Symposium 2000
Immigration: Its Causes, Benefits, Challenges, and Future Impacts

November 1 and 2, 2000

Kenan-Flagler Business School
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Cosponsors
Center for European Studies
Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies
CIBER at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business
Curriculum in Asian Studies
Department of African and Afro-American Studies
Institute of Latin American Studies
International Social Studies Project (School of Education)
INTRAH (School of Medicine)
NC Center for South Asian Studies
University Center for International Studies
UNC-TV

		Wednesday, November 1
	8:00	Registration
	8:50	Welcome Jim Lea, Chair, World View Advisory Board; Director, INTRAH, UNC-School of Medicine Robert Phay, Director, World View
	9:00	Immigration: A Global Odyssey                  Niklaus Steiner, Associate Director, University Center for International Studies, UNC-CH
	10:15	Review of Registration Packets Yan Li, Assistant Director, World View
	10:20 10:40	Break Immigration and the "American" Identity: Personal Reflections                                      Mark Mathabane, Best-selling Author of Kaffir Boy, originally from South Africa
	12:00	International Buffet Luncheon Hillside High School Jazz Band Durham Public Schools
	1:20	Seminars Text: David Kennedy, "Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?"
	2:40	Break
	3:00	Student Panel (Area immigrant students discuss their educational experience in their own countries and in North Carolina)
	4:15	Concurrent Sessions 1. Hispanic Immigration Experience Matty Lazo-Chadderton, Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, NC Justice and Community Development 2. The South Asian Experience Nila Chatterjee--Anthropology, UNC-CH 3. Cultural Diversity in French and Francophone Cultures: The Veil Debate Sahar Amer, Martine Antle, and Thyphaine LeServotk, Romance Languages and Literature, UNC-CH 4. Migration and Immigration Within and Beyond Africa Alphonse Matima, African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-CH
	5:45	Reception for Participants and Faculty at the Phays' Home
		Thursday, November 2
	7:30	Coffee, juice and pastries
	8:00	Classroom Application: How to integrate immigrant students while preserving their ethnic heritage Moderator: Suzanne Gulledge, International Social Studies Project, UNC-CH Luis Alvarenga, Durham Public Schools Parent Liaison, Director of Casa Multicultural Bennett Judkins, Dept. of Sociology, Lenoir-Ryne College Ryuko Kubota, School of Education, UNC-CH Loren McGrail, Language Literacty Consultant with focus on Civic Education
	9:30	Global Studies Action Plans (Faculty members work with teams)
	10:50	Break
	11:10	The Changing South: Impact of Immigration   Jim Peacock, University Center for International Studies, UNC-CH
	12:10	Presentation of Five Faiths Posters from the Ackland Art Museum Carolyn Wood, Curator of Education, Ackland Art Museum Set of four posters given to each school and college attending symposium
	12:15	Final Adjournment