2010 Featured Speaker: JCU President Franco Pavoncello
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Franco Pavoncello, President of John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, will be the featured speaker at the IX Annual Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture.
He will address the congress at the opening session on Wednesday, 1 December 2010, at 5:30 p.m. in the main hall of the Trilussa Palace Hotel.
Dr. Pavoncello has a rich background in international education and political affairs. After receiving a B.A. in International Relations and Chinese and Japanese Studies (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he continued his studies at the University of Michigan, where he obtained an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science.
He has been a member of the faculty at John Cabot University since 1990, where he served as Dean of Academic Affairs from 1999 to 2005 while continuing to lecture in Political Science. In 2005, Dr. Pavoncello became Acting President of the University and was confirmed President in April 2006.
A leading analyst of Italian politics, his work has appeared in, among others, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, and Asian Studies.
He is also a well-known media commentator on Italian affairs, a contributor to major international newspapers, and appears regularly on radio and television networks.
Friday Morning Keynote Address: Dr. Lucia Buttaro
Dr. Lucia Buttaro is an Associate Professor of Bilingual Education/TESOL at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. She received her Ph.D. in language, literacy and learning with a specialization in Second Language Acquisition from Fordham University in New York City.
She is multilingual, multiliterate and multicultural. She has lived, worked and studied abroad for a total of 13 years; 10 were spent in Buenos Aires, Argentina and three were spent in Toyohashi, Japan.
Dr. Buttaro presently trains teachers in the areas of second language acquisition and bilingual education. She also works as a consultant and professional developer throughout many urban schools in the New York area. She has published a book titled "Spanish Native Language Arts Curriculum Map for the Emergent Bilingual in Grades K-6," which is being used by many teachers in Westchester, Long Island, New York, Florida and Puerto Rico.
She has just returned from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia where she presented her findings on ethnographic research on Hispanic families and children, and served as the interpreter/translator for the American counterparts who had difficulties with "culture shock and language stress.”
Previous Guest Speakers
- Ms. Joan Colin Carpenter, Co-Founder, American University of Rome
- Mr. James Creagan, President of John Cabot University, Rome, and former U.S.
Ambassador
- Dr. Maria Amata Garito, President, UNINETTUNO
- Mr. D. Brent Hardt, Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy
to the Holy See, Vatican City
- Dr. Rose Lee Hayden, President, Worldviews Multimedia and Editor of the new
Michel Thomas Method Vocabulary courses
- Mr. R. James Nicholson, Ambassador, U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, Vatican City - Mrs. Katérina Stenou, Director, Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural
Dialogue, UNESCO
- Mr. Michael E. Sweet, Founder, Learning for a Cause, and Member of the
Canadian Commission for UNESCO
- Mr. Gaddi H. Vasquez, Ambassador, United Nations, Rome