Welcome to Go Global Year

Students and staff are being encouraged to 'Go Global' in celebration of the University's wide mix of cultures from around the world.

If you would like to get involved in Go Global, perhaps by suggesting ideas for an event or include an existing event on the 'Go Global Calendar 2012/13', please email us at isat@uea.ac.uk.
 

Go Global Events

February

All-Day Salsa Festival
UEA Salsa Society
Date: Saturday 2 February
Time: 11.00am until late
Location: UEA Hive & LCR
Tickets are available at www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk 

Everyone is welcome to come and join in the dancing, whether a beginner or experience dancer.  At night there will be Rueda with Max and a party with DJ Flecha.

For more information email ueasalsa@gmail.com or find the UEA Salsa Society on facebook.

‘The History of Norwich in One Hour’ talk
Organiser: Dean of Students’ Office
Date: Thursday 7th February
Time: 6.00 - 7.30 pm
Location: Thomas Paine Study Centre Room 1.6
Free to all UEA students and staff, but you must book a place (as limited) by emailing j.amos@uea.ac.uk. Deadline Wednesday 6th February at 12 noon.

Norwich is an amazing city with an exciting, funny and quite unusual past.  Join us for a relaxed and informal talk and learn about all the history of Norwich in an interactive and fun way.

Contact: Jane Amos j.amos@uea.ac.uk

March

Japanese Computer Games & Entertainment
Organiser: Nana Sato-Rossberg  (LCS)
Date: Saturday 16th March
Time: 12:45 – 18:00 (Opening at 12:15)
Location: Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2)
Free - To Register your place email lcs-symposium@rossberg.net

A day-long event with different speakers looking primarily at the evolution and aesthetics of Japanese Computer Games with guest speakers from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

The event will also include two other talks, one about the British sense of humour and the other about museum texts.

For more information: https://www.uea.ac.uk/lcs/news or contact: n.sato-rossberg@uea.ac.uk

Voices from Greece 2013: The Ionian Islands in Literature and Music
Organiser: Helen Anagnostopoulou-Banakas (LCS)
Date: Sunday 17th March
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1)
Entrance  FREE  

Part 1:  Talks by: Louis de Bernières, Author of  “Captain  Corelli’s Mandolin”,  Professor Peter Mackridge (Oxford), Professor Rorerick Beaton (King’s College London) Dr Polina Tambakaki (King’s College London)

Part 2: Live Music from the Ionian Islands www.moosootoo.co.uk

Contact H.Anagnostopoulou@uea.ac.uk for more information.