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 Latin American music transcends borders.

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 to the diverse richness of our Keene State College student body. A quiet and frequently invisible presence among us, Franco-Americans established, nurtured, and maintained global ties long before “global” became a buzzword. Handouts provided.

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, the development of a philosophy of praxis guided by a Marxist humanism, the study of revolutionary social movements and thought, and the struggle for socialist democracy.” His scholarly works have been translated into 20 languages.

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 interrogation of otherness, an economic or political reconnaissance mission for competitive advantage. But the real challenge of globalization is nothing less than a holistic re-imagining of one’s identity and place in the world. This roundtable examines ways to integrate disciplinary perspectives in an international studies program to help students understand and appreciate their unique role in an increasingly integrated world.

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 their work collecting, recording, and preserving folk music from southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, panelists offer insights into their interactions between local traditions and larger cultural movements.

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 curriculum development, summer workshops, graduate programs, and student internships overseas.

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. The exchange programs facilitate international relationships and friendships, which help make our students global citizens. The exchange programs add vitality to our academic content and school community as students see a real-world use for their language learning through hosting foreign students and traveling to other countries. Three teachers from the World Language Department at Keene High School will discuss the school’s innovative program, and they will present guidelines to help high school language teachers develop successful international exchange programs.

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 students in KSC’s Honors Program engaged in group service learning and individual research related to their personal interests and major fields of study. This media presentation looks at these students’ international travel experience.

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 Charry, William Doreski, and Jeff Friedman will read from their work, contributing to the 2009 Symposium’s exploration of culture and geography.

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 postcolonial studies? What are sources of discomfort and anxiety produced by the postcolonial paradigm?

Sponsored by the Keene State College President’s Office