops, music, dance, fashion and African 
cuisine. For more information:
http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/african/

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SAVE THE DATE: STUDY ABROAD DEADLINES

*Enrollment Notification Deadline*
If you are planning to do a Hampshire Exchange Program or International 
Field Study on Spring 2011, you will need to notify the college (through 
CASA) by the ENROLLMENT NOTIFICATION DEADLINE on FRI, NOV 12TH.

*IMPORTANT* the Global Education Office will be CLOSED NOV 10 & NOV 11. 
In addition, the directors will not be available for FIELD STUDY 
signatures on NOV 9th. Since the Enrollment Notification Deadline is 
FRI, NOV 12th, please plan ahead.

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SPECIAL INFORMATION

*Ecosa Institute*
Certificate Programs in Regenerative Design

Ecosa programs are exciting, fun, informative, rich and integrated 
experiences where learning is based on the concepts underlying nature. 
We use complexity, recursive experience, experiential learning, and 
systems thinking to develop potential solutions to the challenging 
issues we face in the 21st Century.

The Ecosa program is accredited by both Ball State College of 
Architecture and Planning and Prescott College who provide course 
transcripts for the program. Offered Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters, 
these unique Certificate if Regenerative Ecological Design Programs 
offer, through field trips, lectures, guest speakers and real world 
client projects, an integrated understanding of sustainable design- from 
architecture to permaculture, product design to urban and community 
planning.

For more information visit www.ecosa.org


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GEO RESOURCES

*Study Abroad Info Session*
Every Thursday 4PM | Merrill Living Room
Weekly GEO Info Sessions provide an overview of study abroad options and 
how to begin planning your study abroad experience.

*Stop by GEO or call our office (413 559 5542) from 9 to noon or 1 to 4 
to schedule an appointment, talk to a staff member, or browse through 
our resource library.

*Look at our website too: http://www.hampshire.edu/geo/


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