Lecture series brings the world to local families

June 5, 2012

Marmian Grimes

Alida van Almelo
907-474-7588
6/5/12

ΠΤΣϋΙη’ Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning will sponsor a family-friendly lecture series offering attendees insight on growing up in another culture.

Family Cultural Night will be held Mondays through July 2 at 7 p.m. at the UA Museum of the North on the ΠΤΣϋΙη campus. The series features ΠΤΣϋΙη students and staff and faculty members. They will share their impressions of life in another country. The countries included in the series are: Taiwan, Ukraine, Bangladesh and Egypt.

For more information please contact Summer Sessions at 907-474-7021 or visit http://www.uaf.edu/summer/summer-events/cultural-night/. Following is a schedule of events:

June 11β€”β€œThe Culture of Taiwan,” with Ying Chih Fang

June 18β€”β€œBeauty of Ukraine,” with Inna Conner

June 25β€”β€œThe Changing Face of Grameen (Rural) Women of Bangladesh,” with Trina Mamoon

July 2β€”β€œEgypt: The Second State,” with Ahmed Hosney Ahmed Kamel

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: ΠΤΣϋΙη Summer Sessions at 907-474-7021 or summer@alaska.edu.

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