The 4th annual International Women’s Day Scholarship Fundraiser Luncheon is Sunday, March 7, 2010 from 12 noon to 2:30pm at the Siena Hotel Spa Casino to benefit women college students in Northern Nevada. Cost is $35 for the catered lunch event and $45 after February 26. All proceeds go to women’s scholarships at UNR, TMCC, Western Nevada College and Great Basin College as designated by attendees.

The Northern Nevada International Center and the U.S. Department of State are bringing a delegation of international women to Reno to be the program guests at the event. One of these international visitors will be at each table during the luncheon to share information about her country and her work. It is a rare opportunity for Northern Nevadans to become citizen diplomats for an afternoon and practice some hands-on international relations.

Organizations currently participating in the event to date are: AAUW Nevada, Delta Kappa Gamma-Lambda Chapter, Nevada Women’s History Project, Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada, Soroptimist International of Truckee Meadows, Soroptimist International of Washoe County, Zonta Club of Greater Reno, UNR Gender, Race & Identity / Women’s Studies Programs, UNR Committee on the Status of Women, UNR Women Without Borders, Truckee Meadows Community College, Western Nevada College, and Great Basin College.

Don’t miss this exciting chance to join us for a delicious lunch and meet these international women visitors. Bring your friends, your daughters, and your mothers and celebrate International Women’s Day with us in 2010 in this festive setting. Tables of eight are available for group purchase. And bring some extra cash for the marvelous basket raffle!

Please download, print and forward the registration form (MS Word document) to everyone you know who may be interested in attending. Make a few copies to give to others and to post at work or in your community.

Send your registration in today! Please make your check out to “Board of Regents” with “UNR Women’s Studies” on the memo line, and then mail it together with your registration form no later than February 26, 2010 to:

Donna Clontz
PO Box 33244
Reno, NV 89533

For further information, please call Donna at (775) 240-2745 or email Donna via CLICK ME

The NNIC is pleased to announce a Sneak Preview Screening of Chakalela, a documentary following 25 Algerian high school students, 3 adults, and 7 American high school students as they learn about their similarities and differences in the four weeks they spend together in United States.

Footage was shot and edited by the high school students, and was filmed on location in Reno, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco and Algeria.

This film was the final product of the Algerian Youth Leadership Program that took place this past summer. UNR students and alumni participated as camp counselors during the experience and will be part of a panel, also including the local high school participants, to discuss the film and the experience. Come and find out more about exciting international education programs that are taking place right on your campus, and learn how you can become more involved!

Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Catherine L. Mann

“The US in the World Economy: Is the US Trade Deficit Sustainable?”

• Wednesday, April 21, 2010 – 7pm
• UNR Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Mann is a faculty member of the International Business School at Brandeis. Previously, she had worked in policy institutions and think tanks in Washington DC, including the Institute for International Economics, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the President’s Council of Economic Advisors at the White House, and the World Bank. Her current research focuses on two related topics: information technology and services trade in global markets, and the US trade deficit and the dollar.

On the economic and policy implications of globalization of information technology and services, she authored Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006) and Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000); as well as numerous articles, including “Assessing the Potential Benefit of Trade Facilitation: A Global Perspective,” World Economy (2005) and “The US Current Account, New Economy Services, and Implications for Sustainability,” Review of International Economics (2004).

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Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Richard Erb

NOTE: the venue of this presentation is the Siena Ballroom

“A Bankrupt World: The United States in a Volatile International Financial System”

• Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – 7pm
• University of Nevada Joe Student Union Theatre
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Erb is a Research Professor at The University of Montana and a Senior Fellow at the World Affairs Council of Montana. He also has served as an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Business Administration and has taught senior/graduate seminars on the European Union and on international money and financial flows. His research, lectures and publications focus on a wide range of economic and financial public policy subjects including the European Union and the international monetary and financial system.

Erb has held executive positions at the International Monetary Fund, serving as U. S. Executive Director on the IMF Executive Board from 1981 to 1984 and subsequently as the Deputy Managing Director for ten years. He also served in senior economic policy positions at the U.S. Treasury Department (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing Nations Finance, 1976-77), the White House (Staff Assistant to the President and Assistant Director of the Council on International Economic Policy, 1971-74), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Assistant to Governor Sherman Maisel, 1967-69).

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A VIP reception to meet the speaker will also be held from 6-7pm.  $15.00 per person.

Special Guest Speaker:
Nadia Hijab

“Human Rights in the Middle East: Israel and Palestine at the Crossroads”

• Wednesday, January 27, 2010 – 7pm
• UNR Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center Auditorium
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-Sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Hijab is a prominent Palestinian-American analyst, author and former journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.

Hijab has also been a prolific writer, authoring over 100 academic articles on a variety of subjects. In 1988, her first book Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work was published by Cambridge University Press, and was followed in 1990 by Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel, published by I.B. Tauris. In 1989, Hijab moved to the United States, where she spent several years working for the United Nations Development Programme in New York City. After working for the United Nations until 2000, she worked as a consultant for a variety of organizations and institutions, including the World Bank, UNICEF, and Columbia University. In 2006, Hijab joined the Institute for Palestine Studies as a Senior Fellow. She remains and active media commentator, and has published opinion pieces in online journals, in addition to drafting policy notes on issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the Institute for Palestine Studies.

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Special Guest Speaker:
Barbara Crossette

Who Leads: The United States, the United Nations and Political Turbulence in the 21st Century

• Wednesday, November 18, 2009 – 7pm
• University of Nevada Joe Student Union Theatre
• Sponsored by NNIC, Co-Sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
• Free and open to the public

Barbara Crossette is a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the author of several books on Asia, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995 and in paperback by Random House/Vintage Destinations in 1996, and a collection of travel essays about colonial resort towns that are still attracting visitors more than a century after their creation, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, published by Westview Press in 1998 and in paperback by Basic Books in 1999. In 2000, she wrote a survey of India and Indian-American relations, India: Old Civilization in a New World, for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She is also the author of India Facing the 21st Century, published by Indiana University Press in 1993.

Ms. Crossette is now United Nations correspondent for The Nation and a freelance writer on foreign policy and international affairs. Most recently she was a co-author with George Perkovich of a section on India in the 2009 book Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World.

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Special Guest Speaker:
Madame Jehan Sadat

An Evening with Jehan Sadat: An Egyptian Woman’s Hopes for Peace

• Tuesday, October 27, 2009 – 7pm
• Truckee Meadows Community College

(co-sponsored by NNIC and ASUN Flipside)

(Note: $10 General Admission and $5 Student Admission)

Jehan Sadat is the wife of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat of Egypt from 1970 until 1981. She organized a movement to reform Egyptian Civil Rights Law and was successful in reforming victimizing divorce laws. She is an outspoken advocate for peace in the Middle East and worldwide. Sadat played a key role in reforming Egypt’s civil rights laws during the late 1970s. Often called “Jehan’s Laws” new statutes advanced by her granted women a variety of new rights, including those to alimony and custody of children in the event of divorce. After visiting wounded soldiers at the Suez front during the Six-Day War in 1967, she founded al Wafa’ Wa Amal (Faith and Hope) Rehabilitation Center, which offers disabled war veterans medical and rehabilitation services and vocational training. The center, is supported by donations from around the world and now serves visually impaired children and has a world-wide known music and choir band.

Jehan is a Senior fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park (where The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development has also been endowed). She also published an autobiography, A Woman of Egypt, as well as poetry in Arabic, under a pseudonym, and has written a second book, My Hope for Peace, released in March 2009.

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The cost of the dinner is $45 per person. Reservations necessary by September 15. Please contact Jack Logan at 624.6450 for additional information.

On September 17, 2009 the Northern Nevada International Center will be hosting the first event in their Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Speaker Series, in which African women leaders will discuss their roles in the judiciary system and politics.

There will be 11 women from Chad, Djibouti, Gabon, Mali, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Togo here to discuss their stories. There will even be an opportunity to participate in a roundtable dialogue with each of the women.

This event will be held in the University of Nevada Reno Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom C at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Contact International Center staff for additional information.

For more information or to register as judge, interpret or volunteer, visit www.isefnevada.com.