Global Studies Virtual Symposium

Call for Proposals Global Studies Virtual Symposium 2025

The Call for Proposals is open for the annual Global Studies Virtual Symposium, a virtual speaker series connecting community college global studies scholars and educators across campuses. The symposium offers an engaging teaching and learning forum for sharing best practices, ideas, and resources with colleagues. Those accepted will receive a stipend.

CFP deadline November 30, 2024.

Symposium Dates 

To be determined in coordination with accepted speakers for spring (January- May 2025) or fall (September- November 2025).

Location: Virtual Symposium (Zoom)

Your participation helps make this conference a collaborative and engaging experience, and all accepted proposals that are presented during the symposium will receive a stipend!

Submit a proposal by following three simple steps:

  • Submit a proposal: Click the link to submit a proposal for a 45-minute live Zoom session. You will need the following: presentation title, brief description, expected outcomes, and contact information.
  • Get notification: We welcome the submission of proposal(s) for the 2024-2025 Global Studies Virtual Symposium on a rolling basis with a priority deadline of November 30th. (We are in love with global education!)
  • Registration is required to participate in each of these FREE Global Studies Virtual Symposium and receive the Zoom link for the event.

We are looking for proposals addressing current issues around global studies in the community college curriculum. What are you doing to bring local to global and global to local? How are you connecting AI to Global Studies? What are you doing on your campus to close inequality gaps as it relates to global studies?

Innovative Teaching & Learning:

(45 minutes for presentation and questions/conversation) – share curriculum design or teaching and assessing strategies

  • AI used to enhance global education

  • Projects partnered with businesses, organizations, K12, or the university

  • Virtual study abroad projects (such as COIL)

  • Faculty professional development opportunities

  • Collaborations with CTL, libraries, writing centers, and IT for global projects

  • Co-Authorship: Aiding New Perspectives

  • Utilizing the diversity in your classroom to enhance global education

  • Using global simulations, games, or role-playing in the classroom

  • Pedagogy: Incorporation of Nonwestern voices

  • Teaching using film, memoir, music, or other media

  • Using your own international/intercultural experiences in the classroom

  • OER (Open Educational Resources) references and ZTC (Zero Textbook Costs).

  • Teaching global competence through storytelling

  • Engaging students with global education in online courses

Submit Your Proposal Here

The priority deadline for proposals is November 30, 2024

We look forward to reading your proposals!

For any questions please contact: outreach@umn.edu

Sponsored by Title VI National Resource Centers at the Institute for Global Studies (IGS) – University of Minnesota and the Center for Global Studies (CGS) – The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, in collaboration with Green River College (WA) and Ridgewater College (MN).

About the Global Studies Virtual Symposium

The Global Studies Virtual Symposium connects global studies scholars across community college campuses, offering an engaging teaching and learning forum for sharing best practices, ideas, and resources with colleagues. This virtual conference is based around a different theme every year, always with the goal of giving community college faculty and staff a forum in which to share and discuss teaching and curricula as is it relates to global studies courses and programs offered on their respective campuses. The Global Studies Virtual Symposium is offered at no cost to participants and is open to higher education faculty, staff, and scholars.                                                                                                                                                                            The GSVS was inaugurated in 2019 and is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington, the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Green River College, and South Central College – North Mankato Campus. This program is made possible with the support of funding from the U.S. Department of Education through the Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) program.

Past Global Studies Virtual Symposium Events

2023 Symposium

The 2023 Global Studies Virtual Symposium was held on April 14, and April 28, 2023.

The Day 1 presentations all highlighted themes of internationalizing the curriculum at home. Day 1 of the virtual symposium had a focus on globalizing the curriculum, group roles in a global team, and  integrating global studies topics into technical courses. 

The Day 2 presentations all highlighted themes of exchange, study abroad, and study away. Day 2 highlighted presentations that focused on creative technology ideas, creating culturally responsive classrooms, data visualization to globalize the curriculum, as well as a virtual African exchange program on civic responsibility.

2022 Symposium

The 2022 Global Studies Virtual Symposium was held on April 22, 2022.

Presentations included topics such as resources to prepare students for work in our interconnected world, how international students are impacted by virtual learning, online study abroad technology, and inspiring equitable change through OERs in Global Studies.

2021 Symposium

The 2021 Global Studies Virtual Symposium was held on April 23, 2021.

This virtual one-day conference highlighted presentations that focused on global perspectives, sustainable development, strategic leadership, and civic engagement, and offered the opportunity for participants to share highlights from respective campus global studies programs/courses. After an opening remark discussing “What is Global Studies?” There were eleven community college presenters whose topics fell into the thematic categories of global studies, equity and inclusion, pedagogy, and study abroad.

2020 Symposium

The 2020 Global Studies Virtual Symposium was held on April 24, 2020.

The symposium highlighted presentations that had a focus in Muslim Democracy, expanding worldview in classrooms, the Middle East in Global Studies, engaging Muslim students, and life in the time of Coronavirus. There were eight presentations that included themes of inclusion, travel/study abroad, curriculum, and area studies.

Questions? Email Phil Shekleton (philross@uw.edu).