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Two Otterbein Students Earn Prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarships
The Center for International Education and Global Engagement is pleased to announce that two Otterbein students have been awarded the competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. This program offers undergraduate students grants to pursue academic studies abroad. Karen Castro, a Business and Spanish major, will be studying in Argentina at the Universidad Blas Pascal in the fall. Dustin Sherman, a Business and International Relations major, will travel to Izmir, Turkey to study at Yasar University for the fall semester. This award offers students the opportunity to experience another culture by providing funds to manage the costs of studying abroad.
EducationUSA Seminar with International Advisors Held at Otterbein On June 10, 2010 the Center for International Education & Global Engagement hosted a daylong seminar aimed at educators in global education. The seminar featured a group of international advisors from Chile, Lebanon, Nigeria, Russia, Togo, and Uzbekistan who gave presentations on their home countries and their respective educational systems. The international advisors came to the U.S. under the auspices of EducationUSA, a global network of more than 400 advising centers supported by the U.S. Department of State. This event, which drew more than 40 participants from Ohio, was held at Otterbein for the first time.
Department of Foreign Languages and Humanities Advisory Committee Guest Presentation
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Library 124
4:30-5:30 pm
Dr. Margaret Hampton, Earlham College "Germany and
| INST APPROVED EVENT | Until recently very few would have associated Germany with the African Diaspora. However, thanks to the work of some very dedicated scholars, artists, and activists, the story of a relationship that is older than most would believe is starting to emerge. This presentation aims to tell just a part of that larger story, in part through an extensive collection of images, film clips, and other resources. The presentation starts with an overview of Germany’s long history with Africa and Africans, a history that extends as far back as the early centuries of the Christian Era. It also addresses briefly Germany’s time as a colonial power in parts of Africa. A special focus of this section is the modern-day country of Namibia, once known as German Southwest Africa and site of the first genocide of the 20th century. The last part of the presentation brings attention to the lives and contributions of people of African descent living in Germany today. Some are more recent arrivals; others are members of families who have live in Germany for generations. However, regardless of how long they have lived in Germany, regardless of their place of birth, their citizenship status or of how they choose to name and define themselves, they are all people of African descent, who today call Germany their home.
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Humanities Advisory Committee Questions: Contact Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages mailto:LOrtquist-Ahrens@otterbein.edu 2010 Programs Abroad Fair On Tuesday, April 13 more than 100 students, faculty, and staff attended our annual Programs Abroad Fair in Fisher Gallery. Faculty who previously led short-term study abroad programs and some of their students shared their exciting international experiences via poster presentations and laptop shows. Additional information on semester-long study abroad programs was also available. If you had to miss the Study Abroad Fair and would like to have more information on study abroad opportunities at Otterbein, please contact Thomas Ahrens, assistant director. E-mail: tahrens@otterbein.edu or phone 614-823-3263.   New Book Thomas Ahrens' translation (with co-translator Edward Larkin) of Leo Perutz's 1918 novel, Between Nine and Nine,has just been published by Ariadne Press.
In turn-of-the-century Vienna the impoverished, foreign-born Stanislaus Demba, who earns his keep as a tutor of the children of the professional class, must urgently come up with two hundred crowns to take his girlfriend Sonja Hartmann to Italy in order to prevent her from going with the well-off law student Georg Weiner. In a series of highly humorous and intricately-connected vignettes the Czech-born Leo Perutz, himself an immigrant to Vienna, sends the enigmatic and generally unsympathetic Demba cascading through the city in his quest to obtain the needed money even as he strives to conceal his shameful secret. Besides offering a satire of contemporary life in his characterization of the petty bourgeoisie and the upper class, university professors and intellectuals, gallants and flirts, and gamblers and high-class thieves, Between Nine and Nine (1918) also sheds light on the forces that conditioned identity in fin-de-siècle Vienna: industrialization, misogyny, anti-Semitism, classism, and xenophobia. Through the modern and ambiguous narrative stance, the novel, originally entitled “Freedom” in its serialized version, ultimately depicts the contingency of self-determination and identity in a complex social milieu. On display in Between Nine and Nine are the author’s skills as storyteller and caricaturist, his subtle and satiric humor, his highly refined aesthetic sensibilities, and his insightful social commentary. Readers unfamiliar with Perutz will find him delightfully provocative. |
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