Dr. Fernando Romero-Borja: Inviting my colleagues and students to the Salzburg Seminar

After a short absence from the Salzburg blog, I am back and recovering from a surgery last week. The surgery was scheduled to take place after my return from The Global Seminar last month, and before the fall semester starts again. During my surgery recovery week, I had time to reflect on all those plenary [...]

Bryant Evans: Reflections of Salzburg

Now back in Houston, I have had an opportunity to reflect a bit upon my experience at the Salzburg Global Seminar. I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to participate in this wonderful endeavor, and will forever feel a sense of gratitude to HCC for providing me with the opportunity to serve as [...]

Fidelis Ngang: Wrapping up Salzburg Global Seminar

Friday opened with what in my opinion was one of the best presentations of the week: “Transitioning to a New World Order: More Turbulence Ahead” presented by Alan Dupont. Alan is a soft-spoken Australian Security expert with a very peculiar and interesting manner in his style. It was a spell-bounding and captivating talk as he [...]

Dr. Fernando Romero-Borja: Last two days of activities within the International Study Program 2012

Friday, July 13, started with a plenary talk about the New World Order. An interesting talk over global economies and geo-political developments in recent years was delivered by Allen Dupont. Evolution of trade and markets in the South China Sea were analyzed. A long Q&A session followed this interesting talk. After lunch at the Schloss, [...]

Bryant Evans: Beginnings, middles and ends at Salzburg Global Seminar

As things draw towards a close at this week’s Salzburg Global Seminar, I am reminded by how many aspects of our lives are defined by a beginning, middle, and end. When we say goodbye tomorrow, we won’t be saying goodbye to the valuable content and resources that we’ve been equipped with in our time here, [...]

Dr. Fernando Romero-Borja: Global Citizenship main topic as thematic groups’ conversations continue

This Thursday morning, Bill Reckmeyer (San Jose State University) talked first on Critical Features of Global Citizenship, and then on Global Citizenship Innovative Education. He explained the different perspectives of globalization: Geo-political, Environmental, Economic, and Socio-cultural. He also commented on the multiple venues where activities leading to global citizenship have to be implemented: At the [...]

Fidelis Ngang: Stimulating day of debates, discussions

Thursday went as expected, same old routine in morning. Morning session titled “Global Citizenship: Critical Features” presented by Bill Reckmeyer was very very interesting. Touched on the actual meaning of Global Citizenship, and expanded on how his college San Jose State University is trying to actually put this concept in practice. Went for a walk [...]

Dr. Fernando Romero-Borja: More busy days and afternoon of Salzburg sightseeing

Tuesday started at 9:00 AM with a plenary talk entitled: “US and the World – Views from a Distance and Why it Matters”. This talk by Reinhold Wagnleitner (see picture) discussed how the perception of the US by the rest of the world has evolved in the last 12 years. In addition to the cultural [...]

Bryant Evans: A few images from Salzburg

Greetings from Austria, once again. We are in the midst of another lively day of sessions and thematic group discussions here at the Salzburg Global Seminar. I happened to finish lunch a little early, so I thought before getting fully underway with the afternoon sessions that I’d share a few images from our time here. View [...]

Fidelis Ngang: Catching up on all things Salzburg

Arrived here in Salzburg sometime Sunday afternoon. This post covers Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and today Wednesday. SUNDAY: Arrived Salzburg around 1:30pm, shared a cab (a Mercedes-Benz) with Bryant to the Schloss Leopoldskron (loosely translated as the Leopold Palace), checked in and got to my room around 3:00pm. By this time I was feeling pretty bad and [...]

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