Conference Presentations
(last ten years)
Ghosh, R. (March 30, 2007). Democratizing Education in
Ghosh, R. (February 23, 2007). Global Challenges for Internationalization in Higher
Ghosh, R. (November 25, 2005) Invited talk: Canadian Women: from non-persons to persons. Symposium of the Royal Society of
Ghosh, R. (May 11, 2005) Femmes, droits humains et citoyenneté mondiale en relation à l’Inde,
Ghosh, R.(June 9, 2005) Deconstructing Boundaries of Hate in Indian and Pakistani Curricula
Women and the Globalization of Difference: does education change their status? Invited talk at the Centre of Excellence in Sociology,
(December 3, 2004) .
Issues for Women in Science and Technology in
Women in science, engineering and technology, invited talk at the President’s Internationalization Achievement Awards, University of Calgary, November 25, 2003.
Challenges, New Initiatives and Directions. President’s Advisory Council Meeting. Royal Society of Canada, Acadia University, Wolfsville, Nova ScotiaOctober 8, 2003.The Role of National Academies in Removing Gender Bias:
Glass Ceilings and Leaky Pipelines, Royal Society of London, London, U.K., June 24, 2003.
Globalization: Results of Research in South Asia. Interdisciplinary workshop series on “Gender and Rapid Economic Growth in Contemporary East, Southeast, and South Asia.” University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2002.
Impact of Globalization on Women. Invited talk. Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Montreal, Quebec, April 2002.
Globalization, Gender and Education in Developing Countries. Keynote address. International Conference on Problems and Prospects of Education in Developing Countries, University of the West Indies, Barbados, W.I., March 2002.
Identity Dynamics among the Teenagers in Goa, Macau and Hong Kong. Invited talk. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, April 2001.
Public Education in Canada. Keynote address. Fourteenth Annual Reddin Symposium on Canadian Studies, “Public Education and Multicultural Policy in Canada, and the Special Case of Quebec.” Canadian Studies Center, Bowling Green State University, Iowa, January 2001.
Cultural Nationalism and Globalization: Changing Values and the Japanese Concept of Nihonjinron. Invited talk. Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan, September 1999.
Technology as a Learning Tool: Enhancing the Learning Process Through Teacher Training. Invited talk. Education Seminar, Team Canada Mission to Japan, Tokyo, September 1999.
Series of six lectures on Multiculturalism at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, June 1999.
Education and Visible Minority Youth. Invited talk. National EXCEL Minority Youth Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, May 1999.
Series of three talks on Multiculturalism: Theory, Practice and Multicultural Education in Canada. Invited lectures. UNAM, Mexico City, April 1999.
Women, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment. Invited talk. National Department of Education, Pretoria, South Africa, March 1999.
Identity Research. Invited talk. University of Wittswatersand, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1999.
Opportunities and Possibilities: Girls and Career Challenges. Keynote address. The Study, Montreal, Quebec, March 1999.
Globalization in the North American Context: A Renegotiation of Cultural Space. Invited talk, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 1999.
Multiculturalism and Globalization. Keynote address. International Conference on Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, August 1998.
Globalization and Work Values in the NAFTA Context. Invited talk. University of Tamaulipas, Tampico, Mexico, May 1998.
Diversity, Education and Multicultural Policy in Canada. Keynote address. Canadian Studies Conference, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, November 1997.
Multicultural Policy and Gender Issues. Invited talk. Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, November 1997.
Literacy and the Black Community: Building a Foundation. Keynote address. Quebec Board of Black Educators Second Conference on Literacy, Montreal, Quebec, February 1997.
New Perspectives in Multicultural Education. Inaugural address for appointment to William C. Macdonald Chair, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, June 1995.
Papers Presented at International Conferences
(A list of other conference presentations is available.)Ghosh, R. (May 1, 2007). The Gender Gap in
Ghosh, R. (March 31, 2006). La question linguistique: refléxion sur la question à partir du mileau de l’éducation, panel presentation at the conference on La realtion parents immigrants/réfugiés- École, organized by the Mental Health, School and Culture team, Transcultual Psychiatry, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal.
Ghosh, R. ( March 22, 2006) Gestion de la diverstié religieuse à l’école les probblématiques de laїcité st d’accommodements raisonnables Round table presentation at the Conference on Cultural Diversity in Schools in France and Quebec, Centre of Ethnic Studies, University of Montreal (CEETUM), Montreal.
Ghosh, R. and Arshad, A. (2006) Educational Technology for Empowerment: the need to
Ghosh, R. (April 15, 2005) Canada: a muliticultural policy in panel on Global Educational Reform in the Context of Political and Economic Change, Gaps in socio-economic Status, and the Tension between Decentraluization and Accountability. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA),
Ghosh, R. (October
28, 2004) The Globalization of Difference:
Implications for language and
Culture. Paper
presented at the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies
(WCCES),
Research Project Needs in
Education
in Jordan. The First
Conference for Scientific Research in Jordan Universities, Amman,
Jordan.October 25-26, 2003
A Cross-Cultural Study of Teacher Values. Eighth bi-annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values (ISSWOV), Warsaw, Poland, June 2002.
The Impact of Economic Liberalization on Women’s Education, Career and Life in India. Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Orlando, Florida, March 2002.
Introduction to the Royal Society at the Joint Royal Society/CSSE panel, Social Science and Humanities Congress, Quebec City, Quebec, May 2001.
(with Ayaz Naseem) Equity & Peace. Roundtable AERA Conference, Seattle, Washington (Presented by Dr. Jing Lin), April 2001.
Linguistic Diversity and Language Policy in Canada. CIES Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2001.
Educational Technology and the Digital Divide: Implications for Multicultural Societies. Conference on Multicultural Perspectives on the Use of Technology in Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, October 2000.
Leadership and Diversity: Implications of Gender and Cultural Differences for Leadership Positions. Seventh bi-Annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2000.
Democratic Values and Teacher Education. Panel presentation, Comparative and International Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 2000.
Globalization: Its Impact on Higher Education in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Conference on University, Community and Professional Education, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, November 1999.
(with A.E.Wall) Reflection on Ethical Issues in School Leadership. Symposium on Ethical Leadership in Organizations, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, May 1999.
A Cross Cultural Study of Values in Teacher Education Programs: Mexico, U.S.A. & Canada. Panel presentation, Comparative and International Education Conference, Toronto, Ontario, April 1999.
Goals, Achievements and Gaps. Panel. symposium on Nine Years Since Jomtien: Is Education for All a Dream or Reality? Toronto, Ontario, April 1999.
Globalization and Cultural Values. North American Consortium for Educational Restructuring (NACER) Conference, Vancouver, B.C., July 1998.
A Comparison of Values in Teacher Education Programs: Quebec, Mexico, California. Comparative and International Education Society (U.S.), Buffalo, New York, March 1998.
Canadian Education and Multicultural Policy, Seisan University, Tokyo, Japan, November 1997.
Regionalism and Organizational Culture. North American Consortium for Educational Restructuring (NACER) Conference, Tampico, Mexico, October 1997.
Globalization and Identity Construction. Second International South Asian Women’s Conference, Los Angeles, California, September 1997.
Educational Leadership for a Global Society: The NACER Consortium and A Comparative Study of the Teaching of Values in Teacher Education Programs: Quebec. Panel presentations and Chair, Conference of the Comparative and Educational Society (U.S.), Mexico, D.F., March 1997.
Economic Liberalization and Women in India. Canadian Association of African Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, March 1996.
Education and the Politics of Culture and Teacher Education and Classroom Interactions. Panel presentations and Chair of panel. Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences (ACFAS) conference, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, May 1996.
Values in Multicultural Education: Anglophone / Francophone Canada. Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (U.S.), Williamsburg, Virginia, March 1996.
Economic Liberalization and its Impact on Women and Women’s Education in India. Bacchus Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, September 1995.
Education and the Politics of Difference. Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1995.
Cultural Diversity and Multicultural Education in Canada, and Values, Education and Cultural Diversity. Proceedings, Conference on Education: A Multicultural Approach in NAFTA Countries, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico, D.F., November 1994.
Intercultural Education and Identity Formation. Comparative and International Education Society Conference, San Diego, California, March 1994.