AGENDA

Building Belonging: Advancing a Global and Inclusive Pennsylvania 

Conference Dates: September 30 and October 1, 2022 

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Thursday, September 29: Pre-Conference Opportunities 

1:30 - 5:30 PM Pre-Conference 

Forum on Education Abroad Pre-conference: Supporting Diverse Students on Study Abroad

Register ($300 as separate registration; or $250 with PACIE Conference registration)

5:45 pm - 7:20 pm Pre-Conference 

Transnational Social and Political Theory Pre-Conference Discussion (Zoom)

- Whose Dignity Can Ground Solidarity against Injustice? Engaged Approaches to Transitional Justice for Race, Caste, & Exile

How might Pennsylvania and the world center long-excluded voices? Especially those of marginalized racial groups, of people lacking in caste, or of exiles? This plenary session engages these voices, both locally and globally. It considers their ideas about how to transition to a world less wracked by these exclusions. So, for example, it studies their answers to whether BLM reveals that Black dignity is the true human dignity, whether those excluded by the Indian diaspora’s caste system should reject dignity as the basis for anti-injustice organizing, whether exile communities deserve a voice in transitional justice processes back in the homeland, and how solidarity economy efforts around the Philly region deal with racial capitalism’s divides.

Ashwini Vasanthakumar 

Associate Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy, Queen's Law School, Kingston, Ontario

Craig Borowiak 

Professor of Political Science, Haverford College

Vincent Lloyd

Professor of Theology & Religious Studies, Villanova U, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Luis Cabrera 

Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Govt and Intl Relations, Griffith U, Brisbane, Queensland

FacilitatorTom Donahue-Ochoa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Haverford College


Friday, September 30, 2022 

8:00 - 9:00 am Reception and Registration,  Founders Hall Foyer, 8 am - 9 am.

  • Nametag and meal tickets pick up will take place beginning at 8 am on Friday in the Foyer of Founders Hall, located here. Founders Hall is a roughly fifteen-minute walk from visitor parking or the Haverford Stations of the Regional Rail or Norristown High Speed Line.

9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome 

9:15 - 10:15 am Plenary  - How do our educational institutions support students’ self-understanding, local understanding, and global understanding? 

  • Felipe H. Lopez, Citizen Advisor for the Commission of Human Rights for the state of Oaxaca. Zapotec writer. Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, Seton Hall University

  • Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program and Associate Dean for Global Engagement, Pennsylvania,  USA 

  • Lina Martinez Hernandez, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA 

  • Elana Nashelsky, President, Vida Charter School, Gettysburg, PA

10:30 - 11:30 am Concurrent Sessions 1

11:45 - 1:15 pm Lunch and Learn - What do Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals have to do with Global Learning and Local Action? 

1:30 - 2:30 pm Concurrent Sessions 2

2:30 - 3:00 pm Coffee Break 

3:00 - 4:00 pm Concurrent Sessions 3

4:00 - 5:00 pm Social Hour and Newcomer Welcome

5:00 - 6:00 pm Educator and PACIE Awards; Student Spotlights

6:30 - 9:00 “80 Years Later” Film and Discussion: 

Local and Global Participatory Approaches to Challenging Intergenerational Injustices

What would things be like if those most affected by an injustice partnered with research into it? Currently, academic studies of oppression give the most affected only a subordinate voice in directing their inquiries. What if, instead, the affected took the co-director’s chair? That is the promise of participatory research into injustices. This plenary session explores several participatory takes on intergenerational injustice. It begins with a viewing of a participatory documentary on the intergenerational legacies of the mass internment of Japanese American families during World War II. It then hosts a Q&A with the film’s locally-based producer and writer, examining how its interviews transform prevailing notions about racial inheritance of harm. It then examines a participatory approach to injustice in the Mexican War on Drugs and the US deportation campaign against that country’s members. And it also reflects on learning from students and colleagues at a minority-serving institution. How does that experience transform one’s approach to the injustices done to that minority?

J. Reid Miller 

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College

Juan Espíndola

Professor-Researcher, Institute for Philosophical Research, National Autonomous U of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City

Andrew Valls 

Professor of Political Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR

FacilitatorTom Donahue-Ochoa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Haverford College

  • 6:30 - 6:40 pm Introduction of theme, film and panelists: Professor Tom Donahue 

  • 6:40 - 7:30 pm Screening: 80 years later 

  • 7:30 - 8:00 pm Discussion with Professor Jerry Reid, Producer and Writer 

  • 8:00 - 9:00 pm Brief presentations & discussion

Saturday, October 1 

8:30 am Coffee 

9:15 - 10:15 am   Plenary: Building Belonging, in our Classrooms, on Our Campuses, and in Education Abroad - while Recognizing Inclusive Excellence and Global Understanding 

  • Joseph Croskey, Executive Director, Frederick Douglass Institutes, PASSHE

  • Cherie Garrett, Dallastown School District, Seal of Biliteracy 

  • Barbara Weikert, Norristown School District, Montgomery County 

10:15 - 10:30 am    Coffee Break 

10:30 - 11:30 am   Concurrent Sessions 4

11:30 - 11:45 am    Break 

11:45 - 1:00 pm    Lunch and Workshopping Forward: Understanding to Action   

1:15 - 2:15 pm     Where from Here? PA Global Education Forward

  • Samantha Brandauer, Associate Provost and Executive Director, Center for Global Engagement, Dickinson College  

  • Michael Goodhart, Professor of Political Science and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; 2017-2021 Director of the Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

  • Nicole Stokes, Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, St. Joseph’s University  

  • Facilitated by Amelia Dietrich, Senior Director for Research and Publications at The Forum on Education Abroad and Managing Editor of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.