ICGC Event Digest

The ICGC Digest is a weekly report of ICGC community events and news.

ICGC Digest Week of 9.12.16 Welcome to the 2016-17 Academic Year! What's Below: ICGC Brown Bag 9.16 Bhaskar Uphadyay "Skirmishes between science and culture when ambushed by the earthquake: Stories of some Nepalese individuals", Department of Curriculum and Instruction   ICGC Co-Sponsored Events 9.12 & 13.16:  Film Screenings and Discussions with Cameroonian Filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno ICGC Co-Sponsored Event 9.14: Film Screening and Discussion of "Dialogue with my Grandmother/Dialogo con mi Abuela" with Afro-Cuban Director Gloria Rolando  ICGC Co-Sponsored Event 9.15: Paul Lovejoy, "Islam and Spiritual Resistance in the African Diaspora" Department of History, York University  ICGC Co-Sponsored Event 9.22: David Robinson, Global Cooperative Organizing for Sustainable Development in Africa, Higher Ground Development and Books for Africa-Twin Cities  ICGC Brown Bag 9.23: Maurits van Bever Donker, " Thinking in apartheid's wake: On community as limit" ICGC Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of the Western Cape ICGC Events  ICGC Brown Bag Series 9.16.16  ~ Noon ~ 537 Heller Hall  Skirmishes between science and culture when ambushed by the earthquake: Stories of some Nepalese individuals   Presented by: Bhaskar Uphadyay, Department of Curriculum and Instruction  Poster attached  Read More ICGC Co-Sponsored Event  Film Screenings and Discussions with Director Jean-Marie Teno 35 Nicholson Hall Monday, September 12 Une Feuille dans le vent (Leaf in the Wind, 2013) 4-6p Tuesday, September 13 Le Malentendu colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding, 2004) 3-5p Poster attached Read more  Refreshments provided  Co-sponsored by: ASI, ICGC, History, French & Italian, MIMS, African American & African Studies  ICGC Co-Sponsored Event  9.14.16 ~ 5pm ~ 1210 Heller Hall Film Screening and Discussion of "Dialogue with my Grandmother/Dialogo con mi Abuela" with Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando  Poster attached Refreshments provided  Co-sponsored by: The Minnesota Cuba Committee  ICGC Co-Sponsored Event  9.15.16 ~ 12pm  ~ 537 Heller Hall (ICGC) Islam and Spiritual Resistance to Slavery in the African Diaspora Presented by: Dr. Paul Lovejoy, Department of History, York University Poster attached Read more  Co-sponsored by: History and ASI ICGC Co-Sponsored Event  9.22.16 ~ 1:30pm  ~ 10 Blegen Hall  Global Cooperative Organizing for Sustainable Development in Africa Presented by: David Robinson, Higher Ground Development and Books for Africa-Twin Cities Poster attached  Co-sponsored by: Sociology, ASI, Humphrey School, African American & African Studies ICGC Brown Bag Series 9.23.16 ~ 12pm ~ 537 Heller Hall (ICGC) Thinking in Apartheid's wake: On community as limit Presented by: Maurits van Bever Donker, ICGC Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of the Western Cape  Poster attached Read more  Please look for the full ICGC calendar of events for 2016 Fall semester forthcoming