Global Learning

Poster for the live Zoom event featuring Prof. Havi Dreifuss

Yad Vashem Center Director Prof. Havi Dreifuss speaks on the Last Year of the Warsaw Ghetto
Feb 15, 2021

Mon., Mar. 1, 2021 11a.m.-12:30p.m. The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies invites the public to a midday lecture by P...

Discussion virtual event with Dr. Renee Scherlen, political science; Dr. Curtis Ryan, political science and Joseph Gonzalez, interdisciplinary studies - global studies.

Threats to Democracy at Home & Abroad
Feb 3, 2021

Wednesday, Feb. 10, 202112 p.m.Virtual event for campus participants. Email Dr. Philip Ardoin, ardoinpj@appstate.edu to join this Zoom session.Co...

Dr. Omer Bartov, the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. Photo Submitted.

American-Israeli Historian Omer Bartov on Rewriting the Holocaust
Jan 20, 2021

Monday, Feb. 8, 202111 a.m. and 7 p.m.These virtual events are free and open to the public.Registration is required.The Department of Languages, ...

OIED image of App State students abroad. Photo from OIED social media.

OIED hosts Global Virtual Workshop Series
Jan 14, 2021

The Office of International Education and Development cordially invites you to participate in the Global Virtual Workshop Series this spring. Each wor...

Aric Thoresen '16, Anthropology major. Photo submitted.

Aric Thoresen on combining anthropology and teaching
Jan 13, 2021

After Aric Thoresen received his degree in anthropology from Appalachian State University in 2016, he travelled throughout Latin America and became TE...

Appalachian State University’s Dr. Jesse Lutabingwa, associate vice chancellor of international education and development; director of international research and development; and professor of public administration. Photo by Marie Freeman

App State’s Dr. Jesse Lutabingwa selected as founding member of the American Academy of International Education
Jan 12, 2021

Appalachian State University’s Dr. Jesse Lutabingwa, associate vice chancellor of international education and development, director of int...

Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide with James Waller, Keen State College. Poster image submitted.

Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide with James Waller
Jan 5, 2021

Tuesday, January 26, 20217 p.m.Free virtual event, open to the campus and community.The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies invites the pub...

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4 Appalachian Community members awarded for global leadership and engagement
Dec 16, 2020

Appalachian State University conferred its 2020 Global Leadership Awards as part of the annual Appalachian Global Symposium, held virtually this fall ...

The University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus, located at the base of South Africa’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains. Appalachian State University and the UFS Qwaqwa Campus are partnering on a two-year mountain-to-mountain project funded through the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in South Africa. The project will engage faculty, staff and graduate students at both institutions in teaching, research, mentorship, scholarship and more. Photo by Evert Kleynhans

$500K grant funds mountain-to-mountain collaboration between App State and South Africa’s UFS
Nov 10, 2020

Appalachian State University and South Africa’s University of the Free State (UFS) will strengthen their existing partnership through a federally fu...

At 8,430 meters above sea level, the high-altitude expedition team celebrates after setting up the world's highest operating automated weather station during the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. Learn more at www.natgeo.com/everest. Photo by Mark Fisher, National Geographic.

Tune in to the Mountain Studies Lecture Tuesday Nov. 10
Nov 9, 2020

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, Nov. 10, Appalachian State University's College of Arts and Sciences kicks off the Inaugural Mountain Studies Lecture ev...