{"id":30831,"date":"2014-11-14T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30831"},"modified":"2014-11-20T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:20:31","slug":"brock-welcomes-visiting-professors-and-scholars-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/11\/brock-welcomes-visiting-professors-and-scholars-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock welcomes visiting professors and scholars from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30832\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lieselotallemeersch.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30832\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30832    \" title=\"lieselotallemeersch\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lieselotallemeersch-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"lieselotallemeersch\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lieselot Allemeersch from Ghent University in Belgium (centre) is welcomed to Brock by President Jack Lightstone (left) and Kim Meade, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brock <a href=\"www.brocku.ca\/brock-international \" target=\"_blank\">International Services <\/a>recently welcomed 22 professors and scholars from institutions across the world for this term&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-international\/visiting-international-profess\" target=\"_blank\">We Welcome the World Reception<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organized each term to formally recognize new visiting international professors (VIP), scholars (VIS) and university mentorship (UM) participants.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of this term&#8217;s participants come from Brock&#8217;s established university partners overseas, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugent.be\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Ghent University<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesp.br\/portal#!\/eng\" target=\"_blank\">State University of Sao Paulo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lnu.se\/?l=en\" target=\"_blank\">Linnaeus University<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwi.edu\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">University of West Indies<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30834\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vip-andreas-mueller.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30834\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30834 \" title=\"vip-andreas-mueller\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vip-andreas-mueller-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"vip-andreas-mueller\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Andreas Mueller (centre).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All currently participating visiting scholars represent 25 academic institutions in 13 countries &#8211; Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, Honduras, South Africa, Suriname, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Brock President Jack Lightstone, and Kim Meade, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, helped welcome the professors and scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the participants included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>University mentorship<\/strong><br \/>\nLieselot Allemeersch from Ghent University in Belgium is undertaking an internship in inclusive education at a local elementary school in St. Catharines, supervised by Sheila Bennett and Tiffany Gallagher in <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/registrar\/teacher-education\" target=\"_blank\">Teacher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting international scholar <\/strong><br \/>\nFernando Maues de Faria Junior, a PhD candidate from Federal University of Para in Brazil, is collaborating with Jennifer Rowsell in the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education\/departmentsandcentres\/multiliteracies\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Multiliteracies<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education\/departmentsandcentres\/readingclinic\" target=\"_blank\">Reading Clinic<\/a> in the research areas of literary literacy and teacher education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting international professor <\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Andreas Mueller is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worcester.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">University of Worcester<\/a> in the UK. He is currently teaching a third-year undergraduate course at Brock &#8211; The 18th Century Novel &#8211; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/english-language-and-literature\" target=\"_blank\">Department of English Language and Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock International Services recently welcomed 22 professors and scholars from institutions across the world for this term&#8217;s We Welcome the World Reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[76,95,2090,2091,1200,2089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30905,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831\/revisions\/30905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}