Week of events planned to celebrate new major

Area and Global Studies will celebrate the program's newest major, Global Studies and Social Impact, with events that include a keynote address, documentary screening and an open house during the week of November 14.

Arifa Javed, professor of sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, will deliver a keynote address on November 17, her documentary, "Essential Arrival: Michigan’s Indian Immigrants in the 21st Century," will be screened on November 15 and 16. 

Javed was born and raised in India, and has focused her research on ethnic identity and ethnocentrism. She produced "Essential Arrival" in 2014; it highlights the contributions and successes of Michigan's Indian immigrant community. Javed has written a book, Muslim Society in Transition, a Case Study of Hyderabad, which follows the struggle of Muslims in the Hyderabad region of India to retain their traditional identity after India's independence.

The week's events are listed below; they are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/gsi.

• Latin and Afro-Caribbean Drumming: November 14, 2 p.m., Holton-Hooker Learning and Living Center, multipurpose room

• Screenings of "Essential Arrival": November 15 at 1 and 2:30 p.m., and on November 16 at 3 p.m., Cook-DeWitt Center

• GSI Open House: November 15, 4 p.m., Meijer Honors College, multipurpose room

• Keynote Address, "Transnationalism and Global Citizenship in the New Millennium," by Javed: November 17, 4 p.m., Cook-DeWitt Center.