10/27/10, 5:51 pm

Hey everyone. There's two interesting info sessions being held this weekend for people interested in teaching and study abroad programs.


On Friday, October 29th @ 1 in 1345 Engineering Building the American Councils for International Education is holding an info session on Russian and Eurasian language programs. If you're interested  in studying Russian or Armenian, Azeri, Buryat, Chechen, Dari, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Farsi, Dari, Romanian, Tatar, Tajik, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and/or Yakut, you should attend. The Russian programs site is here, and info on the other languages can be found here.

On Saturday, October 30th @ 9 am or 1:30 pm in the Kellogg Center the Asian Studies Center and Central Eurasian Studies Society is holding a teachers' workshop. This free conference is open to grad students and teachers. The goal is to help teachers introduce topics on inner Asia [Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, and Armenia] using geography, culture, history, politics, activities and games. One of the speakers will be Dr. Russell Zanca, Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University, and expert on Central Asian culture and history.


If you have some time between boozing, watching the game, and trick-or-treating, we'd recommend that you try to attend.