[Friends Hall] The Culture Club and Psi Sigma Phi Multicultural Fraternity, Inc., invite students, faculty, staff and retirees to a presentation on.”In the Heart of Asia: Taiwan’s Culture and History” by Lien-Fang Ho, adjunct professor of information technology. The event will be on Monday, April 15 in Friends Hall at 1 p.m. Food and refreshments will be served. For more information, contact William Hooper, Culture Club president at whooper@ramapo.edu.

Join Professor Neriko Doerr and HGS for a short lecture on food and power of Japan on campus and then a trip to Mitsuwa, a Japanese marketplace in Edgewater where attendees can eat dinner and browse through Japanese supermarket and other stores. The lecture will be taking place on Wednesday, April 17 at 5 p.m. in A-218, with provided transportation leaving RCNJ campus at 6 p.m. This event is open to the entire campus community and transportation will be provided. For more information please email ndoerr@ramapo.edu
Sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance.

Meet, greet, and eat with our Asian faculty and staff.

In South Korea, every May 5th is designated as Children’s Day. This is a day on which children of all ages are valued, entertained, and taught a sense of national pride.

[B-127/Topken World Language Lab]
Would you like to practice your Chinese language skills? Chinese Language Hours are offered every Thursday from 2-4 pm in B-127, World Language Lab. All levels are welcome. Come join us!
For more information, please email goabroad@ramapo.edu or call ext. 7533.

[ASB-123]
Would you like to practice your Japanese language skills? The Roukema Center for International Education offers Japanese Language Happy Hour every Wednesday from 1-2pm in ASB-123. All levels are welcome. Come join us!
For more information, please email goabroad@ramapo.edu or call ext. 7533.

Join the Global Indian Culture and Media Course for an off-campus trip to Jackson Heights (NYC) on Saturday, April 6, leaving Ramapo College campus at 10 a.m. Once there students will conduct a scavenger hunt, gaining exposure to the everyday lives of the South Asian diaspora. This exposure will culminate in the students enjoying a buffet meal at a local restaurant when there will be some debriefing and discussion on their observations and questions. Sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Compliance.
Email gabbybok@gmail.com for information.

Stan Thekaekara, Visiting Schomburg Scholars, will speak about their transformative work with Adivasi (Aboriginal) Tribes in Rural South India, and the amazing results of their thirty years of dedicated place-based community organizing. They have worked tirelessly to empower the Adivasis in the areas of land tenure, children’s education and health care.

Come marvel at their amazing stories of radical change as they describe three decades of grassroots community organizing toward social justice and self-reliance.
Email vasishth@ramapo.edu for information.

[Friends Hall (SC-219)] Join the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Compliance for the Opening Proclamation of Asian Pacific Islander Month on Monday, April 1 at 1 p.m. in Friends Hall. We will announce the theme of the month and watch a performance. All are welcome.
Sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Compliance. Email gabbybok@gmail.com for information.

Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Thống nhất), Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng) or Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng or Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam) or the official name of Day of liberating the South for national reunification (Giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the event when Việt Cộng and North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on April 30, 1975. This signalled the end of the Vietnam War, known in Vietnamese as Chiến tranh Việt Nam (Vietnam War) or Kháng chiến chống Mỹ cứu nước (“Resistance War Against American invasion”). It was the start of the transition period toward reunification, which occurred in the national election for national reunification on July 2, 1976, when the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and Democratic Republic of Vietnam merged, forming the modern-day Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The anniversary is marked by several festivals around the date.

In the Overseas Vietnamese community, the day is remembered as the “Fall of Saigon”, “Black April” (Tháng Tư Đen), “National Day of Shame” (Ngày Quốc Nhục) or “National Day of Resentment” (Ngày Quốc Hận). This is a commemorative day for exiled Vietnamese who served, were affected, and displaced in those overseas communities, and as such is a day of reflection. Many Americans of multiple ethnicities observe the day for remembrance and solidarity.