Program Schedule

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

This session will present a 100-Year relationship between Israel and Palestine in 100 words and in 10 collages. Dr. Saliba Sarsar will take the audience on a journey through conflict and war, as well as peacemaking and peacebuilding between Arabs and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians during the 20th century. The presentation will include personal experiences and anecdotes, as well as the exhibition of the 10 collages, with each representing one decade between 1900 and 2000.

Multiple presentations will focus on how challenges and opportunities presented by sustainability will transform global business and management in the twenty-first century.

Students will describe the history of the “It Gets Better” Project, its aims, and cultural reactions to it. Students will also provide information about the issues LGBT youth experience in U.S. culture. Students will present the video they created and uploaded to the It Gets Better Web site, and explain to the audience how they can create their own video.

The Macheke Sustainability Project is a non-profit organization founded by former MU student Moleen Madziva to fight poverty in Macheke, Zimbabwe. MU professors and students have been working to provide critical research to help guide the work in Macheke. This panel will provide an update of the progress of the work and highlight healthcare, education, and the development of specialized software to address specificneeds of the community.

Come learn about sustainability and global health care from Dr. Susan Leib, an American physician who started as an Anthropology undergraduate, worked for years as a pediatrician in a private practice in Connecticut, returned to school to get her MPH, and then traveled to Belize to live and work in a rural health clinic.

Combining her research and teaching interests in the areas of comparative Asian societies, democracy in South Asia, political and economic development, human security, gender empowerment, and human security, Dr. Rekha Datta, Professor of Political Science, will present a faculty forum on the changing models of political and economic development, the challenges, and the future prospects of China and India as political systems. These two geographic neighbors constitute the two most populous countries in the world and share interesting intersects of ideology, culture, technology, security, and development. During the fall of 2011, during her sabbatical leave, Dr. Datta visited India and China on a research and lecture assignment. Her talk will include a photo journey of the development narrative in the two countries.

In this class session, we will look at the ways in which English is used around the world as a native and as a non-native language. We will look at variations of the language as it has evolved in different places at different times since the English first colonized locations around the world

The Latin American Student Organization has invited professors from different departments around the Monmouth University campus to join us in a panel discussion titled, “Diversity and the Interworkings of Cultural Politics.” The panel will feature a formal presentation followed by a Q & A session from members of the audience.

This Open Forum session of “Friends of Socrates” will be devoted to any global health and peace issue the participants are willing to explore. ”Friends of Socrates” intends to be a philosophical approach to health as a human right. Voluntarily, the group meets to discuss questions that stem from everyday life and examination of a health care system and other public health services, relevant to personal or community health. This is a standing activity within the Center for Human and Community Wellness since December 10, 2009.

This session will feature short films titled “Hawks Fly to Guatemala,” “Culture of Peace,” “Health in Developing Countries,” and others, and will include a discussion on the making of these films

This presentation is for an audience of students, faculty, and the general public. The audience will gain a new awareness and understanding of the problems, policies, and interconnectedness between decreasing fossil fuels, the impact of the world population, especially the poor, and the role social work can play in proactively developing inclusive community planning ahead of this crisis.

Prejudices and the need for scapegoats have often accompanied severe crisis. The Euro crisis was one of these cases. WIth media inclination characterized by the instigation of the pubilc instincts or dragged by the “talk of the town” on the Internet, Germans became “nazis,” Greeks “lazy,” and so on. This media posturing has emerged as a trend and is partially responsible for creating a negative climate in the relations among nations. Articles and comments have used every possible bias, insult, and simplification. A similar trend can be observed in the US media when it comes to politics. But within the EU and regarding differences among cultures, this might be more dangerous.

For more information on this event, please see the Keynote Address section of our program guide.

Musical Introduction by Monmouth Performers

Laura DuBois, Meredith Calcagno, and Michael Rosas

(Musical Performance)

Monmouth performers will provide a musical prelude as people are being seated. The trio will perform a medley of two songs, “I Dreamed of Rain” by Jan Garrett, and “There’s Another Way,” by JD Martin & Chuck Jones. Meredith Calcagno is a Junior at Monmouth University pursuing her Music Education degree with a concentration in voice. Michael Rosas is a sophomore Theatre Arts Major at Monmouth University. Laura DuBois has been on the faculty of Monmouth University since 2001, teaching piano and accompanying in the Music and Theatre Department.

Join the Leon Hess Business School MBA students in BE 574 (Globalization) for a discussion of Chinese economic development and its ramifications for the United States. Students will debate whether the U.S. possesses unique characteristics that cannot be imitated by other countries.

This is a report and discussion of action taken by Dr. Don Swanson with American general managers of Asian Pacific operations of multinational corporatons who faced the challenge of managing businesses with a widely diverse range of employees from across the PacificRim. The discussion will focus upon the trainable “dimensions of difference” that could be taught to managers and employees to understand their challenges of communicating across cultures.