The Student Activities Board has partnered with International Programs and Career Services to host the 11th annual International Education Week.
The celebration will include a number of educational talks and presentations focused on different aspects of education.
A video presentation called “Green Shot,” which showcases the efforts of the LSU recycling program, will be held Monday in Free Speech Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
International film “Pan’s Labyrinth” will also be shown at 7 p.m. in Dodson Auditorium.
Department of Environmental Sciences Chair Ed Laws will give a presentation Tuesday on global warming called “Anthropogenic Impacts On the Earth’s Climate and Prospects of the Future,” in the Paul M. Hebert Law School McKernan Auditorium.
Another presentation will be held in Free Speech Plaza on Tuesday, when horticulture professor Carl Motsenbocker will explain an urban gardening program called “Change In Your Neighborhood.”
Free Speech Plaza will also host an international food expo from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. The expo’s rain location is the Cotillion Ballroom in the Student Union.
Tuesday will end with a screening of the documentary “King Corn” at 7 p.m. in the Dalton J. Woods Auditorium in the School of the Coast and the Environment.
International film “La Ciudad” will be shown with subtitles Wednesday in the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex at 7 p.m.
The International Cultural Center will host a gala from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday showcasing activities in its Hall of Cultures with food prepared by the urban gardening project at a reception to follow.
There will be a debate on climate change Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Woods Auditorium.
Bike For Light — a “fun event where people can produce energy,” according to the SAB website — will take place Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Free Speech Plaza.
To close the week, the Hall of Cultures will hold Grooving It International Style, where students will join together to represent different cultures through traditional dances, art, music and fashion.
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Contact Kayla DuBos at [email protected]
University observes International Education Week with food, films
November 14, 2010