Time

Video Screening and Lecture Topic 

 Speaker

Nov 6

Video Screening: Biography: Barack Obama or John McCain

Topic: What is the American Dream?

Robert Palladino

 Nov 13

Video Screening: Growing up online

Topic: New Media and Mediums – from Facebook and iPod to Laura Ingraham and the Daily Kos

Anjalena Sen and Monica Isaza

 Nov 20

Video Screening: Fighting for Freedom

Topic: 30 Years of US-China Relations, and how the Views of Americans Have Changed (or Not)

Ambassador Dick Williams

the first U.S. Consul General assigned to Guangzhou upon the resumption of U.S.-China diplomatic relations

 Nov 27

(Consulate Closed on Thanksgiving Day)

Dec 4

Video Screening: Edens Lost & Found ~ Chicago: City of the Big Shoulders

Topic: An Average American’s Bicycle Ride Across the U.S. and what He Learned Along the Way

Jack Gootee

Dec 11

Video Screening: The Persuaders ~ Americans are Swimming in a Sea of Messages

Topic: Do Popular American Films Reflect American Values?

Sandrine Goffard

Dec 18

Video Screening: Art: 21 ~ Art in the twenty-first century

Topic: The Role and Vision of Contemporary American Art

Megan McShane

 Dec 25

 (Christmas break)

 Jan 1

 (Consulate Closed on Jan 1)

 Jan 8

Video Screening: The Merchants of Cool

Topic: The Real Melting Pot – American Cuisine

Sandrine Goffard

 Jan 15

Video Screening: Broadway: The American Musical I

Topic: American Pop Music – From Frank Sinatra to The Monkees to Miley Cyrus?   

 Brandon Borkowicz

 Jan 22

Video Screening: A History of Black Achievement in America I

Topic: Popular American Television and Who Watches What

 TBC

 Jan 29

Video Screening: A History of Black Achievement in America II

Topic: Music – From Blues to Hip-Hop: The African-American influence in popular music

 Ashley Brady