Planning for Informal Settlements in India
Seminar participants Jessica Barnes and Amar Sawhney discuss the many challenges facing India’s informal settlements.
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Feb 18, 2021
Addressing Eco-Disparity in India
Seminar participants Amar Sawhney and Jessica Barnes discuss why green spaces are so critical to urban planning in Delhi and India’s cities.
Feb 1, 2021
CAORC Faculty Development Seminars
CAORC is accepting applications for faculty development seminars with a deadline of August 30, 2021.
Aug 7, 2020
Finding the Musical Connections between West Africa and Latin America
Senegal seminar participant Verny Varela highlights the musical connections between West Africa and Colombia, where he was born and raised.
Jul 24, 2020
Re-discovering Pakistan’s Abandoned Sikh Temples
Pakistan seminar participant Rajender Kaur discusses the history and legacy of abandoned Sikh temples in Lahore and Islamabad.
Jul 20, 2020
Bringing in the New Year in India: How Cars and Chaos Gave Me Hope
Seminar participant Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez discusses India’s challenges and how innovative solutions offer hope in uncertain times.
Jul 7, 2020
Broad as a Baobab Trunk: Lessons from Senegal
Senegal participant Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez explains how the legendary baobab tree helped her better understand the country and its people.
Jun 8, 2020
Twenty Years of Change in India: A Native Daughter’s Reflections
Shabana Meyering, participant in the faculty seminar to India, offers her personal reflections on two decades of change in the country.
May 19, 2020
Trans-Atlantic Memories: Senegal’s Hip-Hop Griots and the Black Radical Tradition
Faculty seminar participant Kimberly Monroe reflects on the deep musical and cultural traditions that live on in Senegal's hip-hop artists.
May 1, 2020
Senegal’s Diversity Is Its Way of Life—and Its Future
Faculty seminar participant Hoa Nguyen discusses how Senegal’s cultural and geographic diversity may be the key to its future prosperity.
Apr 24, 2020
Innovative Approaches to Sustaining Jordan's Local Communities
Pauline Sullivan, a 2020 seminar participant, discusses how innovative approaches to handicrafts are helping sustain Jordanian communities.
Apr 10, 2020
Explaining Northern India's Oppressive Smog
Mukila Maitha, participant in the faculty seminar to India, examines Delhi’s suffocating smog and what is being done to lessen its impact.
Apr 6, 2020
Awakening to Africa's Brilliance
Anita Gaul, participant in the Senegal faculty seminar, conveys how the experience transformed her understanding of West Africa.
Apr 1, 2020
Lessons in Sustainable Tourism from Jordan
Joylin Namie, participant in the CAORC faculty seminar to Jordan, discusses challenges to sustainable development in marginal environments.
Jul 5, 2019
Reflections on the Historical Relationship between People and Spaces
The Glass House, a central landmark of the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, was built in 1889. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL...
May 3, 2019
Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary
Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019...
Apr 19, 2019
Going Global, Growing Global: Fostering International Education and Exchange at Community Colleges
Nearly 70 faculty and administrators attended CAORC's workshop at Montgomery College on April 5, Going Global, Growing Global: Fostering...
Apr 9, 2019
Videos: Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower AAS Panel
CAORC sponsored the panel discussion, Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational...
Mar 28, 2019
Teaching through Being: Faculty Development and Experiential Learning in Senegal
Sippo Island, Toubakouta, Senegal In this essay, Stephanie Lovett, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal,...
Feb 19, 2019
Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities
The India Faculty Development Seminar group with Dr. Balasubramaniam “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our...
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