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Friday,
April 15, 2005, 5:30pm "Role Playing in A Foreign Culture" Saturday,
April 23, 2005, 10:00am to 5:00pm 10:00am
- 1:00pm " Intercultural Competency" 1:00pm - 2:00pm Break 2:00pm - 2.30pm SEE! the World overview and program requirements 2:30pm - 3:15pm "Challenges
and Rewards of International Service: Stories from a Year in India" 3:15pm - 4:05pm "How to Extend Your
Service Learning Experience Through the Peace Corps ... And How
to Communicate Your Experiences to Your Friends Back Home" 4:05pm - 5:00pm "Maximizing your
Profits from Service Learning Opportunities"
Scheduled speakers
Vice Provost for International Affairs Gilbert W. Merkx was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Perú; a visiting scholar at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and a visiting scholar at the Latin Amerika Institutet, Stockholms Universität, in Stockholm, Sweden. He has taught on the faculties of Yale University; Göteborgs Universität, in Gothenburg, Sweden; and the University of New Mexico, where he was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute. At Duke University he is Professor of the Practice of Sociology, Director of the Center for International Studies, and Vice Provost for International Affairs. As Vice Provost, Professor Merkx is responsible for general oversight of Duke's numerous international and foreign language and area studies programs, development of Duke's programs and partnerships abroad, and furtherance of the internationalization of the University as a whole. Professor Merkx served as Editor of the Latin American Research Review from 1982 to 1992. He is currently on the editorial board of journals in Argentina, Nicaragua, and Israel. He is co-Chairman of the Council of Directors of Title VI National Resource Centers for Foreign Language and Area Studies and serves on the Task Force on Title VI Reauthorization of the Coalition for International Education. He has served as Chairman of the Area Advisory Committee for Latin America of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, as Chairman of the Group of Advisors of the National Security Education Program of the Department of Defense, as a member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies, and as a member of the Commission on International Education of the American Council of Education. Professor Merkx's research has focused on the sociology of public policy formation with an emphasis on economic policy, education policy, and military policy. He has conducted field research in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Sweden. His most recent books are International Education in the New Global Era, with John N. Hawkins, and The Jewish Presence in Latin America, with Judith Laikin Elki.
David Jarmul is the associate vice president of news and communications at Duke, where he directs the news service, oversees the website and oversees many communications activities. He previously held senior communications positions at a medical research philanthropy and the National Academy of Sciences, both in the Washington, D.C. area. He has extensive international experience, beginning with an extended trip across Asia, Africa and Europe after graduating from Brown University. He later served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal and worked for an international development group. He also has edited a magazine about developing countries, written about the developing world for Voice of America and trained foreign journalists.
Marlye Gerlin-Adams Marlye Gelin Adams is Assistant Director of Duke University Center
for International Studies. Previously, she held the position of
Senior Program Officer at the International Peace Academy (IPA)
in New York, where she led its public relations program and managed
the joint IPA-United Nations' peace-building initiatives in Africa
and Latin America, including her native country of Haiti. She examined
Haiti's political impasse in a chapter in State Failure and State
Weakness in a Time of Terror (Brookings Institution Press, January
2003) and in an article entitled, Haiti: Holding Up Democracy, (The
World Today, May 2000). As a country expert, she frequently testifies
in U.S. Immigration Courts on behalf of Haitian asylum seekers.
Cloe was born in Verona, Italy and moved to the United States as a young girl. Her bi-cultural, bi-lingual and bi-religious upbringing catalyzed her love of travel, learning about different cultures and fostering tolerance and cross-cultural understanding. She has studied, lived and worked abroad in various locations including the Dominican Republic, Chile, Namibia and, most recently, Armenia. While in Armenia, Cloe conducted research for her Master's thesis, focused on the role of Armenian women as peace-builders since the end of the Soviet era. Her work in the US has included numerous intercultural awareness and social change positions, such as: program associate for the CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures) Summer Institute in Vermont, and as a workshop facilitator in the areas of Global Issues and dialogue and peace building at the Global Youth Village in Virginia. If there is salsa music playing you are bound to find Cloe dancing along, not to mention that she has been known to throw quite a dinner party. Cloe and her husband Nick are excited to call Durham their new home and she is excited to be part of International House. Now that she has moved to the south she hopes to get the scooter in working order. . . So look for the red Vespa at IHouse and make sure to stop by and say ciao!
Laura Thornhill, program coordinator of the Hart Fellows program, graduated from Duke in May 2003 with a major in public policy studies and minors in Spanish and English. After graduation, Laura worked as a Hart Fellow with Seva Mandir in Udaipur, India, on issues related to women's empowerment and domestic violence in India's Rajasthan province. During her Fellowship, she conducted a study on the magnitude and perceptions of domestic violence in 400 rural households in Seva Mandir's work area. Upon completion of her research, Laura presented her findings to Seva Mandir and prepared a report of recommendations for the organization’s future work on gender-related violence. In addition to her research, Laura worked in conjunction with Seva Mandir's staff to revise its gender policy and pilot a domestic violence intervention program. |
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