- Posted 02/26/2001
Contact: Andrew Svec, 218-281-8435
UMC International Series Begins March 5 with Focus on Sweden
“Sweden:
The Country of Tomorrow”
will kick off the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) 2001
International Seminar Series on Monday, March 5.
Seven UMC students from Sweden will host the program.
Anna
Lyrot, Johan Bergholm, Carl-Johan Blomvall, Kristian Borg, Pernilla
Ekstrom, Alexander Hansson, and George Pandrea will provide perspectives
on their Scandinavian homeland.
Seven UMC students from
Sweden: (from left) Johan Bergholm, Alexander Hansson, Pernilla Ekstrom,
Carl-Johan Blomvall, Anna Lyrot, Kristian Borg, and George Pandrea. (Click
for larger photo)
The evening begins at 6:00 p.m. with an ethnic dinner for $8.00, followed by a 7:00 p.m. program. The dinner is served in Brown Dining Room of UMC’s Sahlstrom Conference Center. The presentation follows the meal and takes place in Bede Ballroom. The dinner is by reservation only. For reservations or more information please call Meloni Rasmussen at 218-281-8586 or 218-281-8508.
Each dinner in the International Series includes special ethnic recipes from the featured country, according to Mario Prada, Director of Multicultural and International Programs at UMC, and coordinator of the International Seminar Series. This year’s series is noteworthy in that all presenters are current international students attending UMC.
On Monday, March 19, the second dinner in the series
will focus on “Morocco: The Moroccan Way” presented by Nawfal Badou.
Badou will describe the mystique
of his homeland and will share its cuisine, enriched by three cultures and
the Moroccan hospitality offered by each.
Badou is also an international student hailing from Rabat, the capital of Morocco.
His major is Golf facilities and Turf Systems Management.
The
third dinner in the series is entitled “Argentina:
Land of Beautiful Traditions”
and will be presented on Monday, March 26, by Ileana Alvarez, Javier Broglia,
Ernesto Lussenhoff, and Luciana Forati. All are international
students attending UMC from Argentina. These
students will present information about Argentina's history, climate,
agriculture and industry, costumes, festivals, music (such as “cumbia”),
and traditions such as “mate,” “asados,” and
“gaucho.” Alvarez, Broglia, and Lussenhoff are involved in the
MAST (Minnsota Agricultural Student Trainee) Program, and Forati is a
Sport and Recreation Management major.
UMC students from
Argentina (from left) Ernesto
Lussenhoff,Luciana Forati, Ileana Alvarez, and
Javier Broglia.
The series culminates in the annual International Dinner, set for Saturday, April 7. UMC’s international students participate in this dinner, providing menu items from their respective home countries as well as entertainment for the program that follows the dinner. Tickets for the International Dinner are $10.00 per person. They are available in advance from the UMC Business Office, in UMC’s Selvig Hall, or from Tours and Travel in Crookston.
For more information, contact Dr. Mario Prada, UMC’s Director of Multicultural and International Programs, at 218-281-8508. Disability accommodations are available upon request and can be made by calling 218-281-8508.
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