AMICAL 2023

24–26 May

Schedule

AMICAL 2023 includes keynotes from invited international speakers and sessions led by AMICAL members themselves to create an event mixing global perspectives with local relevance.

Member-contributed sessions will include dynamic presentations, interactive sessions and workshops that address topics such as:

  • The future of Libraries and Centers of Learning and Teaching
  • AI in higher education
  • Collaborations across units (libraries, writing centers, CLTs)
  • Cross-institutional projects
  • Information and digital literacies
  • Innovative pedagogy and student engagement
  • Digital tools and methods in teaching and research
  • Academic integrity
  • Open education and open educational resources (OERs)

The final schedule will be published shortly. In the meantime, here is an outline of the event:

Table of contents
  1. 24 May – Pre-conference day
  2. 25 & 26 May – Main conference days

24 May – Pre-conference day

Attendance on this day is limited to specific roles and accepted workshop applicants.

  • Track 1: for library directors and AMICAL representatives
    • Library directors roundtable (Asma Alkanan & Jorge Sosa)
    • Members Council
    • Library Resources Buyers Group meeting (Peter Philps & Lily Servel)
    • Institutionalizing the digital liberal arts (Jeff McClurken)
  • Track 2: for coordinators of faculty development and/or CLTs
    • Centers for Learning and Teaching as enablers: Reimagining the future (Hoda Mostafa)
    • Institutionalizing the digital liberal arts (Jeff McClurken)
  • Track 3: for colleagues who have been working on digital liberal arts projects and been accepted into the “Digital methods and tools” workshop
  • Track 4: for accepted Project Incubator teams

25 & 26 May – Main conference days

Attendance on these two days is open to all conference registrants.

  • Keynotes
    • Sharing knowledge, transforming higher ed (Cathy N. Davidson)
    • The academic library and the relational turn (Lorcan Dempsey)
  • Discussions & other interactive sessions
    • Academic integrity: Issues and solutions (Jasmina Najjar & Emilienne Idorenyin Akpan)
    • Creating cross-collaboration for integrating discipline-specific information literacy and genre knowledge (Rachel Buck)
    • Experiential learning pedagogy (Görkem Atsungur & Jarkyn Shadymanova)
    • Student-led organizational communication audit for strategic university library management (Naziha Houki & Paul Love)
    • Students as partners: Capitalizing on student active involvement to inform and enhance institutional teaching and learning (Azzah Awwad & Caroline Mitry)
    • The future of academic libraries: Services, technologies, practices (Meredith Saba & Christine Furno)
    • Transitioning through first-year seminars: Writing center collaborations at AUN & AUCA (Emilienne Akpan & Mariya Antonova)
  • Workshops
    • Developing open educational resources using WordPress (Mariam Hussien & Mohammad Saleh)
    • Managing the end(?) of digital projects (Jeff McClurken)
    • Tropy: Give your photos a remarkable identity (Donna Rajeh)
    • What can AI do for you: Hands-on workshop using AI (Anguelina Popova & Ekaterina Kombarova)
  • Community Idea Exchange presentations
    • Actively engaged in digital content creation (Nikolina Ivanova-Bell & Gergana Atanasova)
    • Adopting a digital socratic dialogue through virtual exchange (Reine Azzi & Rossitsa Borkowski)
    • AMICAL institutional collaboration and the global liberal arts (David Tresilian)
    • An online self-paced course for information literacy instruction: Process and lessons learned (Dina Abul Magd & Nadine Aboulmagd)
    • Are we ready to go open? Faculty preparedness for adopting OERs in their courses at FCCU (Mehreen Tahir & Anish Arif)
    • AUCA experience on adaptation and delivery of the kNOwVAWdata online course for promoting SDGs in the Central Asian region (Maya Sharsheeva & Jarkyn Shadymanova)
    • Capturing a digital history of local Hausa narratives in a cross-institutional, multilingual translation project across borders (Kate Roy & Emilienne Akpan)
    • Challenging impact: Lessons learned from delivering a Research Impact Challenge at the American University of Sharjah (Fiona Glasgow)
    • Choose your own path: Developing digital interactive fiction in the humanities (Kaitlin Lucas & Irene Lubbe)
    • Data Driven Learning (DDL) approach (Maheen Zia)
    • Designing a self-paced online teaching and learning essentials professional development program: Practical tips and lessons learnt (Dina Abul Magd & Kesmat Taha)
    • Digital multimodal composition engagement in English language classroom (Adeel Khalid)
    • Digital pedagogy in the humanities: What do we perceive when we look at an artwork? (Rossitsa Borkowski & Brunella Antomarini)
    • Embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in drafting research paper assignments (Maya Akiki)
    • Engaging faculty, students, and donors with an Egyptian art archives project at the American University in Cairo (Stephen Urgola)
    • Experience on utilization of AI tools for educational purposes on the example of Business Communication course (Natalia Korosteleva)
    • Extending the conversation between librarians and faculty: Working together to embed IL teaching in foundational research and writing courses (Rebecca Hastie & Paul Almonte)
    • Findings of student-teacher oral history interview project in Pakistan (Shehzadi Zamurrad Awan)
    • First steps toward textbook affordability at Franklin University Switzerland (Clélie Riat)
    • From information to digital literacy: A project in history (Krasimir Spasov & Evelina Kelbecheva)
    • From OsmAnd Maps to QGIS: Collecting and presenting field data in archaeology (Abdykanova Aida & Jyldyz Bekbalaeva)
    • How a cross-generational oral history assignment kept growing and growing (Laura Kelly)
    • Learning support center-faculty collaboration: Practical experience (Liudmila Konstants & Mariya Antonova)
    • Mohammed VI library and first-year experience program collaborations: Supporting the academic success of first-year students at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Hanane Karkour & Oussama Er-rady)
    • New information literacy horizons: Improving research skills through classroom debates (Krasimir Spasov)
    • Opportunities, constraints, and challenges of digital pedagogy: The case of Digital History, AUCA (Aijamal Sarybaeva & Daniyar Karabaev)
    • Pedagogy considerations for digitally enhanced classrooms (Caroline Mitry & Azzah Awwad)
    • SDG-related activities to enhance students’ academic skills (Yasmine Salah El-Din)
    • Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: Starting a center for teaching and learning out of the library (Manlio Perugini & Livia Piotto)
    • The ins and outs of online instructional video production (Ahmad El-Zorkani)
    • The past meets the present: Two online archive exhibitions (Effie Kompouri & Evi Tramantza)
    • To AI or not to AI: That is the question in writing classes (Jasmina Najjar)
    • Upgrading the AUP Library homepage using focus groups and surveys (Lily Servel & Sally Murray)
    • Why are centers for teaching & learning created and why do(n’t) they grow? Historical lessons and present opportunities (Michael Kozakowski)
    • ¡Manos a la obra!: Spanish digital storytelling projects (Lucía López Vázquez & Nikolina Ivanova-Bell)
  • The all-conference dinner and other social and cultural events!

27 May – Sightseeing tour

Conference attendees who wish to see more of Morocco can optionally participate in a sightseeing tour – details to be shared soon.