International Education Week at Leeward

Tuesday-Friday, November 13-16  
Artifacts from Around the World created by Leeward CC International Students
Learning Commons Entry

Tuesday, November 13   
OKINAWAN DANCE with Yukie Shiroma
10:30 - 11:45am
12:00 - 1:15pm
4:30 - 5:45pm
FA 102
Yukie Shiroma will present an interactive Okinawan dance lesson and discussion about the history of the dance form and its role in the Okinawan culture in addition to a live performance.

Tuesday, November 13
GLOBAL STUDIES LECTURE SERIES with Paul Lococo
12:00 - 1:15pm                                               
GT 105
Title: “Modernizing while Preserving the Past: Observations in the Cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Yangzhou”
Leeward CC professor of history Paul Lococo has visited China numerous times over the past 25 years, most recently the summer of 2012. Chinese cities are rapidly modernizing and many of them resemble other developed cities in Europe, North America, and Japan. Yet, the Chinese are also trying to preserve features from the past. His talk looks at some of these developments, focusing on his most recent visits.

Wednesday, November 14  
GLOBAL STUDIES LECTURE SERIES with Suzette Scotti
9:00 - 9:50am                                       
GT 105                                    
Title: “Vikings: the Civilized Barbarians”
Viking lore still fascinates after so many centuries. Mention the Vikings, and people envision herculean blond warriors in horned helmets, plundering, pillaging, and terrorizing everyone in their midst. But this is only one aspect of their story. Who really were the Vikings? What did they believe? What is their cultural contribution? This talk will focus on their exquisite art and architecture, which challenges popular conceptions of Vikings as ferocious barbarians and nothing more. In fact the Vikings were much more -- yes, they were the savage scourge of medieval Europe, but they were also meticulous craftsmen, expert shipbuilders, fine metalworkers, and talented architects whose legacy is alive and well in Scandinavia today.

Wednesday, November 14   
ARGENTINE TANGO with Melanie Van Der Tuin-Oka and Richard Oka
11:00 - 11:40am             
Learning Commons Concourse                                    
Melanie Van Der Tuin-Oka and Richard Oka will present an interactive Tango lessons, cultural discussion, and live performance.

Wednesday, November 14    
BALLET FOLKLORICO MEXICANO QUETZAL with Leilani Trujillo
12:00 - 12:50pm             
Learning Commons Concourse                                    
Leilani Trujillo will present an interactive Mexican folkloric dance lesson, cultural discussion, and live performance.

Thursday, November 15    
SALSA, BOMBA Y PLENA with Diana  Walton
10:30 - 11:30am                                                     
Learning Commons Concourse                                                                     
Diana Walton will present an interactive Salsa, Bomba and Plena lesson, cultural discussion, and live performance.

Thursday, November 15     
CHINESE MELODIES with Jason Tse
12:00 – 1:00pm
Learning Commons Concourse
Jason Tse will be presenting some simple examples of how Chinese melodies are constructed by incorporating Western harmonies and music theory. Jason has a background in music production and will also showcase some methods of how music can be produced digitally while focusing on some ethnic Chinese instrument sounds.

Thursday, November 15    
THE HAJJ AND MALCOLM X with Karim Khan
3:00 – 4:15pm                                                                
GT 105
A lecture by Abdul-Karim Khan, Professor of History at Leeward Community College, for a discussion of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all able-bodied Muslims, and its impact on civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Friday, November 16    
JAPANESE - SPANISH SPEECH CONTEST
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Student Lounge
Please announce to your classes to attend and support their fellow language-learning students, and all present are welcome to participate in the Japanese/Spanish trivia contest towards the end.  Prizes for the trivia contest winners.