“As we consider how we can deepen and increase the impact of our work in the Year of Global Engagement, we must approach our collective international engagement work with curiosity, an open mind, and a desire to learn from our partners, their culture, their practices and, most importantly, their values.“
–Valeria Bertacco, Vice Provost for Engaged Learning
Year 2 initiatives will be amplified and supported by Year of Global Engagement events and programs.
The Global Engagement Strategic Plan, launched in Autumn 2023 by the Vice Provost for Engaged Learning, aims to increase and diversify student participation in international experiences through four strategic initiatives:
Get involved in the Year of Global Engagement through these internationally-focused campus events and programs.
Date: 10/01/2024 – DEI@UMSI Community Conversation: Diverse Perspectives on Elections
Date: 10/01/2024 – DEI@UMSI Community Conversation: Diverse Perspectives on Elections
Date: 10/01/2024 – PICS International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Date: 10/03/2024 – PICS Career Event: Conversation with Hardy Vieux
Date: 10/04/2024 – Program for International and Comparative Studies
Date: 10/08/2024 – Center for Emerging Democracies Roundtable on “Unequal Democracies”
Date: 10/08/2024 – Meet the Diplomat in Residence
Date: 10/08/2024 – CGIS Study Abroad Fair
Date: 10/09/2024 – Global Scholars Program Application
Date: 10/09/2024 – African International Student Experiences: A Dialogue with Filmmaker, Arthur Musah
Date: 10/09/2024 – “Brief Tender Light” Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker
Date: 10/19/2024 – Global Citizenship in Practice; Global Citizenship in an Age of Democratic Peril
Date: 10/21/2024 – WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Verses from a Nation in Transition. Ukraine in Photographs by Joseph Sywenkyj
Date: 10/22/2024 – Miracolo a Milano Film Screening II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus
Date: 10/22/2024 – First-Generation Education Abroad Scholarship
Date: 10/22/2024 – Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk on “Democracy in Darkness”
Date: 10/23/2024 – Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Readings by Marianna Kiyanovska, moderated by Alex Averbuch
Date: 10/29/2024 – Liminal Beings, Machine Learning, Health, and Women’s Electoral Participation
Date: 10/31/2024 – 31st Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
Date: 11/01/2024 – Religiosity, Subalterns, and Mathematical Learning Outcomes
Date: 11/03/2024 – ELECTION Double Film Feature: “First Vote” and “Chosen”
Date: 11/04/2024 – Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Migration and Narration
Date: 11/05/2024 – Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture. “They Vowed Never to Return:” Armenian Transatlantic Mobility and Abandoned Ottomans
Date: 11/07/2024 – Making “MENA”: Histories of the “Middle East,” Race, and the US Census
Date: 11/11/2024 – WCEE Roundtable. Europe’s Polarized Political Landscape: Discussion on European Elections
Date: 11/13/2024 – Donia Human Rights Center Panel Discussion | Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: International Perspectives
Date: 11/18/2024 – Sudan: In The Eyes of the Storm
Date: 11/18/2024 – Trans and Nonbinary Passport Clinic
Date: 11/18/2024 – Ross International Fair
Date: 11/19/2024 – I Vitelloni Film Screening II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus
Date: 11/20/2024 – 2024 U-M Global Photo Showcase
Date: 11/20/2024 – CREES Noon Lecture. Political Anxieties in the Caucasus: the Georgian National Narrative Between War and Peace
Date: 11/21/2024 – Needs of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Context of Contemporary Political Processes and Social Modernization Trends
Date: 11/22/2024 – Global Health & Development Career Panel
Date: 12/04/2024 – CREES Noon Lecture. All Art is a Political Statement
Date: 12/10/2024 – Summer Study Abroad Apps Now Open