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Announcing AEA’s Student Photo Contest Winners!

kbrannan — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:38:22 +0000

We are pleased to announce the winners in our 2011 Student Photo Contest. We received over 75 entries this year, and our judges had the tough job of determining our winners. We held our traditional voting, in which the Antioch University community in Yellow Springs, OH was invited to view the framed photos and select their favorites in each category. In addition, this year we introduced the ‘Facebook Fave Foto.’ Congratulations to all our winners, and a big thanks to all the students who submitted such fantastic photos!

NEW category – Facebook Fave Foto:

Quinn Wilson

Western Washington University

Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions

A masked shinto priest performs a dance in front of the famous floating Tori gate of Itsukushima shrine, on the island of Miyajima, which we visited after our pilgrimage on the island of Shikoku. At high tide, the gate and the entire temple complex appear to be floating on the water.

Exceptional Artistic / Technical Quality:

Lisa Charron
Goucher College
Buddhist Studies in India

“Archer”
Just outside of Delhi, there lays the remnants of a once holy site. Kings fought over which faith the buildings would represent, so at sometimes they were Hindu temples and at others they were Muslim mosques.

Student Engagement in Academic and/or Hands-On Learning abroad:

Mariana Calderon

College of the Atlantic

Brazilian Ecosystems

“Hold Your Breath”

Nicholas Dendeiro carefully detangles a bird from a mist net set up in the Montanha Beija Flor reserve in the Atlantic Coastal Rainforest. While it took the group long minutes to untangle each captured bird, our instructor, and practiced researcher, Andre, could detangle the most hopelessly tangled in less than half a minute.

Cross-Cultural Experience (an observation or interaction with host culture/communities):

Dyer Van Devere

Skidmore College

Buddhist Studies in India

“Woman sitting by ribbons at Mahabodhi”

A Chinese woman sits in private meditation on the north side of the Mahabodhi temple. Her stillness and silence represents both the aura of peace surrounding the temple and the pilgrimages that people from all over the world take to come to Bodhgaya.

Landscape / Architecture:

Quinn Wilson

Western Washington University

Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions

The town of Tenkawamura is a village in the mountains devoted to Shugendo, a Japanese sect which combines Buddhism and its native Shinto faith. This river divides the area which includes new houses, ancient shrines and temples, hot springs, waterfalls, and a path to one of the religion’s holiest sites.

HONORABLE MENTIONS for outstanding student photographers:

Angie Vitale, Richard Stockton College, Arts and Culture in Mali

Karen Abramson, Skidmore College, Comparative Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe

Jamil Jorge, Connecticut College, Arts and Culture in Mali

Zev Blumenfeld, Emerson College, Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions

Click here to view the entire gallery of Student Photo Contest entries on Facebook!

Winter/Spring 2012 Newsletter!

lcreighton — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:28:13 +0000

The PhD in Leadership and Change program is proud to share the Winter/Spring 2012 issue of our newsletter, The Antiochian Leader.

Find the full piece here.

Enjoy!

Now accepting applications for NEW spring semester program in Argentina

lbieririos — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:14:22 +0000

Antioch Education Abroad is now accepting 2013 spring semester applications for our NEW study abroad program in Patagonia: Globalization and Community Responses in Argentina.
On the program, students will explore social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts of globalization on local communities in the Patagonian Andes region of Argentina. Through an interdisciplinary seminar, the program investigates issues of cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability, examining local case studies on energy production, labor movements, and rights of indigenous Mapuche communities.

Integral to the Seminar, students participate in a service learning project in Bariloche. Possible service learning projects include: community/public health; environmental conservation and education with the National Parks Service; education and youth outreach; indigenous rights and preservation of cultural heritages; or community arts.

The program coursework is in Spanish, and includes a pre-semester Spanish language intensive as well as a semester-long Spanish Tutorial focusing on academic writing, reading and oral skills to support their coursework and service learning engagement. In addition, students choose two additional course electives with Argentine students and faculty at the Universidad Fraternidad de Agrupaciones Santo Tomas de Aquino (FASTA), as part of their regular semester course offerings, such as Argentinean History; Political Economy; Contemporary Issues of Indigenous Peoples of Patagonia; and Audiovisual Storytelling. Students live in homestays for full cultural immersion. AEA Assistant Director and Academic Coordinator for the Argentina program, Luisa Bieri Rios, leads the program orientation and team teaches the Seminar with faculty from FASTA.

For more information regarding curriculum, costs and scholarships, and application materials, please contact AEA.

Faculty Discuss What Makes the PhD Program Unique!

lcreighton — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:48:04 +0000

PhD in Leadership and Change program faculty each share thoughts regarding factors that brought them to Antioch University and highlight what makes our learning community so unique!

Enjoy!

AEA Student Selected to Present WGSE Paper at Conference

kbrannan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:32:06 +0000

Jovanna Hernandez, a Swarthmore College student, conducted extensive research on the roles and status of women in Poland and Germany while participating in AEA’s 2011 Comparative Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe program. She was recently selected to present her final paper, “A Bubbling Cauldron: The Roles and Status of Women in Poland and Germany within the Context of Nationalism, the Nation-State, Ultra Nationalist Movements, Multiculturalism, and the European Union” at the Geis Student Research on Women Conference. Student presenters are selected through a competitive process and students from any college in the The Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium are eligible. The Consortium includes such schools as Swarthmore College, Temple University, Bryn Mawr, University of Pennsylvania, Ursinus College, and Drexel University. The Geis Student Research on Women Conference will be held this Saturday, April 28, at the University of Delaware. Congratulations to Jovanna on her outstanding achievement!

Program Alum Honored by Career Communications Group

lcreighton — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:50:21 +0000

Dr. Joye Jepson was recently recognized with fellow winners of the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Service and Legacy Awards from the Career Communications Group. Service Award winners represented a select group of past Black Engineer of the Year, Women of Color in Technology, Emerald Honors, and Career Communications Group volunteers who were acknowledged for their service as award presenters, 1-12 supporters, seminar speakers, committee members, and advisors.

Learn more here!

Download Dr. Jepson’s dissertation, An Analysis of Factors that Influence the Success of Women Engineering Leaders in Corporate America, here!

April 11 AEA update – Arts and Culture in Mali 2012

lbieririos — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:06:47 +0000

This week, Amadou Sanogo, the leader of the military coup that overthrew elected president Amadou Toumani Touré, has bowed to international pressure and officially stepped down. Dioncounda Traoré, duly elected Member of Parliament and President of the National Assembly, will be sworn in as Interim President of the Republic of Mali on Thursday, April 12. Multi-party democratic presidential elections, originally scheduled for April 29, will be held in the shortest delay. However, the situation in the north has deteriorated: the region is occupied by a number of different armed Tuareg groups, each with its own agenda. Neither the Malian government nor the international community accepts partition of the country, despite demands for an independent Tuareg homeland. It is not likely that the impasse will be resolved in the short term.

Given the uncertain future of northern Mali, we have decided to relocate Arts and Culture in Mali 2012 to the city of Kankan, the third largest urban center in the Republic of Guinea, Mali’s neighbor to the southwest. Kankan is the heartland of Mande culture, home to a thriving Mande art and artisan community, as well as Julius Nyerere University, which will provide us with classroom facilities, guest lecturers, and access to library facilities.

Sekou Camara, our Guinean-born Mande culture lecturer and language teacher who has been with the program since 2007, will join Program Director and Lead Faculty Nick Hockin (who did extensive research in Guinea in 2007-08) in coordinating a smooth transition to our new location. All of the current courses listed for the Arts and Culture in Mali program will be offered, including French language. The African language course will be Dioula, a widely spoken language that incorporates aspects of Bamana and Malinké. Dioula, Bamana, and Malinké are mutually intelligible, and Dioula is almost identical to the Bamana spoken in Bamako. Apprenticeships and homestays will function as planned, with local artists, artisans, dancers, and musicians.

Guinea is a country recently emerged from years of single party rule. Alpha Condé was elected president in 2010, and multi-party legislative elections are due in the summer of 2012. The Peace Corps has been operating in Guinea since 1963, and currently has 31 volunteers in the country. The U.S. State Department has a travel warning in place for Guinea, last updated on Nov 4, 2011, citing political unrest surrounding the presidential elections. All indicators point to smooth elections, and we are confident in the democratic stability of the country.

We are taking all the steps necessary to ensure that our students enjoy a safe and secure study abroad experience in West Africa this fall. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Read the March 29 AEA update on Mali here.

Read the March 22 AEA update on coup in Mali here.

For more information on the Arts and Culture in Mali program, click here.

Program Visit Scheduled at Antioch University Santa Barbara

lcreighton — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:46:17 +0000

The PhD in Leadership and Change invites individuals to join us for a visit Saturday, May 19th at Antioch University Santa Barbara!

Explore the program and meet members of our learning community.

RSVP by May 14th for further details!

admissions.phdlc@antioch.edu

Program Alum Aligns Teen Activists with Their Adult Allies

lcreighton — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:15:26 +0000

PhD in Leadership and Change Program alum, Dr. Les Etienne, recently helped to make experiential learning come alive when joining forces with the “Seeds of Fire” Youth Organizing and Leadership Camp at the Highlander Research and Education Center. ”Seeds of Fire” brings together a diverse group of Southern Appalachian teen activist/organizers and their adult allies and has served as a vital training center for labor, civil rights, economic and environmental justice organizers for over eight decades.

To learn more about the center and their work here!

Vote for Your Fave Foto in AEA’s Student Photo Contest!

kbrannan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:39:18 +0000

We received many amazing entries in this year’s AEA Student Photo Contest, and we need your help selecting a winner for our new category – The Fave Foto Award! Selection of the winner for this category will be based solely on the number of votes it receives in the photo gallery of this year’s entries on Facebook.

It’s super easy and only takes a minute! Visit the photo gallery here and simply click “like” to vote for your favorite photos.

Voting ends April 20, 2012!

Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners for all categories later this month.

AEA still has spaces available on many of our fall programs, encourage your friends to apply here!