Tatsushi Arai recently published “Give Peace a Channel: Launching an International Satellite TV Channel for Conflict Resolution Dialogue”. Media Development 3 (2009). Tats also presented a series in Washington DC on his new book Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace at World Learning, American University’s School of International Service, George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. October 12-13, 2009. (More events to come!) Graduate News: October 2009 Page 6
Karen Blanchard will be travelling to Ethiopia in December to continue engagement with five colleagues (an Ethiopian and 4 RPCV’s) on an educational improvement project in Arsi Province, beginning with the school they were part of when volunteers in the 60’s.
Paula Green has been invited by the President of Naropa University to serve as the Spring 2010 Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Distinguished Lecturer in Buddhist Studies and American Culture & Values at Naropa University. Naropa is the recipient of a multi-year grant from the Lenz Foundation, which supports scholarships, a training program in contemplative pedagogy for faculty from throughout the country, a residential fellowship program, and the distinguished speaker series. Paula will be meeting informally with students and faculty, lecturing in a few classes and delivering the official public and published lecture.
Jim Levinson worked on nutrition and food security for the Gates Foundation in Ghana this past summer. He also taught a course on monitoring and evaluation at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is working closely with the newly developed Children’s Investment Fund Foundation based in London.
Elka Todeva recently edited The Multiple Realities of Multilingualism: Personal Narratives and Researchers’ Perspectives along with Jasone Cenoz. This book is the very first collection of first-person language learning narratives that offers rich introspective data on the various processes and forces shaping the development and maintenance of multiple languages (seven and more) in a single individual. The writers are twelve multilinguals who have been influenced by quite different contextual factors and who have learned a wide range and combination of dialects and languages from both similar and very different linguistic families.
Diane Larsen-Freeman was selected to receive an honorary doctorate from the Hellenic American University. Diane was an MAT professor at SIT for many years, and was the commencement speaker at our last graduation.
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