Symposium Schedule
Use the links below to see video clips of presentations and panel discussions at the 2010 Student Symposium on Off-Campus Study.
All events were held in downtown Chicago.
Friday, April 16, 2010
ACM Office
205 W. Wacker Drive, Second floor, Conference Room A
12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch available for Symposium participants
1:30-3:30 - Welcome and Presentation Group 1
(Streamed live on the ACM website)
Welcome by Christopher Welna, President of ACM
Moderator: Stacy Beckwith, Carleton College
Timekeeper: Charlotte Blessing, Colorado College
- Sam Arnold, Cornell College, Beyond the Clay
- Anna Bryan, Beloit College, Engaging the Social Commentary Advertisements in the Moscow Metro: Modern-Day Propaganda?
- Madeline Horan, St. Olaf College, Harmony in Japan
- Ana Kennedy, Lawrence University, People Have the Power: Reflections on Coversations about Art and the Art of Conversation
- Emily Oliver, Knox College, Poetry in Buenos Aires
- Noelle Templeton, Monmouth College, Playing Charades at the Opera: How Florence Taught Me to Make Fun, Friends, and Art in the Most Unexpected Places
- Rakhi Voria, Colorado College, Entrepreneurship & Innovation: An Exploration of the Lessons I Learned from Creating My Own Business
- Annette Zak, Knox College, The Journalist, Lost in Translation
Group 1 Panel Discussion
3:30-4:00 - Break
4:00-5:30 - Presentation Group 2
(Streamed live on the ACM website)
Moderator: Jerry Seaman, Ripon College
Timekeeper: Sally Noble, ACM
- Eric Monek Anderson, St. Olaf College, The American City as Global Classroom: Chicago's Bid for the 2016 Olympics and Human Rights
- Ellyn Arevalo, St. Olaf College, Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking: Using Your Education to Meet Today's Pressing Issues
- Jamila Humphrie, Macalester College, El derecho para decir "Sí, quiero": El matrimonio como estrategia en el movimiento gay en Buenos Aires (The Right to Say "I do": Marriage as strategy in the gay movement of Buenos Aires)
- Khant Khant Kyaw, Carleton College, Women Economic Empowerment and Development: Definitions and Ways of Achieving Success and Empowerment through the Portraits and Voices of Women in Kenya
- Ana Lucia Marquez, Knox College, Exploring the Issues of Asylum and Migration in a European Context
- Sarah McNutt, Cornell College, Post-Apartheid Language Policy in South Africa and Namibia
- Emilie Vrbancic, Lake Forest College, Understanding Ways to Empowerment in Microfinance: A Case Study of Women's Finance House Botswana
Group 2 Panel Discussion
5:30-7:30 - Reception and dinner for Symposium participants
Bereket Haileab in Tanzania
Speaker: Bereket Haileab, Associate Professor of Geology, Carleton College
As a geologist, Dr. Haileab mapped volcanic ash deposits used to determine the ages of many early human fossils throughout Kenya and Ethiopia. He has been teaching at Carleton since 1994 and served as the Director of the ACM Tanzania Program in fall 2008.
See video clips of Bereket Haileab's speech
Saturday, April 17
ACM Chicago Programs Office
177 N. State Street, 7th floor
9:30-11:30 am - Presentation Group 3
(Streamed live on the ACM website)
Moderator: Martin Klammer, Luther College
Timekeeper: Carol Dickerman, ACM
- Bill Blomfelt, Ripon College, Spells, Firebombing, and Unification: Things One Can Learn While Studying Abroad in Germany
- Emily Ellson, Whitney Keltner, and Jacob Wessels, Luther College, Joys and Challenges of Service Learning at New Hope Summer Camp, Cape Town, South Africa
- Caitlyn Genovese, Lawrence University, Better Homes and Gardens: St. Petersburg Edition
- Robert Grafsgaard, Monmouth College, Images from Italy
- Lisa Harney, Luther College, The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round Wherever You Are
- Genevieve Jauregui, Coe College, House of Love
- Addy Najera, Grinnell College, Limitations and Possibilities: Cultural Awareness in India and Iowa
- Kathleen O'Mary, Lake Forest College, Cliché but True: How Italy Changed My Life
- Phillip Thomas, Beloit College, Why Don't Men Study Abroad? Beloit College as a Case Study
Group 3 Panel Discussion
11:30 -12:30 pm - Lunch for Symposium participants
12:30-2:00 - Presentation Group 4
(Streamed live on the ACM website)
Moderator: Lynn Westley, Lake Forest College
Timekeeper: Emily Gaul, ACM
- Erin Anderson, Carleton College, Reconsiderations in the Wake of Development
- Kellie Griffin, Coe College, Host Families: Life Just Wouldn't Be the Same without Them
- Victoria Henson, Lake Forest College, Adventures of the Italian Tooth Mouse and the Baffling Qualities of Gravy: Culture in Dialogue
- Sean Keenan, Luther College, Water from Rock: Reflecting on Field Experiences in Tanzania
- Heather Nennig, Ripon College, The Ocean as My Laboratory: The Buffering Effects of Atoll Islands on Ocean Acidification in the Equatorial Pacific
- Pål Robson, Macalester College, Neoliberalism and Social Response: A Preliminary Study of the Peasantry in Alfaro Ruiz, Costa Rica
- Trevor Thomas, Colorado College, A Boy from the United States Looking for His Family
Group 4 Panel Discussion
2:00-2:30 - Closing Discussion