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Dr. Gregory Paul Meyjes: Sample Past Performance

Session Chair: Intercultural Dynamics of Indigenous Conflict Management, 04/12 International Conference on Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies, Kennesaw State University, April 20-21, 2012

Interfaith Youth/Student Leadership: The Challenge of Intercultural Consciousness and Communication (keynote), 11/11, The Connections Institute on Leadership and Diversity. “Leadership & Religious Diversity: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities” Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Nov. 5th, 2011

Culture and Conflict, 09/11, Mediation Training for Nigerian Judges, Center for Conflict Management, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University

Education for Global Citizenship: A Meta-­Cultural Framework for Evaluating Practice, 06/11, The 11th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, RSA, 20-­22 June 2011

Intercultural Competence in Ethnic Conflict Prevention and Resolution, 02/11, Conflict Management: A Tool for U.S. national security strategy?
Symposium, Kennesaw State University (College of Humanities and Social Sciences) & U.S. Army War College (Strategic Studies Institute)

English beyond Our Borders: Reflections on the Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities of TESOL, Annual Conference, GA TESOL, Atlanta, GA, 10/10

Teaching Religious Diversity in Public Schools: Why, What, When -­ and Whether?, 10/09, Leadership for a Religiously Diverse World: 6th conference on Interfaith Youth Work, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

A World of Difference: Culturally Competent Literacy Education Today. 02/08, Fox Reading Conference, MTSU, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

The Diversity Specialist and Ethnocultural Accommodations (keynote), 07/07, 7th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ethnic Conflict & Accommodation: new paradigms, 07/06, Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Limerick Ireland.

Risks and Rewards of English as a World Language: Considerations for ESL Students, 04/05, Northern Virginia Community College

Language and World Order, 06/02, Colloquium on the Sociology of Language and Religion University of Surrey Roehampton, United Kingdom

Global versus Local Language, 07/98, International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland

Linguistic Pluralism in India: Fumble or Pass? 03/98, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Seattle, WA

Linguistic Rights in the 21st Century: Justice and Universalism?” 11/97
21st Annual Conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies, Washington, DC

“Language and Cultural Dignity in the French Caribbean” 07/96
International Conference on Minority Language Rights, Polytechnic, Hong Kong 

Rise or Fall? The Socio-Political Evolution of Creole in Current-Day Guadeloupe, 07/94, 16th Association of Caribbean Studies Conference, Georgetown, Guyana

Mexican-American Farm Workers Attitudes towards English and the U.S.A., 10/90, Carolina TESOL Conference, Fayetteville, NC

Gregory Paul Meyjes

Dr. Gregory Paul Meyes is a multicultural scholar-practitioner who has practiced intercultural understanding throughout life, applying his focus on the just inclusion of cultural minority groups to formal and non-traditional adult education, community-based development, training, public information, and United-Nations sponsored development research. A true world citizen, he specializes in “intercultural justice,” in social inclusion and international conflict management.