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
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
- Digital methods and tools across disciplines: Sharing, connecting and collaborating (Najla Jarkas)
- Institutionalizing the digital liberal arts (Jeff McClurken)
- Track 4: for accepted Project Incubator teams
- Project Incubator – Collaboration sprint
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.