Faculty and Staff Opportunities

The International Programs office works to develop opportunities for, and encourages faculty and staff to teach, present, and conduct research abroad. This type of professional development, when integrated back into the classroom and workplace at Columbia broadens the perceptions and understanding of the faculty, staff and students.

ELIA Teachers' Academy in Sofia July 1-4, 2009: Call for presentations and workshops- Deadline- December 1, 2008
Following the success of the ELIA Teachers’ Academy Barcelona in 2003, in Rotterdam in 2005 and in Brighton 2007, we are pleased to announce the 4th ELIA Teachers’ Academy which will be hosted by the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1 - 4 July 2009. The event will take place in the framework of artesnet Europe, the ERASMUS Network for Higher Arts Education, supported by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme.

All professors, lecturers, teachers or researchers from ELIA member institutions directly involved in teaching (theory and practice) and/or research at higher arts education level are welcome.

With this Call for workshops and presentations we hope to encourage colleagues from ELIA member institutions from all art disciplines to consider contributing to the Teachers’ Academy 2009.

We are inviting ELIA members to make submissions for a total of 24 presentations and 8 workshops . The Academy’s aim is to contribute to professional development for professors, teachers and researchers in higher arts education through participation in, and engagement with, challenging experiences and debates set in an international context.

A new feature of the Teachers’ Academy 2009 will be a series of master classes offered by leading educational practitioners whose methods of teaching have been valorised and acknowledged world wide. Confirmed is world renowned voice teacher Kristin Linklater, Head of Acting in the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University New York and Dick Ross, renowned scriptwriter, formal Professor of Film at the Royal College of Art in London and the New York University, honorary member of CILECT. For more information and to upload proposals www.eliateachersacademy.org
The office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Academic Initiatives and International Programs office invite all full-time and part-time faculty to apply for the Chicago/Lucerne Artist in Residency. This is a month-long [July 2009] artist residency in Lucerne, Switzerland.
March 2007, three Columbia faculty members, Kevin Henry, Art and Design; Robert Lagueux, New Millennium Studies: The First-Year Seminar; and Margaret Sullivan, Marketing Communication, lectured in Dublin along with three colleagues from the Dublin Institute of Technology: Faculty of Applied Arts as part of a symposium on Teaching and Learning. The symposium was presented at Columbia in October 2006. This is the first in a series of programs the International Programs office will be presenting in collaboration with colleagues from arts institutions across the globe, to exchange ideas on processes in teaching and learning in arts and media education. As we continue to develop relationships with institutions across the world, one of our goals is to provide opportunities for our faculty to share their research, teaching pedagogies and performances with our international colleagues, and to participate in the discussion on global educational issues.
We continue to foster relationships with international organizations such as The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). ELIA holds a biennual Teachers' Academy for college level educators in the fields of Architecture, Dance, Design, Fine Arts, Media Arts, Music and Theatre. The 2007 Teachers' Academy was hosted by the University of Brighton, July 11-14.
Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ) is edited by the Center for Arts Policy and has been published since 2003 four times a year by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. The TAJ is an imaginative and heartfelt peer-reviewed publication addressing the fullest range of practice, research, theory, opinion, and issues related to teaching artists. It speaks to a wide representation of artistic disciplines, diverse educational approaches, and cultural contexts.

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