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Events
GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL
August 8 - 10, 2008
The Great Lakes Folk Festival, sponsored by the City of East Lansing will take place in downtown East Lansing. The richness of music, dance, arts and culture from across America and around the world come to us as the Michigan State University Museum presents the 2008 Great Lakes Folk Festival. Also some very popular Canadian musicians will play for us: George Gao, Réveillons!, April Verch, Vishten.CELEBRATE CANADIAN THANKSGIVING
October 8, 2008
Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, and is a statutory holiday in most jurisdictions of Canada.
As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty. Thanksgiving in Canada is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage, or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing, and hunting.
Celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving at the MSU International Center, Room 303, 4-6 p.m., Wednesday, October 8. A traditional Thanksgiving dinner will be served! Please, RSVP enyart@msu.edu by Monday, October 1 to reserve your dinner.
November 17, 2008
Margaret Eleanor Atwood. Canada’s literature legend. “World View II”. A prolific poet, novelist, literature critic, feminist and activist, she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, Booker Prize, Governor General's Award. An internationally respected novelist, she has anticipated, explored – and even changed – the popular preoccupation of our time. Writing about issues on both a personal worldly scale with knife-edge precision. As a speaker, her pithy observations and comments, delivered in her distinctive style, both entertain and challenge audiences to think critically about their relationship to words and language.
Monday, November 17, Wharton Center, 7:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES&PROGRAMS HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
December (TBA), noon - 2 p.m. Please join the staff of ISP for the Annual Open House. Each center of ISP offers a selection of ethnic cuisine. Lots of food and fun!
October 10-11, 2008
5th Annual MSU Indigenous Law Conference "History, Tribal Law, and Modern Challenges" will be in October 10-11, 2008 in MSU Law College. Organizers vision for this year’s conference is to solicit papers that cover a specific provision in the Indian Civil Rights Act.
June 18-20, 2008
The Canadian Indigenous/Native Studies Association (CINSA) Conference 2008 was hosted by the Community Economic and Social Development (CESD) department of Algoma University College (Algoma University College, Sault Ste. Marie) on June 18 to 20, 2008.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival-08. Five Shakespeare plays, G.Bernard Shaw's one of history's most intriguing relationships, a harrowing tragedy from the ancient Greece and many other interesting plays. North America's Leading Classical Theatre.
The Shaw Festival -08. One of the things that theatre does best is to draw us into a secret – either revealing it to us as the characters themselves find out, or letting us in on it early so we can watch the proceedings from a wonderfully omnipotent standpoint... Come and be a part of it – and don't keep it a secret!... (from Jackie Maxwell (Artistic Director) mesage).
September 8 – 11, 2008
Alberta Council for Women’s Shelters will host the 1st World Conference of Women's Shelters “Discovering the Common Core: Practical Frameworks for Change” in
Edmonton, Alberta Canada. This event will present a new opportunity for family violence workers in Alberta and around the world to learn from international experts and each other.
June 3 – 5, 2009
The 84th Annual PMAC National Conference will take place in Quebec City. The PMAC National Conference is Canada’s premier event for supply chain management professionals – and the largest of its kind. More than 500 of the country’s top procurement and supply chain management decision-makers gather once a year to learn the latest developments and best practices in the profession.
May 27-30, 2007
Canadian Indigenous/Native Studies Association Conference 2007: “Diversity in Indigenous/Native Studies Scholarship and Research: Same Journey, Different Canoes or Same Canoes Different Directions” at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. For more information, click here.
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