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2022 Faculty Fellows & Workshop Resources
Workshop #2: Decolonizing the Curriculum:Why it is Necessary & Important, What it Means in Theory & Practice, & How to Approach it in Our Classrooms
Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | 3:00pm | CTE (UH 3030)
Description: Informed by internationalization & DEI perspectives, the CTE Global-Local Affairs Faculty Fellows Dr. Yu Li& Dr. Chris Finlay in conversation with DEI Faculty Fellow Dr. Arnab Banerji and Intercultural Affairs Director, Dr. Ariane White, invite participants to reflect on the epistemic traditions & pedagogical assumptions of our disciplines (sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, or professional fields), the dominant Eurocentric academic model, & the university as infrastructure of the Western civilization project. They explore inclusive classroom practices that situate the geo-political location of knowledge, encourage difficult conversations, & approach teaching as critical meaning-making.
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Workshop #1: The Why, What, & How of Educating Responsible Global Citizens
Date: Friday, March 25, 2022 | 1:00pm | Virtual Event
Description: Save the date for the first of a series workshop by our 2022 Faculty Fellows in Global-Local Initiatives. Dr. Yu Li and Dr. Christopher Finlay will lead a workshop on The Why, What, and How of Educating Responsible Global Citizens. This workshop will introduce participants to the theory and practice of transforming students into responsible global citizens. Faculty will be invited to reflect on and assess their own experiences and pedagogical practices as a first step Internationalizing the Curriculum.
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Chris Finlay
College of Communication and Fine Arts
Dr. Christopher J. Finlay is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He holds a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in digital media cultures, sports communication, global media industries and political communication. He has a particular interest in Olympics media, global media policy and Chinese media industries.
Dr. Finlay has authored over a dozen scholarly works, including, most recently, “Real Men, Himbos, And Bros: Continuity And Change In The Portrayal Of Masculinities In Sport-Dirtied Beer Advertising” with Dr. Lawrence Wenner, “The Right to Profitable Speech: Olympians, Sponsorship, and Social Media Discourse” and “Building a Better Winter Dream: Beijing 2022 and the International Olympic Committee”. In addition, Chris regularly contributes to popular media through expert commentary and original think pieces. His most recent is “Powering Down” for LMU Magazine.
Yu Li
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Yu Li is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her research centers on transcultural and translingual pedagogy, intercultural communication, and linguistic landscape studies with a focus on social justice. Her first book, The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, was published by Routledge in 2020. It offers a culturally rich study of the Chinese script, integrating a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on how the Chinese writing system shapes personal and social identities in and beyond Asia. Her current project examines the global use of the chop suey typeface invented in 1880s’ America to represent Chineseness. She teaches a broad array of courses in Chinese cultural history, linguistics, and language, including Global China, The Chinese Writing System, and Chinese Calligraphy, and she is working on a new course called Reading Multilingual Cities. She coordinates the Chinese program, co-organizes the interdisciplinary China Studies Group on campus, and serves on the Faculty Senate. She is committed to building and transforming global-local communities through education and research and is excited to be working closely with colleagues, students, and other members of the LMU community as part of the Global-Local Initiatives team.