Global Symposium

October 28, 2020

Welcome to the 8th annual Global Symposium at Appalachian State University!

The Opening Ceremony will include the announcements of the Global Leadership Awards winners and the 2020 Photo Contest winners. The presentations will be offered in three sets of concurrent sessions on Zoom.

Let's celebrate the work that our faculty, staff, and students are doing to impact the world!

Please note that all of these Zoom sessions will be recorded.

Opening Ceremony

9am - Zoom meeting opens. View the photo contest submission slideshow.
9:15 - Jesse Lutabingwa welcomes you to this event.
9:25 - Global Leadership Awards
9:45 - Photo Contest Winners announced
9:50 - Dismissed to presentations

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2020 Photo Contest Entries

Concurrent Session 1

October 28, 2020 at 10:00 am on Zoom

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Appalachian Students Around the World: A Panel Discussion of Study Abroad Experiences

Scott Spickard, Evan Lohmann,
Ivasun Carter, Connor Millward

A: Promoting Intercultural Sensitivity in Future Educators: The Impact of a Short-Term Study Abroad

Concurrent Session 2

October 28, 2020 at 11:00 am on Zoom

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Live in Lucca!

Adam Booker

Education, Liberation, & Sustainability in Indigenous Guatemala

Gregory McClure, Jeff Goodman, Piper Strzelecki, Elias Fox, Caty Parham

Concurrent Session 3

October 28, 2020 at 12:00 pm on Zoom

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A: A thousand miles from everywhere: New Zealand and the Erskine Fellowship Program

B: A Fulbright Year With Family in Novgorod, Russia

A: Stefan Frisch

B: Paul Wallace

The Trauma Timeline of Immigration: The Representation of the Detrimental Effects of Trauma and Immigration Policy in The River Flows North

Madeline Byrd

Virtual International Programming

Christina Faupel, Mark Hagen,
Jesse Pipes, Anatoli Ignatov, Jacqui Ignatov, Lee Ball

Lessons “being” Learned from the 2014 Ebola Epidemic- When Communicable Disease and Social Media Collide

Lee Wittmann

Copy of Global Symposium Photo Contest

Global Symposium

October 28, 2020

Welcome to the 8th annual Global Symposium at Appalachian State University!

Opening Ceremony

Click here to register for the Opening Ceremony!

2020 Photo Contest Entries

Concurrent Session 1

A: Around the World in 80 Days: Women's Activism Across Cultures

B: The Hunt and the Prey: Exploration of Patriarchal Violence against Migrant Women in Mexican Literature

A: Italy: The Cultural Capital of the Old World

B: New vs. Tradition: Using Hofstede's Dimensions to Compare American and Italian Culture

A: A Global, Experiential Learning Tool to Improve Understanding of Global Information Technologies: Short Videos

B: International connections during a pandemic

Appalachian Students Around the World: A Panel Discussion of Study Abroad Experiences

A: Promoting Intercultural Sensitivity in Future Educators: The Impact of a Short-Term Study Abroad

B: Early Photography in The Pacific: Conference and Publishing

Immigrant Allyship Training

Music as a Pathway to Social Justice in African Higher Education

Concurrent Session 2

A: Rice varietal diversity on farms in the peripheral zone of the Betampona Integral Nature Reserve, NE Madagascar

B: International Service-Learning through the Lens of Sustainability

A: Global is Local, Especially During a Pandemic

B: 34 Weeks behind the Great Virus Firewall: Observing COVID-19 within and beyond China

A: Virtual International Experience in Japan

B: Planning and Executing a Virtual Study Abroad Program to India

Live in Lucca!

Education, Liberation, & Sustainability in Indigenous Guatemala

Concurrent Session 3

A: A thousand miles from everywhere: New Zealand and the Erskine Fellowship Program

B: A Fulbright Year With Family in Novgorod, Russia

The Trauma Timeline of Immigration: The Representation of the Detrimental Effects of Trauma and Immigration Policy in The River Flows North

Virtual International Programming

Lessons “being” Learned from the 2014 Ebola Epidemic- When Communicable Disease and Social Media Collide