2025 Global Forum of the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence: Full Schedule

11:00am EDT

World Council Working Group- Youth for Peace and Sustainable Development Working Group

Tuesday April 22, 2025 11:00am - 11:15am EDT

Zoom password: ICCGLOBAL

Working groups are at the heart of the World Council community and the way in which practitioners, researchers, students and policy makers are able to connect with each other in concrete ways.

Moderators

Didem Ekici

Educator, researcher and author, University of San Francisco and the Peralta Community College District

Dr. Didem Ekici is an educator, researcher and author. She has held various leadership roles within the non-profit peacebuilding organization, Pax Populi, since 2013, currently serving on its board. She has co-authored a book called Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication... Read More →

Speakers

Annika Maurer

Founder of Intercultural Connections

Annika Maurer is an intercultural trainer and peace educator, and the founder of Intercultural Connections, an initiative offering accessible workshops and webinars on intercultural competence, peacebuilding, and sustainable development for youth. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Master’s... Read More →

Himanshu Rangi

Community Coordinator, Intercultual Connections

Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).Onboard and connect new volunteers and members.Led the Youth for Peace and Sustainable Development Working Group at the World Council for Intercultural and Global Competence.Organize SDG-related initiatives to promote peace and intercultural... Read More →

Tuesday April 22, 2025 11:00am - 11:15am EDT
ZOOM

Group Presentation, 1

5:10pm EDT

World Council Working Group Presentation 2- Underrepresented Voices in ICC Research & Practice

Wednesday April 23, 2025 5:10pm - 5:25pm EDT

ZOOM

Password zoom: ICCGLOBAL

Moderators

Didem Ekici

Educator, researcher and author, University of San Francisco and the Peralta Community College District

Speakers

Kris Acheson-Clair

Director of CILMAR, Purdue University

Dr. Kris Acheson-Clair (PhD in Intercultural Communication, 2008, Arizona State University) is former faculty at Georgia State University and Fulbright Scholar to Honduras. At Purdue, she directs CILMAR, the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research. Her... Read More →

Grace Eunhye Lee Amuzie

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of Center for Intercultural Leadership and Communication, Penn State Abington

Dr. Grace Lee-Amuzie is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of Center for Intercultural Leadership and Communication at Penn State Abington. She regularly offers faculty development workshops on equity pedagogy and culturally relevant teaching. Her research interests... Read More →

Wednesday April 23, 2025 5:10pm - 5:25pm EDT
ZOOM

Group Presentation, 2

6:45pm EDT

World Council Working Group Presentation 3

Wednesday April 23, 2025 6:45pm - 7:00pm EDT

ZOOM

Password zoom: ICCGLOBAL

Moderators

Curtis Chu

Assistant Professor, Setsunan University

Dr. Curtis Chu is an assistant professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Setsunan University, Japan. He specializes in internalization in higher education and virtual exchange/COIL. He is interested in assessments related to the development of intercultural competence... Read More →

Wednesday April 23, 2025 6:45pm - 7:00pm EDT
ZOOM

Group Presentation, 3

10:15am EDT

Working Group Presentation 4 -

Thursday April 24, 2025 10:15am - 10:30am EDT

ZOOM

Password Zoom: ICCGLOBAL
Connect informally with colleagues worldwide and expand your network with diverse connections. The World Council is all about connections!

Moderators

Monika Jaiswal-Oliver

Adjunct Professor of Instruction, Columbia College Chicago

Monika Jaiswal-Oliver currently serves as the Academic Manager and Adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago. With over 20 years of higher education experience in curriculum and operation management and strategic planning, she has successfully led initiatives that increased operational... Read More →

Thursday April 24, 2025 10:15am - 10:30am EDT
ZOOM

Group Presentation, 4