Representing School of Education and IISE, Dr. Maureen McClure and Dr. Maureen Porter gave a lecture on the topic of “Local Meets Global: A Converging Conversation”. It was part of the keynote series presented at the International Congress on Social Glocalization on 19-21 September 2019. They did a performative piece dramatizing converging and diverging discourses about "local" and "global", discussing how ideas of a "generational neighborhood" and new metaphors of "solutions" could more constructively guide our thinking.
The Congress was held in the Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW (KatHO) in Cologne, German, bringing together scholar-leaders from 23 different countries. With the theme of social glocalization, the Congress addressed the roles of higher education in a world with local and global changes, in concert with social work, health sciences & practical theology domains.
Some other pictures from the event:
Pitt colleague Prof. Jeff Shook (on the right) from Social Work with former IISE Visiting Scholar Werner Schoenig (on the left) of the KatHO Cologne
A cool visualization from the keynote of Dr. McClure and Dr. Porter
Visualization from the panels: Dr. Porter was on one with her presentation on Cultural Strengths as Compensatory Frames and Entry Points in Addressing Violence
This is Dr. Porter's square with some of her own major talking points
The assembled for the Glocalization Congress