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The Estlow Event "Globally Speaking: Voices, Visions, & Viewpoints," will take place Thursday, February 5, 2009 in the Driscoll Center at the University of Denver from 9:30 AM until 5:45 PM. The day-long event (including lunch) is free but requires registration in advance. Globally Speaking: Voices, Visions, and Viewpoints:
An event jointly sponsored by the University of Denver’s Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media and the Office of Internationalization
Thursday, February 5, 2008
Driscoll Student Center 9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Welcome, coffee
10:00 – 11:45
1. Beyond Study Abroad: Internationalizing Learning at DU Internationalization is the conscious effort to integrate and infuse international, intercultural, and global dimensions into university education. It involves engaging the university in global networks and partnerships.* In this interactive session, scholars, educators, and students will discuss current and past internationalization efforts at DU, exploring challenges, initiatives and emerging partnerships. 2. Communicating Environmental Issues Across Borders Climate change is responsible for increased dramatic natural disasters, reduced natural resources, and greater strains on fresh water and food. Its effects do not respect national borders, although the effects of environmental distress are much greater in disadvantaged locales, making this an issue of international justice that warrants greater attention. This session brings together experts in environmental policy and science journalism to discuss how these issues play out in relation to public opinion and national policies. 3. Narratives Across Cultures How do narratives of identity take shape, and what is at stake as we share our perspectives with those we know and those we don’t? How might institutions such as education, news, and business take account of shifting, multiple, and changing identities in increasingly plural cultures? This interactive session will involve people in role play and reflection to think through our various roles and interests as we construct narratives individually and collectively.
12:00 – 1:45:
Luncheon Honoring Global Voices Online, the 2008 DU Anvil of Freedom Award Recipient Global Voices Online is a citizens' media project committed to freedom of online expression that uses weblogs, photos, video, and more to highlight news stories from around the world, with a particular emphasis on countries outside of Europe and North America. As such, it’s been an outstanding example of the importance of a commitment to telling the stories that matter among diverse communities around the world. Materials on the site are translated into more than a dozen languages and are produced by journalists and bloggers from every continent in the world. The project is a not-for-profit funded largely by Reuters and housed at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices Online of the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, will speak about this initiative. We will also hear from one of the journalist participants from Africa via teleconference. 2:00 – 3:45:
1. Seeing America Through Foreign Eyes How is a U.S. identity conveyed in Hollywood, material culture, novels and magazines, and in other public locales – and how do these collective impressions differ from the stories increasingly told in non-U.S. outlets such as BBC International, Bollywood, Global Voices Online, or Al Jazeera? What does it take to develop a global mind-set so that each of us can learn to appreciate what the U.S. looks like from other perspectives, and how might we benefit as a result?
2. Ethical Dilemmas in International Business Settings In this session, leaders in the business community and in intercultural communication discuss how they have encountered and addressed ethical dilemmas that have emerged when travelling internationally or hosting international visitors to the U.S. Moving beyond the rudimentary knowledge about differing cultural contexts, this session on intercultural communication aims to explore issues such as differing approaches to personas, trust, hierarchies, authority figures, imperialism, and grace that inform the assumptions that shape of business as well as many other kinds of interactions.
4:00 – 5:45:
1. Public Relations Across Cultures How can those of us from privileged backgrounds form positive allegiances with those who are working for human rights on the ground? This session is designed for students interested in exploring the challenges of communicating in not-for-profit and NGO settings, considering interpersonal and mass mediated communication through the case study of work for women’s rights in Latin America. 2. The International Student Experience at DU This session features several students who have joined the DU community from outside the U.S. , along with students who have participated in the Study Abroad experiences. It is ideal for those considering participating in Study Abroad, but is also an important dialogic space for those who want to consider the unique challenges, opportunities, and to some extent the responsibilities that fall to international students as educators in the classroom and beyond.
*The definition of internationalization used on this page is from NAFSA: The Association of International Educators.
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