Monday, March 7th

11:20am – 1:00pm

Come and join students as they explore the field of narrative medicine and the role of cultural agency and art therapy in patients and clients’ journeys (Int/Adv Spanish)

Event Contact: Natalia Santamaria Laorden

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Lecture by Movie Director Fred Kuwornu.

This multimedia lecture is an introduction to issues of culture, race, identity, and citizenship in contemporary Italy drawing on the new arena of social media.

WebEx Link

Food will be served

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Have you ever wondered how to make guacamole? How about quesadillas, picadillo or Cuban black beans? Come pick up a great recipe, in Spanish or English, you can try at home!

2:15pm – 3:55pm

Questions and vocabulary relating to some of Ramapo’s international opportunities in the Spanish-speaking world.

No previous language skills required. 

Event contact: Courtney Alonzo

Tuesday, March 8th

11:50am – 1:30pm

“Sleep Dealer” (Mexico/USA) Latino filmmaker Alex Rivera’s 2008 film, Sleep Dealer, depicts a militarized world of walled borders where a globalized workforce sends its labor North via cyberspace from remote “factories.” While ostensibly science fiction, the film alludes to recent concerns such as water privatization, televised drone patrols in U.S. border towns, and the structural violence experienced by maquila workers, to mention a few. Unusual for a First World lens, we see the causes of migration shifting family and community relations and thrusting migrant workers into new realms where they connect with el otro lado [the other side] using technology in new ways.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Event contact: Purvi Parekh

https://www.ramapo.edu/international/langculturehours/

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Presentation of interesting facts about the Arabic Language and cultures followed by a Kahoot Game.

Event contact: Ghada Hamila

Wednesday, March 9th

2:00pm – 3:00pm

https://www.ramapo.edu/international/langculturehours/

Event contact: Izumi Osawa-Minevich

Thursday, March 10th

11:20am – 1:00pm

Comparative Feminist Theories

Event Contact: Vassiliki Flenga

Students read poetry in Italian

Italian Foundation 1 students will lead audience by singing a song from Lucio Dalla: Piazza Grande, followed by a discussion by Professor Balena concerning the importance of Italian dialects

The Geography of Italian Dialects: Professor Ottavio Balena discusses how dialects reflect the beauty of the Italian regions.

Film: Tolo-Tolo by Cecco Zalone

Italia versus the rest, who is the best?

Presentation of the film by Professor Rosetta D’Angelo, followed by film screening and Q and A.

Food will be served

Friday, March 11th

11:50am – 1:30pm

“Sleep Dealer” (Mexico/USA) Latino filmmaker Alex Rivera’s 2008 film, Sleep Dealer, depicts a militarized world of walled borders where a globalized workforce sends its labor North via cyberspace from remote “factories.” While ostensibly science fiction, the film alludes to recent concerns such as water privatization, televised drone patrols in U.S. border towns, and the structural violence experienced by maquila workers, to mention a few. Unusual for a First World lens, we see the causes of migration shifting family and community relations and thrusting migrant workers into new realms where they connect with el otro lado [the other side] using technology in new ways.

The film will be screened at the same time and location on Tuesday, March 8th (see above).

12:00pm – 1:30pm

https://www.ramapo.edu/international/langculturehours/

Event contact: Ghada Hamila

3:40pm – 5:20pm

Watch “5cm per Second” 

Discussion:  What is Mono no aware