New Series: Featured Photos!

Hi, everyone! This is co-pilot Anna reporting for duty. If you are reading this you are invited to send in photos for a new series of posts: Featured Photos by IICers and alums!

The rationale behind this is series is that many of us have been, lived in, and worked in amazing places around the globe. IICers have done PeaceCorps, taught English abroad, interned for governments / corporations / non-profits, taken part in service-learning trips, and traveled just for fun -- so why not share where we've been with the world?

Starting today, let's inject this blog with a little eye-and-mind candy. Send me photos of people, places, Nature, art, adventure, food -- anything that gives us a glimpse of other cultures and reminds us of the wonderful vastness of the globe. Your photos can be profound or simple, professional or low-quality point-and-shoots like mine (aw); and they can make us dream of bakeries in Paris or reflect on poverty and conflict in Rwanda.

To help you feel less shy about your photography, I'll kick things off with one of my pics -- a photo of part of the world-famous spring matsuri (festival) in the town where I lived: Takayama, Japan!

(Note that while the traditional dress is awesome, the best part of this photo is the kid freaking out on the left. I tried to take very serious "National Geographic" style photos of events in my town, but people would always recognize me and react by grinning, waving, pointing, or making peace signs. So, if you want to see dragon dancers taking their dragon heads off to talk to me or a series of flute players all eyeing me out of the corner of their eyes, I'm your girl. :P)

EDIT: Ah, almost forgot to share that I took the top photograph, as well! It is one of the many curiously specific rules I saw displayed in the windows of pachinko parlors in Kabuki-cho, Tokyo. It also applies to this photo project -- no nasty photographs, please!

Your turn! Please send your photos to messinger dot 11 at gmail dot com!

Religion and the Media Course

Hi everyone! Anyone out there doing a dual degree? Well, here’s some information about a special course you can take during winter break!

Religion and the Media

RLGS 3693 - 4 Credits


Course Dates: December 13 - 24


On Campus Dates: December 13 - 17*, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Online Coursework: December 13 - 22


Instructor: Diana Carvalho


* This course requires research and select assignments to be completed online from December 13 - 22.

Description: This course explores the changing nature of religion and its connections to all forms of media with a focus on social media. Students will examine how religion (and religious identity) is changed by current social media trends and vice versa. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways social media impacts interfaith dialogue, with beneficial and detrimental results.

Students will be asked to define and identify what it means to be "religious" in the context of social media (facebook, blogs, twitter, etc.). Religious institutions and various "physical" places of worship are compared with on-line religious communities (in "second-life" communities, for example).

Students are expected to visit one online religious community and engage in dialogue with that community, as well as visit a "physical" religious community and conduct interviews. Students will then post journals of their findings, discuss them on Blackboard and present to the class. A final paper and/or project will be submitted.

Contact: Diana Carvalho at dcarvalh@du.edu

Potluck Recipe Book

Hi all!

Thanks for those of you who submitted your IIC Potluck Recipes. This is just a friendly reminder that anyone who wants a copy can have it -- just contact us through the listserv, our personal emails, or the IIC Facebook page.

Here's an example of one of the awesome recipes.

Mint Quinoa

IIC Chef: Penelope Purdy

Ingredients:

16 oz. organic quinoa (Inca grain)

5 tablespoons organic extra virgin olive oil

Half cup fresh mint

1 cup nuts (pine or chopped almonds best)

Cooked vegies (I used carrots & peas, but others also good)

Mix in with cooked grain.

Directions:

Cook quinoa per package directions, usually 1.25 cups water to 1 cup grain; takes about 15 minutes at Denver’s altitude, 12 at sea level

Once grain is cooked add in the olive oil, mint, nuts, and cooked veggies.

Simple. tasty. good for the body.

Yum!

OneVoice Presentation TONIGHT

Internship Search Strategy

On Wednesday, November 3, Melissa, Associate Director of the OCPD, will discuss steps to finding an internship as well as the necessary paperwork from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM in SIE 150. This session is identical to the previous Internship Search Strategy Sessions.