IO BIO, The Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations
Edited by Bob Reinalda, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Kent Kille, The College of Wooster, Ohio, USA
Web site: http://www.ru.nl/fm/iobio
The IO BIO Project is designed to create a biographical dictionary (virtual and in print format) with short biographies of Secretaries-General (SGs), or other executive heads with different titles, of International Organizations (IOs). ACUNS members are encouraged to engage with the project, through writing entries in their IO area of expertise and accessing the initial set of biographies that are already available on the project’s web site. Read More…
“Religious Freedom and Religious Violence in Pre-Modern Korea: The 1801 Silk Letter to the Pope of Hwang Sayŏng,” will be the topic of discussion by Donald L. Baker, director of the Centre for Korean Research at the University of British Columbia, on Tuesday, 16 April at noon in 238 HRCB.
Baker has been an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia since 1987, with a specific interest in the cultural and religious history of Korea, which he first became interested in as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the city of Kwangju (1971–74). Read More…
Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will present “How to Achieve Quality: Healthcare in a Comparative International Perspective” on Thursday, 11 April at 3:00 p.m. in 238 HRCB.
Pipes is also a Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank.
She regularly addresses national and international audiences on healthcare issues and has written several books critical of the government-run, single-payer system, Read More…
Step back, see the big picture, and develop highly effective language programs.
In the workshop, we will consider a variety of interrelated and mutually reinforcing principles based on insights from research on brain plasticity, self-efficacy, identity, and strategic self-regulation. Participants will learn to build articulated learning sequences appropriate to their students’ needs and maturity in a manner that is true to the best in national and state world-language-learning standards. Discussions informed by these fundamentals will be a springboard for addressing vital subjects seldom addressed in other professional skill-development workshops.
Participants will learn through doing, in particular gaining in-depth experience with a significant challenge that all K–12 Arabic teachers face: adapting existing material to the needs of their students. Read More…
“Assisting Marsh Arabs and Refugees” will be presented by Baroness Emma H. Nicholson of Winterbourne, a Member of Parliament for the UK, on Thursday, 11 April at 11:00 a.m. in the HBLL auditorium.
Nicholson was ennobled and took her seat as a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom Parliament in 1997, having also served as a Member of the House of Commons and, subsequently, in the European Parliament.
Outside her responsibilities as a member of the House of Lords, Read More…
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