The conference – the 62^nd annual meeting of CIES – was planned by the organization’s President-Elect, Teachers College’s Regina Cortina, Professor of International & Comparative Education in the Department of International & Transcultural Studies. The theme – “Re-Mapping Global Education: South-North Dialogue” – is “a call to reconsider how we as researchers and practitioners are engaging our field,” Cortina says. “My aim is for the conference to create a meeting space in which we can begin to unpack the hierarchies embedded in our professional and scholarly work.” More specifically, she said, that effort entails “thinking about maps and boundaries that have been used over time to silence the voices of the Global South.” 

A block of rooms has been reserved for conference guests at the Hilton Reforma Mexico City for March 21, 2018 – March 31, 2018. The hotel is located downtown, 20 minutes from Mexico City International Airport. The special room rate is for single or double occupancy and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis until February 21st or until the group block is sold out. Visit the CIES 2018 Annual Meeting Group Reservation Portal for more information about the special rates and to book a room.

To submit proposals for CIES 2018, log into the proposal submission system at cies2018.org/submit. Read the full Call for Papers and explore www.cies2018.org for more information about the conference. 

CIES was founded in 1956 to foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices. The Society's members include nearly 2500 academics, practitioners, and students from around the world.

Published Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017