A workshop for faculty and staff with Language Flagship programs to learn about intercultural roundtables developed for overseas Language Flagship capstone programs in Arabic and Russian, and to consider how the roundtable model might be implemented in other instructional contexts.

Workshop facilitators:

• Valerie Anishchenkova, Director, Flagship Culture Initiative; University of Maryland Arabic Flagship

• Dan E. Davidson, Senior Academic Advisor; President (Emeritus), American Councils

• Alex Groce, Russian Overseas Flagship Program Manager and former Resident Director

• Maria Lekic, Academic Director, Russian Overseas Flagship Program

• Laila Familiar, Academic Director, Arabic Overseas Flagship Program

• Dianna Murphy, Co-Director, Russian Flagship, University of Wisconsin; Associate Director, Flagship Culture Initiative

• Chase Smithburg, Arabic Overseas Flagship Resident Director