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Center for Global Studies to show 'Honor Diaries' on Nov. 15

11/12/18

The Center for Global Studies (CGS) will show the film "Honor Diaries" at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, in 113 Carnegie Building on the University Park campus of Penn State. The screening and discussion to follow are free and open to the public.

Center for Global Studies gets $1.1 million grant from Department of Education

10/31/18

The Center for Global Studies at Penn State recently received a new federal grant of approximately $1.1 million that will help undergraduate and graduate students in the form of fellowships to achieve competency in foreign languages and conduct research in related international and area studies. Fellowship information sessions will be held Nov. 6 and 9.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to feature talk by UNC Greensboro's Mark Rifkin

10/9/18

Mark Rifkin, director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will present “Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Tribal Identity” at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 15 in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to feature talk by Yale's Seth Jacobowitz

10/5/18

Seth Jacobowitz, assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and affiliate faculty in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, will present “Ishikawa Tatsuzô’s São Paulo” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Center for Global Studies to host brown bag lectures

10/1/18

The Center for Global Studies at Penn State will host a series of faculty and graduate "brown bag" lectures from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. on Wednesdays this fall in 25 Burrowes Building. The first brown bag lecture, “Holding on to Democratic Leadership in a Time of Changing Policy and Reform: Socially Distributed Leadership Practice Towards Professional Learning in Denmark and the U.S.,” will take place Oct. 3.

Comparative Literature Luncheon series presents talk by Erica Brindley on Oct. 1

9/27/18

Erica Brindley, professor of Asian studies, history, and philosophy at Penn State, will present “A Creator of God? Spontaneous Arising and an Ethics of Creativity and in Early Daoism” at 12:15 p.m. on Oct. 1, in Room 102 of the Kern Building. This lecture is part of the weekly Comparative Literature Luncheon series.

Marathon Read tent

Marathon Read to commemorate 1968 with annual communal reading

8/29/18

The Marathon Read will again occupy Pattee Mall for a community reading event on Thursday, Sept. 13. The event’s theme is “Pages from 1968” and will commemorate 50 years since the watershed months of 1968, with resonant texts from that year, including Philip K. Dick’s novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

City of Ghosts movie poster

Film screening of 'City of Ghosts,' followed by discussion

8/22/18

The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "City of Ghosts" on Sept. 5 in the Lewis Katz Auditorium, followed by a discussion with Abdalaziz Alhamza, award-winning Syrian journalist, human rights defender and activist.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to feature Jens Andermann

3/21/18

Jens Andermann, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, will present “The Animal Alliance: Living and Dying in the Extractive Zone,” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 26, in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

Menachem Ben-Sasson

Hebrew University of Jerusalem chancellor to visit, speak at Penn State

3/20/18

Menachem Ben-Sasson, chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of The History of the Jewish People, will present a free public lecture during his upcoming visit to Penn State. The lecture will take place at 5 p.m. April 3 in the Alumni Lounge of The Nittany Lion Inn.

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