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2022 International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence

Virtual. All sessions will be accessed through the conference app, which will be accessible to registered attendees in January.

Embodied Practices, Empathy and Social Activism in Virtual Exchange

vendredi 28 janvier 2022 à 12:45–14:45 MST
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Presentation Summary

This presentation demonstrates a pedagogical approach to raising awareness of embodiment in an intercultural virtual exchange. We report on a project between university students from Germany and the USA, in which the topics of embodied collective memory and empathy in social activism practices were explored. 

Primary Presenter

Ivett Guntersdorfer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
State (if in the U.S.)
Country

Germany

Professional Biography

Ivett Guntersdorfer earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the JYM Study Abroad Program and the Institute of Intercultural Communication at the LMU, where she is leading the Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Prof. Guntersdorfer`s research includes: study abroad in higher education, intercultural competence and empathy. 

Secondary Presenters

Irina Golubeva, University of Maryland at Baltimore County
State (if in the U.S.)

Maryland

Country

USA

Professional Biography

Irina Golubeva is an Associate Professor at UMBC (USA), where she directs the MA program in Intercultural Communication. Golubeva’s main research interests concern the development of multilingual awareness and intercultural competence, internationalisation of higher education, and conceptualization of intercultural citizenship.

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