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Intercultural Relations Events

 

Past Events

February 11, 2008: Spring Potluck & Community Event - "Exploring Emotions Through Photography:  Research that Embraces ‘Telling your own story.’ "

Current and prospective students, faculty, and alumni of the program joined us for the Spring Potluck & Community Event, featuring a presentation by photojournalist and Intercultural Relations alum Ashleigh Starke on her work helping make visible worlds of those often at the margins. Her presentation is concurrent with her exhibit, Through My Eyes, which opens at Lesley February 11 and is co-sponsored by the Intercultural Relations Program and Lesley's School of Education. During the presentation, Ashleigh and two of the child photographers involved in the exhibition talked about their process in creating the photographs and conceptualizing the project.

 

October 18, 2007: Alumni Career Panel

The Alumni Career Panel featured alumni currently working in international education exchange, student services, and developing international volunteer and service-learning programs, among others. Alumni talked about their experiences and gave advice for those wishing to enter the field.

 

September 27, 2007: Fall Potluck & Community Event - "Challenges to Multicultural Education: Case Study - South Africa"

Current and prospective students, faculty, and alumni of the program joined us for the annual Fall Potluck & Community Event, featuring speaker Dr. Holly Carter. Dr. Carter's presentation explored the challenges of race, ethnicity, language, and class as they impact education initiatives in South Africa, and how the theory and practice of intercultural relations can be applied to the challenges South Africa faces in education, including her specific experience in designing curriculum for Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academcy for girls. 

 

March 8, 2007: “Prison Pups” –a film by Alice Dungan Bouvrie

Lesley University’s Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences joined the Intercultural Relations program to sponsor a showing of the film Prison Pups by Alice Dungan Bouvrie, program alum and adjunct faculty. More than 100 people, including program students and alumni, and members of the Lesley University and Cambridge communities, attended the film showing and reception. Prison Pups follows a handful of service dogs trained by inmates at Concord Farm (a minimum security prison in Concord, MA). After 10-12 months of training, the dogs are placed with the handicapped and hearing impaired.  The prisoners selected for the program have earned the privilege of having a dog to train, and the coveted companionship and responsibility that come along with it.  As the film progresses, we see the changes that occur in the inmates as their relationships with their dogs deepens and their days are filled with purposeful activity. 
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