October 7, 2009

Appalachian State University Documentary Studies will be screening Offsides(s): Soccer in Small Town America at 6:00 p.m. in room 114 of the Belk Library.  This is a documentary video by Bruce Dick, Andres Fisher, and Greg Reck with music by Kemp Jones.

Told from the point of view of three fathers who coached their young daughters in a local Parks and Recreation youth soccer league, this documentary explores the cultural landscape of youth soccer in the U.S.  Humorous, heart-warming, and critically analytical, Offside(s) delves into the local social dynamics of the most globalized of all sports and the contradictions in the cultural space that soccer occupies in a small U.S. town.

A panel Q&A session with Bruce Dick, Andres Fisher, Greg Reck, and Kemp Jones will follow the film.

October 12: 7-8:30pm Price Lake Room, Plemmons Student Union

Global Studies Special Lecture series: 20 Years after the Wall 1989-2009

I. Students from Foreign Languages and Global Studies: Literary Timeline 1949-1989-2009

II. Dr. Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (FLL and Global Studies)  Looking at Camelot through the Brandenburg Gate: Christoph Hein’s Knights of the Round Table

III. Dr. Anatoly Isaenko (History) The Phenomenon of ethnocentric Nationalism and local Fascism in the Post-Soviet States of the Former USSR

October 26: 7-8:30pm Price Lake Room, Plemmons Student Union

Global Studies Special Lecture series: 20 Years after the Wall 1989-2009

I. Dr. James Barnes (Government and Justice Studies): “European Democracy Today”

II. Dr. Laurie Semmes (Hayes School of Music): “The Ukrainian/Bandura: A Metaphor of Freedom in Individual Expression and Collective Unity”

III. Dr. Nancy Love (Interdisciplinary Studies Program): “Skrewdriver and the Skinhead Scene: Where Anti-Communism Meets Neo-Fascism Before and After the Wall”