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This is it! The 25th anniversary edition of the International Festival is 1-4 November. Hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, and noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at the door ($8 for adults, $5 for children 5-12, 4 and under, free). Highlights include the Opening Ceremonies (10:30 a.m. Thursday featuring Mayor Bart Peterson), the Naturalization Ceremony (noon Friday), Fuerza y Alma Latin Band Friday evening, and Polka Boys Saturday evening. See you at the Exposition Hall of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1208 East 38th Street, Indianapolis!
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James T. Morris, chairman and CEO of IWC Resources, has been nominated to a United Nations ambassadorship by President George W. Bush?
Mary Boyd, English lecturer at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) , is teaching this semester in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates?
Eight Indiana schools (including IUPUI) are among 159 colleges and universities nationwide to hand over confidential records on foreign students to the FBI, Immigration and Naturalization Service or local law enforcement authorities? According to reports in The Indianapolis Star on 18 October 2001, the information forwarded at government request normally would have required a subpoena.
November�s International Calendar for Indy�.
(for
more on these and other events see http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~smckee)
31 Oct. thru 3: Annual meeting, Western
Society for French History.
1: International Festival,
Indiana State Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. � 2 p.m.
Opening ceremonies with
Mayor Bart Peterson at 10:30 a.m., Expo Hall.
1: Study Abroad
Information Fair, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., IUPUI.
1-3: Conference, Indiana
Foreign Language Teachers Association.
2: International Festival,
Indiana State Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. � 11 p.m.
Naturalization Ceremony,
noon. Fuerza y Alma Latin band, 7:30 p.m.
2: "Pour Faire le Portrait de� Pr�vert," a poetic montage
sponsored by Alliance Fran�ais d'Indianapolis. 7 p.m. Indiana Historical
Society.
2: Bangarra Dance Theater
from Australia, 8 p.m., Clowes Memorial Hall. 2: El Dia de los
Muertos (Mexican)celebration, Indianapolis Art Center.
2-29: "Tibet's March
for Independence," photo exhibit, IUPUI library.
3: Annual meeting Indiana
Partners of the Americas, Indianapolis.
November calendar, continued�.
3: International Festival,
Indiana State Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. � 11 p.m.
Food, entertainment, global bazaar; Polka Boys at 7:30 p.m.
3, 4: "War and Peace",
Russian film, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
4: International Festival,
Indiana State Fairgrounds, noon-6 p.m.
4-6: Regional conference of
NAFSA: Association of International Educators (Indiana, Ohio, and
Kentucky), Indianapolis.
5: Indianapolis-Cologne
Sister City Committee, 4:30 p.m., Athen�um.
6: Indianapolis International
Dining Association, Russia House.
7: "NAFTA and the
Environment: Doing Business in a Free Trade World," conference. Indiana
Convention Center, Indianapolis.
8: "Nation Building: in Somalia,
in Afghanistan and at Home," by Amb. Peter Bridges Dinner meeting,
Indpls Committee on Foreign Relations.
8-11: English Speaking
Union convention, Radisson Hotel City Centre.
8-13: "Bridging Cultures,
Crossing Boundaries": exhibition of images from the lives of local Hispanic
youth. Indiana State House Rotunda.
9: "From the Middle
East to Indianapolis: A Historical Celebration of St. George Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Church, Indianapolis.
9 & 11: �Spirituality in the Yoruban
and Native American Traditions," 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. both days, Peace
Learning Center, Eagle Creek Park.
10: Lecture by Kiowa
artist N. Scott Momaday. 1:30 p.m., Westin Hotel.
10: Global
Affairs Seminar: "Moving to a New National Security Strategy" by
Indiana Reserve
Officers Association of the United States.
10: Independence of Cartagena celebration, Sociedad
Amigos de Colombia.
11: Presentation by practitioners from Tibetan, Chinese and Asian Indian medical traditions. Riley Outpatient Center, 702 Barnhill Drive.
11-14: Sigma Theta Tau International
convention, Indianapolis.
12: Nationalities Council
of Indiana, 7 p.m., Willkie Room, Athen�um, 401 East Michigan Street,
Indianapolis. All are welcome.
13: �Asia FantAsia,"
folk tales and myths. Broad Ripple High School.
14: Stammtisch and
program on the Lutheran Association and Lutherwood by Sven Schumacher for
Indiana German Heritage Society, Athen�um.
15: Luncheon, Association of International
Women.
18: Sixth UNICEF
Benefit Concert featuring Veena K. Kulkarni, pianist, and Derek Reeves,
violinist. Robertson Hall, Butler University.
18: Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians
Big Band Dance, Indiana Roof.
19: German Folkdancers,
7.p.m., Athen�um, 401 East Michigan Street.
20: Presentation on terrorism
and U.S. foreign policy by Prof. Robert F. Turner. Dinner, Indianapolis
Committee on Foreign Relations.
In memoriam�.
Dr. Hanus Jiri Grosz, who was born in Czechoslovakia, died 26 September 2001. A psychiatrist, he was past president and founding member of the Ethnographic Art Society.
Dr. John E. Young, an Indianapolis orthopedic surgeon, died 12 October 2001. He was a founder of the U.S.-China Friendship Association and served on the boards of the Indianapolis Council on World Affairs and the International Center of Indianapolis.
Do you have an item for the calendar, or an �international sighting� for the next issue of The Ethnic Hoosier? E-mail it to: [email protected].� Deadline is 2 December 2001.