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Day 2: Tuesday, March 11

Breakout Room	Academic Session 1 8:30am - 10:15am	Academic Session 2 11:45am - 1pm	Academic Session 3 2:30pm - 4:15pm
Joharah Ballroom (location map)
JB1	Panel Gendering the Public Sphere: Women and Political Leadership	Workshop Building a Community of Diverse Women: Leadership for Social Transformation	Panel Making Change: Women's Activism
JB2	Workshop Beyond the Blocks: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Being a Leader	Roundtable 1.Leadership Across Cultures. 2.Learning Leadership through Leadership Teams. 3.Start Young: Learning Leadership. 4.The Experience of Parenting and its Effect on Leadership Style.	Organized Panel Lessons Learned and Lessons Offered: Varied Trajectories to Leadership in Higher Education
JB3	Organized Panel Out of the Tower, Into the World: Women of Color Inside/Outside the Academy	Invited Presentation Intercultural Project by Benedetta Paravia	Panel Learning From Within: Creativity, Narrative, and Leadership
JB4	Organized Panel Students Today - Leaders Tomorrow: The HCT Vision of Preparing Female Emirati Women Leaders	Workshop Articulating the Story: An Experiential Learning Approach to Leadership Development	Organized Panel Voices of U.A.E. Women Leaders: Personal Journeys and Emerging Research
JB5	Panel Beyond the Classroom: Experential Learning and Leadership Development	Roundtable 1.Developing Leadership Skills 2.Building Leadership Capacity. 3.Cultural Impact on Women's Advancement to Political Leadership. 4.Global Vision of Healthcare Leadership.	Panel Women's Leadership in the Middle East
JB6	Panel New Currents in Leadership: Methodologies, Theories, and Contexts	Workshop Service-Learning for Championing Leadership	Panel Civil Society and Leadership
Murjaan Ballroom (location map)
MB1	Panel Women's Leadership in Varied Functional Contexts	Roundtable 1. The Leading Edge of Change. 2.Public Health Challenges and Cultural Norms Contraining Women's Leadership.	Workshop Designing and Implementing Women's Leadership Materials Based Around the ESSC Anthology: Facets of Emirati Women
MB2	Panel Just Returns: Leadership for a Better World	Roundtable 1. Training Women as Leaders. 2.Meeting in the Middle: Shared Values among Women from the East and the West	Organized Panel Differential Leadership Learning Experiences for Women
MB3	Organized Panel Approaches to Undergraduate Global Leadership Education	Workshop The Impact and Role of Women in Philanthropy	Panel Institutions at the Center: Leading Community Transformation
MB4	Panel Leading Healthy Communities	Workshop The 'Ideal' Leader Versus the 'Ideal' Woman: Where Do the Rest of Us Fit In?	Panel Imperatives for the Future: The Need for Educational Leadership
MB5	Panel Influences on Learning Leadership	Workshop Leading Through Creative Voice: Women in Film	Organized Panel Learning Leadership across Cultures: Highlights from International Projects at Ohio University
MB6	Workshop Look Behind You! You May be Leading, but is Anyone Following?	Panel Redefining African Women's Leadership Roles: Challenging Inadequacies and Creating a New Mandate for Participation	Panel The Gendered Lens: Women's Leadership Cross-Culturally
Meeting Rooms (location map)
MR3	Panel Programmatic Initiatives and Models for Leadership Development	Roundtable R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Cultivating It Effectively as a Leader in the Workplace	Workshop Cultivating Women's Leadership within a Global Context
MR4	Workshop Working on Leadership: How to Become the Leader You Want to be		Organized Panel Women Of Today: Leaders Of Tomorrow

Day 3: Wednesday, March 12

Breakout Room	Academic Session 4 8:30am - 10:15am	Academic Session 5 11.45am - 1:15pm	Academic Session 6 2:30pm - 4pm
Joharah Ballroom (location map)
JB1	Workshop Helping Students Learn Leadership through Mentoring and Grass Roots Organizing	Workshop Carve your Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones: A Practical Workshop to Explore How We are Uniquely Designed as a Woman	Invited Workshop Intercultural Development by Heather McDougall
JB2	Organized Panel Separate but Equal: Is it Feasible in Contemporary American Society?	Panel Entrepreneurship	Roundtable 1.Women's Leadership. 2.Creating Opportunities for Women to Lead. 3.Examining the Marriage Process as a Vehicle for the Development of Decision-Making and Leadership in U.A.E. Women.
JB3	Panel State Processes and Leadership Development	Roundtable 1.Challenging the Authority of Masculinity. 2.Leadership Preparation for Women Planning Careers in Education at School Level. 3.When Leadership is Dangerous. 4.Problem Based Learning.	Organized Panel Women's Leadership in the Brave New World: Lessons from the Classroom, the Workplace and the Internet
JB4	Workshop Women Leadership Enhancement and Aspiration Development	Organized Panel Beyond the Abaya: Saudi Women As Leaders	Panel Business Leadership
JB5	Panel Empowering Arab Women for Leadership	Invited Presenation Everyday Leadership Ethics by Terry Price	Organized Panel The Effect of Mentors and Role Models on Developing Leaders for the Business World
JB6	Organized Panel Media Perspectives of the Female Image	Panel Mentoring Matters	Workshop Creating Leaders
Murjaan Ballroom (location map)
MB1	Organized Panel Community Based Leadership Development: An Alternate Model for Training Women Leaders	Workshop Theory to Praxis: A Call for Women to Lead	Panel Gendering Leadership: Theories, Challenges, Promises
MB2	Panel Communicating Leadership: Language, Discourse, and Message	Workshop Leader is as Leader Does: Practicing Leadership Skills	Organized Panel A Cross-Cultural Examination of Women as Political Leaders: Brazil, USA, and UAE
MB3	Panel Rethinking Leadership Models and Opportunities for Women: Examples from Africa	Organized Panel Methods for Understanding Women's Global Leadership through Local Processes	Organized Panel Women and Freedom in the U.A.E.: Civil, Legal and Societal Misconceptions
MB4	Organized Panel Sisterhood Beyond Borders: A Professional Women's Organization	Panel Leaders Waging Peace? Gender and Children in Conflict Contexts	Organized Panel Case Studies for Creating and Sustaining Leadership Practices through Pedagogical, Personal, and Institutional Best Practices
MB5	Panel Critical Investigation into Women's Leadership Education	Organized Panel Women Leaders: Their Contributions to the Modernization of Latin America	Panel Do Women Lead Differently? Attitudes, Behaviors, and Theories in Cross-Cultural Context
MB6	Organized Panel Finding Routes to Leadership: Journeys in the 'World for Women'	Organized Panel Changing the Way We Teach Leadership: The Know Your Rights Project of Ndu Ike Akunuba in Southeastern Nigeria	Panel Age, Gender, and Religion: Factors in the Acquisiton and Practice of Leadership
Meeting Rooms
MR3	Workshop Women Leadership in the New Era Of Humanity	Roundtable Women and Interfaith/ Intercultural Dialogue	Workshop Leadership: Knowing Oneself and Knowing Others
MR4	Workshop Creative Approaches to Learning: Overcoming Cultural Barriers to Women Leadership in Igboland, Southeastern Niigeria		Workshop Tools and Resources for Intergrating Opportunities and Addressing Barriers to Learn/Develop Leadership

Panels: Panels are individually submitted papers organized around a central theme. All papers within panels are 20 minutes. View the abstracts.

Organized Panels: Organized Panels are organized by an individual in advance to the conference. View the abstracts.

Workshops: Workshops are hands-on and in-depth activities organized around a central theme. View the abstracts for the workshops. View the abstracts.

Roundtables: Roundtables are informal conversations lead by facilitators who encourage participants to learn and share ideas. View the abstracts for the organized panels. View the abstracts.

Invited Session: Invited Sessions are special sessions led by experts who were invited to share their knowledge with participants. View the abstracts.

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