Center for International Education

Week Long Events:

International Food

April 1 – 5
Hotspot and The Dub
International food at the Hotspot and Dub all week long!

Photo Exhibit: Crossroads of Culture

April 1-5 Week Long Event
Entries due by March 28th
Opening Reception on April 2 from 5:00-6:00 PM
Blome Hall, Building 2, Conference Room

Travelling photo exhibit will be featured at various events throughout International Week 2013. To learn more about the contest, please click here.

Monday, April 1:

Global Learning Symposium

3pm – 5:15pm
WA Franke College of Business, Building 81, Gardner Auditorium
The Global Learning Symposium is an opportunity for NAU students to share their international and intercultural research projects with the NAU community. This forum is open to the public.

Better World Film Series: End of the Line

7pm – 9pm
WA Franke College of Business, Building 81, Gardner Auditorium
Come to this free showing of a documentary profiling overfishing in the world’s oceans.

Tuesday, April 2:

NAU Faculty and Staff Brown Bag Lunch: Immigration Basics for NAU Departments

12pm – 1:30pm
Blome Hall, Building 2, Conference Room
This session is intended for NAU staff and faculty who are involved with hiring international employees and/or sponsoring international scholars and other visitors. Find out how to assist international employees and scholars to obtain the appropriate immigration status (visa). Learn basic concepts and common terms in U.S. Immigration Law.

International Potluck

6pm – 7:30pm
Blome Hall, Building 2, Conference Room
Bring a dish to share, and enjoy home-cooked foods from around the world!

Wednesday, April 3:

International Internship Information Session

1:30pm – 2:30pm
Blome Hall, Building 2, Conference Room
Come learn about the amazing internship, research and volunteer opportunities that are available to you abroad. This information session will explore how to gain a hands-on experience in your field of study, receive academic credit and find funding!

Education Abroad Information Session

5pm – 7pm
Blome Hall, Building 2, Conference Room
Come learn about the Study Abroad programs offered at NAU! Learn about the process and how to get started!

Polynesian Experience

6pm – 8pm
University Union, Hot Spot and Union Pointe
Join in Polynesian Experience! We will have performances, activities, and dining centered around a Luau themed event. Sponsored by Residence Life and Housing and Campus Dining.

NAU International Film Series: La Petite Jerusalem

7pm
Liberal Arts, Building 18, Room 120
Winner of the script prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Karin Albou's film pits intimacy against sex and ideology against divinity, "with candor, sympathy and excellent cinematography," (Nathan Lee, The New York Times). Offering an unusual glimpse into an unseen, cloistered world, the film sensitively lays bare the souls and passions of two sisters in search of sexual and spiritual identity. In a Paris suburb nicknamed Little Jerusalem, a family of Sephardic Orthodox immigrants shares a low-income apartment. Teenaged Laura (Fanny Valette) distances herself from her family's religion while Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein) worries that strict observance of the Torah's marital codes has driven her husband (Bruno Todeschini) into the bed of another. When Laura falls under the spell of Djamel, a handsome Muslim journalist, the two very different sisters find themselves in very similar crises.

Thursday, April 4:

Passport Day

9am – 3pm
Blome Hall, Building 2, First Floor
Open to all NAU students! Come get your first or renew your passport for only the US Dept of State fee! We will waive the $25 execution fee payable to NAU for this one-day event. Open to all NAU students with valid current ID. Please refer to http://travel.state.gov/passport/ for a complete list of what you will need to bring. Passport photos can be purchased onsite at this event for $7.

NAU 2013 French Film Festival: Zazie dans le metro

4 pm
Liberal Arts, Building 18, Room 120
In this anarchic comedy from director Louis Malle, Zazie (Catherine Demongeot), a precocious ten-year-old girl, comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her Uncle Gabriel (Philippe Noiret); he and the viewer get more than they bargained for in this light-hearted romp through the City of Light. One of film’s visual highlights takes place atop the Eiffel Tower, where Zazie, Gabriel, and a group of tourists frolic at the top of the monument and hang from its rafters. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, this audacious film, made on the cusp of the French New Wave, blends stream-of-consciousness with slapstick and uses vibrant splashes of color to create Louis Malle's and artistic consultant William Klein's unique vision of Paris.

NAU 2013 French Film Festival: A Bout de souffle

7pm
Liberal Arts, Building 18, Room 120
Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene with this jazzy, free-form, sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinema. Reminiscent of Hollywood crime thrillers of the 1930’s and 40's, it is the story of a criminal on the run from the police. But it was Godard's approach to film style and use of new technologies that made this film so innovative. With its lack of polish and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, A Bout de souffle helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. According to director Benjamin Eades, Breathless is “beautiful, honest, and heart wrenching. It captures the realism of Paris and love”.

Le Cercle Francaise

5pm – 7pm
Babbitt Academic Annex, Room 115
Come practice your French, and meet others interested in the French language.

Spanish Table “La Tertulia”

5:30pm – 7pm
University Union, Union Extension, Second Floor
Come practice your Spanish, and meet others interested in the Spanish language.

German Table “Stammtisch”

6pm – 8pm
Nimarco’s Pizza, S. Beaver Street
Come practice your German, and meet others interested in the German language.

Friday, April 5:

Misconceptions About China: A Conversation with Chinese Faculty

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Reception to follow
Fremont Room, duBois Center, Building 64

International Festival

3pm – 5:30pm
DuBois Center Ballroom
World festival with dozens of country and culture displays presented by NAU international students from around the world. Enjoy world music (teasers from Idol show performers), games, crafts and more! Grab your ‘passport’ and go global with the NAU international community. Educational and fun, and open to all ages – children and families welcome, admission FREE!

International Idol

7pm – 9:30pm
DuBois Center Ballroom
Spectacular internationally themed talent show featuring music, dance, and other cultural performances from NAU students. Prizes for contestants, all attending eligible for door prizes awarded throughout the evening. Show also features random surprises and NAU celebrity judges. All welcome, FREE ADMISSION! Come early to get the best seat!

NAU Opera Production presents "Mozart's Cosi fan tutte"

7:30 PM- 9:30 PM
Ardrey Memorial Auditorium
$ admission. For tickets, call 928-523-5661 or visit http://nau.ticketforce.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=263

NAU 2013 French Film Festival: La Haine

4pm
Liberal Arts, Building 18, Room 120
Mathieu Kassovitz (Amélie) directed this film that takes place in the aftermath of a riot and focuses on a single day in the lives of three friends living in an impoverished multi-ethnic housing project in the suburbs of Paris. The three - Vinz (Vincent Cassel), a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer - grew up in an environment where high levels of diversity coupled with a racist police force raised tensions to the breaking point. During the riots, a police officer loses a handgun that Vinz finds. In an attempt to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a policeman if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital. Using real footage from riots in Parisian suburbs, the film is dedicated to those who died while it was being made ("Ce film est dédié à ceux disparus pendant sa fabrication...").

NAU 2013 French Film Festival: Les Femmes du 6e étage

7pm
Liberal Arts, Building 18, Room 120
Set in Paris in the 1960s. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini) is an uptight stockbroker who lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire a new Spanish maid named Maria (Natalia Verbeke) through whom Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality on his building's sixth floor. There he befriends a group of lively Spanish immigrant women who teach him that there is more to life than stocks and bonds. Director Philippe Le Guay’s film offers an engaging mix of romance, humor and “upstairs-downstairs” social consciousness.

Friday – Sunday, April 5-7

Lumberjacks 2013: World Cup Soccer