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Wed, Sep 8 : Invisible but Real: Ancient Gardens
6:00-7:30 pm, Business Administration C-Wing, BAC 216
 Professor Barbara Stark of the ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change will talk about the lavish palatial and royal gardens of ancient states and empires. An archaeological situation in Veracruz, Mexico, started her hunt for comparative data about the uses of green space and gardens in ancient cities. This lecture is sponsored by the Central Arizona Archaeological Institute of America and is free and open to the public.
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Thu, Sep16: Call for Papers for ASU Hispanic Research Center Conference, Bold Caballeros and Noble Bandidas Happening: The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and its Cultural Legacy
Conference is Nov 18-20, 2010, Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Tempe, AZ
This conference is part of a long-term multimedia Hispanic Research Center project entitled, “Bold Caballeros and Noble Bandidas: the Good, the Bad, the Beautiful.” The project seeks to capture or recapture the image of the good-bad Hispanic bandit and to contrast her or him with the simple degenerate or unregenerate bad Hispanic bandit (conference web site). Abstracts must be limited to 100 words or fewer and will be accepted on a rolling basis. Notification will be made two weeks after receipt. Submit your abstracts online.
 Sat, Sep 25: The Book of Apolodor
7:00 pm, ASU Tempe Campus, Music Building Recital Hall (5th floor)
Currently a popular performance at the Puk Puppet Theatre in Cluj, Romania, this puppet show is not only a famous story about the travels of a small penguin but also a renown poem by one of Romania's most prominent Avant-Garde poets, Gellu Naum. The play was created in 2010 for the Summer Study Abroad Program in Romania and Central Europe as a collaborative project between the ASU Romanian Studies Program in SILC and the Puk Theatre. [Download flyer]
 Sun, Sep 26: Paris Bucharest Express (in French with English subtitles)
7:00 pm, ASU Tempe Campus, Music Building Recital Hall (5th floor)
This play is a selection from the poets and writers of the Romanian Avant-Garde adapted to the stage by Puk Theatre Director Mona Chirila and SILC Professor Ileana Orlich, director of the ASU Romanian Studies Program. The play is currently running at the Théâtre Denis in Hyères, France, whose Compagnie de L'Echo has traveled extensive in Europe. This is their first performance in the United States. The story chronicles the nostalgia and tragic destiny of an aging couple who have lived through the "Little Paris" golden days of Bucharest to its brutal Communist takeover during WWII. [Download Flyer]
Thu, Sep 30: Call for Papers for XV International Research Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association
Conference is Jun 12-14, 2011, Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
SILC and the Jewish Studies program at ASU invite researchers from different academic disciplines to submit proposals for symposia or sessions by September 30, 2010, and 150-word abstracts for papers by October 31, 2010. The conference theme is Going Global: Jewish American Life and Arts. This conference will showcase studies of Jews and of Latin American Jewry within the broader fields of research of the different peoples, cultures and religions in Latin American. [more information]
Fri-Sat, Oct 1-2: Arizona Language Association Fall Conference, Communicating Beyond the Buzz—Illuminating Mastery to Proficiency
Phoenix College, 1202 W. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ
 The focus of the AZLA conference will be on improving second language instruction at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels. All K-16 second language educators, students, administrators and friends of the profession are invited to attend. [More information, including session information and registration form.]
Thu, Oct 7: Speak truth to power—human rights defenders who are changing the world
7:00 pm, Katzin Music Hall
International human rights advocate and author Kerry Kennedy established the RFK Center for Human Rights to ensure the protection of rights codified under the UN Declaration of Human Rights. She devotes her life to the vindication of equal justice, to the promotion and protection of basic rights, and to the preservation of the rule of law. This Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a special session for students on Oct. 7 from 4:00-5:00 pm in the Memorial Union Pima Room. [More information]
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