International Education Week

List of Events

Autumn Around the World

• Wednesday, November 6, 2024
• 12 – 2:30 p.m., Global Engagement Hub, Tally Student Union

Join the Office of Global Engagement and the Global Ambassadors for this celebration of Autumn Around the World to kick off International Education Week! Trace and decorate leaves from trees from across the globe to contribute to the tree, participate in autumnal holiday and customs trivia, and grab some donuts and cider while you celebrate!

This is a free event.

Global Tea & Coffee

• Thursday, November 7, 2024
• 2 – 4 p.m., Fountain Dining Hall

Tea and coffee are important aspects of many global cultures and are consumed daily in much of the world.  Join the Office of Global Engagement and Campus Enterprises at the Global Tea and Coffee to sample tea, coffee and snacks from around the world while learning about their cultural significance.

This is a free event and does not require a meal plan.

NC State Prague: Programs Info Session

• Wednesday, November 13, 2024
• 6 – 7 p.m., Virtual Event

Please join the NC State European Center in Prague to learn about studying abroad in the heart of Europe. During this virtual info session, we’ll break down our program offerings and other details, including available courses, activities and excursions and costs and funding. Plus, you’ll hear from former students about their experiences with NC State Prague, including academics, housing and more.

This is a free, virtual event. Register to attend!

Global Film Series: Brief Tender Light

• Wednesday, November 20, 2024
• 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Witherspoon Student Center Campus Theater

Join us for this thought-provoking and uplifting documentary. At America’s elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey spanning two continents, all must decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves. Directed by Arthur Musah. Language, English; runtime 1 hour, 33 minutes.

The Global Film Series is a collaboration between the NC State University Libraries and NC State Global.

Register for your free tickets here

Diplomat in Residence Stephanie Hutchinson

• Thursday, November 21, 2024
• 2 – 4 p.m., Global Engagement Hub, Tally Student Union

From public policy and international affairs to computer science, statistics, engineering, criminal justice, and performing arts – to name only a few – the U.S. Department of State is seeking individuals with diverse educational backgrounds to meet the challenges of 21^st century diplomacy!  Drop by the Global Engagement Hub at Talley Student Union to ask Stephanie Hutchison, State Department Diplomat in Residence your questions about the Department’s paid internships, fellowships, and careers that will take you around the world. 

→This is a free event.

Transatlantic Climate Bridge Seminar

• Thursday, November 21, 2024
• 6-8:30 p.m., Duke Energy Hall, James B. Hunt Jr. Library, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC, 27606

Under the patronage of the German Consulate in Atlanta, NC State Global has designed a project and programming under the initiative of the “Transatlantic Climate Bridge” (TCB). The TCB is an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection. Projects under the TCB have fostered strengthened cooperation on climate and energy policy issues between Germany (and Europe as a whole) on one side of the Atlantic and the US and Canada on the other.

This project, “NC and the Ostsee” (Ostsee is Baltic Sea in German) utilizes the framework of the Sister City relationship between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to examine climate change, sustainability, and biodiversity in these two river-basin and watershed geographies. This closing seminar will cover German-American relations in the area of sustainability, with a reflection about the Transatlantic Climate Bridge project with Rostock.

Speakers
German Honorary Consul, Dagmar Fahr
Max Gruenig, Climate and Energy Economist with POCACITO, Georgetown University
Cody Charland, Raleigh Sister Cities
Allison Haskins, Office of Global Engagement
Erin Seekamp, College of Natural Resources, Director of NC State Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative

This is a free event. RSVP here.

Cultures of Extraction and Regional Environments in Venezuela, 1890-1980

• Friday, November 22, 2024
• 12 – 1:30 p.m., Virtual Event

Join the Department of World Languages and Culture for a lecture by Gianfranco Selgas, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in Latin American studies at University College London. Selgas will chart a cultural and environmental geohistory of Venezuela’s under-examined regional extractive zones from 1890 to 1980 to reveal their complexities, potentialities and ontological provocations. 

This is a free, virtual event. Register to attend!