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October

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Venue:PG-5 Room 153

ASIAN STUDIES / MEUCE / CEPEX Presents: "The Future of Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World" Guest Speakers: Dr. Steven Heine, Director, Asian Studies Dr. Rebecca Friedman, Director EU Center at FIU Kiichiro Sato, President, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), NY Mark Holt, Energy Policy Specialist Congressional Research Service (CRS) European Representatives (TBA) Dr. Jerry Brown, Founding Professor, Global & Sociocultural Studies

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Venue:SIPA 502-503

Friday, October 21, 2011 Time : 01:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Location : Florida International University - Modesto A. Maidique Campus - 11200 SW 8th Street - Miami, FL 33199 - SIPA Building - SIPA 502-503 For the 5th year, the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence at FIU is recruiting Florida High Schools for the EURO CHALLENGE competition: 2012.

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Venue:TBA

Workshop for Miami Dade county public school teachers led by FIU faculty: Jean Rahier, Ph.D., Global and Socio-Cultural Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies; Andrea Queeley, Ph.D., Global and Socio-Cultural Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies, and Alexandra Cornelius-Diallo, Ph.D., History and African and African Diaspora Studies.

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Venue:University of Miami, Robert and Judy Prokop Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables

Half-day conference features presentations on using the AmericasBarometer as a resource for research on Latin America and the Caribbean and its impact on efforts to better understand ethnic inequality, discrimination, gender, politics, democracy, and marginalization in the hemisphere. Presented by the Miami Consortium for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in partnership with USAID, Vanderbilt University, and Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP).

November

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Venue:Labor Center (LC) 110

Faculty Works-in-Progress Seminar: "Somos Iguales...Pero No Somos Iguales: Contradictory Narratives and Narrating Contradiction in Contemporary Cuba" with Dr. Andrea Queeley, Florida International University

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Venue:MARC Pavilion

Conference on Zen Master Dogen with William Bodiford, Griffith Foulk, Steven Heine, Taigen Dan Leighton, Shohaku Okumura. 9:30am - 5:00pm | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, MARC Pavilion Sponsored by Asian Studies Program Program and the Program in the Study of Spirituality

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Venue:GL 100B

Crossing the Sahara and Back: African Feminisms in Dialogue brings together international scholars who are interrogating, theorizing and actively engaging gender issues within a transnational perspective. Being a feminist is sometimes considered synonymous with being from the Global North. And yet, if we think about feminist movement in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, we see how feminists are acting locally, pushing feminist theory forward, and giving it a new “local turn,” as it were. Mov