The UGA Educational Forum for Globalization on Culture, Research, and Teaching provides a forum for campus-wide faculty members to share their research and teaching engagements for purposes of enriching our cross-cultural understanding and participation in global contexts. The Forum also provides students with an opportunity to communicate their dissertation studies, theses, or independent studies completed in diverse regions of the world.

The Forum presenters are scholars with expertise on Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Latin America, who will provide their perspectives on culture, research, and teaching as contextualized within their personal narratives and observations.

The countries focused upon this year are Cameroon and Nigeria (Africa), Cuba and Chile (Latin America), and India and Philippines (Asia).

The key aims of the Forum are:

	To promote the idea of cross-cultural understanding and participation as a symbol of global diversity and international education.
	To provide faculty and students with opportunities to share overseas experiences through research, teaching and service.
	To offer campus-wide faculty, students, guests, and visitors a forum to acquire knowledge about other nations through presenters’ research and teaching narratives and observations.

Call for Abstracts

Submission Information:

Students submit abstracts for poster presentation at the Forum. Abstract content focuses on studies conducted in, or written about, Africa, Asia, or Caribbean and Latin America regions. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words (and include the title, and presenter’s name and Department affiliation).

	Deadline for the submission of abstracts: March 5, 2008
	Notification date: March 7, 2008

Where to send abstracts:

Submit abstracts and any questions to the Forum Organizer, Rose Chepyator-Thomson at: jchepyat@uga.edu

Fees and Registration:

Free for all campus-wide community members, guests, and visitors
E-registration through Forum website: Click here to register
Click here for flyer about 2008 conference

Click here for full details about Forum Dates, Times and Faculty Presentations: March 31: Africa (Cameroon 1:00-2:25 PM; Nigeria: 2:40-3:50 PM) April 1: Latin America (Cuba 1:00-2:25 PM; Chile 2:40-4:20 PM) April 3: Asia: (India, 1:00-2:25 PM, Philippines, 2:40-3:50 PM) Each day, there will be student poster presentations immediately following country specific presentations. Dance performances from each region feature at the end of the Forum.

Location: Georgia Center, Mahler Hall.

Sponsors:

African Studies Institute
Center for Asian Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute
Dean's Office, College of Education
Dean's Office, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Kinesiology
Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations
Institute for African American Studies
Office of Institutional Diversity

Advisory Committee Members:

Diane Napier (Africa, Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations)
William Kisaalita (Africa, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering)
Valentine Nzengung (Africa, Department of Geology)
Christina Joseph (Asia, Department of Anthropology)
Kyunghwa Lee (Asia, Department of Elementary and Social Studies Education)
Kam-ming Wong (Asia, Department of Comparative Literature)
Rene Bobe (Caribbean and Latin America, Department of Anthropology)
Sergio Quesada-Aldana (Caribbean and Latin America, Department of Anthropology)
Leara Rhodes (Caribbean and Latin America, Journalism)
Fausto Sarmiento (Caribbean and Latin America, Geography)
Billy Hawkins (North America, Department of Kinesiology)
Rosemary Max (North America, Office of International Education)
Larry Nackeroud (North America, School of Social Work)
Melissa Shivers (North America, Department of Intercultural Affairs)