Session One- 8:30 am - 9:45 am
Panel One: Issues of Identity and Translation in Poetry
Chinese Detainees’ Ghostly Poems in Angel Island: Lonely Voices, Alien Discourse, and Collective Identity
Heping Zhao, California State University, United States
Muhammad Kamran, Punjab University, Pakistan
Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R China
Heping Zhao, California State University, United States
- Abstract: This paper categorizes and analyzes some of the poems by Chinese detainees in Angel Island. It intends to show how each of these poems contributed to the collective identity of Chinese emigrants to America in the early 20th century.
Muhammad Kamran, Punjab University, Pakistan
- Abstract: This article presents a critical study of the problems associated with language translation. It highlights the variety of the cultures of South Asia and the history of the translation of Urdu poetry in English.
Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R China
- Abstract: In this this paper the author examines Kimiko Hahn’s poetry, with particular emphasis on her use of “translation” as a primary mode of intertextual writing, to enhance our understanding of the transnational or transcultural dimension of Asian American literature.
Panel Two: Cyberculture, Technology, and the Classroom
Building Course Cohesion - Investigating the use of Online Forums in the Open University's first Chinese Course
Qian Kan, Open University, United Kingdom
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
Luminiţa Cocârţă Andrei, AI. I. Cuza University, Romania
Qian Kan, Open University, United Kingdom
- Abstract: This paper investigates the role of online forums in distance language learning. Reporting on the first phase of a study on the use of online forums in the Open University’s first Chinese course for beginners, it aims at theorizing, as well as analyzing, asynchronous dialogues.
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
- Abstract: This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study conducted in an online informal learning environment (Grey, 2004). It concludes that the chatrooms have great potential for informal learning but need proper management for best effects.
Luminiţa Cocârţă Andrei, AI. I. Cuza University, Romania
- Abstract: Based on our teaching of specialized languages, especially Business English, this paper shows how adopting a new curriculum focused on the students’ needs and implementing new teaching and evaluation methods and techniques have had mainly positive effects on the students and teachers involved in distance learning.
Panel Three: Border Crossings - Politics and Cultural Elitism
Border Crossing and “The End of History”To Include or to Exclude: Intellectual Elitism and Elitism of Cultures
Asiya Ikhsanova,Hebei Tourism Vocational College, P.R. China
Asiya Ikhsanova,Hebei Tourism Vocational College, P.R. China
- Abstract: The purpose of this study is to draw parallels between two kinds of elitism: intellectual elitism and elitism of cultures. There is a possibility that intellectual elitism could be regarded as an elitism of cultures on a smaller scale and used for the examination of the latter phenomenon.
SESSION TWO – 10:00 am -11:15 am
Panel One: Border Skirmishes: Transcendence and Violence in Enacted Reading
On Thinking; or Movement, Boundaries, and the Trans …
Jeremy Fernando, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
John Richard Tangney, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lim Lee Ching, SIM University, Singapore
Jeremy Fernando, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to
examine the abstract notion of relationality that is central to the very idea
of crossing borders between two cultures.
John Richard Tangney, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Abstract: From both Platonic and Epicurean points of view, this paper looks at how both literature and film use the crossing or occupation of physical borders to depict the transcendence of physical states.
Lim Lee Ching, SIM University, Singapore
- Abstract: This paper examines the way in which Coetzee’s novel Foe engages the ideas of cultural and ideological borders as a deliberate approach to achieving a kind of universal value that accords the novel universal relevance.
Panel Two: Literature and Culture in Poetry
Supernatural Border Crossings: The Inter-Dimensional Presence as Poetry Motif
Annie Christain, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
Gary Stephens, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Annie Christain, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
- Abstract: In this paper the author discusses a form of border crossing that some consider real and some consider imagined, through a reading of poems related to alien folklore and UFO sightings.
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
- Abstract: In this paper the author draws upon the poetry of Second-Wave Feminists to examine ambiguities inherent in complex issues associated with gender borders and gender discrimination.
Gary Stephens, New York Institute of Technology, United States
- Abstract: This paper explores the
influence of Chinese Thought and Classical Chinese Poetic Language on
the mature style of the poetry of W.S. Merwin (present poet
laureate of the United
States).
Panel Three: Culture and Linguistics – The Study of Language
Crossing the Age Divide –- Event -Related Potential Evidence against the Critical Period Hypothesis
Margaret Gillon Dowens, University of Nottingham Ningbo, P.R. China
Chen Furong, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, P.R. China
Tim Smith, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Margaret Gillon Dowens, University of Nottingham Ningbo, P.R. China
- Abstract: In this paper we present empirical results from an electrophysiological (EEG) study of L2 syntax processing in groups of highly proficient late (adult) L2 learners. Our findings will argue against the Critical Period Hypothesis and indicate that age of acquisition is not the only relevant factor in second language acquisition.
Chen Furong, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, P.R. China
- Abstract: This paper discusses cultural differences existing in translation and considers various approaches to solving problems arising from cultural barriers in translation.
Tim Smith, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
- Abstract: This paper explores some of the implications of Zhuangzi’s bian (“rhetorical style”) and how this informs his ming (“illumination”), or philosophy, with emphasis on the relevance of Zhuangzi's “poetic-paradox” and its import to his positions on truth, meaning, and language.
SESSION THREE – 1:00 pm- 2:15 pm
Panel One: Identity and Border Crossing in the Arts
Across Borders/Across Cultures: The Chinese American Family in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Qijun Han, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Frohar Poya Faryabi, University College London, England
Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Qijun Han, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Abstract: This paper seeks to address how the cultural identity of Chinese father in the United States is represented, constructed and negotiated, and in particular the role of memory and language in the formation of identity in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, a film directed by Hong Kong-born and US-educated filmmaker Wayne Wang.
Frohar Poya Faryabi, University College London, England
- Abstract: This paper explores the notions of “otherness” and “crossing cultures” among refugees and migrants throughout the world through an examination of a variety of British Asian films.
Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
- Abstract: This paper analyzes how autism reframes communication and
social norms in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
that allows for a reevaluation of the communication difficulties the narrator,
Susan Barton, encounters. In reframing communication, autism uncovers entrenched
social norms and value-laden judgments placed on silence. In turn, Coetzee’s
novel conceives a space that allows for the authenticity of difference, where
Friday can express himself in his own fashion.
Panel Two: Stereotypes and Difference in the Classroom
Redefining Borders – A Step towards Inclusion
Sheila Christopher & K Geetha, Holy Cross College, India.
Helen Rodnite Lemay, Stony Brook University, United States
Wai-Chi Chee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R.China
Sheila Christopher & K Geetha, Holy Cross College, India.
- Abstract: This paper analyzes and highlights the significance of including students with special needs in a regular class room, as is demonstrated in some Indian schools.
Helen Rodnite Lemay, Stony Brook University, United States
- Abstract: In this paper the author explores both the difficulties encountered and rewards gained by various complex interactions of university undergraduates, local public high school students, and counselors and clients of the AIDS Service Center of New York City.
Wai-Chi Chee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R.China
- Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how different migration motives shape the perception and interpretation of these migrant students towards immigrating to and studying in Hong Kong and how such perception and interpretation in turn shape their learning and contribute to their academic success/failure.
Panel Three: Multicultural Classrooms and Intercultural Communication
Roles and Expectations in the Multicultural Classroom
Hanne Tange, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Imad Ghazzawi, Saudi Arabia
Deniss TC Yeung, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Hanne Tange, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Abstract: Drawing on qualitative research interviews performed with 36 employees at five Danish faculties, this paper reveals important differences in the way that local lecturers and international students perceive “good” teaching and learning practices.
Imad Ghazzawi, Saudi Arabia
- Abstract: This presentation will discuss the importance of cross cultural/inter-cultural training and demonstrate how to design and deliver an effective cultural training package to foreign scholarship candidates.
Deniss TC Yeung, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
- Abstract: This paper discusses the preferred study methods of Chinese students based on the research findings involving Chinese students studying in the School of Business, Wintec.
SESSION FOUR – 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Panel One: Traveling and Living Abroad: Acculturation, Travel Writing, and Imaginary Homelands
Is It Worth it?: Living and Growing Beyond Borders
Yang Yang, Florida International University, United States
Manisha Anand Patil, Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Science, India
Chu YinHua, University of Westminster, England
Yang Yang, Florida International University, United States
- Abstract: Via the case study of the narratives by four expatriates, this paper examines how expatriates perceive their cross-cultural experiences. It aims to gain a deep understanding of expatriates’ cross-cultural adaptation through their viewpoints, which provide valuable information about cross-cultural communication process and a foundation for those who plan to live overseas in the future.
Manisha Anand Patil, Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Science, India
- Abstract: This paper attempts to study the postcolonial travel literature in Marathi. It is an attempt to study the effects of globalization on travel literature with special reference to following sample texts: Maze London (My London) by Meena Prabhu, and Patalachi Londonwari (Patil’s London trip) by Anand Pati.
Chu YinHua, University of Westminster, England
- Abstract: This presentation takes mise-en-scène in photography as a devised methodology to perceive and experience the ‘imagined city’, to examine the detail of architecture and the domestic in order to find its hidden secrets that exist in our memories, fantasies and imagination.
Panel Two: Building Intercultural Identities - Case studies at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Get involved! How to Generate Initial Motivation through Reading and Listening Activities Based on CEFR and ELP Purposes
Filippo Gilardi and James Reid, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Giovanna Comerio, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Pablo Encinas Arquero, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Filippo Gilardi and James Reid, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
- Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe how the French Language curriculum at the University of Nottingham at Ningbo has been reorganized to improve the communicative language competences of students and encourage student motivation.
Giovanna Comerio, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
- Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show how students can develop a “sense of self” as a bridge between their own native culture and the new language culture through a guided process occurring during foreign language learning.
Pablo Encinas Arquero, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
- Abstract: In
this paper, the author discusses a number of pedagogic implications to ease the
task of teaching figurative language to Chinese students in the Spanish L2
classroom
Panel Three: Border Crossings in Literature and in the Teaching of Writing
Lower Silesia – Literary Emanations (1945-2010)
Andrzej Goworski, Wrocław University, Poland
Adrian Matthew Zytkoskee, The American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Alexandra Campana, Vanderbilt University, United States
Andrzej Goworski, Wrocław University, Poland
- Abstract: This paperpresents how over 60 years (1945-2010) Polish writers have been perceiving and describing the process of the Lower Silesia recolonization. It tries to answer the question concerning the role of Lower Silesia in Polish literature and discuss the parallels between the role of Lower Silesia motif in Polish literature and the initiation myth.
Adrian Matthew Zytkoskee, The American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Abstract: The author offers a justification for the inclusion of nature writing in composition courses by examining its literary, sociopolitical, and linguistic value and offers pedagogical approaches to show how nature writing can help students better understand their own natural environments.
Alexandra Campana, Vanderbilt University, United States
- Abstract: By commenting on the fictitious dialogue between West and East in the Swiss author Hugo Loetscher’s novel The Madarin’s Eyes, this presentation seeks to put a concept up for discussion that addresses a possible future of, as well as the educational role of literature/the humanities within, our global society.
SESSION FIVE – 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Panel One: Science and Technology
A Genealogical Archive of Design and Technology for Augmenting Cross-cultural Mining
Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
David Fuller, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yi Cai, University of Suzhou, P.R. China
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
- Abstract: How can we develop an application that not only creates a genealogical archive of design and technology but also augments cross-cultural mining in the field of design for the purpose of fostering innovation? This paper addresses a new vision for the development of an open-source software application that can answer that question.
David Fuller, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Abstract: This
paper explores the means to fruitful collaboration among science and research
parks across countries.The Innovation
Campus, University of Wollongong, Australia—the newest science park in Oceania— is used as a case study.
Yi Cai, University of Suzhou, P.R. China
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
- Abstract: Based on the authors’ observation, this paper gives a brief description of how ubiquitous Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) were used in three universities located in different parts of China, namely, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Jiangsu, followed by discussions on some issues concerned.
Panel Two: Crossing Traditional Boundaries
Healthcare without Borders: New Social Networks and Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism of India
Monika Vij, University of Delhi, India
Beauty by Political Mandate-The Singapore Model of a “City in a Garden”
Constance Kirker, Visiting Instructor National University of Singapore, Singapore
Beverly J. Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Monika Vij, University of Delhi, India
Beauty by Political Mandate-The Singapore Model of a “City in a Garden”
Constance Kirker, Visiting Instructor National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Abstract: Can a government ultimately require or legislate beauty? How does this idea of personal expression, in the form of individual garden design, fare in the tightly controlled and regulated environment of Singapore? This illustrated presentation is an outgrowth of a pedagogical paper considering comparative aesthetics, in which the concept of “garden” as an art form was investigated.
Beverly J. Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
- Abstract: This paper compares some of the reasons for the building of traditional Chinese gateways or arches in China and Philadelphia and looks at how the actual physical manifestation of the Philadelphia Chinatown traditional gateway is modified to suit its American environment.
Panel Three: Poetry Workshop
Jump-starting a Poem
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
SESSION SIX 8:30 am – 9:45 am
Panel One: Learning Approaches and Differences in the Classroom
How it Effects the Adoption of New Learning Strategies in Reunified Hong Kong.
Tristan Currie, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Vincent Greenier, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Michael Massey, Daegu Science University, South Korea
Tristan Currie, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Abstract: This essay shows how creating an appropriately global learning environment enables the teaching of ‘taking a position’ in written academic essays and positively affects the adoption of new learning strategies. A case study of English for Academic Purposes in Hong Kong is used.
Vincent Greenier, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Michael Massey, Daegu Science University, South Korea
- Abstract: This presentation aims to explore English Language learning and teaching as a culturally situated social practice. It attempts to integrate critical principles of culture and identity into the classroom environment from a linguistic and communicative perspective.
Panel Two: Culture and Identity - Spirituality
Crossing the Border: From the Human World to Maha Aveci Hell
Naraset Pisitpanporn, Mahidol University, Thailand
Adeleh Nejati, Miami University, United States
Walter Mason, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Naraset Pisitpanporn, Mahidol University, Thailand
- Abstract: This paper describes Thai people’s perceptions of hell, what they are like, their location, and condition. Specifically investigating the conditions associated with Maha Aveci Hell, this paper seeks to show how, although crossing the borders from the human world to Maha Aveci Hell is imaginary, the idea has given rise to one of the fundamental ethical practices of Thai society – the code of practice towards one’s parents and Buddhist monks.
Adeleh Nejati, Miami University, United States
- Abstract: This paper addresses how environmental qualitites can notivate the uman spriti in order to deal with and counteract high-pressured environments. In addition, this paper shows how returning to and focusing in inherent aspects of our being through architecture can affect our wellbeing.
Walter Mason, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- Abstract: With the case of Eckhart Tolle, this paper examines three critical markers of the globalised mystic: the self-help narrative of transformation based increasingly on cross-national experience; the trope of the suffering savant dispensing wisdom from outside of received cultural norms; and the transcendence of the traditional, culturally loaded, religious borders into a new domain of commercially-determined, universalised notions of wellbeing.
Panel Three: Teaching and Learning Outside of the Classroom – Study Abroad and After-school Programs
International Organizational Expansion: A Study Abroad Pedagodical Exercise
Robert Moussetis, North Central College, United States
Lynne Walters and Martha Green, Texas A&M University, United States
Sabine Smith, Kennesaw State University, United States
Robert Moussetis, North Central College, United States
- Abstract: In this paper, we propose a short term experiential study abroad with “on-hands” experience in a real life project. We will show how we need to set out to develop an experiential learning exercise that truly enhances student (and faculty) development in the field of International Education.
Lynne Walters and Martha Green, Texas A&M University, United States
- Abstract: This paper presents results from the authors’ qualitative and quantitative evaluations of a group of American teachers who travelled abroad in China for five weeks in a seminar organized by the National Academy of Educational Administration in Beijing.
Sabine Smith, Kennesaw State University, United States
- Abstract: This paper explores the border crossings that undergraduate learners of a foreign language experience as they transfer knowledge, skills, and dispositions from a classroom-based learning environment to real-world applications in a co-curricular service-learning program.
SESSION SEVEN – 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Panel Two: Digital Art Workshop
Digital Stone Exhibition: Digital Sculpture Tours China
Robert Michael Smith, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Robert Michael Smith, New York Institute of Technology, United States