Eastern Oregon University Celebrates the First Annual

Multicultural Week Celebration  

Presented By

Multicultural Student Center, in collaboration with the Student Affairs Office, Student Clubs and other organizations.

 

Links to Multicultural Week Events:

• Event Descriptions
• ArchaeologyFest Film Series

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Monday, October 15 

Culture, Traditions and Beauty          

11:00 am to 1:30 pm, Hoke Main Lounge             

Come any time during these hours and experience your world as members from various clubs on campus share their own culture and traditions.  

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Tuesday, October 16 

Student Success in Communicating Across Cultures

11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Hoke 201/202 

Speaker Liang Ho will talk about how students of diverse backgrounds can learn to understand and communicate with each other. 

Film Series Festival

7:00 pm, Huber Auditorium (Badgley) 

View Network and Signs Out of Time, presented by the Archaeology Channel.  Students attend free, public $6 (or $18 to view all movies over the week).  For more information, please go to this link: http://www3.eou.edu/oma/documents/LaGrande2007.doc 

Network

Illicit Greek antiquities ensnare U.S. and world museums in ethical nightmare. 

Signs Out of Time

An archaeologist’s work reveals evidence that goddess-worshipping Neolithic cultures existed for millennia without war. 

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Wednesday, October 17 

Cross-Cultural Living

11:00 am to 1:30 pm, Hoke 309 

Former Peace Corps volunteers, researchers and travel experts share their experiences. 

Film Series Festival

7:00 pm, Huber Auditorium 

View Genghis Khan: Rider of the Apocalypse; and Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages, presented by the Archaeology Channel.  Students attend free, public $6. 

Genghis Khan: Rider of the Apocalypse

Lavish scenes bring to life the lost world of history’s most feared and powerful warlord. 

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages

Birch bark letters speak of life in medieval Russian town. 

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Thursday, October 18  

Mutual Cultural Understanding   La Grande Middle School & High School

11:00 am to 1:30 pm, Hoke Main Lounge 

Students from the middle school and high school participate in multicultural-centered activities led by EOU students, faculty and staff. 

Film Series Festival

7:00 pm, Huber Auditorium 

View Journeys Into the Ring of Fire and Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta, presented by the Archaeology Channel.  Students attend free, public $6. 

Journeys Into the Ring of Fire

An examination of how the Incas built a successful empire in one of Earth’s most desolate and hostile areas. 

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta

A 5000 year-old civilization unearthed in southeast Iran challenges the long-held belief that civilization arose from one location in Mesopotamia. 

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Friday, October 19  

International Culture Differences

11:00 am to 1:30 pm, Hoke Main Lounge, 201 & 202 

People from many different backgrounds talk about their cultures and answer questions. 

Multicultural Potluck

5:00 pm, Multicultural Student Center, Hoke 2nd floor

Everyone is invited to join us on multicultural potluck dinner. We invite you to join us, bring your favorite food from home if you’d like, and get to know students from many different countries and cultures

Film Series Festival

7:00 pm, Huber Auditorium 

View Tibet, Tibet, presented by the Archaeology Channel.  Students attend free, public $6.  

Tibet, Tibet

A filmmaker searches for place, meaning and identity in Tibetan high-country.