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2/27/06
SLU CELEBRATES NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE WEEK
CANTON - Workshops, film screenings and discussions are among the events that will
mark the celebration of National Foreign Language Week at St. Lawrence University,
March 4 through 12. Highlighting the importance of language learning and promoting
international experience and exposure to different cultures, the events have been
organized by the modern languages and literatures department and the Center for
International and Intercultural Studies.
Over 100 members of the faculty and staff at St. Lawrence have indicated that
they speak at least one foreign language; about 50 languages in all are spoken
by people at the University, including the seven that are taught. Those who speak
foreign languages will have signs on their office doors, indicating which languages
they speak, during the celebration. A Web site, http://www.stlawu.edu/lrc/nflw2006,
has been established for the celebration, allowing visitors to learn - and hear -
foreign phrases. International flags will be displayed throughout the Student
Center to celebrate the different countries represented on campus, and Dana Dining
Center will serve a variety of international foods. The public is welcome to join
students at Dana for dinner any night of the week to sample the international fare,
at a cost of $9 per person; dinner is served from 5 to 8 p.m.
Also, Owen D. Young Library will highlight international periodicals and other resources
of use to those with international interests, and Carnegie Hall will display posters
created by students who have received grants for international study by the Center
for International and Intercultural Studies.
Other events, all open to the public, include:
- Saturday, March 4: Radio broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera performance of
Romeo et Juliette in Carnegie 10 at 1:30 p.m.
- Monday, March 6: The Native American Student Organization will present a
workshop on the Mohawk language from 2 to 3 p.m. in Room 336 of the Student Center.
International House, in the Sykes Residence Hall, will screen the Korean film Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring at 7 p.m. in the lounge.
- Tuesday, March 7: The Japanese anime film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind will
be shown in the Hepburn Auditorium, Room 218, at 7 p.m. with a presentation by
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Mark MacWilliams.
- Wednesday, March 8: An international coffee and tea hour will take place 4 p.m.,
immediately prior to a Poetry for Peace reading, at 4:30 p.m. in the Winston Room
of the Student Center; poems will be read in English and other languages. The German
film Nowhere in Africa will be shown in the International House lounge at 7 p.m.
- Thursday, March 9: A Chinese and Japanese character-writing workshop will take
place at 4:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the Noble Center. A screening of the film Voces
Innocentes will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center;
donations will be accepted to benefit a children's theater group in El Salvador.
- Friday, March 10: Tables will be designated in Dana Dining Center for anyone
wishing to speak French, Spanish, German, Hindi, Swahili or Italian over lunch,
served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at a cost of $6.25 per person. Latin-dance lessons
will be offered by students from La Casa Latina in the dance studio of the
Griffiths Arts Center at 3:30 p.m., and there will be a workshop entitled "French
Phrases That Pop Up in Conversation" in Carnegie Hall 207 at 4:30 p.m. Salaam Namaste,
an Indian film that takes place in Australia, will be shown in the International
House lounge at 7 p.m.
- Sunday, March 12: The French film Les Choristes (The Chorus) will be shown in
Carnegie 10 at 7 p.m.
The full schedule of events will be on the National Foreign Language Week Web
site, http://www.stlawu.edu/lrc/nflw2006, or call the Center for International
and Intercultural Studies, 315-229-5949, for more information.
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