OSU Area Studies Centers to present Global Teacher Seminar June 27-30

The Area Studies Centers at OSU will present "Global Competency and the UN's Global Goals" Monday, June 27 - Thursday, June 30 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. online (registration required). This 30-hour seminar also includes:

Orientation (May 11, 2022 - evening, ET)
Asynchronous work
Follow up session (Fall 2022)

This seminar is designed to develop global competencies in students across the nation by creating a cohort of diverse, globally competent, K-12 pre-service and new teachers prepared and inspired to teach about global topics. The Global Competency Cohort will start in Spring 2022 with synchronous orientation and asynchronous development of background knowledge supporting global competencies. The cohort will gather virtually in the Summer for intensive seminars featuring discussions with regional experts focusing on UN Sustainability Development Goals in the regions of East Asia, Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. These 17 Global Goals are grouped into 5 Ps (People, Prosperity, Planet, Peace, and Partnership). During and after the Summer seminar, the cohort will develop teaching tools for use in the classroom. In Autumn 2022 a final speaker and networking session with in-service teachers will support feedback and discussion regarding challenges to classroom implementation.

Teachers will receive a certificate of completion with 30 contact hours and 3 CEUs after completing all aspects (orientation, asynchronous activities, summer seminar and follow up), receive curriculum resources, and a $100 stipend for completing a lesson plan by August 1. The seminar is open to both pre-service and in-service teachers and is free of charge.

The priority application deadline is April 30.

EASC to present NCTA Seminar July 11-22

The East Asian Studies Center will present "East Asia 101: Mapping Past & Present: Spirits & Beasts of East Asia" Monday, July 11 - Friday, July 22 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. online (registration required). This free seminar is open to educators, administrators, and pre-service teachers in Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It includes:


Orientation May/June 2022 (evening, online)
Synchronous and asynchronous sessions
$200 stipend, $200 teaching materials, 36 contact hours
2.0 hours graduate credit available for an extra fee
Follow up session in Sept/Oct 2022 (Saturday, online)

Our virtual journey will introduce East Asia’s diverse cultures and environment while building and enhancing your tool chest of teaching resources for the classroom. Focusing on the regions that comprise present-day China, Japan, and Korea, participants will engage with experts and other educators in the field to explore major trends, global issues, and historic foundations that shape East Asian society. Join us in this free online seminar as we map the impact of these transnational forces in and beyond East Asia through the lenses of geography, art, religion, literature, and more! This year’s theme looks at the region from the legendary characters of myth and manga to the figurative demons of disease and war, as the contours of East Asia have been defined by its spirits and beasts, real and imagined, from time immemorial.

The priority application deadline is April 30.

Julia Keblinska to present on transition from late socialism to early post-socialism in Poland and China on April 22

As part of the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, Julia Keblinska will present "Pulpy Archives" on Friday, April 22 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. online (registration required). Katherine Borland and Angela Brintlinger of Ohio State will serve as moderators.

Keblinska's project is a media archaeology that seeks to understand the transition from late socialism to early post-socialism in Poland and China through the “pulpy archive” — informal collections of cheap texts and obsolete media objects that they discovered and those that they assembled in their dissertation research on 1980s and 90s China and their postdoctoral comparative project on China and Poland in the same decades.

New Critical Language Scholarship opportunity for academic year 2022-2023