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Based on the Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility Book co-edited by Shahrzad Kamyab and Rosalind Latiner Raby

Facilitated by Dr. Shahrzad Kamyab, Co-Editor, GlobalEd Visiting Faculty Member, & Faculty Director of the Certificate in International Higher Education

Guest Speakers: 

Alejandra Barahona, Ph.D., Veritas University, Costa Rica 

Kyra Garson, Ph.D., Thompson Rivers University, British Colombia, Canada

Hakan Ergin, Ph.D., Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye

Charl Wolhuter, Ph.D., North West University, South Africa

Touhami Abdouli, Ph.D., Sousse University, Tunisia & Former Secretary of State for European Affairs & Secretary of State for Arab and African Affairs

Ana Luisa Desdier Galvan, MA, Head of International Office, Anahuac University, Puebla, Mexico

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This Seminar is for offices and campuses to create “next level” education abroad strategies, programs, and academics. The Seminar allows you to enhance and maximize your strategy to incorporate best practices and curricular and data integrations. We'll examine topics such as cultural understanding, data-driven strategy, assessment, backward design, creation of Minors, Certificate, and Curriculum Programs, Global Learning at home, and data analysis.

Guest Speakers:

Anita Deeg-Carlin, Director, Intercultural Learning, Wesleyan University

Rich Kurtzman, Founder and Director, Barcelona Study Abroad Experience

Suzanne LaVenture, Former Director, International Education, Davidson-Davie Community College

Ashley Neyer, Director, Academic Programs Abroad, Louisiana State University

Kirsten Sheppard, Director, Center for Global Engagement, Maryville College

Melissa Whatley, Assistant Professor, School for International Training

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Facilitated by:

Savo Heleta, Internationalisation Specialist, Durban University of Technology

Samia Chasi, Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Partnership Development and Research, International Education Association of South Africa

In this seminar, we will critically unpack internationalization concepts, definitions and practices. This will include an interrogation of the dominant concepts and definitions and the emergence of critical internationalization and decolonial scholarship that counters Euro-American epistemic hegemony of knowledge and internationalization. We will reflect on the meanings and notions of the ‘international’ and ‘global’ and how these often center Europe and the United States while largely sidelining and silencing the rest of the world. We will also reflect on different internationalization practices - mobility, partnerships, research collaboration, curriculum internationalization, conferencing - and how dominant concepts and definitions shape and maintain these practices worldwide. The seminar will discuss the need to rethink and redefine internationalization and unpack a new definition developed by Heleta and Chasi (2023). An important part of the seminar will be an engagement with the participants to reflect on how different definitions, concepts and practices are relevant to their specific contexts. This will allow for critical reflection, learning and thinking together about the way forward for the field framed around anti-hegemonic and pluralistic concepts, visions and values.