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Conferences & Events

1. JALT 2010 - Including SIG Forum, Anna Baltzer lectures, and AGM.
2. Anna Baltzer Japan Tour
3. Asian Youth Forum 2010
4. Peace as a Global Language 2010 in Tokyo.
5. Other events and calls for papers

GLOBAL ISSUES AT JALT 2010 CONFERENCE

Nov. 19 – 22 in Nagoya
(1) GILE SIG Forum: Sharing Ideas, Lessons, Resources

(Saturday, November 20th, 11:20 am - 12:50 pm Room 1103)

This annual "idea sharing" session is open to all interested teachers. It features classroom reports, EFL activities, teaching materials and innovative curriculum ideas to help you integrate global issues and international understanding into your classes. Handouts, lesson plans and teaching resources will be available to take home. Come join this unique session to learn about the latest teaching approaches and share your own ideas!

(2) GILE SIG Colloquium: Education and Action in the Classroom and Beyond

(Monday Nov. 22nd 9:15 - 10:45 am Room 1201)

This colloquium will feature a panel of educators who will report on initiatives they have undertaken to integrate a social action component into their language teaching. Topics will include a “global English” program that takes students to Asia and Africa, student action projects on global issue themes plus out-of-class activities linked to fair trade, peace education and social justice. Join us to discuss how language teaching can promote action for a better world!

(3) GILE Featured Speaker: Anna Baltzer(US peace educator and activist)

JALT’s GILE SIG and Gunma Chapter are pleased to sponsor Ms. Anna Baltzer, US author, educator and peace activist, as a JALT 2010 Featured Speaker. At JALT 2010, Anna will discuss education and activism, social responsibility in language teaching, and the need for teachers and learners to speak out against social injustice. Come attend her sessions to learn about peace in the Middle East and to get classroom ideas for teaching about critical thinking, media literacy and conflict resolution.

Anna’s Featured Speaker Sessions:

(4) Global Issues SIG Annual General Meeting

(Saturday, November 20th, 7:00 - 8:00 pm Room 1103)

Come and attend this year’s annual Global Issues in Language Education SIG business meeting to:
hear reports about our 2010 SIG membership, SIG finances, recent programs and activities.
Discuss our SIG newsletter, SIG projects, JALT 2011 plans and selection of SIG officers

 

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ANNA BALTZER JAPAN LECTURE TOUR

November 11 – 22, 2010

JALT’s Global Issues SIG is arranging a pre-conference lecture tour to give teachers and students in Japan a chance to meet Anna, listen to her story and learn how we can contribute to peace in the Middle East. Her talks are scheduled for the following dates and places. Please come and attend! Further details will be announced in October. Contact Kip Cates if you’d like to help us organize, support, publicize or fund this event.

Nov. 11–12 (Thu-Fri) Kanto (Tokyo)
Nov. 13–14 (Sat-Sun) Gunma
Nov. 15–16 (Mon-Tue) Kansai (Kyoto/Osaka)
Nov. 17–18 (Wed-Thu) Hiroshima
Nov. 19–22 (Fri-Mon) Nagoya (JALT 2010)

Anna Baltzer Profile

Anna Baltzer is a Columbia University graduate, an EFL teacher, a Fulbright scholar, a granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian human rights. As a volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, she has worked for peace, documented human rights abuses and supported nonviolent resistance to the Israeli Occupation. She has appeared on TV 100 times (including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and lectured at over 400 colleges, churches, mosques and synagogues around the world.

Anna is the author of Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. In 2009, she received the Arab- American Anti-Discrimination Committee's prestigious Rachel Corrie Peace & Justice Award for her commitment to justice in the Holy Land. She has published over 25 articles in journals such as Counter Currents, Op-Ed News and Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU) and her work has been profiled in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal. She is a contributor to three upcoming books and serves on the Middle East committee of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.

Websites:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Baltzer
- http://www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com

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ASIAN YOUTH FORUM (AYF 8)

October 14 – 19, 2010

The 8th Asian Youth Forum (AYF) will be held in Seoul, Korea from October 14 – 19, 2010 as part of the Pan-Asian Conference on Language Teaching (PAC 9). This will bring together 80 college-age young people from 16 countries in Asia for seminars, workshops and events aimed at promoting international understanding, intercultural communication and leadership skills through the medium of English-as-a-global-language. For more information, go to the AYF 8 website:

AYF 7 Powerpoint: http://www.slideshare.net/KipCates/asian-youth-forum-ayf-2009
AYF 8 Website: http://ayf8korea.weebly.com/

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PGL Conference 2010

December 4-5, 2010 International Christian University, Tokyo
Call For Papers

On behalf of Peace as a Global Language this year’s PGL Conference Committee invite academics, activists and other concerned individuals to submit proposals for panel paper presentations, individual paper presentations and workshops for sessions to be arranged by the Committee. The Conference will be held at International Christian University in Mitaka, Tokyo. This year the focus is less on language and more on the actual concepts involved in Peace and peace promotion. Therefore the Committee seeks sessions and panelists that will educate, engage and enlighten audiences on the broad themes of peace and how to achieve it, the descriptive and normative role of academia, the media and society in war and peace and the exploration of the ways in which they could do more to promote peace. Below is a partial list of themes and their effects on peace and war, and these are the kind of subjects the conference hopes to cover. Proposals that deal with these themes in this respect have a higher chance of being accepted.

Themes

Corporatisation of Academia - involvement of academics in corporate / military research
Military Industrial Complex - relationship with Academia
Corporate Media - cheerleaders for war
Media Literacy
Propaganda
Role of Alternative / Independent Media
People Power / Direct Democracy
Peace Studies
Is ‘Just War’ Justified?
Resource Wars
War Crimes
State Crimes Against Democracy (S.C.A.D.)
Human Rights
Globalisation and War
Teaching approaches / techniques for any of the above

Submissions

When submitting your proposal please indicate if you are applying for a short or extended workshop (30 or 60 minutes), a short or extended paper presentation (30 or 60 minutes) or a group panel presentation (30 minutes per presenter plus 30 minutes Q & A / discussion per session).

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/pgl2010/

Deadline: Sunday 31 October 2010.

 

Upcoming Conferences/Calls for Papers

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LANGUAGE EDUCATION CONFERENCES
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JACET Tomorrow’s Learners & Teachers
September 7 - 9, 2010 Miyagi (Japan)
Website: www.jacet.org

IGALA International Gender & Language
Sept. 18 - 20, 2010 Tsuda College (Tokyo)
Website: http://orc.tsuda.ac.jp/IGALA/

JACES The Media and English Education
Oct. 2 - 3, 2010 Tokai University (Tokyo)
Web: www.soc.nii.ac.jp/jaces2/fr_taikai.html

TELLSI CALL for Change in ELT
Oct. 13 - 15, 2010 Tehran (Iran)
Website: http://tellsi8.alzahra.ac.ir/

KoTESOL (PAC) ELT in the Global Context
Oct. 16 - 17, 2010 Seoul (South Korea)
Website: www.kotesol.org

UNESCO Language Ed and Development
Nov. 9 - 11, 2010 Bangkok (Thailand)
Website: www.seameo.org/LanguageMDGConference2010/

More language education events listed at:

* www.conferencealerts.com/language.htm
* www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/confcal/
* www.eltcalendar.com/events/

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GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCES
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ACR: Association for Conflict Resolution
Sept. 1 - 4, 2010 Chicago, Illinois (USA)
National conference
Website: www.acrnet.org

NAAEE Environmental Education Conference
September 29 – October 2, 2010 Buffalo (US)
Website: www.naaee.org

Intercultural Learning for a Global World
Japan Intercultural Institute (JII)
Oct. 17, 2010 (Shirayuri College, Tokyo)
Website: www.japanintercultural.org/conference2008.aspx

National Forum on Character Education
October 28-30, 2010 (San Francisco, USA)
Website: www.character.org

International Human Rights Education
November 4 - 6, 2010 Sydney (Australia)
www.humanrightseducationconference2010.com.au/

Uniting Cultures through Education
Dec. 1 - 3, 2010 (Rome)
Website: http://theworldwideforum.org

Internationalization or Globalization?
Asian Conference on Education 2010
Dec. 2 - 5, 2010 Osaka (Japan)
Website: http://ace.iafor.org/

Leadership for a Sustainable World
January 27, 2011 Berlin (Germany)
Website: www.learningteacher.eu

Crossing Borders: Traveling, Teaching and Learning in a Global Age
April 16 - 17, 2011 Nanjing (China)
Proposal deadline: August 31, 2010
Website: http://crossingborders2011conference.weebly.com

More global education events listed at:

* www.conferencealerts.com/global.htm
* www.conferencealerts.com/peace.htm
* www.conferencealerts.com/humanrights.htm

 

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Kip A. Cates, Tottori University, Koyama, Tottori City, JAPAN 680-8551
E-mail: kcates@gilesig.org Work Tel/Fax: 0857-31-5650
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