[A-106] Join the Italian Club in A-106 from 1:00p.m.-2:00 p.m. on every other Thursday to learn the Italian language and culture. Pizza will be served. For information, please email rmontem1@ramapo.edu  

[ASB-123]
Would you like to practice your French language skill? The Roukema Center for International Education offers French Language Happy Hour every other Monday from 1:15pm-2pm in ASB-123. All levels are welcome. Come join us! For more information, please email goabroad@ramapo.edu or call ext. 7533.  

Naré Mkrtchyan will screen her film,“The Other Side of Home,” an eye-opening account of the legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Turkish government. on Tuesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of the Armenian Students Association of Ramapo College, the Armenian National Committee of New Jersey, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Having been short-listed for an Academy Award in the documentary short category, it was the first film in the 89-year history of the Oscars to raise the issue of the Armenian Genocide. The program is free and open to the public.

[Pavilion #3] Dr. Stanislao Pugliese, professor of History at Hofstra University, will speak about “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” on Wednesday, April 18 at 4 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of  the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Italian Club of Ramapo College. Dr. Pugliese’s lecture will examine the historical context of anti-Semitism in Italy, the rise of fascism, internment camps, the anti-fascist Jewish Resistance and the Holocaust in the shadow of the Vatican. The Morton and Clara Richmond Endowment will support the program. It is free and open to the public.

[ASB-123]Would you like to practice your German language skill? The Roukema Center for International Education offers German Language Happy Hour every Wednesday from 1-2pm in ASB-123. All levels are welcome. Come join us!For more information, please email goabroad@ramapo.edu or call ext. 7533.  

[ASB-135] 6:00PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25Lasciati Andare (Let Yourself Go),2017Directed by Francesco AmatoA psychoanalyst named Elia goes to the gym andmeets a personal trainer who changes his life. Thefilm stars Veronica Echegui, Toni Servillo and LucaMarinelli.

[Library -Current Periodicals Reading Lounge]

Book: Cafe Europa: Life After Communism

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

 

Join the Potter Library in reading Cafe Europa: Life After Communism, a series of essays that explore life in various Eastern European countries since the fall of communism.  Contact Sam Wittenberg (switten1@ramapo.edu) and Katie Cohen (kcohen1@ramapo.edu) to join and for additional information.

 

Discussion Dates, Locations and Section Selections:
        – Mon., 2/26; 1:10pm – 2:00pm: Current Periodicals Reading Lounge (Library)
        – Mon., 3/26; 1:10pm – 2:00pm: Current Periodicals Reading Lounge (Library)
        – Mon., 4/23; 1:10pm – 2:00pm: Current Periodicals Reading Lounge (Library)

Hosted by the George T. Potter Library

Co-sponsored by Center for Student Involvement & the Roukema Center for International Education  

[ASB-135] 6:00PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea), 2016Directed by Gianfranco RossiCapturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa,this movie depicts the frontline in the Europeanmigrant crisis. This film stars Samuele Pucillo,Maria Signorello and Giuseppe Fragapane.