The second annual Elon University Study Abroad Forum takes place Thursday afternoon, with faculty and students scheduled to share their research and showcase achievements from their experiences in foreign nations. A program for the Oct. 29 event is now available online.
Study Abroad Forum – Conference
Thursday, October 29, 2009
3-8 p.m.
McKinnon Hall in the Moseley Center
Deadline for abstract submissions: September 20, 2009
The Forum will celebrate academic achievements of students, alumni, faculty, and staff, resulting from study abroad in a variety of contexts including Winter Term, semester programs, international service learning, and internships. It will also serve to prepare students who will study abroad for potential transformative and scholarly experiences.
Students and alumni who have studied overseas, as well as professors and staff who research international education, are invited to share their experience and work at the Study Abroad Forum this October, for which abstracts are now being accepted. Students and alumni wishing to submit an abstract need a faculty sponsor.
Themes for submission include: disciplinary (academic) learning, cultural awareness and personal growth. The format for presentations may be traditional scholarship, reflections with analysis, performance, exhibition/visual arts, examples of pedagogy, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Poster proposals will be accepted as well. Panels and roundtables proposed and/or organized by faculty and students are encouraged.
The Study Abroad Forum is sponsored by the Study Abroad Committee and the Isabella Cannon Centre for International Studies. The Organizing Committee for the Forum includes Martin Kamela (chair), Laurence Basirico, Jim Brown, Betty Morgan, Mina Garcia Soormally, Kimberly Jones, Judy Esposito, and Heidi White.
Faculty contact:
Martin Kamela
(336) 278-6266
mkamela@elon.edu