Global Engagement Faculty Development Award Showcase

About This Event

Global Engagement Showcase – Welcome and introduction by interim Provost Mia Bertagnolli and Gonzaga Trustee, Irv Zakheim

The International Education Council (IEC) strives to build upon Gonzaga’s mission to develop a comprehensive international ethos on campus. The IEC promotes internationalism activities by fostering the internationalization of curricula and encouraging international experiences among faculty, staff, and students.

Of the several functions, one is to award Global Engagement Faculty Development funds. This fund’s purpose is to make opportunities available for faculty to create and/or share global knowledge by:

• Developing global engagement components for a course
• Pursuing research/scholarly and creative endeavors
• Creating opportunities for collaboration with international faculty and students
• The Global Engagement Showcase is a collaborative event with the Center for Global Engagement and brings together faculty from across the disciplines to share their insights on how their research and activities impact Gonzaga's strategic commitment to offering student experiences to deepen their understanding of cultures and global issues while also bringing back to students new ideas at the forefront of their disciplines that positively impact the world and our community. Although their projects have different focuses, the thread that ties them together is that they were made possible by the Global Engagement faculty development fund, and they respond to the Jesuit imperative to be contemplatives in action (i.e. where the intellect is engaged as we go about doing the nitty-gritty work of the world).

Welcome and introduction by interim Provost Mia Bertagnolli and Gonzaga Trustee, Irv Zakheim.

Multiple presentations in lightning ‘high-top’ table format in two 30 minute sessions.

4:10-4:40

• Emma Ariyo - "The Contribution of Sport and Physical Activity Within the Process of Peace, Reconciliation, and (Re)Identity of Refugees/Internally Displaced Persons."
• Andrew Goldman - "Building Your Home: Establishing Student Identity Through Pompeiian Houses"
• Gregory Gordon - "National Parks of Greece: A Sacred Geography?"
• Torunn Haaland - “Literary Research and Advanced Study of French in Paris”
• William Hayes - "Political Refugees in the European Union: Syrians and Ukrainians Seeking Citizenship"
• Jessica Maucione - "The Noncontiguous U.S. Imperial Frontier and Trans-Indigenous Literary Sovereignty in Kiana Davenport’s 'Shark Dialogues' and Velma Wallis’s 'Two Old Women'"
• Charles Pepiton - “Without Them I am Lost: Documentary Film Screening & Conversations in Norway”
• Karen Rickel & Ryan Turcott - "Gonzaga University Sport Management and Pistoia Basket 2000 Partnership"
• John Sheveland - "Pathways Toward Safeguarding and Healing in a Global Church"

4:45-5:15

• Jenaro Abraham - "Cese al Fuego: Gauging Prospects for Peace between the ELN and the Colombian Government"
• Laurie Arnold - "Finding Sinixt Lived Experiences in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Archival Research in British Columbia"
• Gloria Chien - "Mara [Enemy of Buddha] Reimagined in Buddhist Film"
• Tracey Hayes - "Across Boundaries: Ethical and Responsible AI"
• Ann Ostendorf - "Racializing Romani People in the Nineteenth Century"
• Pavel Shlossberg - "Embodying Dialogue: Transformative Approaches to Peace-building in Colombia's Shifting Conflict Landscape"
• Rebecca Stephanis - "Land of Dreams"
• Bi Zhao - "Climate Advocacy at the United Nations Climate Change Summits"

Refreshments provided