Conference Announcement

Globalization and Education: Global Educators Conference on Saturday April 21

Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) is now accepting applications for its K-12 Global Educators Conference on Saturday April 21. This event will bring together current and aspiring educators for a day of workshops and discussions, equipping them with the tools to bring global awareness back to their classrooms. The conference will be hosted at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Thanks to the generous support of Northwestern University, Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation, the conference is free for all participants.

Globalization has remapped the way we live and interact, making the world a seemingly much smaller place. We are longer just national citizens but also global citizens. Take the steps necessary to prepare the next generation for this reality. Learn what you need to know to craft a curriculum that addresses the most pressing international issues of our times. Discover new methods and approaches to these topics. Share your experiences and ideas with other educators. Be a force for educational change. For more information and to apply to be a delegate, please visit: http://www.aidemocracy.org/globaleducation.cfm

Prism of Globalization seminar series: Spring 2007

The Center of Global Studies, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have announced the Spring 2007, Prism of globalization seminar series. Prisms of Globalization Seminars present contrasting and contending conceptual maps of views of globalization from across disciplines at UIUC. Each seminar features a guest lecturer who addresses issues of globalization from the perspective of his/her discipline

Spring 2007

Whose Hybridity? Whose Diaspora? Agency and Identity in Transnational Musics Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:00:00 CST

The Rise of China and India and the Future Balance of Power in Asia Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:00:00 CST

European Union Trade Policy and the Fate of the GATS Trade Negotiations Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:00:00 CST

Conference Proceedings

1. Globalization Goes into Your Classroom

A presentation on the impact of globalization on education right to the classroom level made by Larry Kuehn to the Federation Leadership Institute, November 17-18, 2003 .
http://bctf.ca/Social/globalization/GlobalizationComesHome.html

2. Responding to Globalization of Education in the Americas: Strategies to Support Public Education

A paper presentation at the IDEA conference, Quito , Ecuador October 1999 by Larry Kuehn .
http://bctf.ca/Social/globalization/responding.html

3. The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning

The main theme of this conference was The Power of Online Learning. Conference papers, organized into seven areas, are available here:
http://www.sloan-c.org/conference/proceedings/2003/index.asp

4. Center for the Study of Global Change

Proceedings of the past conferences since 1996 are available:
http://www.sloan-c.org/conference/proceedings/2003/index.asp

5. The History Cooperative

Abstracts and Introductions are available:
http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/interactions/intro.html

6. Global Cultural Diversity Conference

All the papers of this conference are available:
http://www.immi.gov.au/multicultural/_inc/publications/confer/

7. Empire and Education: The challenge of teaching and learning in a time of war

Held in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the papers are available here:
http://www.csse.ca/CCSE/Conference.htm

8. Information Beyond Modernity: Globalization and Difference

Professor Arturo Escobar presented "Information Beyond Modernity: Globalization and Difference" on March 3, 2006.
Listen to the Entire Lecture