Summer Institute Colloquium 2009
July 20, 2009
Senior Common Room, 021 Winters College
Magda Lewis, Queens University
11:30AM – 12:00PM
Magda Lewis completed her Ph.D. at the OISE/University of Toronto. Since 1989, when she was appointed Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, she has been teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programme at the Faculty of Education. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of Cultural Studies, Feminist and Critical Social Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Social Class, Race, Gender and Sexuality in Education/Schooling Contexts, and more recently, the commodification of knowledge, education, and schooling on a global scale. Her research and teaching commitments are to making marginality visible and social transformation possible.
Agostino Portera, University of Verona, Italy
12:00PM – 12:30PM
Agostino Portera studied Psychology in Rome and completed his Ph.D. in education at the University of Freiburg (Germany). He is professor of intercultural education, director of the Department of Educational Science and head of the Centre for Intercultural Studies in the University of Verona (Italy). He has published books and articles on immigration, identity, intercultural education and intercultural competence. His latest book, Globalizzazione e pedagogia interculturale, addresses opportunities for intervention in schools. He is co-editing, with C.A. Grant, the book: Multicultural and Intercultural Education for the Global World (Routledge).
A light lunch will be served.
August 6, 2009
Senior Common Room, 021 Winters College
Robin Hemley, University of Iowa, USA
3:00PM – 3:30PM
Robin Hemley is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and has taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Western Washington University, St. Lawrence University, Vermont College, and the University of Utah. He is presently the Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his most recent book Do Over!, and won an Independent Press Book Award for Nonfiction for his memoir Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art And Madness (Graywolf, 1998). Professor Hemley was also Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review for five years.
Katherin Berdelmann, PH Freiburg, Germany
3:30PM – 4:00PM
Kathrin Berdelmann currently teaches and is involved in numerous research projects at the University of Education in Freiburg. Her recently completed Ph.D. thesis investigated the importance of sychronicity and asynchronicity of time structures in educational processes. Since 2005 she has taught in the Bachelor of Arts and Diploma progammes, and since 2009 she has worked in the teacher education programme. Her research interests include teaching-learning-interactions, the role of time in educational transactions/interactions, the time-complexity of teaching-learning processes, adult education, and visual methods in qualitative research.
The presentations will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.
For further information, please contact:
The Graduate Program in Education
416-736-5018
gradprogram@edu.yorku.ca