Tea and Talk

The Tea and Talk Series is a forum for roundtable dialogues between visiting scholars and MSU faculty on international issues. After a presentation by the speaker, the table is opened to lively and sometimes provocative discussion. A variety of sweets and teas are offered. The following Tea and Talk events are held in the Global Education Center Conference Room, located at 22 Normal Avenue, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043. Space is limited; please call X4185 or email simonW@mail.montclair.edu to reserve your seat.

FALL 2007 EVENTS

SPRING 2007 EVENTS

RECENT EVENTS

Fall 2007 EVENTS

DATE : Thursday November 29 at 3:00pm

VENUE: Conference Room at Global Education Center

TOPIC: Comparing Chinese and American Universities. An Inside View.

SPEAKER: He Yi.

He Yi is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at MSU. She is sponsored by a Chinese Ministry of Education Scholarship. She is a professor in the Department of College English at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. She teaches English as a foreign language as well as an English in-service training course for teachers in academic areas other than English. She also taught College English at the Inner Mongolian University of Science & Technology and served as deputy director of the English Teaching and Research Council. Her research focuses on second language acquisition, teaching English as a foreign language, teacher education and development.

Tea and Talk is a roundtable forum with visiting international scholars. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended. For further information, please contact 973-655-4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu.

DATE: Thursday October 25 at 3:00

VENUE: Conference Room at Global Education Center

TOPIC: To Be A Jew in Vienna: Responses to Anti-Semitism

SPEAKER: Klaus Hoedl

Dr. Hoedl is Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. A former Fulbright Scholar, he focuses his research on two areas: Jewish Historyof the 19^th and 20^th centuries, especially the cultural exchange between Jews and Gentiles; and on anti-Semitism in scientific discourse including the field of medicine and anthropology and comparison with African-American stereotypes in the same disciplines. He was a Global Education Visiting Scholar at MSU in Spring 2005.

DATE: Tuesday October 2nd at 3:00pm

VENUE: Special Collections Room Sprague Library

TOPIC: Beyond Please and Thank You - Linguistic Patterns of Politeness Across Europe

SPEAKER: Maria de la O Hernandez Lopez

Maria de la Hernandez Lopez, a Visiting Scholar in the Linguistics Department, is completing doctoral research in the Pragmatics at the University of Seville and Pablo de Olavide University in Pragmatics in Spain. She is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Pablo de Olavide University Department of Philology and Translation, and has also taught at Heulva University, University of Greenwich, London, and the University of London. Her recent publications include " Rapport Management, Politeness and Service Encounter Interactions: The Case of Seville and London." She received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Birkbeck College, University of London after graduating from the University of Seville in Linguistics and English and in French.

SPRING 2007 EVENTS

DATE: Thursday April 19 at 3:00 pm
VENUE: Global Education Center Conference Room
TOPIC: Second Language Acquisition for the European Union: What’s Happening in Central Europe?
SPEAKER: Maria Kostelnikova

Dr. Maria Kostelnikova is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Dr. Kostelnikova’s research focuses on innovative methods of foreign language teaching, integration of literary and children’s texts into foreign language teaching, and theory and practice of translation. She is active in teacher training programs and has organized workshops for the European Trade Union College on implementation of new technologies into foreign language teaching and for the European Centre for Modern Languages on mediating between theory and practice. She is the author of numerous publications on raising language and cultural awareness through literary texts and on innovative English and German language teacher training.

The Tea and Talk Series is a forum for roundtable dialogues on international issues, with visiting scholars and MSU faculty sharing their international experiences with the campus community. After a presentation is made by the speaker, the table is opened to lively and sometimes provocative discussion. A variety of sweets and coffee and teas are offered as refreshment.

Seating is limited; rsvp to x4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu

DATE: Tuesday April, 3 at 3:00 pm
VENUE: Global Education Center Conference Room
TOPIC: “Ecological Security as Social Security in India:Examples from Kerala”
SPEAKER: Srikumar Chattopadhyay

Dr. Srikumar Chattopadhyay is a scientist based at the Centre for Earth Science Studies in Kerala, India, and he will be addressing the issue of " Ecological Security as Social Security in India: Examples from Kerala”. Dr. Chattopadhyay will discuss the nature of ecological security and resource base, how a resource base helps, and the degradation of resource base, particularly the causes of concern, emerging problems in Kerala, and Kerala's attempts to address the issues.

Dr. Chattopadhyay was previously a Visiting Scholar at MSU in Spring 2002, teaching two courses through the Earth and Environmental Studies and Anthropology departments. He is Chairman of the Commission on Sustainable Development of the National Association of Geographers in India, and was a Post Doctoral Fulbright Fellow at the East West Centre in Hawaii. His research focuses on a multi-disciplinary applied approach to terrain analysis, landuse studies, deforestation, environment and development.

The Tea and Talk Series is a forum for roundtable dialogues on international issues, with visiting scholars and MSU faculty sharing their experiences with the campus community. After a presentation is made by the speaker, the table is opened to discussion

Seating is limited; rsvp to x4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu

DATE: Tuesday February, 6 at 3:00 pm
VENUE: Global Education Center Conference Room
TOPIC: "Opera with an Argentinian Accent: The Music World of Argentina"
SPEAKER: Dr. Ana Massone, The Director of the Instituto Superior del Arte del Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. Massone is the Director of the Instituto Superior del Arte del Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known at the “Metropolitan Opera of South America”. A graduate of the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, she has taught music history at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, Catholic University and several other conservatories in Argentina. She joined Teatro Colon in 1991 as a professor of the history of opera and has also administered the lyrical singing and stage direction programs. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at MSU’s Cali School of Music.

Seating is limited; rsvp to x4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu

RECENT EVENTS

Spring 2006

Dr. Xu Xin "China's Family Planning Policy Updates"

Ahmed Ghodieh "Agricultural Monitoring and Crop Area Estimation by Satellite Remote Sensing in the West Bank, Palestine "

Bingtuan Wang "Chinese Mahjong: The History, Rules, and Mathematics Behind The Game "

     Fall 2005

    Sarah Redshaw "Who's Behing the Wheel? Driving as a Social And Cultural Practice"

    Sally McWilliams, Longxing Wei, Nancy Tumposky "Facilitating the Modernization of Chinese Universities:
    Observations from the Shanghai Teacher Training Project & Oppertunities for MSU Faculty"

Spring 2005

Xu Xin "Translating American Jewish and Israeli Literature into Chinese"

Erich Ranfft "The Role of Culture in the Contemporary Art of New Zealand: Being Maori in an Anglo-Saxon World"

Dr. Joszef Szentpeteri "Excavating the Lost Tribe of the Carpathian Basin: The Avars"

Carlos Estevez "Art in Cuba- A View from the Inside"

    Dr. Elena Dotsenko  " Frontier as Metaphor: The Role of the Urals as the Russian Frontier"

    Dr.Klaus Hoedl  "From Acculturation to Interaction: New Perspectives on the History of Jews in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Dr. Oleksandr Tyaglo  "The Orange Revolution in Ukraine:  Where do we go from here?"

Fall 2004

Kim Berman " A Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art"

    Edina Szalay " A Woman-White-To Be--: Politics of Subjectivity and Gender"

William Berlin, Panel: Media Delegation from Uzbekistan "The View from Uzbekistan"

    Dr. Pierre Sicard “Abortion and The Religious Right in the America: The View from France”.

Spring 2004

Angela Zhao "Changes in Chinese Women's Lives in the 20th Century --Four Generations in a
Chinese Family"

Kathryn Martell and Elizabeth Emery "Using Technology to Enrich International Exchange in the
Classroom"

Fall 2003

Yasir Ibrahim "The sprit of Modern Islamic Law and Modern Religious Reform"

Tiziana Saponaro "A Literary Tango: Italian and Argentine Writers of the Vanguard Era"

Hyun-wook Jung "Gender related Korean Culture"

Adriana Haluskova "Integrating National Minorities into the Education System --
The Solvakian Experience with Gypsies"

Urban Johsson "collaboration and Calamity: Africa in Peril"

Sergiy Glebov"World Terrorism: The View from Ukraine and Russia"


    Spring 2003

       Lubomir Lipovsky "International Computer Criminality, Computer Privacy and Multimedia Piracy"

John Jacob Kattakayam "Aging In India In A Comparative Perspective"

Nina Yulina "Democracy and Philosophy in Russia"

Giovanni Greci "Bringing the Library to Children"

George Cunningham "European Union Enlargement and a Future of Europe in a Changing World"

Irina Koulikova "Recital of Rachmaninoff Piano Music"

XuXin "Reform in 21st. C. China: Ideal and Reality"

Royal Marine Lieutenant Colonel John Leigh and Lieutenant Commander Moreatha Yvette

Flaggs, NATO Briefing Team "NATO in the 21st Century: Current Risks and Challenges"

Anne Ejikeme "Contesting women's Bodies: Islamic Fundamentalism, the Miss World Contest,
Terrorism and the State in Nigeria"

International Travel Photography by MSU Faculty and Staff "Exhibit Opening Reception"

Fall 2002

Nancy Tumposky "Views of the Other: America in the Eyes of Europe"

Svetlana Broz " Clash of Cultures: Sarajevo’s Struggle Between Good and Evil"

Shahid Nadeem " Women’s Rights and Theatre in Contemporary Pakistan"

Tamas Mihalydeak " Shifting Thought Current Trends in Philosophy in Central Europe"

Rita Jacobs " Jerry Springer is Alive and Well in Central Europe"

Spring 2002

Tina Lesher "Teaching at a Muslim Women's University"

Edwin M. Lamboy "Impressions and Possibilities for Exchange"

Sikumar Chattopadhyay "Sustainable Development"

Exhibition "Global images: International Travel Photography by MSU Faculty and staff"

David C. Speedie, Thomas McShane and Current Affairs Panelists from the U.S. War College "Shifting
the Balance: "The Impact of Terrorism on world order"

Fall 2001

Christopher Hickey "Identity Comes in Peers: Adolescence Case Studies in Australia and the US"

Pacita Abad "Women Artists in Asia"

Manuel Aramendia "The Contemporary Art Scene in Spain"

William Gleason "An American in Ukraine: Reflections on a Newly Independent Country"

Sally McWilliams "From NJ-here to NJ-there: Living and Teaching at Nanjing University"

Felicien Assoumou "The Scourge of AIDS/HIV in Africa: Is There A Solution?"

Richard Repka "Slovakia and Its Place in Europe"

Pacita Abad "Women Artists in Asia"

Spring 2001

Lizhong Yu "Responding to Environmental Challenges in China"

Margaret Mukherjee: " Our Woman in Ukraine: Perspectives on a Semester Teaching in Kirovograd"

Xu Xin : "The Role of Religion in China: From Taoism and Buddhism to Judaism and Falun Gong"

Megan Laverty: " Aboriginal Land Rights: A Philosophical View of Australian Controversies"

Monika Matay: " Controversial Views about Feminism in Hungary"

Chen Chen: "Come Watch The Sun Go Home: A Memoir of China"

Ludmilla Garkusha: "Replenishing Civil and Moral Resources in Ukrainian Society"

Pavel Lushyn: "Practicing Psychological Therapy in Post Soviet Ukraine"

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