Announcements
Korean Documentary Film Festival
Those educators fortunate enough to be near the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus will be able to take advantage of the Korean Documentary Film Festival , running from March 29 - 31.
Of special interest to educators is the documentary Repatriation (see description below) and the Educator Workshop on Repatriation and North/South Korea Relations scheduled for Saturday, March 31, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Repatriation
Kim Dong-won, director, 149 min., 2003
Friday, March 30, 7 - 9:30 pm English Building, Rm 160
More than ten years in the making, this film follows several released North Korean prisoners who had been captured by South Korea years earlier for espionage as they both struggle to adapt to South Korean society and campaign to be repatriated to North Korea. Repatriation broke South Korean box-office records for a documentary when it was released in 2004 and was voted the best film of the past decade in 2004 by 100 Korean film critics and reporters.
Educator Workshop on Repatriation and North/South Korea Relations
Saturday, March 31, 10:00am - 12:00pm (pre-registration required)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Building, Humanities Lecture Hall
Nan Young-nan Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jacques Fuqua, UIUC
Open to secondary and post-secondary educators, this free workshop will provide an introduction to current relations between North and South Korea, both on the political and human scales. The workshop will include an opportunity to discuss Friday evening's screening of Repatriation and the presenters will place it in context.
Complete information--including the flyer--can be found at the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies website http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/events/otherfilms/index.html .
The Age of Networks:
Series of speakers on a wide range of network topics.
During 2007 , CAS, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will co-sponsor a series of speakers on a wide range of network topics.
Scheduled Speakers
"Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective"
The Historical Society is pleased to announce that the organizing theme for its 5th conference, will be "Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective." Although we suffer no delusions about the degree of influence scholars typically have on contemporary policy debates, we are hopeful that the addition of historical context may lessen to some small extent the level of ignorance, if not partisanship characteristic of the same. Conference program and some papers are available here:http://www.bu.edu/historic/conference06.html
Alternative Globalizations: Annual Conference fo the Global Studies Association
To find out more about this conference and last date of submitting abstracts, please visit: http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/conferences.html
Educating the Global City:
Conference on Globalization, Education, Immigration, and the Changing Demographics of Global Cities
In celebration of the opening of the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings, IGEMS
IGEMS works to advance the scientific, humanistic, and scholarly understanding of education in global cities and to examine the most promising best practices and best policy options for improving education in rapidly changing global environments.
http://education.nyu.edu/conference/igems/index-full.php
Pedagogies and Technologies for the Emerging Global Economy ( Oct 19-22, 2005 )
The conference deals with growing challenges education faces vis a vis rapidly evolving technologies, globalization, changing student demographics, and problems associated with funding higher education.
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2005/Author/Call.html
Fair Globalization - Safe Workplace: Policies, Strategies and Practices for Sustainable Development ( Oct 24-26, 2005 )
Organized to promote sustainable development strategies and decent working conditions the conference discusses new methods and strategies to tackle the challenges of a globalized world of work in the 21st century
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/labinsp/fairglob.htm
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