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Transitions and Successions
Date and Location is to be determined -
This Sedona is aimed at CEOs, primarily, but separate workshops will be provided for all personnel
considering major changes and shifts in their lives, such as retirement.
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China on Our Mind: Making Connections and Exchanges
with China
Date and Location is to be determined -
This Sedona Conversation will explore
similar topics as the Twelfth Sedona in 2005 and will examine the economic
resurgence of China as a significant player in the global economy. In
order to better understand these developments, the conference will feature
presenters who have either had long-standing relationships with China or are
contemplating increasing programmatic services for Chinese universities,
colleges, and government agencies.
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A Symposium covering over
twenty countries' developments and challenges in higher education
Date and Location is to be determined
- This Sedona Conversation will likely follow
the publication of a book that Dr. Paul Elsner is editing along with George
Boggs and Judy Irwin for the AACC Press, covering over twenty countries’ developments in
community college education, further education, technical education, and
polytechnic college systems. Countries currently covered in the book are as
follows:
Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, England, French West Africa (Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote d’ Ivorie;
Mali; Niger; Mauritania; Senegal and Togo), Georgia, Hong Kong, India,
Ireland Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA,
and Vietnam.
We are hoping that we can get most of
the authors to provide summations of their countries’ developments, and the
attending issues and challenges of such systems in responding to an
ever-shifting and puzzling world economy, the rules of which keep changing, as
we speak. Discussions of location have involved Dubai, Tokyo and South Africa.
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Art Forms, Literary Forms,
and Spiritual Forms in the Land of Magical Realism
Date and Location is to be determined
- Another upcoming Sedona
Conversation, while only in the memo-draft stage, is an open call for papers
for an exciting forum in Bahia Salvador, the northern state of Brazil. The tentative title is, “Art
Forms, Literary Forms, and Spiritual Forms in the Land of Magical Realism.” We
are exploring a venue at a former nun’s convent, now converted to a historical
hotel in the old colonial section of Bahia. We will call for papers in the
following subjects:
Impact of Colonialism; The African
(Slave Trade) Diaspora; Modernism in Brazil; Art and Architectural Formats;
Deconstruction of Magical Realism among the writers Allende, Machado de Asis,
Jorge Amado, and others; Spirituality in Literary Genre; Analysis of Brazilian
film and media as visual doctrine of the future, and many other related topics.
Please keep checking back for
updates on our upcoming Sedona Conversations
