In 2010-2011, Norfolk State students studied abroad in such places as Seville, Spain, Nice, France, and Rome, Italy and toured the world by ship with the Semester at Sea program. With students in China and Cuba for the summer, others will study in Rome, London and Namibia during fall 2011.

Dr. Mustapha El Qadery, historian, anthropologist, and Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from Morocco, was on campus March 22 to discuss colonial and post-colonial issues in North Africa. Given the ongoing turmoil in that region, his observations were especially timely.

Dr. Ben Vinson, III, Professor of Latin American History and former Director of the Center for Africana Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, discussed at NSU on April 6: “Blackness and Borders: African Americans and Afro-Mexican History”

Dr. Eva Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir, Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Latin American Studies at Tufts University, Boston, is an international expert on Cuban society and culture, which was the subject of her April 20 presentation: “The Politics of Social Transformation: Grass-Roots Participation, and Seeking Equality in Contemporary Cuban Society.”

Dr. LaNitra Berger, international programs expert at George Mason University, will visit NSU in September to discuss internationalization and study programs in Turkey and elsewhere.

International Programs helped to host a delegation from Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada) who attended Norfolk State’s Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War conference in September.

International Programs joined the Norfolk Sister City Association in establishing a sister city relationship with the West African city of Tema, Ghana. Also participating in seminars and the actual twinning on December 1 was the Ghanian ambassador to the United States.

Norfolk State University is the first HBCU to establish a study program in Cuba under a U.S. Department of the Treasury license. Our summer 2011 program is the beginning of an ongoing relationship with that nation.

Along with the director of the Roberts Center for the African Diaspora, International Programs director and academic coordinator traveled to Salvador da Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March-April to explore academic links with Brazilian institutions. A study abroad program in Salvador is tentatively scheduled for summer 2012.]