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Date and Time
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The Global Impacts of COVID-19 on Corporate Social Responsibility Programs
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How are multinational companies and global brands adjusting their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs and communication in the coronavirus pandemic era? This session will focus on the evolving CSR programs and, taking a comparative approach, will discuss the similarities and differences across CSR programs from around the world. |
Monday, April 12 at 10:30am-12:00pm US Central
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Adaptability and Innovation during COVID
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The pandemic has upended business-as-usual. While this has been a difficult time for many individuals and organizations, it has also highlighted the need for adaptability and innovation. In this session, we will discuss creative responses to the pandemic – examples from business, communities, and our own lives – to generate key insights regarding change through challenge.
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Monday, April 12 at 6:30-8:00pm US Central
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Elections in Australia & the US: Constitutional and Cultural Comparisons
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During the session, students will explore how the constitutional systems in the US and Australia govern elections. Students will be invited to reflect on the right of freedom of speech and its outer limits in these two countries. The session will also address the opportunities and challenges of electronic voting and the implications of compulsory voting vs voluntary voting.
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Monday, April 12 at 7:00-8:30pm US Central
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Global Education and Engagement in a Mediatized World
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In this session, we will highlight examples of what has and hasn't worked in terms of facilitating students' interests and motivation for their learning, highlight the importance of international-mindedness for all disciplines across education and the vital role schools and universities play in developing internationally-minded citizens in a digitized world, and reflect on where public policies in global education will go after 2021.
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Tuesday, April 13 at 3:00-4:30pm US Central
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Diversity Toolkit: Unpacking Intersectional Identities
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This session focuses on the topic of intersectionalities of identities (race, culture, ethnicity, language, gender, etc.) and how to recognize its importance in daily multicultural encounters.
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Wednesday, April 14 at 9:00-10:30am US Central
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Discussing the issues of inclusiveness, safety and resilience for supporting sustainable cities and communities
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This session addresses the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Specifically, it looks at SDG 11: Sustainable cities and Communities, and SDG 17: Global partnerships for sustainable development. Students will be articulating their thoughts on inclusiveness, safety, and resilience in cities and communities that set sustainability as their overarching goal, using examples from their study/travelling/lived experience. They will also discuss what types of multi-stakeholder partnerships and voluntary commitments can be forged between local authorities in support of inclusiveness, safety, and resilience in communities
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Wednesday, April 14 at 9:40-11:10am US Central
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To Serve or Not to Serve: Ethical Choices in the Workplace and Beyond
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After college you may find yourself working for a company or NGO in areas or countries with serious human rights violations. You may have to make choices that impact your employment or service. You may also have to decide whether to consume products or use services from companies that operate in such countries. How will you negotiate these choices? What ethical criteria will you use to make these decisions?
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Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00-11:30am US Central
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Protests & Public Health
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This session will examine the roles of civic participation and protests and their relationship to population health. This conversation will use the Black Lives Matter (USA) and the EndSARS (Nigeria) movements as a launchpad for the discussions but welcome examples of protests and population health issues from all over the world.
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Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00-11:30am US Central
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US foreign policy after the election of Biden as President of the United States: US relations with the European Union and NATO, and with Russia and China
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This discussion will focus on the political legacy of the former US president, especially on international relations, which have deteriorated, and on the expected changes that the new Administration is bringing up. What can the EU expect from the new US President and his Administration, politically and economically? What position will NATO have in the new American policy? What will be the (new) relations with Russia and China as large and important international political and economic factors?
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Friday, April 16 at 8:00-9:30am US Central
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Change, Adaptation, Opportunity: Charting Our Future
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We live in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world. Society faces the necessity to change, adapt, and search for new opportunities. In this global conversation, we will focus on three main interests: What are the changes in the international community? How are companies adapting and how should you plan, prepare, and adapt to change? When it comes to international careers, what are the possibilities? How to scale?
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Friday, April 16 at 9:00-10:30am US Central
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How can the world respond to climate change refugees?
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Climate change has begun to impact not just the physical earth, but all relationships on earth. The threat of large scale destruction of the environment may force millions of persons to leave their homes to seek lands that can provide adequate food and shelter. How will the world community respond to large numbers of environmental refugees to this looming crisis?
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Friday, April 16 at 10:00-11:30am US Central
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Adaptations & Obstacles: Human Responses to the Pandemic
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How has the pandemic affected nutrition and stress, and the psychological wellbeing of students? How are the students supported and educated to increase adaption through emotional intelligence during the current and historical pandemics? How are health care workers changing roles and disseminating information regarding information about COVID-19 and access to the vaccine?
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Monday, April 19 at 9:00-10:30am US Central
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The New Normal in the Built Environment
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The session will discuss the following questions: How will our cities mutate to both, determine and respond to new behavioral patterns in the post-pandemic new normal? How will our dwellings adapt to new normal, considering aspects like intimacy or outer spaces? How will the new domestic cartography be redrawn in everyday dwellers towards the pandemic era?
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Monday, April 19 at 10:00-11:30am US Central
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The Language of the Post-COVID World
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, every culture has devised different means of communication and different words to express specific elements of their experience: “Doomscrolling.” “Pandemic fatigue.” “Social distancing.” These and others are part of the cultural lexicon, and all carry inherent biases and generally negative connotations. In this discussion, we’ll wrestle with what the future of that communication looks like in a post-COVID world: what words, artistic expressions, and features we’ll take with us as a society – positive or negative – and how we ourselves might come up with new terms for communicating our experiences in the midst of pandemic.
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Monday, April 19 at 7:00-8:30pm US Central
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Post-pandemic Societal Changes and Consumption Trends in Greater China
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This Global Conversation session will discuss what social changes will happen after the pandemic in the Greater China region, including but unlimited to mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong. We will discuss how the pandemic could yield changes in certain social behaviors and attitudes such as social interaction patterns, people’s attitudes toward media and national-level governments, and consumption tendencies in different areas of Greater China. Students will be encouraged to share their thoughts and views comparing societal changes and consumption trends in the U.S. with those in Greater China.
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Wednesday, April 21 at 7:30-9:00pm US Central
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Globally-informed and locally-contextualized teacher training
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Our discussion will identify a set of teaching competencies and discuss considerations when designing and developing a competency-based, teacher training model. The intent is for session participants to walk away with insights, new connections, and immediately applicable ideas for their respective settings. |
Friday, April 23 at 8:00-9:30am US Central
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