College of Education

Globalization conference

5th International

 
Kogi village, Colombia South America

A Kogi village in Colombia, featured in a film documentary by conference speaker Alan Ereira.

Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference

February 26-28, 2009

Red Lion Hotel Inn at the Park. Spokane, Washington

Sponsored by Washington State University College of Education program in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education

Call for papers

The 5th annual Globalization Conference will provide a forum for conversation on the interrelationships among cultural pedagogies, ecopedagogies, meaning making, contemporary identity shaping, postcolonial global issues, sustainability, cosmopolitanism, media literacy, social theory, and social justice. We welcome participation of researchers, educators, students, teachers, and community members. Proposals may address the themes of the conference from any perspective. Individual papers, panels, symposiums, film/documentary screenings, exhibitions, poster sessions, and other creative endeavors are invited. View the submission details here .

Conference chairs: Michael Hayes & Pauline Sameshima

Watch this site for the 2009 conference agenda and registration information.

Featured speakers will include London-based film documentary maker and writer Alan Ereira. He will present his award-winning film From the Heart of the World, the Elder Brothers' Warning, in which leaders of the Kogi people of Colombia mean to address the world.  The Kogi are descendants of the pre-Columbian Tairona city-based civilization and for 400 years have striven to remain isolated in their mountain fastness (‘the heart of the world’) and preserve their way of life, culture and philosophy.

 

 

Global citizenship is the multitude's power to reappropriate control over space and thus design the new cartography  (Hardt & Negri, 2000, p. 400)

 

 

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