Faculty Development International Seminar

Faculty Exchange Program

Visiting International Faculty Program

Faculty Development International Seminar

The Faculty Development International Seminar engages up to 15 Macalester faculty in a three-week intensive seminar and research with overseas colleagues. The seventh seminar, "The Israeli- Palestinian IMpasse: Dialogic Transformations" is scheduled to take place in the Middle East in May/June 2008.

The format and content of the seminar is designed to fit the intellectual and cross-cultural interests of both Macalester College and our host partners. It focuses on selected themes of great importance to the region, while also providing some insights into other issues in the sciences, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.

The proceedings of the seminars, in the form of commissioned papers by scholars from the host region and meditative essays by Macalester participants, are published in the College journal of international studies, the Macalester International.

Previous Faculty Development International Seminars include:

• 2006 - Communism in Chinese History: Reflections on the Past and Fuure of the PRC" - China
• 2004 - "Hybrid Geographies in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from the Bosphorus" - Turkey
• 2002 - "Malaysia: Crossroads of Diversity in Southeast Asia" - Malaysia
• 2000 – "Transformation and Multiculturalism in the New Millennium” – South Africa
• 1997 – “Landscape, Culture and Globalization: Views from Brazil” - Brazil
• 1995 – “Transition and Globalization in Central and Eastern Europe” - Hungary

Macalester College Participant List: 1995-2004
Representing 22 Academic Departments & 4 Administrative Offices

For more information about the Faculty Development International Seminar, please contact Dean Ahmed Samatar, samatar@macalester.edu, or Mr. Michael Monahan, monahan@macalester.edu .

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