Global Education Colloquium (GEC) Brown Bag Lunch | Identity in Past, Present, and Future Tense
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
The School of Education at Drexel University presents Global Education Colloquium (GEC) Brown Bag Lunch Series:
“Identity in Past, Present, and Future Tense: The Emotional Work of Navigating Gender, Class, and Nation in Vietnamese and English”
This talk will examine how different cultural scripts for gender, class, and national identity impact Vietnamese women working as English teachers in urban Vietnam and strategies these women have developed for mediating the tensions they experience between Vietnamese and western cultural expectations.
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About The Speaker
Ilene Crawford, Ph.D. is Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, where she teaches courses in rhetoric and writing studies, interdisciplinary studies, and transnational feminist theory. Her research is in the areas of literacy studies, with particular interests in transnational literacies, second language identity formation, intercultural pedagogies, and higher education reform in Vietnam. She was a 2010 Fulbright scholar to Vietnam, where she taught intercultural communication and American literature at the University of Education-Ho Chi Minh City.
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About the Global Education Colloquium:
Established in November 2013, the Global Education Colloquium is a monthly Brown Bag Lunch Series that features distinguished speakers and lively discussion.
The topics presented will be the result of research spanning the full range of learning, teaching and training topics including international studies, higher education, peace education, social justice, inequality, politics of knowledge, policy, leadership and organizational change.
GEC events are held the third Tuesday of every month on the main campus of Drexel University, start promptly at 12 Noon. You are invited to bring your lunch. Drinks and cookies will be served.
Contact Information
Kristy Kelly
kek72@drexel.edu