Movie Screening By Dr. Mine Eren:
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
October 27, 2008, 7:00 PM
Parents & Friends

Dr. Mine Eren, Associate Professor of German at Randolph-Macon College, will introduce the film (October 27, Parents & Friends, 7pm) and lead a discussion of it following the viewing.  Dr. Eren, of Turkish descent, grew up in Germany and received her doctorate in German Studies from Brown University.  She is a specialist in German cinema, particularly the films of Fatih Akin, and is interested in multiculturalism and the role of Turkish minority culture in Germany. Full Story...

Carnival Strikes Again
By Sohale Vu, Class of 2007
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Since its beginning two years ago, the Hampden-Sydney College Carnival festival reappeared back on campus on the night of February 15, 2007 at the Tiger Inn. Organized by the International, German, French and Spanish clubs as well as the CAC, Hampden-Sydney students were both entertained by amazing music and delicious foods as a way to help welcome in the Spring. Full Story...

Globalization and Cultural Literacy: A European Perspective

On Monday, October 30, 2006, at Hampden-Sydney College, international lawyer Ciaran Buckley addressed Globalization and Cultural Literacy: A European Perspective. Full Story...

Hampden-Sydney Celebrates the Day of the Dead
By Sohale Vu '07
On Wednesday, November 1, 2006, the Spanish Club in association with the new International House threw Hampden- Sydney College’s first and very successful celebration of Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. This holiday is traditionally celebrated on November 1st and the Spanish Club members transformed the International House to show the festivity and liveliness of the Día de los Muertos with delicious food and exotic decorations.Full Story...

Professor Dirk Johnson at Governor's Foreign Language Academies
Since 1986, the Virginia Department of Education has sponsored the Governor's Foreign Language Academies, summer residential programs for Virginia's most motivated and talented foreign language students.  This summer, the academies' twentieth anniversary year, I had the honor to direct the Immersion Program in German (45 students, 4 teachers, 6 Resident Assistants) held on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond. Full Story...

Spanish Club Sponsors Concert
By Sohale Vu '08
Si m?ica es la comida de vida, Solazo sirve un fest?. If music is the food of life, Solazo serves a feast.  On the night of October 27, Hampden-Sydney College had a very unique and highly entertaining performance at Crawley Forum.  Solazo, the latin music group sponsored by the Spanish Club at Hampden-Sydney, played an excellent concert. Full Story...

Professor Johnson Continues Research in Germany
By Dr. Dirk Johnson
Over the summer, my family and I spent a month in the city of Frankfurt, Germany, which many only know for its bustling international airport. But Frankfurt is in fact a very interesting city in the heart of Germany that symbolizes both the country?s turbulent past as well as its more promising and dynamic future. Full Story...

Carnival On Our Campus
By Joe Prempeh '06
The French, German, and Spanish Club in collaboration with the International Club organized a carnival in the Tiger Inn. The festive celebration, although in an academic setting, portrayed a blend of culture that was elevated by the colorful display of costumes, music, and dance, which epitomized the feeling and mood we normally associate with Carnival whenever we think of it. Full Story...

Students of German Visit Goethe-Institut
German professor Dirk Johnson, lecturer Antje Herron and president of the German Club, Gerrit von Holt, accompanied nineteen students of German on a field trip to Washington, DC. Full Story...

Meet Professor Dirk Johnson
Professor Dirk Johnson and his family are spending the summer in the quaint university town of Nijmegen, Holland. With a summer research grant from Hampden-Sydney College, Professor Johnson is able to pursue research into the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and its relationship to the science of Charles Darwin. Full Story...

Meet Professor Afatsawo
For Dieudonne Afatsawo the route between Ghana and Hampden-Sydney College was not a direct one. Dr. Afatsawo joined the Hampden-Sydney faculty in the Fall of 2000 as Assistant Professor of Modern Languages after a career that took him from his homeland to Spain and southern California. Full Story...

May Term in Paris
Professors Blackman, Kleinlein, and McRae held class in Paris for the May Term classes on Modern French History, Western Art of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the French language and culture.
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