Baltimore Immigration Summit

The Fourth Baltimore Immigration Summit will take place
at Towson University
Friday, November 21st, 2008

The Baltimore Immigration Summit is an bi-annual one-day event, co-sponsored by Towson University and the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office, which brings together academics, service providers, activists, community leaders, and others working with and for immigrants in our region. Baltimore is an area with a growing and diverse immigrant population, as well as local government that views immigrants as an important part of the city’s resurgence.

The theme of this year’s Summit is ReGenerations: Communities, Opportunities and Challenges.” “ReGenerations” has a dual meaning. First, it means about generations – Boomers, Generation X, or Millennial, including first and second generation immigrants. Second, the concept of regeneration also refers to how immigrants help regenerate the city, region, state and country. An example, in the realm of health, there are health needs for specific generations of immigrants (children, seniors), and there is also the way in which immigrant health care providers help regenerate our hospitals and other health care institutions.

In keeping with this theme, we are issuing a call for presentations for the 2008 Baltimore Immigration Summit. We encourage proposals for full panels, but will accept proposals for individual presentations that could be parts of panels as well. Proposals should be in some way engage the theme of “ReGenerations: Communities, Opportunities and Challenges”.

We encourage activists, scholars, practitioners, government representatives, community leaders, and others to submit proposals. Preference will be given to panel proposals that include representatives of more than one of these groups, and/or that include representatives of various immigrant and native communities. For example, a panel on immigrants and education could include a teacher, a researcher, a student, and a representative of a non-profit agency helping to improve educational opportunities for immigrants, or a panel on immigrant organizations could include representatives of three or four different immigrant communities. If you are interested in presenting, but do not have contacts to put together a panel, the Summit Planning Committee would be happy to try and help you to get in touch with others in your area of interest. Please contact us at immigrationsummit@towson.edu.

Panel discussions will be one hour long, and some of that time should be devoted for discussion. Panels should include two or four participants, allowing for 10-20 minute presentations for each participant.

For your proposal, please include the following:
Title of the session
Name of each participant
Institutional/Organizational Affiliation of each participant
Full contact information for each participant
(address, phone number, e-mail address)
Description of the session: In 200-250 words, please describe the panel
topic, as well as the make-up of the panel (i.e. how will each participant contribute
to the discussion). Topics should focus on some aspect of immigration/immigrants in Baltimore. They should be topics which would be of interest to scholars, activist, practitioners, and/or government workers in attendance at the Summit. Topics which relate in some way to the theme of “regenerations” are particularly desired.

Submission for proposals:

Please submit proposals as Microsoft Word of RTF files to: immigrationsummit@towson.edu by Friday, September 12^th, 2008.

Please phone Coordinator Elizabeth Clifford at
immigrationsummit@towson.edu or
410-704-5164,
with any questions you may have about the Summit.

Past Baltimore Immigration Summit Information
2005: "Envisioning Immigrant Baltimore"
2006: "Building Bridges"
Click here to see a news story about the Third Annual Baltimore Immigration Summit
from the Towson Towerlight.


	Baltimore Immigration Summit The Fourth Baltimore Immigration Summit will take place at Towson University Friday, November 21st, 2008 The Baltimore Immigration Summit is an bi-annual one-day event, co-sponsored by Towson University and the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office, which brings together academics, service providers, activists, community leaders, and others working with and for immigrants in our region. Baltimore is an area with a growing and diverse immigrant population, as well as local government that views immigrants as an important part of the city’s resurgence. The theme of this year’s Summit is ReGenerations: Communities, Opportunities and Challenges.” “ReGenerations” has a dual meaning. First, it means about generations – Boomers, Generation X, or Millennial, including first and second generation immigrants. Second, the concept of regeneration also refers to how immigrants help regenerate the city, region, state and country. An example, in the realm of health, there are health needs for specific generations of immigrants (children, seniors), and there is also the way in which immigrant health care providers help regenerate our hospitals and other health care institutions. In keeping with this theme, we are issuing a call for presentations for the 2008 Baltimore Immigration Summit. We encourage proposals for full panels, but will accept proposals for individual presentations that could be parts of panels as well. Proposals should be in some way engage the theme of “ReGenerations: Communities, Opportunities and Challenges”. We encourage activists, scholars, practitioners, government representatives, community leaders, and others to submit proposals. Preference will be given to panel proposals that include representatives of more than one of these groups, and/or that include representatives of various immigrant and native communities. For example, a panel on immigrants and education could include a teacher, a researcher, a student, and a representative of a non-profit agency helping to improve educational opportunities for immigrants, or a panel on immigrant organizations could include representatives of three or four different immigrant communities. If you are interested in presenting, but do not have contacts to put together a panel, the Summit Planning Committee would be happy to try and help you to get in touch with others in your area of interest. Please contact us at immigrationsummit@towson.edu. Panel discussions will be one hour long, and some of that time should be devoted for discussion. Panels should include two or four participants, allowing for 10-20 minute presentations for each participant. For your proposal, please include the following: Title of the session Name of each participant Institutional/Organizational Affiliation of each participant Full contact information for each participant (address, phone number, e-mail address) Description of the session: In 200-250 words, please describe the panel topic, as well as the make-up of the panel (i.e. how will each participant contribute to the discussion). Topics should focus on some aspect of immigration/immigrants in Baltimore. They should be topics which would be of interest to scholars, activist, practitioners, and/or government workers in attendance at the Summit. Topics which relate in some way to the theme of “regenerations” are particularly desired. Submission for proposals: Please submit proposals as Microsoft Word of RTF files to: immigrationsummit@towson.edu by Friday, September 12^th, 2008. Please phone Coordinator Elizabeth Clifford at immigrationsummit@towson.edu or 410-704-5164, with any questions you may have about the Summit. Past Baltimore Immigration Summit Information 2005: "Envisioning Immigrant Baltimore" 2006: "Building Bridges" Click here to see a news story about the Third Annual Baltimore Immigration Summit from the Towson Towerlight.

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