THE EIGHTH ANNUAL GLOBAL TEMPLE CONFERENCE:

GLOBAL MOVEMENT:  MIGRATION, URBANIZATION & CULTURAL DYNAMICS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 2013

Please join us for the 8th annual Global Temple Conference! At this day-long symposium on Wednesday November 20th we will explore and celebrate Temple’s wide ranging international work. As in past years, we’ll feature student, staff and faculty research, plus a variety of programs and creative ventures. We welcome proposals for various formats-–papers, panel discussions, posters, films, performances, & exhibits—organized broadly around four pillars of university excellence: scholarship, teaching, creativity, and service.

Prizes for the best student work will be awarded. Meeting at the Howard Gittis Student Center, we begin with a keynote address. We’ll then feature presentations and sessions throughout the day, and conclude with a reception for attendees.

OUR THEME

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population lives in urban centers.  This year's theme involves examining what happens when human groups are in flux on a global scale.  Human movement necessarily entails encountering new ideas and different ways of interacting with the world.  What factors contriubte to these movements in various contexts?  How are processes of urbanization different across the globe? In what ways do migrations change the ways that humans interact with each other? This year's theme centers on these questions, as we aim to explore the ways in which the Temple community both participates in and thinks critically about these processes. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

This year's keynote address will be given by Audrey Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her areas of expertise include demography, international migration, U.S. immigration policy, and urban and metropolitan change. She has written extensively on U.S. immigration trends, including immigrant integration, undocumented migration, naturalization and citizenship, and the changing racial and ethnic composition of the United States.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please consider submitting a proposal for this year's conference, and encourage your peers, colleagues and students to do the same!  Proposals may take the form of poster sessions, panel presentations, films, papers, performances or exhibits. Posters and exhibits will be displayed throughout the day in the conference exhibit hall. Presentations, panels, films and performances will be scheduled during 50 minute time slots. Depending on the type of proposal and the number of participants, your paper or presentation may be combined with another presentation on a similar topic to create a new panel.  

To submit a proposal, please click here

For more information, please contact Denise Connerty, Assistant Vice President of International Affairs, Professor Joel Maxcy, conference committee chair, or Beth Lawson, conference coordinator at global@temple.edu.

The Global Temple Conference is organized by the Faculty Senate International Programs Committee and the Office of International Affairs, and supported by Colleges and Programs across the University.