Second Annual International Research Forum and Festival

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Second Annual International Research Forum & Festival

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005
Cal Poly Pomona

Originally Posted by “Collaborative Teaching and Learning: Creating a Global Perspective”

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
Faiza Shereen, Director of International Center

9:15 - 10:15 Opening Plenary
Ann Zwicker Kerr

10:30 - 11:30 Session IA: “Challenges of International Collaborations”
Susan Rogers (CSU Pomona), “Reaching Across Global Borders: Teaching Online Pedagogy in Armenia”
• Cultural and pedagogical challenges of international faculty collaborations
Ruth Ballard (CSU Sacramento), “Safe and Legal International Service Learning in the Third World: Lessons
from Tanzania, Africa”
• Issues in and approaches to creating meaningful service-learning experiences for students in a global context

10:30 - 11:30 Session IB: “Globalizing Oral History: Understanding Rural China Through Fieldwork”
Chairs: Arthur Hansen and Laichen Sun (CSU Fullerton)
Participants: Susan Brewer, Hong Vu, Allison Flickert, and Jacque Swartout (graduate students at CSU Fullerton)
• Panel discussion on changes and continuities in Chinese village life from an interdisciplinary, global perspective

10:30 - 11:30 Session IC: “The Dance of Leadership”
Chair: Robin Johnson (CSU Pomona)
Participants: Members of Troupe Melangees, a world fusion tribal dance ensemble
• New ways of teaching multicultural competencies and appreciation of cultural diversity

11:30 - 1:00 International Student Festival

1:00 - 2:00 Session IIA: “Creating Global Learning Communities with Technology”
Lee Altier (CSU Chico), “Online International Exchange: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Education”
• Opportunities in and challenges of international online education between the United States and China
Sharon Glazer (CSU San Jose), “A Multicultural Virtual Team Project”
• Teaching cultural difference through interdisciplinary virtual team work

1:00 - 2:00 Session IIB: " Out of the Bubble: Student Research Projects Abroad”
Chair: Herbert Ip (CSU Pomona student)
Participants: Cal Poly Pomona study-abroad students
• Presentation of student research projects from recent study-abroad programs

2:15 - 3:15 Session IIIA: “Border Crossings: A Trans-Atlantic Project in Theatre for Development”
Chairs: William Morse and Bernard Solano (CSU Pomona)
Participants: CSU Pomona Theatre Department students
• Panel discussion of issues in community-specific theater, or theater for development, in Hare, Zimbabwe, and Pomona, Californiae

2:15 - 3:15 Session IIIB: “Cal Poly Pomona Students Teaching Abroad: Case Studies and Anecdotes”
Chairs: Liliane Fucaloro and Karen Russikoff (CSU Pomona)
Participants: Cal Poly Pomona graduate students
• Panel presentation on the preparation for and the actual experience of teaching English in China

3:30 - 4:00 Closing Plenary