The Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative is hosting its annual institute on "Stepping Into the Work: Expanding Understanding of Global Positionality, Responsibility, and Opportunity" at Haverford College, Haverford PA, November 10th and 11th. Early bird registration deadline is September 15. More information and registration.
November 10 and 11, 2023, Haverford College will host a convening made possible by the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and the Global Engagement in the Liberal Arts Conference. The 2023 Haverford Institute, Stepping Into the Work: Expanding Understanding of Global Positionality, Responsibility, and Opportunity, is an opportunity for faculty, staff, administration, and community leaders to connect with colleagues who are making space for integrated, experiential learning aligned with public purposes, disciplinary understanding, inclusive student development, and civic and global learning.
Participants will be treated to a dynamic series of presentations and intermittent, intentional dialogue and connection on Haverford College's arboretum campus. The first three plenary sessions will include vibrant examples of place-based and localized global learning and community engagement, institution-wide efforts to recognize and make space for experiential learning, and the interdisciplinary engagement of history, languages, anthropology, and linguistics in applied, contemporary archival justice work, globally.
Confirmed speakers include:
Plenary 1: Locally Rooted Global Learning: Community-led Partnerships
Steve Vásquez Dolph, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Associate Teaching Professor of Global Studies and Modern Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University with Cesali Morales, Business and Development Director at Norris Square Neighborhood Project in Philadelphia. Read more about their work in Professor Dolph’s blog here, “As a humanist whose primary teaching happens in Spanish, this focus — a culturally-rooted response to structural violence — is where I most want to hold our students’ attention.” Here in Philadelphia, “This begins at the partnership level…”
Lina Martínez Hernández, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Haverford College will present with one of her colleagues involved in movement work advancing popular education to further the rights and goals of migrant communities centered in the Philadelphia Region.
Plenary 2: Integrated Experiential Learning: Local, Global, and Career
Gundolf Graml, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean for Curriculum and Strategic Initiatives, Professor of German, Agnes Scott College, will share insights gleaned from Agnes Scott College’s development of The Summit, a 4-year integration of academic and co-curricular experiences
Amy Johnson, Assistant Provost for Immersion and Experiential Learning at Vanderbilt University, will speak about Immersion Vanderbilt, which aims to ensure every, “student the opportunity to pursue intellectual curiosities through immersive experiences that are as creative and unique as the students themselves.”
Plenary 3: Archives and Global Community-based Justice Work
Brie Gettleson, Latin American Studies Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, together with Daniel Alvarado, a human rights advisor at the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo and co-coordinator of the GAM Historical Archive, will share about their efforts leveraging digitization and archival work to ensure historical memory and support justice.
Brook Lillehaugen, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Haverford College, and Janet Chavez Santiago, Author, Educator, and Zapotec Speaker, Teotitlán del Valle Oaxaca, Mexico, will speak about their indigenous language advocacy work and collaboration, including through the Ticha Project.
Additional speakers are confirmed and will be shared in the coming weeks.
Registration, Logistics, Meals, and Accommodations
Registration is open. The early bird deadline is September 15. Join us.
Participants should plan to arrive in Philadelphia by the evening of Thursday, November 9. The gathering begins at 8:30 am on the 10th, and will conclude by approximately 2 pm on the 11th. This is a full-participation, high-engagement gathering, with facilitated connection and dialogue between sessions.
Welcoming and registration will begin at 8:30 am on Friday, November 10. Programming will begin at 9 am, all at Haverford College. Lite breakfast and lunch are included.
