Projects in Luso-Brazilian Studies - Call for Proposals | Academic Year 2020-2021
 

The Atlanta Global Studies Center and the Georgia State University Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies seek proposals from teachers and faculty to develop projects in Lusophone / Luso-Brazilian Studies that introduce students to Lusophone languages and cultures and connect students to enriching learning experiences, study abroad, internship, and/or career opportunities.

Proposals should describe projects that will result in engaging experiences for students, online content, reproducible teaching and classroom materials, and/or assessment tools. Preference will be given to projects that develop online teaching tools and/or virtual exchange opportunities for students in AY21-22.

A total of two awards up to $2000 each will be granted. More information.

Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC) Call for Proposals

AGSC is delighted to announce the AGREC Academic Year 2021-22 Call for Proposals and to welcome KSU to the Collaborative this year (see the news release). 

Housed within the Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), AGREC is comprised of six universities:

• AGSC, a partnership of Georgia Tech and Georgia State University
• Emory University’s Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives 
• Agnes Scott College’s SUMMIT Center for Global Learning and Leadership Development
• Spelman College’s Gordon Zeto Center for Global Education
• Kennesaw State University
  
  AGREC seeks to build and strengthen collaborative networks of multi-institutional scholars and practitioners to support global research and education initiatives in the Greater Atlanta region. 

AGREC Call for proposals: Connecting globally while grounded at home (2021-2022)
Due: July 1, 2021
AGREC invites scholars to submit collaborative projects across disciplines, institutions, and universities that address a need in our global and local communities. This call aims to address topics with a global connection while being grounded locally. Scholars and practitioners may examine a local and global problem in the form of research, workshop, forum, or suggest another approach by collaborating with an organization in Atlanta or a population group that has a global dimension.
Preference will be given to innovative, transformative collaborative research and education projects in global engagement with significant emphasis on their potential to develop new and strategic sustainable relationships among partners (e.g. universities, companies, NGOs, community organizations) and their impact on Atlanta communities.
Call for Proposals [PDF] | Online Application 
View funded projects during AY 2020-21 cycle

Virtual Info Session:
Tue. April 6 | 9:00-10:00 am | https://bluejeans.com/58258876 

Due: April 9

The Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), in collaboration with our campus partners, is delighted to co-sponsor the “Sustainability Student Champion Award,” a new and exciting initiative of the Office of Campus Sustainability. 
 
The Award recognizes a student who demonstrates sustainability leadership with a lasting impact on campus culture and institutional sustainability progress. A Sustainability Student Champion leads by example through inspiration, action, and achievement of sustainability goals. Nominations and self-nominations are due April 9th.
 
The winner will receive the following recognition as a contribution of their sustainability leadership:

• $500
• Recognition by executive leadership at an Earth Week Celebration event on Monday, April 19th
• Achievements posted on OCS’s website, social media and campus newsletters

 Learn More

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Race Beyond Borders presents
Roundtable Discussion: "Student Views on Inclusion in the Global Workplace"
Friday, April 16 | 12:00-1:00 pm
Register Here

With Atlanta’s growth as a global business hub, corporate initiatives on diversity, equity and social justice are intersecting in new ways with their mandate to cultivate a culturally competent workforce.

A new sense of urgency seems to have gripped the business community with the racial reckoning after George Floyd’s death and the inequities spotlighted by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

As one of the most concentrated higher education hubs in the U.S., Atlanta is graduating thousands of increasingly diverse future workers who demand bold action on these crucial issues. And with a worker shortage already taking hold in some sectors, how well companies can meet students’ demands for meaningful social action in their workplace will become a competitiveness issue.

Are companies ready for this new recruitment reality? Are students empowered to make their voices heard? Or does a diversity divide persist?

Join us for a lively, honest conversation with Atlanta-area students.

More speakers to be confirmed!



Learn more about the event and Race Beyond Borders initiative here.

 
Annual Atlanta Global Studies Symposium
"A Vision of Global Resilience Guided by the UN SDGs"
April 20-23, 2021 (Online)

The annual Atlanta Global Studies Symposium addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and brings together educators, researchers, corporate, civic, and community partners, graduate students, and undergraduate students to discuss topics of global and local significance and to foster interdisciplinary collaboration across universities. Atlanta Global Studies Center is a consortium of Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University and works closely with units at Emory University, Spelman College, Agnes Scott College, Kennesaw State University, University of Georgia, University of North Georgia, and the Georgia Department of Education.

The 2021 Atlanta Global Studies Symposium will connect audiences to experts on various topics, including social justice, global health, Race Beyond Borders, international education, diplomacy, peace education, and building university-community-based organization partnership for SDGs among others. The goals of the Symposium are to explore the lessons the past year has taught us about global interdependence, to celebrate our individual and collective resilience, and to support each other and the communities we serve through interdisciplinary collaboration.   

This event would not be possible without our civic, community, and private sector partners in the region and beyond, including Global Atlanta, RCE Greater Atlanta, and the City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of International Affairs. 

The detailed event schedule can be found here
Program details with virtual meeting links will be sent to your email when you register

Decolonizing Global Health Series Event with Emory Global Health Institute and Race Beyond Borders

• Osama Tanous, MD, MPH, 2020 Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow
• Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-chair, Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice
• Kelly Callahan, MPH, Director, Trachoma Control Program, The Carter Center
• Moderator: Dr. Jennie Ward-Robinson, Director of Operations and Outreach, Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora, Georgia State University
  
  Breakout rooms facilitated by Emory and GSU faculty and graduate students.

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Tuesday, April 20 | 5:30-6:30pm

Keynote Dr. Elizabeth F. Cohen
Illegal: How America’s Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All

US immigration enforcement agencies routinely stalk the undocumented, terrorize legal immigrants and mixed-status families, and even trespass on the constitutional rights of citizens. Elizabeth F. Cohen will narrate the country’s descent into anti-immigrant panic, tracing the origins of our obsession with illegality to the country’s first comprehensive immigration restriction law. She will speak about how past legislation can help us confront this crisis of corruption and abuse and what to expect from the new administration.
 

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Wednesday, April 21 | 4-5:30pm 

USAID Opportunities for Faculty and Graduate Student Researchers under the Research Technical Assistance Center

• Sutherland Miller III, Project Director, NORC at the University of Chicago; USAID Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)
• Gabriela Alcaraz, Research Director, USAID Research and Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)

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Wednesday, April 21 | 10:30 - 11:30am

Celebrating Atlanta's Global Youth Professionals: Global Talent for a Global City

Presented by the Atlanta Mayor's Office of International Affairs and the Greater Atlanta Coalition for Global Education and Research (GAcGEAR)

Talk to a panel of Metro Atlanta students and alumni who are working or have worked in global-oriented internships and positions. Learn how they landed internships and what they discovered along the way. Hear about the challenges and rewards of working in a globally connected environment and find out where these panelists are going next!

• Justice Victoria Frederick, Spelman College, Intern at the Webster University AIMS Program (Athens, Greece)
• Marquis Daly, B.A. in Psychology, Georgia State University, Class of 2020, Intern at the Japan-America Society of Georgia
• Neta Kanny, M.S. in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Georgia Tech, Class of 2020
• Interns from the City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of International Affairs

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Wednesday, April 21 | 1:00 - 2:30pm

Presented by the RCE Greater Atlanta's Higher Education Learning Community

Building Partnerships for SDGs: Academics and Nonprofit Organizations Reflect on Collaboration Opportunities and Challenges

This session aims to expand understanding of university-community-based organization (CBO) partnerships in Atlanta and beyond related to the UN SDGs, provide opportunities, strengthen partnership networks locally, nationally, globally, and help clarify and confront the challenges associated with university-CBO partnerships. Envision new and creative ways of addressing these challenges and growing CBO-university partnerships.

• Eboni Preston, Director of Operations, Greening Youth Foundation
• Judy Yi, Director of Outreach and Marketing, Trees Atlanta
• Deborah Scott, Executive Director, Georgia Stand-Up
• Jongdae Kim, Executive Director, Re’Generation
• Michael Elliott, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Representative of the Mahila Housing Project
• Response from Henry Sanoff, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, North Carolina State University
• Moderator: Mine Hashas-Degertekin, Associate Professor of Architecture, Kennesaw State University

Wednesday, April 21 | 2:35 - 4pm: RCE Youth Panel

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April 22 | 10:30-12 pm

Taking the Next Step in Advancing Atlanta Peace Education, Research Collaborations, and Careers of the Future

Presented as part of the Atlanta Peace Education and Research Initiative,  this roundtable will chart the next steps for concrete collaboration around innovative curricula, research collaboration, and public-private sector partnerships that address SDG-16 "Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions."

• Michael Best, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing;  Director of Research at Georgia Tech – Shenzhen
• Renee Bricker, Professor of History, University of North Georgia
• Christine S. Cozzens, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College; Charles A. Dana Professor of English, Agnes Scott College
• Yi Deng, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Georgia
• Robbie Lieberman, Coordinator of Peace Studies and Professor of American Studies, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Kennesaw State University
• Michael Proulx, Associate Professor Ancient Mediterranean World, Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy, University of North Georgia
• Moderator: Anna Stenport, Professor of Global Studies, Chair of the School of Modern Languages; Founding Co-Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, Georgia Tech

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Thursday, April 22nd, 1-2:30pm 

Achieving UN SDGs for Ethnolinguistic Populations in and from Burma/Myanmar

• Dr. Kyle Anderson, Senior Director of Global Engagement, Clemson University
• Eh Nay Thaw, Advocacy Coordinator for the Karen Organization of America
• Ayub Mohammed, Burmese Rohingya Community of Georgia
• Dr. Wakar Uddin, Founding Chairman of Burmese Rohingya Association of North America and Professor, Pennsylvania State University
• Moderator: Myra Dahgaypaw, Managing Director, U.S. Campaign for Burma

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Friday, April 23rd

10:30-12pm  The Future of Global Diplomacy around the World in the Biden Era - Part 1

• Consul of Greece in Atlanta, Theodoros Dimopoulos 
• Consul General of Brazil in Atlanta, Carlos Henrique Moojen de Abreu e Silva
• Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the U.N., Louise Blais
• Moderator: Dr. Anthony Lemieux

1-2:30pm  The Future of Global Diplomacy around the World in the Biden Era - Part 2

• Dr. Allen Fromherz, Director, GSU Middle East Studies Center
• Dr. Louis Ruprecht, Director, GSU Center for Hellenic Studies
• Dr. Ryan Carlin, Director, GSU Center for Human Rights and Democracy
• Dr. Leslie Marsh, Director, GSU Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies

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Friday, April 23rd | 3:30-5:00pm 

Race Beyond Borders Keynote Address 

March 22 - May 31 | 9:00am - 4:00pm
From Aurich to Atlanta, a new bilingual exhibition at the Georgia Tech Library showcases the life and work of Bauhaus-educated designer Hin Bredendieck in both English and his native German. The physical exhibition runs from March 22 through May 31 in the Georgia Tech Library's exhibit space, located on the first floor of the S. Price Gilbert Memorial Library. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. Additionally, three virtual events are planned for April.

The events featuring Bredendieck's former students, a conversation between curators of the event, and authors of the book on which the exhibit are based are virtual.

Parking is located at the North Avenue Area 1 visitor parking lot and Student Center Area 2 parking lot.

Events in Coordination with the Exhibit: 

Panel Discussion with Former Students of Hin Bredendieck  
Saturday, April 3 | 12:00 EST 
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/143801619515

Curator Conversation: Hin Bredendieck: From Aurich to Atlanta with Rainer Stamm & Kirk Henderson
Thursday, April 8 | 11:00am EST
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140082978961 

Book Talk:  Hin Bredendieck: From Aurich to Atlanta with Gloria Köpnick & Rainer Stamm 
Sunday, April 25 | 12:00pm EST
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140085626881

This event is hosted by the Georgia Tech Library and the Landesmuseum Oldenburg (Oldenburg State Museum for Art and Cultural History) with sponsorship from the Halle Foundation. Collaborators include Dr. Jennifer Gerndt, the Consulate General of Germany, and the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design. Special thanks to the family and former students of Hin Bredendieck for their contributions to this exhibit.