PISA’s Spring Conference
Conferences wait for no undecided bodies in space! Therefore, the deadline for all suggestions and ideas from the Comparative Student Body is Friday September 30th. We invite you to submit possible themes, topics and speakers you might want to have. Please engage in this debate as the conference represents all of the students and not just our officers. Thanks!
Even thought spring seems eons away, it will creep up sooner that we expect. Therefore, planning for the Spring 2006 Comparative Studies Conference is on the way. Our first concern is a theme for our conference. When thinking on a theme, we want to make sure that all academic tracts within the Comparative Studies Program are represented (i.e. PI, LLL and the Art’s tract). With this in mind, we welcome all suggestions for this year’s theme. Please use the “comment section” of this post to submit ideas and thoughts about this year’s conference. We are hoping to have a formal “forum” for the conference set up soon.
Thanks, your PISA Officers
posted by Unknown @ 2:26 PM
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5 Comments:
What about something to do with education--in the classroom and beyond.
How About "Protesting Faces of War in America"
From Lois:
Instead of a themed conference and the attendant worry of whether the theme is too narrow or too broad to draw appropriate interest, how about developing it into an annual graduate conference in comparative studies? A graduate conference would draw paper presentations from grad students around the country, presenting in arts, humanities, cultural studies, social issues, social sciences,all the interdisciplines represented in our program. The University of California-Riverside has a good model in its annual disjunctions conference in the humanities. There are 50-100 panels over two days of a weekend when there are lots of rooms available on campus. They also schedule a student film festival, performances/readings and an art exhibit. Their keynote speaker this year was from a neighboring institution. I have the UCR program and panel lineups if anyone is interested in perusing it. A multi-disciplinary graduate conference would require coordination and involvement from many departments; it might give our program a stronger working relationship with a broader array of faculties and students at FAU.
These are all wonderful suggestions, keep them coming. On our next official meeting, we will be discussing all of them and hopefully coming to a decision. So keep up all the good thinking here. R
Although I think looking at a theme for next year is (2007) is a good idea and should be explored, I also think that it needs to be a second priority as we still have not settled on the theme for 2006. However early as this is, I believe that if we set the theme by the end of this school year for the 2007 conference, we all will be saving a great deal of time and grief for whoever will end up becoming the new officers for 2006-2007. So, I suggest we keep your fantastic idea on the backburner until spring and then, before summer approaches, maybe set the stage for the 2007 conference. It is a very good idea to have the theme chosen before hand as it will allow folks to organize earlier.
What does everyone else think about this? And, don’t forget, September 30th is the deadline to submit your ideas for the 2006 conference! R
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