By Desiree M. Cooper
Eastern New Mexico University is going global.
The ENMU Department of Multicultural Affairs will be hosting International Education Week November 13-22 to bring global awareness to the university.
Maria Garcia, the director of International Affairs, has been preparing these events since the summer.
“We are promoting culture through education,” she said. “We want to educate people about countries, languages, costumes, and traditions.”
Europe is the center of attention this year for International Education Week. There will be five presentations focusing on different European countries. All five presentations are free and open to the public.
The first presentation, “France at a glance a personal perspective,” will be held 11 a.m. Monday in the Sandia Room of the Campus Union Building. The presentation will be given by ENMU professor Valerie Kyle. The French native “will speak of France from a personal perspective as an individual who left France years ago, and how the essential cultural aspects of her home country and culture remain with her,” according to the ENMU Department of International Affairs.
“Cultural and Linguistic Journey to Spain” will start at 4 p.m. November 19. The presentation will take place in the Sandia Room in the Campus Union Building. Dr. Nicholas Santavicca, the director of the American Language and Culture Program at ENMU, will be giving the presentation. Santavicca, who lived in Spain for two years, “plans to share his personal experiences with the Spanish culture, language, and people from a foreign language student and professor’s perspectives,” according to the ENMU Department of International Affairs.
On November 20, alumni Janett Johnson will share her experience of living behind the Iron Curtain—in East Germany—and in West Germany and relate those experiences to life in the United States. Her talk, “Germany, a Tale of Two Countries,” is 6 p.m. in the Sandia Room of the Campus Union Building.
The ENMU choir will be giving a presentation November 21 about its 12-day performance tour in Italy last summer. The presentation, “Reflections of Italy,” will start at 4 p.m. in Buchanan Hall in the Music Building.
ENMU students can learn about study-abroad programs at 11 a.m. November 22. The presentation will be given by ENMU International Advisor Christy Czerwien in the Sandia Room in the Campus Union Building.
For more information, contact International Affairs by email at enmu.internationalaffairs@enmu.edu or by phone at 575-562-4915.