2008 International Studies Schools Association Conference
International Studies Schools Association
Register for the 2008 ISSA Conference Now!
Only 2 Days Left for the Early Bird Rate!
Sign Up by 12/21/2007!
The 7th Annual ISSA Conference
February 7-9, 2008
ISSA 2008 Conference Information
Registration slots for the 7th Annual
ISSA Conference are starting to fill up!
Please respond by December 21st, 2007 to obtain our Early Bird rate of only $245.
Another Outstanding Speaker:
Jimmie Briggs
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador & Special Envoy for Children & Armed Conflict
Jimmie Briggs is the first African American to be appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict by WAFUNIF at the UN. He is also the author of “Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War,” a book about the lives of child soldiers and children in war zones, focusing on young people in Uganda, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Afghanistan.
He has worked for the UN Special Session on Children and Seeds of Peace in both New York City and Kabul, Afghanistan, among other organizations. He has received several fellowships for his writing and advocacy. Briggs’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, People, Vibe, Bust, and Fortune, and he has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research.
Hear Jimmie Briggs read an excerpt from
“Innocents Lost” on NPR
Amnesty International on Briggs
Join us in February 2008 for the premier conference on international studies in the K-12 curriculum. Learn meaningful and practical ways to infuse your curriculum with global issues and international perspectives in order to reach a culturally diverse student body and prepare your students to succeed in the contemporary global society.