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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">08 Jan 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span name="Fatima Badry Zalami" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Fatima Badry Zalami</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:badry@aus.edu" target="_blank">badry@aus.edu</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sharjah Conference on Conceptualizing the Global University</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conceptualizing the Global University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.aus.edu/iccgu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.aus.edu/iccgu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Papers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>May 3-4, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">American University of Sharjah</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PO Box 26666, Sharjah, UAE</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://www.aus.edu/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">www.aus.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conference Overview</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Situated in the UAE, twenty kilometers from Dubai, American University of Sharjah (AUS) is a pioneer among the new universities in the Arabian Gulf. It will be hosting a conference on the Global University on </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>May 3 and 4, 2014</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Global University has emerged as a new force in education through the delocalization of the site of learning. It is manifested in the growth of global network universities undertaken by various Western universities to enable students and faculty to study and conduct research at different poles around the world. It is also manifested in the spread of branch campuses in different parts of the world which, although by no means a new phenomenon, are increasingly used to generate not only profit but also prestige for both the university and the host. Finally, indigenous universities are increasingly adopting a globalized and standardized curriculum to remain competitive.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Symposium on the Global University, an interdisciplinary project at AUS which held its first workshop in May 2013, connects scholars from different backgrounds and interests to develop a series of frameworks for better understanding the changing university. The conference Conceptualizing the Global University will build on that effort by bringing together scholars from the Middle East, Asia, Europe and North America who are interested in the ways in which universities have recently been used to contribute to national and regional development and are embedded in global transformations. Researchers whose work focuses on areas such as transnational education, the impact of universities locally (as well as globally), the transformations caused by technological change on academic life and the future of universities are invited to submit paper proposals. This conference will contribute to the task of better understanding the ways in which universities—particularly in the Middle East, Africa and Eurasia—are developing within, apart and a pace from a globalized world.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The symposium aims to explore the university from a number of perspectives which reflect both local and global considerations. To begin with, while we are interested in the broader global experience, special attention will be given to those papers which focus upon universities in the Arabian Gulf. In addition, the importance of historical developments will be addressed because they provide a basis both for the “colonial university” and the postcolonial issues which continue to define education and the production of knowledge. Accordingly, we are interested in papers that explore the cultural and linguistic challenges which punctuate the full range of globalized university activities. Submissions which investigate the many features of the “crisis”’ of the contemporary university will be welcomed as well. The symposium also invites scholars who are motivated to probe both the benefits and pitfalls associated with technological change (MOOCs, e-learning, etc.) to connect these themes to the wider conversation about the “global university” and its futures. Finally, drawing many of these themes together, we look forward to presentations which investigate the viability and sustainability of both new universities (include branch campuses) and the programmatic changes which have taken place in older institutions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Potential topics include:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The History of the Global University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers may explore the rich history of processes which help to contribute to the shaping of the Global University. The symposium welcomes historically oriented papers on any facet of the globalized university and particular attention will be devoted to those which explore the following:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The emergence of universities in the Arabian Gulf and MENA region;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Governance and authority in colonial universities;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Colonial and postcolonial universities, and the emergence of the Global University.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Viability of the Global University Model</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">There is a widespread concern among stakeholders, students and university staff that universities are under attack. This concern extends to the Global University. Potential papers might investigate topics such as:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The increased corporatization of universities;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The growth of standardization and regimes of accreditation;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The relationship between industry, government and the Global University; and,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The overall viability of the explosion of universities.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Language and Culture</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The growth of the Global University offers unique challenges to language and culture. Papers might interrogate topics such as:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The role of language in the Global University and its relationship to national identity;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The transformation of language and culture into commodities, inside and alongside the Global University;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• The potential for Arabic as a language for knowledge production, particularly in the Gulf.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Deadlines</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstracts (300-500 words) and short biographies (200 words) should be sent to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="mailto:Sgu-committee@aus.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">Sgu-committee@aus.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> by February 1, 2013. Informal queries can be sent to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dr. Stephen L. Keck at </span><a href="mailto:skeck@aus.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">skeck@aus.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Limited funding for presenters will be available. Decisions will be communicated to all submitters by</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>February 20</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> to enable presenters to organize their travel.</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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