- 5:30pm to 8pm
- MacDonald Middle School
- Gala Night showcases the positive aspects of Africa and its people to both MSU and East Lansing Communities. The theme for the 2009 Culture Week is: From Sunrise to Sunset; The Harvest is Ripe! This theme embraces the idea that African nations were and still are progressing towards greater achievements. The celebration will include presentations of African music, dances, skits, displays of African Artifact, and a student panel discussing contemporary African issues. We also intend on having a keynote speaker from an African nation to speak during the gala, the first day of the Culture week, which includes a dinner consisting of our special African delicacies.
- http://www.msu.edu/~asu/
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- 12pm to 5pm
- MSU Union
- An afternoon of international involvement, featuring exhibits, performances and demonstrations by MSU nationality clubs; the World Gift Shop;international cuisine; and international games for children.
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- 7pm to 11pm
- Main Library (W449) N. Conference Room
- A contemporary tale of murder, conspiracy and intrigue about Israel Kaxztner, a Hungarian Jew who negotiated for lives with Adolf Eichman. A trial and verdict that forever stamped him as the "man who sold his soul to the devil." Murdered by Israeli assassins who gunned him down in front of his doorstep. Now, fifty years later, his daughter's desperate efforts to restore her father's place as the greatest Jewish hero of the Holocaust, and to uncover the mystery that still clouds his death.
- http://www.lib.msu.edu/events/
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- 12pm to 1:30pm
- 106-107 Henry Center
- Presented by Andrew Mangan, Executive Director, United States Business Council for Sustainable Development
- http://GBClub.msu.edu
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- 11am to 2pm
- International Center Lobby
- MSU student groups engaged in international activities and causes will set up displays explaining their project goals. This is an opportunity for students to promote involvement and fundraise through a penny war contest. The winners of the penny war will receive a Flip video camera to help them document their project and help other students get inspired, get involved and go global.
- http://www.iew.msu.edu
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- 6pm to 7:30pm
- 303 International Center
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- 3pm to 5pm
- Spartan Room B
- This session will outline why culture continues to matter even in what is supposedly a value neutral context.
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- 11am to 2pm
- International Center Lobby
- Area studies, thematic centers and American cultural programs will host tables to discuss specializations like the undergraduate specialization in Latin American studies, degree options like the major in international relations and special programs like study abroad that are based on or incorporate international studies, all to help show students how to be world wise.
- http://www.iew.msu.edu
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- 4pm to 6pm
- International Center, Spartan Rooms B&C
- A coffee hour and celebration with the winners of the international student and study abroad essay contests. Winning essays will be read.
- http://oiss.msu.edu
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- 5pm to 10pm
- Downtown Lansing, Capital Plaza
- Experiences help visiting international professionals and their families get engaged by participating in American traditions.
Celebrating the holiday season brings people together from many different religions at an annual celebration in the capital plaza in downtown Lansing. Activities include a tree lighting ceremony, an electric lights parade, carriage rides, live entertainment and fireworks.
- http://www.silverbellsinthecity.org
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- 1:30pm to 3pm
- 302 International Center
- "Breast Cancer Incidence Rates in Young 'Black' and 'White' Women in the US: What Evidence is There for the Genetic Hypothesis?"
Overwhelming evidence reveals that race determines changing environmental exposures over generations, which in turn affect individual biology and health. Yet the assumption persists in medical science that race primarily affects health through fixed, inherited genetics. Recent advances in genetic technologies have identified differences in gene prevalences between populations categorized by self-reported race, but these differences have not been found to explain racial differences in rates of common complex diseases. In this presentation, the specific example of racial differences in breast cancer incidence rates in young women will be used to investigate assumptions in the medical literature about inherited genetics and health disparities.
- http://www.gencen.msu.edu
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- 8:30am to 10:30am
- Spartan Room C
- This session will explore the interrelated perspectives and intercultural interactions associated with international and multicultural ways of living and learning. We will examine why we are sometimes more willing to engage and appreciate differences across national borders than to deal with similar issues of domestic diversity. Participants will be challenged to re-think these encounters and will learn about tools and identify skills that can help all of us to become more successful and respond more thoughtfully and appropriately across cultures, domestic or foreign.
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- 4pm to 6pm
- Spartan Rooms B and C International Center
- Come to coffee hour and celebrate with the winners of the international student and study abroad essay contests!
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