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About the conference: This conference is intended as a resource for anyone involved with international outreach, especially those professionals under the umbrella of the US Department of Education's International Education Programs Service (IEPS). More about the conference...

Program: A draft online program is now available with links to panels and abstracts -- this is a provisional and incomplete program, however. For the most up-to-date program, with room assignments and other details (but with no abstracts) please download the pdf version here.

Keynote Speaker: We are pleased to have as our keynote speaker State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Elizabeth Burmaster. More about Superintendent Burmaster...

Registration for the conference is $150 and includes a reception on Thursday and Friday, lunch on Friday and Saturday, and a dinner on Friday. Online registration for the conference - and additional information - is now available. As of 17 April, late registration applies and will cost $150/person.

Hotel reservations: The original room block at the Concourse Hotel (the conference venue) is full but we have arranged for the additional space (and rates) at additional hotels. More about accommodations...

Travel awards are available to support K-12 teacher participation at this conference. More about travel awards...

The Conference venue is the Madison Concourse Hotel (1 West Dayton Street, Madison 53703), phone 608.257.6000 or 800.356.8293. Maps and directions to the Concourse are available here.

For more information about the conference, contact Steven K. Smith, Associate Director of Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

National Steering Committee

• Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, University of Washington
• Barbara Gaerlan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
• Julie Kline, Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Agnes Leslie, Center for African Studies, University of Florida
• Valerie McGinley Marshall, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University
• Lynda Park, Russia, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois
• Barbara Petzen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
• Steven K. Smith, Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Rachel Weiss, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The deadline for individual paper or panel proposals has passed but submissions will be considered on a case by case basis.