Local, National, Global: Understanding Diversity and Community in Europe.

As individuals, each of us play a role in building our local, national, and global communities. U.S. students in Europe are challenged to integrate into their host communities and to understand the broader national and regional contexts that shape their experiences, while developing their own identities and defining their places in the world.

As international educators, we are challenged to support students as they navigate these layers of identity, at a time when tensions between regionalism, nationalism, and globalism run high in both the U.S. and in parts of Europe, and the definitions of local, national, and global are evolving.

How can education abroad professionals work with our students in Europe to build a sense of community at the local, national, and global levels? How can we encourage them to embrace the blending of these distinct identities in a way that celebrates diversity as well as the commonalities of the human experience that we all share?

Join us in exploring these issues in Prague, where we near the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, and the centenary of the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia.

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