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Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. January 1, 2012 www.michaelprosser.com . A Founder of
the Academic Field of Intercultural Communication (intercultural,
international, and global communication and issues)
Since there are now 300 posts on the international blog, and since February
23, 2011, approximately 470,000 hits, it seems sensible to create an index
of posts, which has been done in reverse order- 300-1, as most readers are
probably more interested in the recent posts rather than in those from eight years ago. There is a heavy emphasis on China as I taugh[......]
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Some highlights, 2011. Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. (January 1, 2012) (475,000 hits since February 23, 2011) [Post 299]
January: Professor Yuxin Jia of
Harbin Institute of Technology and President of the China Association for
Intercultural Communication completed his Foreword for Li Mengyu’s and my intercultural communication textbook for Chinese university students, Communicating Interculturally.
February: Three close young Chinese friends
got married (Maxwell May, Jesse William Zhang, and Jacky Zhang Shengyong); I went to teach for five and a half months at Ocean University of China i[......]
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Author of “Excuse
me, Your God is Waiting” (2008) and “Medicine Team” (forthcoming), Michelle
Epiphany Prosser marries on December 27, 2011: Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. [Post
298]
Michelle Epiphany Prosser author of “Excuse
me, Your God is Waiting,” an intercultural spirituality and self-help book,
published in 2008 by Hampton Roads Press, executive coach, motivational
speaker, and author of the forthcoming book “Medicine Team,” utilizing native
American wisdom to help create effective business teams, has married Roger
Donald Lavasseur of Richmond, Virginia in a ceremony at the Miller[......]
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The 18th IAICS (International Association for Intercultural Studies) International Conference Call for Submissions, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
Guo-Ming Chen, gchen@etal.uri.edu
Theme: Cultural Convergence and Conflict in Global Context: Rethinking the Phenomenon of Glocalization
June 8-11, 2012, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
The 21st century is the era of convergence and conflicts. We see the convergence of new communication technology and at the same time we see the conflicts emerged among different nations and cultures. War and disasters continue to bring threat[......]
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6th Russian International Communication Association Conference: “Communication in a Changing Society.” Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, September 27-29, 2012. [Post 296]
David Cratis Williams, dcwill@fau.edu,
Russian Communication Association (RCA) in collaboration
with Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) and the
Institute of Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal
University are happy to announce the forthcoming 6th International RCA
Conference: “Communication in a Changing Society”.
The Conference is convene[......]
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The
Impact of Common Ground in the Iran – Iraq Relationship
Mansoureh Sharifzadeh, Guest Contributor 12
Tehran – Iran
21
November 2011 [Post 295]
The
people of different nations with the same belief come to a higher understanding
about each other, although there might be probable risks as a result of certain
circumstances. Such unity brings the individuals into a condition that they tend
to overcome all the dangers that may threaten their security.
In
April and Oct. 2011, I took two continuous trips to my neighboring country,
Iraq as for a pilgrimage. Each of them lasted for abo[......]
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Post Semester at Sea Reflections: Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D.,
December 22, 2011 (444, 117 hits since February 23, 2011) [Post 294]
The Semester at Sea program began in 1963 at Chapman College
(now University); moved to the University of Colorado, and then to the
University of Pittsburg, and most recently to the University of Virginia. The
Institute for Shipboard Education, a nonprofit organization, owns the M/V
Explorer, a ship with seven decks, and 589 feet long, two restaurants, nine
class rooms, and an about 90% of the crew members return for additional
voyages. There is a very goo[......]
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MY CHRISTMASSES THE LAST SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, MICHAEL H. PROSSER [POST 293]
As an infant or toddler, I of
course don’t really remember my earliest Christmasses, but as a child I do
remember that my parents put up the Christmas tree. We put out milk and cookies
for Santa, which by morning had disappeared. Part of one early Christmas gift
from Santa that still remains is a foot long red wooden farm wagon with the
farmer guiding the horse (which got accidentally broken by one of my children
much later). I don’t remember when I
started to go to Christmas Midnight Mass with my mother and[......]
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Senester at Sea: Lip dub, more than 50,000 visits on You Tube, Digg, and Reddit [Post 292}
Working together, most of the Autumn 2011 Semester at Sea voyage joined the 10 minute "Freedom is my name; wavin' the flag" lip dub which has been posted on You Tube, Digg, and Reddit, described by Dave Eng in an earlier post, 280,. Students, faculty, staff, "Little Squirts" (the 24 children on the voyage) and "Salty Dogs" (many of the 60 lifelong learners, crew members, and even Captain Jeremy Kingston participated throughout the ship for the final videographing performance, waving many different na[......]
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[This is Dave Eng's last post for our August 26, 2011 to December 13, 2011 University of Virginia, Semester at Sea, Around the World Study Voyage (Montreal, Canada; Casablanca, Morocco; Tema, Ghana; Cape Town, South Africa; Port Louis, Mauritius; Chennai, India; Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; Penang Island, Malaysia; Hong Kong and Shanghai, China; Kobe and Yokohama, Japan; Hilo, Hawaii; Puntanares, Costa Rica; Panama Canal; Roatan, Honduras; Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During the 3 1/2 month voyage, he has made a daily post for his own blog, and has generously allowed me to repost his own essays, s[......]
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