Conference Schedule

Panel 1: Globalization and Offshoring

-The International Outsourcing of Business Services (Susan Mudambi)

-Picking the Right Country: Strategies for Managing Corporate Risk in the Next Wave of Business Services "Offshoring" (James Portwood and Arvind Phatak)

-Enter the Era of Global Anti-Marketing (Indrajit "Jay" Sinha)

Panel 2: Going International: Global Faculty, Global Curriculum, Global School (Jeffrey Dunoff, Amy Boss, Peter Spiro)

Panel 3: The Construction of Vietnamese Nationalism, 1885-1945 (Philip Alperson, Sophie Quinn-Judge, Dieu Nguyen, Clay Javier Boggs)

Panel 4: Solar Energy: A Tool for Countering the Effects of Water-Borne Illnesses in Nigeria (Vanessa Colon, Jacqueline Tanaka, Adrienne Cooper)

Panel 5: The Department of Religion and International Education in Indonesia (Rebecca Alpert, John Raines, Mahmoud Ayoub)

Panel 6: Preparing Students as International Communicators: (Christopher Harper, Cassandra Kramer, George Miller, Andrew Ciofalo)

Panel 7: Faculty Research on Japan Topics at Temple University Japan
-Globalization in Roppongi: Formal and Informal Dimensions, (Roman Cybriwsky)
-Economically Hot, Politically Cold: the Chilling Effect of Nationalism on Sino-Japanese Relations (Phil Deans, Roman Cybriwsky, Kyle Cleveland, Fabienne Darling-Wolf)
-Ethnic Tourist Imaginings and Identity Negotiations in Japanese Popular Culture (Kyle Cleveland)
-The Men and Women of Non-no: Glbalization, Race and Gender in Japanese Magazines (Fabienne Darling-Wolf)

Panel 8: Politics and Media
-Lessons from Iraq: Electoral Legitimacy in the Shadow of Ethnoreligious Conflict (Kristina Arvanitis)
-The Skeptical Philosophical Vision of Michael Oakeshott (Aryeh Botwinick)
-Media and Free Speech in the Context of Young Democracies (Tom Jacobson)
-The Big Transition that Didn't: Mexico’s 2006 Elections (Arthur Schmidt)

Panel 9: The Vietnam Project: Improving Health through Teaching and Evaluation (Jill Derstine, Kathleen Black, Pamela Bender, Moya Kinnealy, Kim Nixon-Cave, Ann Pron, James Stephens, Dolores Zygmont)

Panel 10: Ancient Artifacts and Cultures
-The Art of Monasticism: Conservation and Archaeology at the Red and White Monasteries, Upper Egypt (Elizabeth Bolman)
-The Origin of Chalcidian Ware (Keri Ecker)
-Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Origin of Yoruba of West Africa (Abdul Salau)

Panel 11: Collaboraing to Meet Educational Reform Initiatives in Jamaica: A Story of International Teacher Education (Jayminn Sanford-DeShields, Thomas Walker, Bridgeth Gordon, Claudette Fletcher)

Panel 12: Community Engagement: Temple Fulbright Fellows Report from the Global Field
-American Rocket Ships in Dublin: The Irish Street and Media Lab Europe, Dublin (Kathleen Biddick)
-Balancing Scholarship and Social Responsibility: A Fulbright Fellow in Bolivia (Ben Kohl)
-Conflicting Loyalties in Bangladesh (David Watt)
-Advantages of International Design Education (Valencia Libby)

Poster Session 1: Media, Cutural Identity, and Image

-Ideology in the News: A Comparison of CNN.com and Alijazeera.net Coverage of the Elections in Iraq (Dianne M. Garyantes)

-God is an Englishman: Iconic Rhetorical Images of Idealized British Citizenry as Illustrated in Britain's New Palace of Westminister (Scott Gratson)

-Fasting in Islam: Eating for Identity (Zayne Amer)

-A Photographic Investigation of Cuba and India Alex Goldblum)

-From Paris to Philadelphia: the Use of Graffiti as Expression and Conflict (Lauren McCulligan)

-Communicative Culture: The Role of Media Conglomerates in Europe (Joseph Roetz)

- Guatemala: Woven Images (Elizabeth C. Masters)

Poster Session 2: International Business (Economic Development)

-Promoting Sustainability through Community-based Enterprise in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case Study (Lisa Calvano)

-The Relationships among Social Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Cultural Exposure (Kerri Crowne)

-"Blood Diamonds": De Beers, Black Markets and Discourse (Susan Falls)

- Practices at the Wholly-owned Foreign Subsidiaries: When the Legitimacy Imperative at Work? (Tolulope Bewaji, Yunxuan Han)

Poster Session 3: International Health

-Rapid Assessment of Access to Care: Using GPS & GIS to Examine Access to Primary Care in Remote Parts of the Developing World (Jonathan Baker, Andrew Bazemore, C. Jeffrey Jacobson)

-Organized Global Psychiatry: Opportunities for Temple (David Baron)

-Hardly an "Important " Person: An Ethnography of a Female Health Worker in India (Amanda Childs)

-Volunteering in a Costa Rican Hospital (David L. Murphy)

Poster Session 4: Other International Research

-Conflict and Compromise in the Quest for Social Justice in Trinidad, West Indies (Bretton Alvaré)

-Mapmaking Property in Kumasi, Ghana (Justin Collins)

-Calypos and Pichakaarees: Trinidadian Music as a Social Commentary (Margaret Griffith)

-Medieval Manuscripts Speak through Art and Interpretation (Kellye Hawkins and Pilar Maravi)

Poster Session 5: Teaching and Learning Abroad

-Working with NGOs in India through TUJ (Taylor Benjamin-Britton and John David)

-Immerse Yourself: How to Turn "Over There" into "Over Here" (Ariel Coff)

-Temple Digs in Roman France (Jane DeRose Evans)

-Temple Students Studies and Aid in Forming Bosnian Postwar Reconstruction Strategies (J. Brooke Harrington)

-Visual Anthropology of Japan Summer Program (Lindsey Powell)

-Unity in Diversity (Sharanya Pattabi, Yuri Kurashima, Kristyna Pesatova, Ana Masela, Felicia Fraizer)

Panel 13: Business in Asia
-International Technology Transfer: Model and Exploratory Study in the People’s Republic of China (Anthony DiBenedetto)
-Global Comparison of Supply Chain Infrastructures (Mark Gershon)
-The Final Frontier of Emerging Markets: Economic Reform and Investment Opportunities in the DPRK, North Korea (Khurram Nasir Gore)
-Strategic IPO Underpricing: The Role of Chinese State Ownership (Xiaotian Zhang)

Panel 14: Immigration, Gender and Generational Change
-Gender and Immigration from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Shelley Wilcox, Kimberley Goyette, Mwembo Lombe)
-Philadelphia’s African Immigrant Parents’ Perceptions about their Children’s Education (Mwembo, Lombe Mukalanga)

Panel 15: Capacity Building in Health Law Research and Training (Scott Burris, Adelaide Ferguson, Leo Beletsky)

Panel 16: Globalization Unpacked: Critical Perspectives in China
-Globalization Unpacked: Critical Perspectives on China (Kathy Le Mons Walker, Brandon Edwards, Ryan Zastowney, regina Szezesniak, Larry Atencia)
-Environmental Policies, Economic Liberalization and the Undoing of a Remarkable Era: Questioning China (Brandon Edwards)
-China’s War on Nature: Overcoming Anthropocentrism, Industrialization and the Fear of Death (Ryan Zastowney)
-Mao: A Contribution to a New Society (Larry Atencia)
-Women Reformed: Chinese Women in the Open Market (Regina Szczesniak)

Panel 17: The Impact of International Education on Faculty
-Teaching to Learn: How Teaching Abroad had Improved Teaching at Home (Mary Conran)
-Temple’s Long-term Chemical Education Program in China (Joseph Schmuckler)
-Solar Energy: A Tool for Countering the Effects of Water-Borner Illnesses in Nigeria (Jacqueline Tanaka, Adrienne T. Cooper)

Panel 18: Globalization and Culture
-Art and Globalization: Then and Now (Noel Carroll)
-Japanese Baseball Culture: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Baseball Fans (Victor Montoro)
-Globalization and the Invalidation of African Cultures (E. Lama Wonkeryor, Charles K. Sunwabe, Jr.)

Poster Session 6: Media, Cultural Identity, and Image
-Assessing the Shift in Bollywood’s Portrayals of Cigarette Smoking. A Content Analysis of India's Top Ten Movies in 2006 (Suman Mishra, Satarupa Dasgupta)
-Horror Japanese Style: A critical comparison of Ringu and The Ring (Jackie Jardine)
-Being Black in Tokyo: The story of African Immigrants (Kyle Brady)
-Karaoke and Social Relations in Japan (Scott Hough and Jennifer Malty)
-Jazz in Tokyo (Ellen Houle)
-The Cuteness of Advertising (Amy Mullen)
-Creating a Dream, Changing Reality: -A Brazilian Web Site as a Public Relations Tool for Social Change (Maria de Fatima Oliveira)
-For Whom Are They Filming: Contextualize Transitions of Chinese Movies Directors (Lingling Pan)
-Globalization Narrativeswithin The New York Times: 1990 and 2000 (Amanda Scheiner)
-Integrated Framing of Corporate Reputation: A Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Approach (Holly Yunhe SHI)
-Reading Korean Wave in Asia from Fan Community of a Korean Star (Jiwon Yoon)

-Istanbul, Gateway to the Past (Sarah Iepson)

Poster Session 7: International Business
-Italy’s Multinationalization: Cultural Sensitivity and Integration in Business, (Kara Rosenberg)
-Location Advantages and Subsidiary’s R & D Activities in Emerging Economies: the Moderating Effect of Personnel Mobility (Qin Yang)
-Relatively Benchmarked Executives’ Compensation and Optimal Option Re-Pricing (Yong Wang)
-Strategic IPO Underpricing: The Role of Chinese State Ownership (Xiaotian Zhang, Yong Wang)
-Studying Business in Mexican and US Universities (Margaret C. Gillis)

Poster Session 8: International Health
-Community Mobilization and Relief in Post-Hurricane Regions: A Look at Honduras and the Gulf Coast of the United States (Deborah Knorr)
-Healthcare Reform in the Ukraine: Challenges in Implementing Large Scale Organizational Change (James Portwood)
-Temple Public Health Programs in Costa Rica (Clara Haignere)

Poster Session 9: Other International Research
-Thirty Years of Archaeological Investigations in Central Panama (Patricia Hansell)
-Indian Queer and Gender Variant Populations (Rebecca Lawrence)
-Linguistic Research on the Portuguese-Spanish Border: the Case of the Barranquenho Dialect (G. Augusto Lorenzino, J. Clancy Clements)
-Play as a Developmental and Therapeutic Tool Around the World (Marianne Torbert)

Poster Session 10: Teaching and Learning Abroad

-Neighborhood Narratives (Hana Iverson, Steve Bull)
-Living like the Rest of the World: The Challenges and Benefits of Service Trips in El Salvador (Maya Kosok)
-The Best Ways to Learn a Foreign Language Abroad: The Do's and Don'ts of Language Immersion (Danielle A. Lesnock)
-Discovering the Crossroads of Civilizations in Turkey (Nilgun Anadolu Okur, Sila Yesilsoy, Michael Rosenblum, Dameria Tobing)
-Cross Cultural Project: Teaching Pediatric Nursing in Vietnam (Ann Linguiti Pron)

-Student Exchange Program on Culturally Appropriate Solutions for the Inclusion of People with Disability in Society (Thassia Vidal, Dominique Kliger)

Panel 19: Environment in Asia (Lindsey Powell, Monte Hull, Robert Mason, Shigenori Nagatomo)

Panel 20: The Impact of International Education on Students
-Roles and Responsibilities of International Teaching Assistants (Shubhada Menon, Neha Singh)
-Making the Transition to the United States Higher Education System (Martyn J. Miller)

Panel 21: International Health and Healthcare
-African Traditional Healing: Practices, International Interest and Risks (Rita S. Fierro)
-Following the Middle Path: TRIPS, AIDS and the Ethical Debate (Roli Khare)
-Public Accountability and International Law: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments (Abigail Perkiss)
-AIDS Stigma in Health Services in the Eastern Caribbean (Scott Edward Rutledge)

Panel 22: How did the Birth of the National Security State Ultimately Lead to the Undermining of the Rule of Law in Cold War Egypt? (Katheryn Jones)

Panel 23: Living and Learning in the Other Jamaica: Developing Communities and Cosmopolitans through International Service Learning (Novella Keith, Michael Dorn, Nelson Keith)

Panel 24: Performance and Culture
-The Kabuki Project (Barbara Thornbury)
-Historical Development of Samba Dance in Brazil (Alba Pedreira Vieira)
-Pre-Occupations and Hyphe-nations – Arabs, Jews, and Homeland Insecurities (Billy Yalowitz)