Tag: Resident

I-House Congratulates the 2025 Davis Projects for Peace Awardees

Written by International House on June 10, 2025. Posted in News, Resident News.

International House is proud to congratulate 11 residents who were awarded funding through the Projects for Peace program. The 2025 grantee cohort consists of 136 projects nominated by 93 partner institutions including I-House. Projects will take place this summer, with each grantee receiving $10,000 in funding to pursue innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. The I-House recipients are: Bunmi Adeloye — Fostering Community in Hokkaido: Encouraging Reconciliation and Cross-Cultural Communication Through Visual Novels (Japan) ...

Resident Spotlight: Runting Luo

Written by International House on May 14, 2025. Posted in Resident News.

When Runting Luo first discovered I-House, she knew immediately that it was more than just student housing—it was the vibrant, global community she had been searching for. A graduate student at NYU studying Management and Analytics, Luo’s journey has taken her across continents. Originally from China, she studied in Japan for her undergraduate degree before arriving in New York to begin a new chapter of learning and cultural exchange. Luo credits her multicultural upbringing and early exposure to different languages for sparking her interest in international...

Liminal Spaces: An Exhibition on the Edge of Transformation

Written by International House on April 10, 2025. Posted in Resident News.

“Liminal Spaces” invites audiences into a borderless world where identity, memory, environment, and body are constantly redefined. This group exhibition features artists from across the globe—Sudan, Afghanistan, Greece, India, Bulgaria, Germany, and more bringing together a chorus of voices navigating thresholds: between war and peace, migration and homecoming, ecological collapse and renewal, silence and sound, violence and tenderness. At its heart, the exhibition holds space for stories shaped in crisis, yet brimming with resilience. A forest, filmic and fragile opens the path....

Announcing the 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Awardees

Written by International House on April 23, 2024. Posted in News, Resident News.

International House congratulates the ten I-House residents who have received funding through the Projects for Peace program to implement their own grassroots projects this coming summer: Yuxuan “Sean” Chen – Breaking Chains, Weaving Hopes, and Building Bridges: Drama Therapy for Peace (United States)Cecilia Costa da Luz – Creating Safe Spaces for Victims of Gang Violence in Brazil (Brazil)Huong Dang – Educating the Vietnamese Community to end Gender-Based Violence (Vietnam)William Eugene McKee – Borders and Binaries: Making Space for Irish Voices in the Brexit...

Candlelight Sunday Supper Spring 2023

Written by International House on April 30, 2023. Posted in News, Resident News.

I-House residents, alumni, trustees and staff gathered on April 30 for the annual Candlelight Sunday Supper in Davis Hall, continuing a tradition that dates to 1913, and which was first held at I-House in the spring of 1925. Resident fellow Kayal Pillay (Singapore) began the evening by welcoming the audience and introduced resident Landon Wilson (USA), who performed Prokofiev’s Sarcasms, Op.17 on piano before program fellow Arnav Saxena (India) said grace. President Sebastian Fries reflected on highlights of the year just passed, reciting a list of...

Welcome Sunday Supper 2022

Written by International House on September 22, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

At the Welcome Sunday Supper, I-House President & CEO Sebastian Fries, PhD, gave the following remarks to an audience of hundreds of residents, several members of the Board of Trustees, several alumni—including Daisy Soros ’51—and the evening’s keynote speaker, Secretary Jeh Johnson. Sebastian’s remarks on Sunday, September 18, 2022: Good evening, everyone, and a very warm welcome to you all: to our residents, Trustees, to our alumni, members of our I-House staff, spouses, guests, friends and last but not least, to our speakers, Daisy Soros and Secretary Jeh Johnson. I am...

Candlelight Sunday Supper Returns

Written by International House on May 10, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

After a two-year hiatus, International House celebrated the return of a beloved legacy event, Candlelight Sunday Supper, on May 1, 2022. About 250 residents, staff, and special guests gathered for the traditional family-style supper in the spacious Davis Hall to cap off a remarkable year. Attendees were required to provide proof of vaccination in order to participate. Current residents led the evening’s programming. Serving as Master of Ceremonies was Farah Otero-Amad (USA), a 2019 resident who had returned to the House in August 2021. Cellist Peng Guan (China) performed...