64.017 - Human Library Panel Session: Conversations on Global and Local Educational Topics

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

An international cohort of speakers at different stages of their careers will provide an informal space for open dialogue between the contributors and the audience. Each topic underpins stories of success, failure, missed opportunities, and works in progress that contribute to a living depository of scholarly experience waiting to be explored and used as source of inspiration, hope, and action. The session will also include global networking opportunities with scholars from the U21 FINE and WERA organizations.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Omolabake Fakunle, University of Edinburgh

• Roxana Chiappa, University of Washington - Seattle

• Fernando Macías Aranda, University of Barcelona

Participants

• Paulina Perez Mejias, Foreign Service Institute

• Sharon Stein, The University of British Columbia

• Manuel S. Gonzalez Canche, University of Pennsylvania

• Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

• Jennifer Tatebe, University of Auckland

• Lauri Johnson, Boston College

• Matthew A.M. Thomas, The University of Sydney

Discussant

• Blair Izard, University of Connecticut - Storrs