Full Schedule
Featured Events
Films & Performances
Presentations
Food & Festivities
Saturday, November 15
ASUBA Black Solidarity Day Workshop
9:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.
Campus Center 375
Presented by ASUBA
Haitian Student Association Male/Female Review
8:00 P.M. – 11:00 P.M.
Campus Center Ballroom
Presented by the Haitian Student Association
Annual Haitian Student Association fundraiser to raise money for a school in Haiti.
Sunday, November 16
Youth Movements Festival - French Music for Four Hands
3:00 P.M
Main Theatre, Performing Arts Center
$10 general public/$8 seniors & faculty-staff/$5 students
Presented By The Department Of Music
Contact: tickets@albany.edu or (518) 442-3997
Eighty musicians aged 5 to 75, including University students, alums, faculty and area piano students and teachers, converge for performances of works by Ravel, Debussy, Faure, Satie and Bizet.
Play: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.
Campus Center Ballroom
$5 Donation Suggested
Presented by the African American Scholar Society & Friends and the Graduate Student Organization
A play about women, women of color, multicultural women struggles during the 1960's, looking for love in all the wrong places, only to find that the true love they were looking for was within themselves. Empowering, Exciting!!
Monday, November 17
Greek Day at the Patroon Room
11:30AM – 2:00PM
Presented by Chartwell’s
Try some new dishes from around the World. Also check Colonial and Indian Quads today for other International menu selections.
Nilo Cruz
Pulitzer-winning Playwright – Seminar
4:15 P.M.
Recital Hall, PAC
Presented by NYS Writers Institute
Cosponsored by the Capital Repertory
Nilo Cruz, Cuba-born playwright, received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 play, “Anna in the Tropics.” Set during the Great Depression, the play tells the story of Cuban immigrants who have come to Florida to work as cigar-makers. Other plays include “Two Sisters and a Piano” (1998), “Lorca in a Green Dress” (2003), and “The Beauty of the Father” (2006).
Japanese Language & Culture Club
6:30 P.M.
Meeting in Main Library
Tuesday, November 18
Featured Event: Passport Application Day
10 A.M. - 2 P.M.
Mail Services Lobby – Business Administration, B4
(corner of Business Administration & Social Science buildings)
Sponsored by Mail Services and the U.S. Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service will be on campus to process passport applications. For fees and to schedule an appointment, contact Mail Services at (518) 442-3272.
Italian Day at the Patroon Room
11:30AM – 2:00PM
Presented by Chartwell’s
Try some new dishes from around the World. Also check Alumni, Dutch and State Quads today for other International menu selections.
Danish Film Festival: Babette’s Feast (1987, 103 mins)
7:00 P.M. – 9:30 P.M
Humanities 354
Sponsored by Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee seeks shelter in a Danish coastal settlement with 2 elderly daughters of the town's dead minister who take her in as a housekeeper. Their puritanical, harsh life clashes with a sumptuous feast prepared by Babette. The first Danish film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. By Danish writer Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), originally written in English then translated by the author into Danish.
Japan House Movie Night: Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
7:00 P.M.
Standish Room (Science Library 3rd floor)
Sponsored by Japan House and International Education
“When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom” (IMDB). Directed by Kurosawa Akira.
Fuerza Latina Fuerza Night
7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
Campus Center Ballroom
Sponsored by Fuerza Latina
Experience Latin American culture with its diverse people, spicy foods and rhythmic music. It’s sure to be a memorable celebration of our Latino heritage.
Wednesday, November 19
Featured Event: Study Abroad Fair
11:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Lecture Center Concourse
Presented by Study Abroad & Exchanges and International Education
Come to UAlbany’s Study Abroad Fair for more information about our more than 65 programs abroad where you can earn credits in your major or minor, or even General Education credits! With semester, yearlong, summer or winter programs, you'll discover just how "within reach" the world truly is!
Mexican Day at the Patroon Room
11:30AM – 2:00PM
Presented by Chartwell’s
Try some new dishes from around the World. Also check Colonial and Indian Quads today for other International menu selections.
Featured Event: Teaching to Promote Cultural Awareness
3:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Humanities 354
RSVP to teachingandlearning@albany.edu or call (518)442-5521
Presented by ITLAL
If you teach courses in international, global or multi-cultural topics, one of your goals might be to place students in situations where they can actually experience cultural difference rather than just read about it. Simulations can help you do this, as they can be designed to re-create in the classroom the kinds of foreign realities that traditionally only happen in the context of travel and study abroad. In this workshop participants will see in action a cross-cultural exercise called Bafa-Bafa, which can be used with students at all levels. The goals of this particular simulation are to:
- create a situation which allows us to profitably explore the idea of culture
- create feelings which are similar to those one will likely encounter upon travelling to a different culture
- give participants experience in observing and interacting with a different culture
Participants will also learn about several excellent resources on games and simulations for various teaching and learning purposes with a chance to win one in a drawing at the end of the workshop.
Russian Film Festival
7:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.
Humanities 039
Sponsored by Languages, Literatures & Cultures
2 Films will be presented: The Cranes are Flying (1957, 95 min), by Mikhail Kalatozov (1903-73) and Ivan’s Childhood (1962, 95 min), Andrei Tarkovsky
LLC International Film Festival: Bamako (The Court) (2006, 115 min)
7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
Humanities 354
Sponsored by Languages, Literatures & Cultures
While Mele and Chaka fight to save their relationship, a public trial is set up in their courtyard against the World Bank. This film is simultaneously a love story and a tale of globalization's effects on economic hardship in Africa while everyday life continues (directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali/USA/France, in French and Bambara).
Japanese Anime and Manga Club Meeting
8:00 P.M. – 10:30 P.M.
Lecture Center 24
This is a general meeting of the Japanese Anime and Manga Club. Interested students are invited to come.
National Association of Black Accountants Inc. Cultural Potluck
8:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
Humanities 123
Celebrate the diversity and cultures of our organization by enjoying delicious dishes from our members’ home countries.
Amnesty International Meeting
9:00 P.M. – 10:30 P.M.
Lecture Center 24
Amnesty International invites current and future members to participate in the worldwide campaign to stop human rights abuses and bring internationally recognized human rights to everyone around the world.
Thursday, November 20
Italian Day at the Patroon Room
11:30AM – 2:00PM
Presented by Chartwell’s
Try some new dishes from around the World.
Thanksgiving Dinner at the Quads
4:00AM – 8:00PM
Presented by Chartwell’s
While the day that many lovingly refer to as Turkey Day is still a week away, Chartwell’s invites you to start celebrating a little early this year! It doesn’t matter if this is your first Thanksgiving in this country or your 90th, come have a taste of traditional American fare.
Friday, November 21
American Day at the Patroon Room
11:30AM – 2:00PM
Presented by Chartwell’s
Try some old favorites from the good ole USA. Or head over to Alumni, Dutch and State Quads today for other International menu selections.
Saturday, November 22
Turkish Movie Night: “Karpuz Kabuðundan Gemiler Yapmak” (Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds) (2004, 97 mins)
8:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Campus Center Terrace Lounge
Sponsored by the Turkish Student Association
It is the story of two adolescents who live in a small village, work in temporary summer jobs in a small town near their village, and have a passion for cinema. One of the boys works in a barber shop, the other sells watermelons. Whenever they find time, they work on their old little machine to show motion pictures from disposed films they collect from the local movie-theater (IMDB). Refreshments will be served.