Upcoming Events
Inaugural Utah International Higher Education Summit
Friday, 5 November 2010, 7:30 am – 5:00 pm, UVU Centre Stage & SC 206ab
Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm, UVU LI 120
- Documentary Film & Discussion
- For China, the 1930’s were a decade marked by the profound uncertainty and sweeping change. In the wake of the collapse of the ancient dynastic system, the country fell into politial chaos as competing warlords terrorized the countryside. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist party was engaged in a mortal struggle against the Communist forces of Mao Zedong for control of the nation. Meanwhile, Japan invaded Manchuria, and threatened the survival of China.
It was in this unstable and dangerous environment that aspiring American author Helen Foster found herself when she arrived in China in 1931. She spent the next decade working as a writer, an activist, and humanitarian. She is one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the gathering Chinese Communist Revolution. Shot on location in China, this carefully documented film considers her important role during this turning point in the birth of modern China.
Global Engagement Week
For detailed information on each international event please click here.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, 4 November 2010
The New York Times: Global Review — 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
Friday, 5 November 2010
Inaugural Utah International Higher Education Summit — 7:30 am - 5:00 pm, Centre Stage & SC 206ab
Saturday, 6 November 2010
H.E. Luis Miguel Valdivieso Montano The Ambassador of Peru to the United States Campus Visit
Tuesday, 9 November, 2010
The Iranian Enigma: Nuclear Pariah or Global Energy Resource? — 7:00 pm, Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, 1840 South 1300 East SLC
Roxane Farmanfarmaian, PhD, Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Politics and International Relations, Cambridge University
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Global Spotlight: China — Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution — 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, LI 120
Thursday, 11 November 2010
The New York Times: Global Review — 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Korean Culture Night — 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Centre Stage, Tickets $3
Monday, 15 November 2010
H.E. Avni Spahiu The Ambassador of Kosovo 10:00 am – 11:00 am, LI Timpanogos Room
Monday, 15 November 2010
International Festival — 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, UVU Ballroom
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
International Food Extravaganza — 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Centre Stage, Tickets $5
Thursday, 18 November 2010
The New York Times: Global Review — 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Energy Ethics from the U.S. to China — 6:00 pm - 7:20 pm, LI 120
Friday, 19 November 2010
Native American Pow Wow — 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, UVU Ballroom
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Native American Pow Wow — 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm, UVU Ballroom
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Japan Culture Night — 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Ragan Theatre, Tickets $5
For more information on the upcoming events please visit our events page.
Book: Staff Pick
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates, And the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
- John Pomfret’s evocative recounting of the lives of his former classmates in the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. As one of the first American students to live and study with Chinese after the revolution, Pomfret saw the country as few Americans had. Leaving China in 1982, Pomfret returned for the Tienanmen Square protests and the crackdown of June 4, 1989. Expelled by the Chinese government at that point, he again returned to live from 1998-2005 as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beijing.