CIDE programs well-represented at CIES 2025
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Comparative and International Development Education graduate programs will be well represented at the 2025 annual meeting of CIES, the Comparative and International Education Society: Envisioning Education in a Digital Society, taking place March 22-26, 2025 in Chicago, IL.
24 separate sessions at the event will feature students, faculty, and alumni affiliated with the CIDE programs—including presentations, roundtable discussions, book launches, pre-conference workshops, and poster presentations.
See below for a daily schedule:
Bhaskar Upadhyay, Lindsey Smaka, Samantha Barragan
- Session Cultural Connections and Global Perspectives in Teacher Training
1:15 to 2:30pm, Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Clark 10 - Presentation: Cultural justice in STEAM Teacher professional development in Nepal
Enet Mukurazita, Meixi (Chairs)
- Roundtable Session 1: Sharing the mist: An interdisciplinary journey of international women doctoral students
1:15 to 2:30 pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Crystal Room
Erma Mujic
- Session: A focus on community: Civil society and non-formal approaches to education and peacebuilding for crisis-affected learners
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Kimball Room - Presentation: “I come here to forget about my struggles”: How nonformal education in Greece empowers displaced youth through transition and uncertainty
Baiwen Peng
- Session: International Students and Social Media and Digital Learning
9:45 to 11:00am, Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Burnham 1 - Presentation: Social media as public pedagogy: The development of news literacy of Chinese international students in the United States
Dane Richard Rowley
- Session: Complex student experiences and the role of technology
9:45 to 11:00am, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Crystal Room - Presentation: Border Benders: Queer International Student Experiences in U.S. Universities
Christopher Johnstone
- Session: Diverse challenges facing education: case studies on climate change, edu-tourism, inclusive education and Kyrgyzstan
9:45 to 11:00am, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Crystal Room - Presentation: Rethinking the Role of Inclusive Education
Nikoo Nikoonazari
- Session: Teacher, student, and practitioner perspectives on contemporary issues in gender and education
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room - Presentation: Digital Spaces of Hope, Solidarity, and Informal Education in the Women, Life, Freedom Movement: Kurdish Identity and Social Justice in Iran
Saule Sadykova and Bhaskar Upadhyay
- Session: Rethinking Higher Education Curriculum, Learning Spaces and Practices
8:00 to 9:15am, Virtual Rooms, Virtual Room #108 - Presentation: Analyzing the Role of Research Methods Courses in Shaping Educational Research Practices
Meixi, Erma Mujic, Giselle Caretto, Maria Cecilia
- Session: Coastal communities in Latin America: Honoring children’s everyday sensemaking of changing lands and waters
March 24, 9:45 to 11:00am, Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Clark 10 - Presentation: Cultivating relational worlds
Maria C. Schwedhelm, Erma Mujic, Giselle Caretto, Meixi
- Session: Coastal communities in Latin America: Honoring children’s everyday sensemaking of changing lands and waters
9:45 to 11:00am, Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Clark 10 - Presentation : Caminatas as intergenerational participatory research with more-than-human worlds
Endah Ratnasari
- Session: Gender Mainstreaming Strategies and Narratives in Promoting Gender-Responsive Schools in Indonesian Secondary Education
March 24, 2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Exhibit Hall (Posters) - Poster: Gender Mainstreaming Strategies and Narratives in Promoting Gender-Responsive Schools in Indonesian Secondary Education
Roozbeh Shirazi
- Session: Education and Palestine: Defying Imposed Boundaries, Resisting Erasure, & Charting Educational Praxis Across Spaces
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Dearborn 2 - Presentation: Teaching Palestine: Praxes of Transgression and Possibility
Enet Mukurazita
- Session:Origin Theories of Learning: Recentering Indigenous Strategies of Learning and Life in Comparative and International Education
4:30 to 5:45pm, Palmer House, Clark 7 - Presentation: Ngano Methodology
Yilin Wei and Xun Yu
- Session: Origin Theories of Learning: Recentering Indigenous Strategies of Learning and Life in Comparative and International Education
4:30 to 5:45pm, Palmer House, Clark 7 - Presentation: Healing Knowledge: Power, Pain, and Intergenerational Healing in Learning Theories
Sunga Kufeyani
- Session: Origin Theories of Learning: Recentering Indigenous Strategies of Learning and Life in Comparative and International Education
4:30 to 5:45pm, Palmer House, Clark 7 - Presentation: Integrating Community Knowledge in Pre-Service Teacher Education for Climate Change Education: Addressing Eco-Colonialism in Malawi through Participatory Design-Based Research
Giselle Carretto, Meixi, Erma Mujic, Maria Cecilia Schwedhelm
- Session: Origin Theories of Learning: Recentering Indigenous Strategies of Learning and Life in Comparative and International Education
4:30 to 5:45pm, Palmer House, Clark 7 - Presentation: Relational Learning on Storywalks: More-Than-Humans as interlocutors in Knowledge and Theory-Making
Cody Freeman
- Session: Being in the Present, Making of the Future: How Thai LGBTIQNA+ Youth Engage in the Process of Worldmaking
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Exhibit Hall (Posters) - Presentation: Being in the Present, Making of the Future: How Thai LGBTIQNA+ Youth Engage in the Process of Worldmaking
Vongrathayuth Hingphith
- Session: Policy mechanisms and glocal shifts: Shaping futures of education in Southeast Asia
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Logan Room - Presentation: Exploring the Discourse on "Digital" in Cambodian Education: An Analysis of Policies and Publications on Digital Literacy and the Digital Economy
Ainur Jumagaliyeva
- Session: Student experiences in higher education
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Ashland Room - Presentation: Career decision-making difficulties of undergraduate students in Kazakhstan
Qin Xie
- Session: Perils and Promises of Generative AI in Higher Education: Comparative Insights from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mongolia, and the U.S.
2:45 to 4:00pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 7 - Presentation: Navigating Global and Local Generative AI Tools in Higher Education: Promises from Chinese Students
Roozbeh Shirazi
- Session: Pedagogies of Migration: Teaching and Learning across Global Contexts
4:30 to 5:45pm, Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Burnham 5 - Presentation: Teaching and Learning with Migrant Youth: Towards a Pedagogy of the Meanwhile
Kristina Cibuzar
- Session: Global commitment and policies to inclusive education
9:45 to 11:00am, Palmer House, Floor: 5th Floor, The Price Room - Presentation: From access accommodations to inclusive education: How the Covid-19 pandemic precipitated change
Kae Takaoka
- Session: Exploring teachers' experiences in challenging educational contexts
1:15 to 2:30pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room - Presentation: Culturally relevant self-study methodology with Japanese teachers: Navigating the strings of the “air” to understand intimate knowledge in education
Matthew Schuelka and Roozbeh Shirazi
- Session: Postdigital pedagogies in the omnidigital video era: educators and the CIES film festivalette curators discuss films they use and why.
Wed, March 26, 9:45am to 12:30pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 8
Aditi Ashok Arur, Joan DeJaeghere, Chris Johnstone, Nancy Pellowski Wiger, Matthew Schuelka
- Session: Advocating for quality education for all in a digitalising world: Civil society’s engagement in education policymaking through Education Out Loud
Wed, March 26, 1:15 to 2:30pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Crystal Room - Roundtable Session 12: “Facilitated Reflexive and Multi-modal Exchange” (FRAME): Reflecting on EOL Grantees’ Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) advocacy frameworks