GlobalEd Lab: Beyond Global Citizenship

This GlobalEd Lab will explore the shifting and paradoxical nature of global citizenship in the post-pandemic world. Participants will join together to dialogue around the definitions and practices of intercultural communication, positionality, global democracy, and political thought in the context of cross-cultural learning.

A lofty term with many definitions, “Global Citizenship” calls for a re-examination from its 1990s associations with American power and European cosmopolitanism. Too often, universities wield the term to achieve pragmatic end goals, from mobile students who experience every corner of the world to new outposts for American power. In this lab, we’ll explore new intellectual and practical possibilities for global citizenship, including drawing from new conceptions of urban citizenship and trans-citizenship to construct research agendas, program designs, and practical approaches to global learning.

Speakers and guests will include those involved in the academic and policy worlds of global citizenship studies and global learning.