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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 15th – Sunday,
April 17th
FRIDAY, APRIL 15th
6:30 pm: Meet and greet with light refreshments (for
participants)
(Registration desk will be open from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm)
(Registration desk will be open from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm)
Time: 7:30 pm
Room: Second Floor Auditorium
Plenary Session:
Science for All
Roger Yu, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Keynote Speaker:
Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning in China and the US
Liu Haiping, Nanjing University, P.R. China
Room: Second Floor Auditorium
Plenary Session:
Science for All
Roger Yu, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Keynote Speaker:
Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning in China and the US
Liu Haiping, Nanjing University, P.R. China
SATURDAY, APRIL 16th
8:30 am - 11:30 am: Registration desk open
SESSION ONE - 8:30 am – 9:45
am
Panel One: Issues of
Identity and Translation in Poetry
Room: First Floor Conference Room B
Chair: Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Chinese Detainees’ Ghostly Poems in Angel Island: Lonely Voices, Alien Discourse, and Collective Identity
Heping Zhao, California State University, United States
Translation of Urdu Poetry in English and Problems Associated with Language Translation
Muhammad Kamran, Punjab University, Pakistan
“Continental Drift”: Kimiko Hahn's Translational Poetics
Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R China
Chair: Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Chinese Detainees’ Ghostly Poems in Angel Island: Lonely Voices, Alien Discourse, and Collective Identity
Heping Zhao, California State University, United States
Translation of Urdu Poetry in English and Problems Associated with Language Translation
Muhammad Kamran, Punjab University, Pakistan
“Continental Drift”: Kimiko Hahn's Translational Poetics
Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R China
Panel Two: Cyberculture, Technology, and the Classroom
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Chair: Marshall Willman, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Building Course Cohesion - Investigating the use of Online Forums in the Open University's first Chinese Course
Qian Kan, Open University, United Kingdom
English Learning in Web-based Chatrooms: an Online Ethnographic Study
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
Approaching OnLine Courses in ESP
Luminiţa Cocârţă Andrei, AI. I. Cuza University, Romania
Chair: Marshall Willman, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Building Course Cohesion - Investigating the use of Online Forums in the Open University's first Chinese Course
Qian Kan, Open University, United Kingdom
English Learning in Web-based Chatrooms: an Online Ethnographic Study
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
Approaching OnLine Courses in ESP
Luminiţa Cocârţă Andrei, AI. I. Cuza University, Romania
SESSION TWO – 10:00 am -11:15
am
Panel One: Border
Skirmishes: Transcendence and Violence in Enacted Reading
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Chair: Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
On Thinking; or Movement, Boundaries, and the Trans …
Jeremy Fernando, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Platonic and Epicurean Transcendence in Some Contemporary Films
John Richard Tangney, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bordering on Silence: Violence in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Lim Lee Ching, SIM University, Singapore
Chair: Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
On Thinking; or Movement, Boundaries, and the Trans …
Jeremy Fernando, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Platonic and Epicurean Transcendence in Some Contemporary Films
John Richard Tangney, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bordering on Silence: Violence in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Lim Lee Ching, SIM University, Singapore
Panel Two: Literature
and Culture in Poetry
Room: Second Floor Conference Room A
Chair: Gary Stephens, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Supernatural Border Crossings: The Inter-Dimensional Presence as Poetry Motif
Annie Christain, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Poetry from the Daughters of Second-Wave Feminists: Examining Still-Erect Gender Borders
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
The Translator's Knowledge, The Poet's Art: 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)
Gary Stephens, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Chair: Gary Stephens, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Supernatural Border Crossings: The Inter-Dimensional Presence as Poetry Motif
Annie Christain, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Poetry from the Daughters of Second-Wave Feminists: Examining Still-Erect Gender Borders
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
The Translator's Knowledge, The Poet's Art: 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)
Gary Stephens, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Panel Three: Culture
and Linguistics – The Study of Language
Room: First Floor Conference Room B
Chair: Tim Smith, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Crossing the Age Divide –- Event -Related Potential Evidence against the Critical Period Hypothesis
Margaret Gillow Dowens, University of Nottingham Ningbo, P.R. China
Expressing the Inexpressible: Zhuangzi and the Language of Paradox
Tim Smith, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
To Include or to Exclude: Intellectual Elitism and Elitism of Cultures
Asiya Ikhsanova,Hebei Tourism Vocational College, P.R. China
Chair: Tim Smith, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Crossing the Age Divide –- Event -Related Potential Evidence against the Critical Period Hypothesis
Margaret Gillow Dowens, University of Nottingham Ningbo, P.R. China
Expressing the Inexpressible: Zhuangzi and the Language of Paradox
Tim Smith, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
To Include or to Exclude: Intellectual Elitism and Elitism of Cultures
Asiya Ikhsanova,Hebei Tourism Vocational College, P.R. China
BREAK FOR LUNCH – 11:30 pm –
1:00 pm
(lunch provided for
presenters)
Time: Noon
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Keynote Speaker:
Borders of the Nation-State: Paradoxes of Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Mikako Iwatake, University of Helsinki, Finland
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Keynote Speaker:
Borders of the Nation-State: Paradoxes of Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Mikako Iwatake, University of Helsinki, Finland
SESSION THREE – 1:00 pm- 2:15
pm
Panel One: Identity
and Border Crossing in the Arts
Room: Second Floor Conference Room A
Chair: Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Across Borders/Across Cultures: The Chinese American Family in A
Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Qijun Han, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Identity in Exile: Crossing Cultures amongst Migrants Living in Britain
Frohar Poya Faryabi, University College London, England
“Speaking the Unspoken”: Silence and the Autistic Self in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Chair: Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Across Borders/Across Cultures: The Chinese American Family in A
Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Qijun Han, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Identity in Exile: Crossing Cultures amongst Migrants Living in Britain
Frohar Poya Faryabi, University College London, England
“Speaking the Unspoken”: Silence and the Autistic Self in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Panel Two: Stereotypes
and Difference in the Classroom
Room: First Floor Conference Room B
Chair: Sumiao Li, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Redefining Borders – A Step towards Inclusion
Sheila Christopher & K Geetha, Holy Cross College, India.
Crossing Borders of Age, Class, and HIV Status in a New York City University Classroom
Helen Rodnite Lemay, Stony Brook University, United States
Immigrating for Better or Worse: Migrant Students in Hong Kong
Wai-Chi Chee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R.China
Chair: Sumiao Li, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Redefining Borders – A Step towards Inclusion
Sheila Christopher & K Geetha, Holy Cross College, India.
Crossing Borders of Age, Class, and HIV Status in a New York City University Classroom
Helen Rodnite Lemay, Stony Brook University, United States
Immigrating for Better or Worse: Migrant Students in Hong Kong
Wai-Chi Chee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R.China
Panel Three:
Multicultural Classrooms and Intercultural Communication
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Chair: Zongxiang Fang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Presenters:
Roles and Expectations in the Multicultural Classroom
Hanne Tange, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Teaching a Culture to Relocating Students
Imad Ghazzawi, Saudi Arabia
How They Want It: A Case Study on Chinese Students’ Preferred Learning Methods
Deniss TC Yeung, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Chair: Zongxiang Fang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Presenters:
Roles and Expectations in the Multicultural Classroom
Hanne Tange, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Teaching a Culture to Relocating Students
Imad Ghazzawi, Saudi Arabia
How They Want It: A Case Study on Chinese Students’ Preferred Learning Methods
Deniss TC Yeung, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
SESSION FOUR – 2:30 pm – 3:45
pm
Panel One: Traveling
and Living Abroad: Acculturation, Travel Writing, and Imaginary Homelands
Room: Second Floor Conference Room A
Chair: Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Is It Worth it?: Living and Growing Beyond Borders
Yang Yang, Florida International University, United States
The Marginal Resistant Travel Writing
Manisha Anand Patil, Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Science, India
Staging Memories
Chu YinHua, University of Westminster, England
Chair: Katyna Johnson, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Is It Worth it?: Living and Growing Beyond Borders
Yang Yang, Florida International University, United States
The Marginal Resistant Travel Writing
Manisha Anand Patil, Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Science, India
Staging Memories
Chu YinHua, University of Westminster, England
Panel Two: Building
Intercultural Identities - Case studies at the University
of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Chair: Marshall Willman, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
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
Seeing Yourself in Another World: Coping with Otherness. The European Language Portfolio and the Development of an “Intercultural Self”
Giovanna Comerio, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Figurative Language Acquisition by Chinese Students in the Spanish L2 Classroom: A Cognitive Based Approach
Pablo Encinas Arquero, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Chair: Marshall Willman, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
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
Seeing Yourself in Another World: Coping with Otherness. The European Language Portfolio and the Development of an “Intercultural Self”
Giovanna Comerio, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Figurative Language Acquisition by Chinese Students in the Spanish L2 Classroom: A Cognitive Based Approach
Pablo Encinas Arquero, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, P.R. China
Panel Three: Border Crossings in Literature and in the Teaching of Writing
Room: First Floor Conference Room B
Chair: Wang Yukuo, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Presenters:
Lower Silesia – Literary Emanations (1945-2010)
Andrzej Goworski, Wrocław University, Poland
Intercultural Dialogue in Global Society: A socio-literary Exploration
Alexandra Campana, Vanderbilt University, United States
Nature Writing: Literary Landscapes in the Composition Classroom
Adrian Matthew Zytkoskee, The American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Chair: Wang Yukuo, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Presenters:
Lower Silesia – Literary Emanations (1945-2010)
Andrzej Goworski, Wrocław University, Poland
Intercultural Dialogue in Global Society: A socio-literary Exploration
Alexandra Campana, Vanderbilt University, United States
Nature Writing: Literary Landscapes in the Composition Classroom
Adrian Matthew Zytkoskee, The American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
SESSION
FIVE – 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Panel One: Science
and Technology
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Chair: Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
A Genealogical Archive of Design and Technology for Augmenting Cross-cultural Mining
Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Trust Building & Collaboration Strategies for Cross Border Science & Technology Networks
David Fuller, University of Wollongong, Australia
Using Ubiquitous Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Administrative Purposes: Observations of three Chinese Universities
Yi Cai, University of Suzhou, P.R. China
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
Chair: Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
A Genealogical Archive of Design and Technology for Augmenting Cross-cultural Mining
Geoffrey Bell, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Trust Building & Collaboration Strategies for Cross Border Science & Technology Networks
David Fuller, University of Wollongong, Australia
Using Ubiquitous Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Administrative Purposes: Observations of three Chinese Universities
Yi Cai, University of Suzhou, P.R. China
Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada
Panel Two: Crossing Traditional Boundaries
Room: Second Room Conference Room A
Chair: Beverly Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
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
The Transformation of Tradition when Crossing Borders: the Philadelphia Chinatown Gateway
Beverly J. Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Chair: Beverly Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
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
The Transformation of Tradition when Crossing Borders: the Philadelphia Chinatown Gateway
Beverly J. Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Panel Three: Poetry Workshop
Room: First Floor Workshop Room
Presenter:
Jump-starting a Poem
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
Presenter:
Jump-starting a Poem
Liz Robbins, Flagler College, United States
BREAK FOR DINNER: 5:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Time: 7:30
Room: Second Floor Auditorium
Plenary Session:
The Poetry of Threshold
Jane Hirshfield, American poet, essayist, and translator
Room: Second Floor Auditorium
Plenary Session:
The Poetry of Threshold
Jane Hirshfield, American poet, essayist, and translator
SUNDAY, APRIL 17th
SESSION SIX 8:30 am – 9:45 am
Panel One: Learning
Approaches and Differences in the Classroom
Room: Second Floor Conference Room A
Chair: Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
“Are you from China?” “No, I’m from Hong Kong”: Teaching the ‘taking of a position’ in Written Academic Essays, and How it Effects the Adoption of New Learning Strategies in Reunified Hong Kong.
Tristan Currie, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Using Critical Discourse Analysis in a Content Based Curriculum: Exploring Culture and Identities in the Classroom and Beyond
Vincent Greenier, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Michael Massey, Daegu Science University, South Korea
Chair: Xiwen Mai, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
“Are you from China?” “No, I’m from Hong Kong”: Teaching the ‘taking of a position’ in Written Academic Essays, and How it Effects the Adoption of New Learning Strategies in Reunified Hong Kong.
Tristan Currie, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Using Critical Discourse Analysis in a Content Based Curriculum: Exploring Culture and Identities in the Classroom and Beyond
Vincent Greenier, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Michael Massey, Daegu Science University, South Korea
Panel Two: Culture and Identity - Spirituality
Room: First Floor Conference Room B
Chair: Beverly J. Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Crossing the Border: From the Human World to Maha Aveci Hell
Naraset Pisitpanporn, Mahidol University, Thailand
Spirituality, Health and Architecture in Respect to Stress
Adeleh Nejati, Miami University, United States
Bordering on the Mystical: Eckhart Tolle, Oprah and the Global Patois of Self-Help
Walter Mason, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Chair: Beverly J. Butcher, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
Crossing the Border: From the Human World to Maha Aveci Hell
Naraset Pisitpanporn, Mahidol University, Thailand
Spirituality, Health and Architecture in Respect to Stress
Adeleh Nejati, Miami University, United States
Bordering on the Mystical: Eckhart Tolle, Oprah and the Global Patois of Self-Help
Walter Mason, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Panel Three: Teaching and Learning Outside of the Classroom
– Study Abroad and After-school Programs
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Chair: Jim Nolt, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
International Organizational Expansion: A Study Abroad Pedagodical Exercise
Robert Moussetis, North Central College, United States
On the Other Side of the World: The Impact of the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad 2010 China Seminar
Lynne Walters and Martha Green, Texas A&M University, United States
Service-Learning and Intercultural Competence: Crossing Borders in a Foreign Language Curriculum
Sabine Smith, Kennesaw State University, United States
Chair: Jim Nolt, New York Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Presenters:
International Organizational Expansion: A Study Abroad Pedagodical Exercise
Robert Moussetis, North Central College, United States
On the Other Side of the World: The Impact of the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad 2010 China Seminar
Lynne Walters and Martha Green, Texas A&M University, United States
Service-Learning and Intercultural Competence: Crossing Borders in a Foreign Language Curriculum
Sabine Smith, Kennesaw State University, United States
SESSION SEVEN – 10:00 am –
11:45 am
Panel Two- Digital Art
Workshop
Room: First Floor Auditorium
Presenter:
Digital Stone Exhibition: Digital Sculpture Tours China
Robert Michael Smith, New York Institute of Technology, United States
Presenter:
Digital Stone Exhibition: Digital Sculpture Tours China
Robert Michael Smith, New York Institute of Technology, United States