Arabic Language & Culture Hour
2022-02-25 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-03-01 15:30 - 17:00, 2022-03-04 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-03-11 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-03-22 15:30 - 17:00, 2022-03-25 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-03-29 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Learn and experience the Arabic language and related cultures with Ramapo’s Fulbright Language Teacher, Ms. Ghada Hamila (ghamila@ramapo.edu). No previous language experience required.

Hindi Language and Culture Hour
2022-03-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-29 12:00 - 13:00 | C-213
HindiLanguage and Culture Hour is back for the spring semester at the Roukema Centerfor International Education in C-213 every Tuesday from 12pm-1pm. Practice anddevelop your language skills, learn about culture, customs & traditionwhile meeting new friends and reconnecting with your peers. No prior knowledgeis required and all levels are welcome. Contact purvi@ramapo.edu for more information.

Russian Invasion of Ukraine: What it Means and What's Next
2022-03-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Pavilion #3
Join a panel of political and international experts to put the Russian invasion of Ukraine in context and discuss short and long term implications. President Cindy Jebb and Professor Dean Chen of Ramapo will join Professor Julie George of Queens College on the expert panel and Professor Mihaela Serban will moderate.

Japanese Language and Culture Hour
2022-03-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-09 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 | C-213
Japanese Language and Culture Hour continues to be offered for the spring semester every Wednesday from 2pm-3pm in C-213. Join us and practice your language skills while learning about current & traditional Japanese culture, seasonal cuisines, customs, and local events. No previous knowledge required and all levels are welcome. Contact iosawami@ramapo.edu for more information.

Ramapo's Annual World Languages Week 2022
2022-03-07 - 2022-03-11
The theme for this year’s World Languages Week is: “Celebrate humanity through language”.
Check back for a link to the official webpage.

Spanish for Health Care and Human Services - Student Presentations
2022-03-07 11:20 - 13:00 | B-127

Black Italians: Digital Culture in Contemporary Italy
2022-03-07 13:00 - 14:00 | B-127
Black Italians: Digital Culture in Contemporary Italy:Lectured 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.

What's Cooking?
2022-03-07 13:00 - 14:00 | B-140
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!

“Moliere” (film)
2022-03-07 14:15 - 15:55 | ASB-522
Film Screening: “Moliere” (2007)Directed by Laurent TirardImprisoned for debt, playwright Molière is rescued by an aristocrat who needs his help in order to seduce a young marquise.

The Geography of Italian Dialects
2022-03-07 16:30 - 17:30 | B-127
B-127
How dialects reflect the beauty of the Italian regions.

Film Screening: “Sleep Dealer”
2022-03-08 11:50 - 13:30 | A-226
“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 using technology in new ways.

Arabic Language & Culture Hour: The Uniqueness of the Arabic Language
2022-03-08 15:30 - 17:00 | B-127
B-127 The Uniqueness of the Arabic Language:Presentation of interesting facts about the Arabic Language and cultures followed by a Kahoot Game.

RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE: TOO LATE FOR LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
2022-03-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Alumni Lounges
Join a panel of Ramapo experts to understand the legal and human rights ramifications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Panelists include Professor Behzad Yaghmaian, Professor Rebecca Root, Professor Sangha Padhy, and Angelina Farallo ’22. The panel is moderated by Professor Erin Augis.
https://ramapo.webex.com/ramapo/j.php?MTID=mee5ddd635363598b9035bbcec246bea2Password: [REDACTED]

Cixousversaire: A Celebration of Helene Cixous
2022-03-10 11:20 - 13:00 | G-123
Cixousversaire: A Celebration of Helene Cixous
Comparative Feminist Theories“Max and Moritz and My Mother,” keynote lecture by Hélène Cixous at the 3-day conference in 2017 at La Maison Française, NYU

Film: Tolo-Tolo by Cecco Zalone
2022-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | B-127
B-127 Film: Tolo-Tolo by Cecco ZaloneItalia versus the rest, who is the best?Presentation of the film by Professor Rosetta D’Angelo, followed by film screening and Q and A.

Italian Language Festival – Music, Poetry & Film
2022-03-10 16:00 - 19:00 | B-127
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
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.

Film Discussion: “Sleep Dealer”
2022-03-11 11:50 - 13:30 | A-226
“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 using technology in new ways.
* The film will be screened at the same time and location on Tuesday, March 8th.

Ancient Japanese unique sensibility and aesthetics in modern day ANIME
2022-03-11 15:40 - 17:20 | A-223
Ancient Japanese unique sensibility and aesthetics in modern day ANIME:Watch the film “5cm per Second” Discussion: What is Mono no aware

Ramapo Global Talks: India Today
2022-03-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Trustee’s Pavilion #1
“India Today” will be an introductory talk on contemporary Indian society, politics, the work of NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and the various themes of gender, climate/environment, religion, media, and education. Hear from a renowned expert in India for this virtual and in-person event.
Presenters:
Siddhartha is the founder of Pipal Tree, an organisation concerned with media, inter-culturality, and environment issues, and Fireflies Intercultural Centre, an international eco-spiritual centre in Bangalore. He coordinates Meeting Rivers, an e-bulletin which engages religion and spirituality from a social and ecological perspective. He has lectured widely in Dublin, University of Massachusetts, Ramapo College (New Jersey), the United Nations University in Tokyo and organized international conferences and workshops in Manila, Bangkok, Seoul, Paris, Melbourne, Kathmandu and Bangalore on issues related to culture, ecology and sustainable development.
Chandan Gowda is Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His areas of research include Indian political thought and modern Kannada literature and cinema. Besides academic publications, he has translated Kannada fiction and non-fiction into English. He has compiled and edited The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader and A Life in the World, a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy. At present, he is completing a book on the cultural politics of development in the old Mysore and co-translating and editing Daredevil Mustafa, a book of short stories by the Kannada writer, Purnachandra Tejasvi. He is also a columnist with Deccan Herald.
Moderator:

Sanghamitra Padhy, Associate Professor of Law & Society, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Profile)

WebEx: https://ramapo.webex.com/ramapo/j.php?MTID=mca13973af95e11d3e27d034360d3c945 (Pre-registration required)
