Global Studies in Higher Education: A Conference on Research, Curricular, & Collaborative Opportunities

June 19-22, 2005

Gallery 25 Temple Buell Hall

Description: Workshop Themes What is Globalization? What is Global Studies? Developing Models for Undergraduate and Graduate Education? Promoting Scholarship and Public Policy Research Initiatives? Development of Specialized Library and Information Resources? Conference Objectives The Center for Global Studies invites applicants to attend a summer multi-disciplinary and professional conference bringing together key faculty and administrators to: (1) Identify and evaluate the range of prevailing and contested empirical and normative notions of globalization; (2) Share experiences in offering graduate and undergraduate programs in global studies, to evaluate prevailing curricula. (3) Discuss promotion of scholarship in global studies, including cross-disciplinary and -professional collaboration, and to elicit more funding from private and public sources; (4) Develop networks across cooperating institutions with global studies programs; and (5) Identify information resources and specific data sets to support global studies research and teaching. Limited need-based travel grants of up to $300 are available. The conference is limited to 50 participants to facilitate interaction and dialogue. Workshop Agenda Sunday, June 19th Arrival and evening reception Day 1: June 20, 2005 I. THINKING GLOBAL 8:00-8:45 AM: Coffee and Continental Breakfast 8:45-9:00 AM: Welcome Charles Stewart, Acting Director of International Programs and Studies, and Acting Associate Provost of International Affairs, UIUC Globalization as History 9:00-10:30 AM: John McNeill , Professor of History, Georgetown University, will address the general topic of "Researching and Teaching Global History." Respondents: Antoinette Burton, Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, UIUC Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University 10:30-10:45 AM: Break Disciplinary and Professional Approaches to Globalization and Global Studies 10:45 -12:15 AM: Which disciplines or professional areas of study are central to global studies: Methods and Concepts? Walter McMahon, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), UIUC Jane Desmond, Associate Dean of International Programs and Associate Professor of American and International Studies, University of Iowa Patrick Keenan, Assistant Professor of Law, UIUC (tentative) Uriel Kitron, Professor of Community Health and Director of the Center for Zoonoses Research, UIUC Pravin Kamdar, Professor of Business and Economics, Cardinal Stritch University 12:15 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Transdisciplinary and Transprofessional Conceptions of Globalization and Global Studies 1:30 - 3:00 PM: How does global studies distinguish itself from international studies? Creating new paradigms? Edward Kolodziej, Director of the Center for Global Studies, UIUC--"The Governance of a World Society: the Human Species as the Unit of Analysis" Robina Bhatti, Professor of Global Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay Respondent: Heather Streets, Associate Professor of History, Washington State University 3:00 - 3:15 PM: Break 3:15 - 4:45 PM: Small group sessions What knowledge and central concepts do we expect students to have acquired and mastered after completing an undergraduate, graduate, or professional program in Global Studies? Discussion results will be shared and debated in preparation for further discussion of pedagogy and program development during Day 2. 4:45-5:30 PM: Reports of Small Group Sessions Rapporteurs: Charles Cooper, Scott Greenwood, Erin Kenny. Day 2: June 21, 2005: II. TEACHING GLOBAL STUDIES 8:00-9:00 AM: Coffee and Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 11:30 AM: 1) Undergraduate Programs: The aim of this panel is to present different models of undergraduate global studies programs. Charles Stewart, Acting Director of International Programs and Studies, and Acting Associate Provost of International Affairs, UIUC David Leeper, Director of Plowshares Peace Studies Project at Earlham College. Patrice Petro, Professor English and Film Studies and Director of the Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Gary G. Porton, Charles and Sarah Drobny Professor of Talmudic Studies and Judaism Program for the Study of Religion. Mohan Sood, Senior Fellow in Global Studies, San Jose State University. Lunch: 11:30 - 1:30 1:30 - 3:30 PM: 2) Concurrent Sessions on Graduate and Community College Programs a) Graduate and Professional Programs : The aim of this panel is to present different models of graduate and professional global studies programs. Nick Burbules , Grayce Wical Gauthier Chair Professor of Education Administration, UIUC Mark Juergensmeyer , Director of Global and International Studies, University of California , Santa Barbaraba Niklaus Steiner , Executive Director, Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina b) Community College Programs: The aim of this panel is to present different models of global studies programs tailored to community college objectives. Shamili Sandiford, Professor of Biology, College of Dupage Gregory Rabb, Assistant Dean, Jamestown Community College Seamus Reilly, International Education Director, Parkland College 3:30 - 4:00 PM: Break 4:00 - 5:00 PM: 3) Reports on Undergraduate, Community College, and Graduate Professional Programs (Rapporteurs to be designated) Day 3: June 22 III. SUPPORT FOR SCHOLARSHIP, NETWORKING AND INFORMATION SERVICES 8:15 - 9:00 AM: Coffee and continental breakfast Day 3 is a half day session for Global Studies in Higher Education participants and is also a full-day satellite session for library and information professionals. All participants are invited to stay for the full day's activities. 9:00-9:40 AM 1) Global Study Scholars and Librarians - Cooperation and Collaboration Terry Weech, Professor of Library and Information Science, UIUC 9:40 - 10:30 am 2) Panel Session Resources to support Global Studies; what we have; what is needed. Lynne Rudasill, Associate Professor of Library Administration and Global Studies Librarian, UIUC, and Heather Moulaison, Assistant Professor and Librarian, The College of New Jersey. Encouraging Research and Publications on Campuses. Brian Rosenblum, Associate Librarian and Electronic Publications Specialist, University of Michigan. Funding Opportunities. Susan Schnuer, Associate Director of the Mortenson Center for International Librarianship, UIUC 10:30- 10:45 AM-Break 10:45-11:45 AM 3) Networking and Inquiry Tools for Global Studies: The Community Inquiry Laboratory Muzhgan Nazarova, Vice President GSLIS UIUC Azerbaijani Library Development Association and Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC 11:45-1:00 PM - Lunch 1:00-2:30pm 4) Panel Session: E-Access in Eastern Europe and Russia Barbara Bulat, Jagiellonian Library, Krakow, Poland . Svetlana Mangutova, Russian National Library, St. Petersburg, Russia . Olena Pohrebna, Ukrainian Parliamentary Library, Kiev, Ukraine . 2:30-2:45pm - Break 2:45 - 4:00 PM 5) International Collaboration. Where do we go from here? Creating and Maintaining Partnerships Barbara Ford, Director of the Mortenson Center for International Librarianship, UIUC Digitization Tom Kilton, Professor of Library Administration and Head of the Modern Languaeg and Linguistics Library, UIUC Outreach Steve Witt, Associate Director of the Center for Global Studies, UIUC 4:00 - 5:00 PM 6) The Global Strategy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Paula Kaufman, University Librarian, UIUC Satelite Conference for Library and Information Professionals. Registration for the Workshop is Currently Closed Hotel Information CGS has reserved a block of rooms at The Hawthorne Suites and negotiated a special rate of $70 per night. The Hawthorne is located within minutes of campus at 101 Trade Centre Drive, Champaign. Contact information: (800) 527-1133 or (217) 398-3400 (local).

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