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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy '02 (left) and Daniel Junge pose with their awards for best documentary short for "Saving Face" during the 84th Academy Awards. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan) At the 84th Academy Awards ceremony last night, Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ’02 won an Oscar for her short subject documentary, Saving Face. Saving Face won the Best Documentary [...] Information about this year’s Smith in Europe reunion, Amsterdam: Crossing Borders and Pushing Boundaries, is now available. The reunion, which will take place May 31 through June 3, 2012, is being hosted by the Smith College Club of the Netherlands. Alumnae will have a chance to reconnect with Smith and fellow alumnae in Europe while [...] A documentary by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy '02 has been nominated for an Oscar. Smith alumna Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ’02 was among the 2012 Oscar nominees announced yesterday. Sharmeen, who graduated from Smith with degrees in government and economics, is nominated for an Oscar in the “Best Documentary, Short Subject” category for her film Saving Face, which [...] Diana Buttu will speak at Smith this month. This month marks the beginning of a fall lecture series “Perspectives of Peace: Through the Eyes of Palestinian Women”. The lectures are sponsored by the Betty Hamady Sams ’57 and James F. Sams Fund, the Middle East Studies Program, and the Program for the Study of [...] Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan is co-founder and joint Artistic Director of Tall Tales Theatre Company. Her play "Moment" will be performed at Smith in 2012. Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan is coming to Smith College tomorrow to discuss her work on the impact of violence on women, families and communities. The “Trauma and Tea Cakes: [...] As we’ve mentioned before, 794 new students are joining the Smith community this fall. Among them, are a record number of international students. Two transfer students with international ties are profiled here. Mame Sourang joins Smith from Brooklyn, New York. Having grown up in Senegal, Mame knows what it is like to live with conservative [...] Smith College Associate Professor Suzanne Gottschang recently spoke about China’s rising divorce rate on China Radio International. Professor Gottschang, who is a professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Smith, received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998 and a masters degree in public health and anthropology from the University [...] |
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