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This faculty professional development conference explores the topic of migration today through the lens of politics, economics, and climatic changes. The following recordings from the conference are available:

• Welcome by Dr. James A. Cook, Director, Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh
• Dr. Eleanor Gordon, "Migration, Conflict, Climate Change and Economic Inequalities: The Intersection of Crises and the Marginalization of Vulnerable Groups” (introduction by Veronica Dristas, Associate Director, Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh) 
• Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, "White Enclosures of the Transatlantic: Migration, Race, and Coloniality” (introduction by Dr. Erica Edwards, Associate Director, European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh)
• Dr. Meredith Oyen, "The Challenge of Chinese Migration across the U.S. Southern Border" (introduction by Dr. James Cook, Associate Director, Asian Studies Center)
• Dr. Innocent Badasu, “African Migration Experiences and the Socio-Political Conundrum for Social Change” (introduction by Dr. Macrina Lelei, Associate Director, Center for African Studies at the University of Pittsburgh)  

 
The Interdisciplinary Global Educators (IGE) working group provides a week-long opportunity for educators to work across disciplines with fellow colleagues to globalize a unit, lesson, or curriculum module or to develop a new curriculum that incorporates a global perspsective into the topic. This model invites students to examine political, economic, social, cultural, and ecological questions from multiple lenses. 
The first video in this collection is a contextualizing lecture on Global Studies by Dr. Michael Goodheart introduces educators to the Interdsciplinary Global Educators (IGE) working group program. 
The second video is by IGE educator participant Maura Doyle, who discusses teaching the novels Purple Hibiscus and Things Fall Apart across the disciplines of Social Studies and ELA using a global lens. 
The third video is by veteran educator Cindy McNulty, who provides pedagogical content, strategies, and resources for teaching through a global lens.
The fourth video is by Ellis School 3rd and 4th grade teachers Jen Lakin, Holly Mawn, and Jessica Nolan, who discuss teaching about the theme of Immigration across grade levels and through a global lens.
The fifth video is by Pittsburgh Public School teachers Kathleen Accamando, Rachel Milliron, and Ashanti York who present on their curriculum project, "The Global Lens of Myths Through Time."
The fifth video is by Sewickley Academy teachers Michael-Ann Cerniglia and Tracy Wazenegger who share their curriculum project, "Gameification for Modern World History"
 

This presentation was part of the 2021 Summer Institute for Global Studies and was recorded on July 27, 2021. Its length is 1:22:18.
Presenter:

• Amy Alznauer, author

Video of talk by Dr. Diego Holstein, Director of the World History Center, University of Pittsburgh. Delivered at the workshop, "Mobilizing People, Students and Ideas: Social Movements across the Globe and in the Undergraduate Curriculum," held at the Community College of Beaver County on April 10, 2015.

In this presentation, author and University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms Scholarship recipient, Amy Alznauer, offers ways to incorporate themes from her book about two boys who persevere through the upheavals of China's Cultural Revolution in the 1970s by painting together.