Join us at OCA Mocha for the exhibit “The Impact of Where” on display from October 30, 2023 to December 8, 2023.

Come witness this diverse exhibit featuring reflections of UMBC community members’ experiences with living, studying, or working in an international or intercultural environment.

Located at the Gallery at OCA Mocha, 5410 East Drive, Arbutus, MD 21227.

Registration is required on myUMBC: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/iew/events/119591

>>>>This event is for UMBC Faculty and Staff only<<<<

Learn more about British master’s degree programs and the prestigious scholarship opportunities to fund them. Dr. April Householder, Director of Prestigious Scholarships and Dr. Brian Souders, Center for Global Engagement, present on the key differences between US and British master’s awards as well as the opportunities to fund these one-year degree programs.

Join us for the VII INCC Alumni Panel this fall 2023 on November 13 from 12-1pm in Alumni Webex Room. 

The moving body speaks a language that communicates through space, time, and relationships. It is a language interpreted and understood through our senses and imagination.

As an international faculty member here at UMBC, Assistant Professor Ann Sofie Clemmensen looks at language and communication through the lens of dance.

The session takes the format of a TedTalk presentation led by Professor Clemmensen with UMBC Dance Majors demonstrating compositional concepts and the power of creativity in communication with others.

Have you ever seen a dance performance and wondered what the process may be like for both the choreographer and performing artists?

This session provides a first hand look at the rehearsal process for a performance that will be a part of the Dance Department’s fall showcase. You will also experience the work in progress via an informal showing along with the showing of a completed solo work.

As an international faculty member, Assistant Professor Shaness D. Kemp and Brandon Russell, Instuctor, will share their individual creative processes and how they prepare professional performing artists and students to articulate their work.

Come cheer on the UMBC Retrievers at International Education Night as they take on Penn State York. Free t-shirts while supplies last!

Let’s Go Dawgs!

This is a collaboration with a Korean community organization which will bring a variety of Korean traditional outfits, so UMBC members can try them. It will be a wonderful opportunity for UMBC members to experience Korean culture and interact with the community members.

This event is open to the entire UMBC community!

Join Shruti Shastri from Retriever Integrated Health for an event addressing the highs and lows of pursuing education internationally and its impact on mental well-being. Participants will get an opportunity to learn about strategies to positively impact their mental well-being and resources for getting support.

This event is geared toward current UMBC international students. Join link is available on myUMBC.

Description: Las Artes de si denotes cognitive procedures, differentiation, and spiritual cultivation by which Black people, in the context of the Americas, liberate themselves from the shackles of colonial categories through the extent of aesthetically communing with Black cultural manifestations and their epistemic and philosophical horizons. Through Las Artes de si, the production of aesthetic experiences, the Black communities of the Americas cultivated resistance, building shared territories, quilombos, cumbes, and palenques.

Speaker bio: Maya Quilolo (b. 1994) is a maroon artist and researcher. Winner at the Prince Claus Culture Responds to Climate Change Awards( 2023), her artistic practice addresses intersections between environmental justice, black corporality, visual art, anthropology, and indigenous heritage.

HOST: LATIN AMERICAN FACULTY WORKING GROUP

SPONSORS: DRESHER CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES; GENDER, WOMEN’S + SEXUALITY STUDIES; MODERN LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS + INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION; GEOGRAPHY + ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES MINOR; LATINX HISPANIC FACULTY ASSOCIATION

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the State Department’s Flagship exchange program, funds U.S. citizen students to conduct research, teach English or earn a master’s degree in more than 140 countries throughout the world. UMBC students have a stellar record as Fulbright recipients, with UMBC being listed a top producer of Fulbright recipients in three of the past five years. Come learn more about this program, hosted by the Institute of International Education and Dr. Brian Souders, UMBC’s Fulbright Program Advisor in the Center for Global Engagement.

Come cheer on the UMBC Retrievers at International Education Night as they take on Loyola. Free t-shirts while supplies last!

Let’s Go Dawgs!

Current TESOL MA Program students and recent alumni are invited to learn more about these two opportunities to teach English overseas. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the State Department’s Flagship exchange program, funds U.S. citizen students to teach English in more than 80 countries throughout the world. Alumni can apply for the English Language Fellows Program to serve as a teacher/mentor in more than 140 countries. Come learn more about these programs, hosted by Dr. Brian Souders, TESOL MA faculty and Associate Director of UMBC’s Center for Global Engagement.

Register for this virtual event HERE

UMBC-Shady Grove and UMBC’s Education Abroad Office will offer a special Virtual Study Abroad 101 Information Session specifically for UMBC-Shady Grove students. 

The Center for Global Engagement and the International Education Week committee invite you to attend the keynote speaker event of UMBC’s International Education Week!

Deputy Assistant Secretary Pasini, of the U.S. Department of State, will give a presentation on the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program, foreign diplomacy goals, and the importance of higher education.

Rebecca A. Pasini joined the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Private Sector Exchanges in July 2023. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister – Counselor, Ms. Pasini has been an American diplomat since 1997.

Ms. Pasini previously served as the Director of Public and Congressional Affairs in the Bureau of Consular Affairs from 2021-2023. Other Washington assignments have included positions in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, the Office of Foreign Missions, and as a liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. She has also completed multiple overseas tours, including as Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs in Islamabad, Pakistan, and as the Consular Chief in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Belfast, Northern Ireland. Other tours included Mexico City and Kuwait.

A Maryland native, Ms. Pasini has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University, a master’s degree in National Security and Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School, National Defense University, and an undergraduate degree from Mary Washington College.

Registration is required on myUMBC HERE.

Intercultural Living Exchange language clusters in collaboration with international students will present on how different culture celebrates (or not ) “Thanksgiving and friendship”. We will have pumpkin pie and different snacks that are found in different cultures.

This event is open to current students.

Join us as students share about their culture and heritage through visual presentations. All are welcome to come and view the displays!

Current graduate students are invited to learn more about international research funding opportunities through both the Fulbright U.S. Student and Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programs. Fulbright, the largest exchange program sponsored by the U.S. State Department, offers both one-year research opportunities throughout the world, as well as post-doctoral opportunities. Come learn more about these exciting opportunities for U.S. citizen students to expand their research beyond UMBC.

OCA Mocha is excited to partner with UMBC’s Center for Global Engagement to celebrate International Education Week 2023 with an open mic night on Friday, November 17, 2023, from 6 – 8 p.m. If you would like to perform, please sign up using this link by 3 p.m. on Friday, November 17, 2023.

This event also serves as an open house for the gallery exhibit The Impact of Where: Representations of International Experiences. This exhibit allows the viewer to see through the lenses of artists who have lived, studied, or worked in an international or intercultural environment or whose work reflects international topics. Featured artists are invited to discuss their pieces during the open mic;Please sign up using this link by 3 p.m. on Friday, November 17, 2023.

We hope you will join us to perform, watch the performances, support the amazing artists who have work in the exhibit, and enjoy OCA Mocha’s special International Education Week drinks.