Posts under ‘Symposium Sessions’

Carlos Boltes and Scott Hill
7 p.m. Friday, November 6; Mabel Brown Room, Student Center
The Alturas Duo brings together a blend of history, geography, and nature. This musical pair has used their surroundings to reflect global rhythms in their creation of innovative and unconventional music. Their combination of viola, guitar, and charango in both classical and [...]

Tom Haynes, Historical Society of Cheshire County
Virginia Knapp, Keene High School
Margaret Langford, Keene State College
Robert Perreault, St. Anselm’s College
Suzanne Pinette, University of Maine at Orono
4 p.m. Friday, November 6; Madison Street Lounge, Student Center
For the past 100 years, Franco-Americans have lived, worked, and contributed to the civic and commercial welfare of Cheshire County and [...]

Public Pedagogy in Dangerous Times
2 p.m. Friday, November 6; Mabel Brown Room, Student Center
Peter McLaren, professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, is an architect of the Critical Pedagogy and Critical Literacy movements. As he states on his faculty page on the UCLA website, “The critical pedagogy [that] I support and practice advocates non-violent dissent, [...]

April Burriss and Michael Kilburn, Endicott College
Wes Martin and Skye Stephenson, Keene State College
12 p.m. Friday, November 6; Mountain View Room, Student Center
How can educators help students address the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly globalized world? To paraphrase Tip O’Neill, all global studies is local. Too often, global/international studies is framed as a strategic [...]

Joe Darby, José Lezcano, Andrea Matthews, and Julian Gerstin, Keene State College
12 p.m. Friday, November 6; Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center
Although globalization can expose us to aspects of cultures that were previously understood to be “distant” or “foreign,” the process can also overwhelm parts of indigenous cultures and push them into extinction. Drawing upon [...]

Steve Bigaj, Brian E. Green, Stephen Hawes, Shirley McLoughlin, Keene State College
10 a.m. Friday, November 6; Madison Street Lounge, Student Center
International links between institutions of higher education are becoming more important as our world becomes more global. Come learn about the opportunities for Keene State to participate in effective cooperation through innovative programs in language [...]

Suzanne Charles, Virginia Knapp, and Marilyn McMaster, Keene High School
10 a.m. Friday, November 6; Mountain View Room, Student Center
At Keene High, we have two active exchanges: one with the Lycee Lumiere in France, and one with the Colegio Agave in Spain. We take local learning of a second language and put it to global use. [...]

Pru Cuper and Jo Beth Mullens, Keene State College
8 a.m. Friday, November 6; Mountain View Room, Student Center
What are the roles and responsibilities for those who hope to embody the ideal of global citizenship? Professors Mullen and Cuper co-taught a 17-day field course to the Sacred Valley in the high Andes of Peru, where 10 [...]

Brinda Charry, William Doreski, and Jeff Friedman, Keene State College
6 p.m. Thursday, November 5; Starving Artist
What makes a New England writer? How does a literary work become globalized? Where do readers find New Hampshire in the work of contemporary literary practitioners working after Robert Frost? Using these questions as their points of departure, Brinda [...]

Meditations on Temporalities and Geographies of Knowledge
Silvio Torres-Saillant
4 p.m. November 5; Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Art Center
This presentation looks at critical issues of Hispanic/Latino identity, experience, and knowledge as a social construction, both in the Caribbean and the USA. The speaker will explore such questions as: What defines a historically specific yet diverse canon of [...]