The Forum provides a medium through which campus-wide faculty members share their research studies and teaching engagements to enrich our cross-cultural understanding and participation in global environments. The Forum also provides students with an opportunity to communicate their dissertations, masters’ theses or independent studies.

Have an interest in security and development broadly conceived? This year’s Forum is for you. Security–a timely topic given current state of affairs worldwide–is broadly defined to include not only the welfare of ordinary people but also nations. Development concerns human and material resources used to advance economic and social progress in global societies. Both development and security frame the work of scholars engaged in state-of-the-art research, helping them to address the emerging issues that affect many nations, including use of national resources and technological advances.

This year’s Forum will feature UGA exemplary scholars, who come with a wealth of expertise in areas of security and development.

Purposes of the Forum:

	Promote cross-cultural understanding and participation as symbol of global diversity and international education
	Provide faculty and students opportunities to share overseas experiences in form of research, teaching and service, and
	Offer campus-wide faculty, students, guests, and visitors a forum to learn about UGA scholars’ research, teaching and service in global contexts.

Call for Abstracts

Submission Information:

Student presentations focus on global-based studies. Students submit abstracts for poster presentation at the Forum. Research completed in Latin America and Caribbean, and in Africa and the Middle East will be presented on March 25, and those done in Asia and Oceana and in Europe will be presented on March 26. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words (and include the title, and presenter's name and the Department affiliation). Poster presenters will receive certificates, with best top three poster presenters from each region receiving special recognition.

	Deadline for the submission of abstracts: March 15, 2009
	Notification date: March 16, 2009

Where to send abstracts:

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

	Click here for Globalization Flyer
	Click here for March 25 & 26, 2009 Schedule of Events
	Forum Dates: March 25: Papers focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, and on Africa and the Middle East March 26: Papers focus on Asia, Oceana and Europe Each day student poster presentations follow faculty presentations and dance performances there after.
	Fees and Registration: Free for all campus-wide community members, guests, and visitors E-registration through Forum website: Click here to register
	Location: Georgia Center Mahler Auditorium (3/25/2009 Masters Hall (3/26/2009).

Sponsors:

The President’s Venture Fund
African Studies Institute
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute
Dean's Office, College of Education
Dean's Office, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Kinesiology
Institute for African American Studies
Office of Institutional Diversity

Advisory Committee Members:

Billy Hawkins, Department of Kinesiology
Diane Napier, Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations
Fausto Sarmiento, Geography
Kam-ming Wong, Department of Comparative Literature
Kyunghwa Lee, Department of Elementary and Social Studies Education
Michell Commeyras, Language and Literacy Education
Leara Rhodes, Journalism
Rene Bobe, Department of Anthropology
Sergio Quesada-Aldana, Department of Anthropology
Melissa Shivers, Department of Intercultural Affairs
Valentine Nzengung, Department of Geology
William Kisaalita, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Program Organizers:
Rose Chepyator-Thomson, Kinesiology, Paul Duncan, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, Uttiyo Raychaudhuri, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.