2026 Symposium Presentation Schedule
June 15-18, 2026
2026 German-American Symposium program (PDF)
2026 German-American Symposium Presentation Summaries (PDF)
| Paper Presentations: Snyder Lecture Hall (COED 065) | ||
| Monday, June 15th | ||
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Official Welcome and Opening Remarks | Malcolm Butler, Jörg-U. Keßler, Jennifer Armentrout, Dawson Hancock |
| 1:15 – 200 | University in search of communities: Reflecting on social-spatial learning and engagement from an educational perspective | Adriana Medina, Anselm Böhmer, Christoph Knoblauch |
| 2:00 – 2:45 | Feedback redefined: Investigating the feedback loop and reflective practice among U.S. and German preservice teachers | Kirsten Abel, Kate Gilbert, Anja Vocilka |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | ~ Break (COED 007) | |
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Cross cultural perspectives on mental health and help-seeking | Rumbidzai Mushunje |
| 4:00 – 4:45 | What sustains foreign language teachers in the profession? A cross- national qualitative study of teacher retention | Kristin Davin, Scott Kissau, Jue Wang, Benjamin Ade-Thurow |
| Tuesday, June 16th | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Cultivating global scholars: Lessons from a virtual research symposium | Scott Kissau, Chuang Wang, Anni Lenz, Bianca Roters |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Expanding the lens: Experiences of leadership transitions in higher education | Leslie Zenk, Susan Harris-Hümmert |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | ~ Break (COED 007) | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Promoting academic vocabulary development among adolescents at- risk for failure in school | Chris O’Brien, Rebecca Höhr |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Exclusion and (be)longing in “post-racial” _German schools: Why Atraa refused to teach | Spencer Salas, Nicanora Wächter, Atraa Al-Hashimi |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | ~ Lunch (COED 110) | |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | Assessing teacher stress in Germany and the U.S.A. | Rich Lambert |
| 2:30 – 3:15 | Geographies of childhood in teacher education: Reflecting on shared journeys and cultivating sustainable bonds | Adriana Medina, Erik Byker, Anselm Böhmer, Christoph Knoblauch |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | ~ Break (COED 007) | |
| 3:45 – 4:30 | Literacy in unlikely places | Anni Lenz, Brandon Watkins |
| Wednesday, June 17th | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | AI debate bot hallucinations: Now with 50% less nonsense | Erik Byker, Benjamin Ade-Thurow, Mario Manzocco |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Caregiver perspectives on AAC: A cross-cultural scoping review | Hedda Meadan, Virginia Walker, Markus Scholz, Annika Endres, Erika Kramer, Shura Baigalmaa |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | ~ Break (COED 007) | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Global docs: Sowing the seeds of our German-American collaborations | Adriana Medina, Tina Heafner, Minke Jacobi, Kerstin Merz- Atalik, Anselm Böhmer, Christoph Knoblauch |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Relationships between pre-service teachers’ _perceived competencies, affective dispositions, and readiness to integrate artificial intelligence in classroom practice | Ayesha Sadaf, Daniel Maxwell, Heiko Holz, Can Küplüce |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | ~ Lunch (COED 110) | |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | The periodic table of emotions: Fostering human-first classrooms | Ian Binns |
| 2:30 – 3:15 | From Symposium to edited book: Global education collaborations panel discussion | Erik Byker, Adriana Medina, Benjamin Ade-Thurow, Christoph Knoblauch, Anselm Böhmer, Anastasia Proctor |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | ~ Break (COED 007) | |
| 3:45 – 4:30 | The evolution of literacy initiatives in Cato College, with scholarship, service, and engagement as anchors | Malcolm Butler |
| 4:30 – 4:45 | Closing Remarks | Provost Jennifer Troyer, Malcolm Butler, Jörg Keßler, Dawson Hancock |