GlobalEd Seminars are unique learning opportunities to connect live with experts in international higher education
Unintended Consequences of Internationalization in Higher Education
Feb 15 & 29, 2024
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
Reimagining and Integrating Education Abroad
April 3, 8 and May 6
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
Internationalization of Higher Education: Rethinking
Concepts, Definitions, and
Rationales
September 26, October 3 & October 10, 2024
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.