Rey Ty’s Year in Review

for 2013

Summary1. Training Coordinator2. Teaching3. Workshop Facilitator4. Volunteer Event Planner5. Community Relations6. Consultant7. Peace Activism8. Radio Interviews9. TV Interview

10. Fund raising11. Interfaith

dialogue12. Research13. Publications

Division of International Programs

Northern Illinois University

Spring

2013

United Nations• Feb. 15, 2013

United Nations (UN) Official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with Consultative Status Accreditation.

United Nations•February 15, 2013•Lecture on Civil Society & Human Rights for a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)

United Nations•February 15, 2013•Lecture on Civil Society & Human Rights for a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)

•February 15, 2013•United Nations, New York•Civil Society & Human Rights

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUu3_SWA08I

Consultant

•February 15, 2013

•United Nations, New York

•“Civil Society & Human Rights” •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUu3_SWA08I

Event Planner• Feb. 21, 2013, 7:15 – 9 PM

•Peace activist Kathy Kelly talked about her recent visits to Syria and the Gaza Strip at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Illinois Room of Holmes Student Center on the NIU campus.

Middle East & Afghanistan UpdatesKathy Kelly

•Feb. 21, 2013•7:15 – 9 PM

Event Planner

•April 2, 2013•Lecture in an NIU Graduate Level Class Graduate-Level Lecturer on

International Education

Event Planner

• Panel discussed drones in warfare• Room 170 (the Riley Courtroom) of Swen Parson Hall, Northern Illinois University

•March 18, 2013

Synagogue•March 26, 2013•With Dr. Avi Bass•Synagogue Passover Seder, •Congregation Beth Shalom, DeKalb, Illinois

Training Coordinator•April 13-May 11, 2013

•Philippine Youth Leadership Program: Environmental Leadership in the Philippines: Developing Youth as Agents of Change and Ecological Activism

Training Coordinator•April 13-May 11, 2013

•Philippine Youth Leadership Program: Environmental Leadership in the Philippines: Developing Youth as Agents of Change and Ecological Activism

Training Coordinator• April 13-May 11, 2013

• Philippine Youth Leadership Program: Environmental Leadership in the Philippines: Developing Youth as Agents of Change and Ecological Activism

Workshop Facilitator•April 13-May 11, 2013

• Philippine Youth Leadership Program: Environmental Leadership in the Philippines: Developing Youth as Agents of Change and Ecological Activism

•April 17, 2013•Environ-mental Activism Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion Moderator

David Kraft’s Earth Day Lecture

•Event Planneron

Nuclear Energy

•April 26, 2013

•Rochelle Superintendent Mr. J. Craven.

Diversity Workshops, Rochelle, Illinois

•April 26, 2013

•Rochelle Township High School Principal Mr. T. McGuire.

Diversity Workshops, Rochelle, Illinois

•April 26, 2013 Mrs. E. White, Rochelle Township High School Social Studies Chair & Faculty Adviser of the International Club

Diversity Workshops, Rochelle, Illinois

•April 26, 2013 •Mrs. Jinkins & Mrs. Wegner, Rochelle Township High School, Faculty Advisers of the International Club

Diversity Workshops, Rochelle, Illinois

Diversity Workshops, Rochelle, Illinois

•April 26,

2013

Interfaith Community Relations

•April 26, 2013

•With Imam at the Rockford Mosque, Illinois

•May 5, 2013• NIU Law Graduate (Batch 2013)

Kevin Zickterman Received DeKalb Peace & Justice Network Award of Excellence in Promoting Peace, Human Rights & Justice. With Ric Amesquita & Cecile Meyer (Founder). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_aIfiL2oqo&feature=youtu.be

Giving Peace Award to an Outstanding Law Graduate

Northern Illinois University Division of International Programs Informal Dinner

May 2013

Northern Illinois University Conference Lecture May 22, 2014 “Working with Asian & Asian American College Students.” Northern Illinois

University. Organized by the Asian American Center for the Division of Student Affairs & Enrolment

Management (SAEM)

Northern Illinois University Conference Lecture May 22, 2014 “Working with Asian & Asian American College Students.” Northern Illinois

University. Organized by the Asian American Center for the Division of Student Affairs & Enrolment

Management (SAEM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXf01aH0X0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh301RFtKGM

Guest Lecturer•May 26, 2013

• Rey Ty on International Human Rights• Tamil Memorial Human Rights Talk,

Bolingbrook, Illinois

Community Relations•May 26, 2013 Sunday

• Bolingbrook, Illinois• Tamil Memorial Day• This Mullivaaykkaal Memorial

Tree was planted in memory of the tens of thousands of Tamil civilians killed in Mullivaaykkaal, Sri Lanka in May 2009. • Bolingbrook Park District

•May 26, 2013•Tamil Memorial Day

•Bolingbrook, Illinois

•May 29 - Jun 18, 2013 • Indonesian Public

Administration Doctoral Research Methodology Program at NIU with Dr. Abu Bah & Dr. Kristopher Robison

Training Coordinator

Summer2013

Graduate-Level Lecturer• July 10, 2013

•Northern Illinois University, U.S.A. Graduate-Level Guest Lecture on Feminist Pedagogy. For Master's & Doctorate Level Students. http://www.slideshare.net/reyty1/2013-rey-ty-feminist-pedagogy

Feminist Ideologies

Bilingual Workshop Facilitator• July 24, 2013

• Bilingual “Intercultural Communication” Workshop in Chinese & English languages • Training Program for

Mechanical Engineering Students of Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China: “Technology, Leadership and American Culture,” at Northern Illinois University.

Bilingual Workshop Facilitator• August 2, 2013

• Bilingual Leadership Workshop in Chinese & English languages • Training Program for

Mechanical Engineering Students of Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China: “Technology, Leadership and American Culture,” at Northern Illinois University.

Bilingual Workshop Facilitator

•August 2, 2013• Zhejiang University of

Technology at College of Engineering, NIU, U.S.A.• DEBATE: “Materialist

vs. Idealist as well as Abstract vs. Historical Conceptions of Leadership”

Bilingual Workshop Facilitator

•August 2, 2013• Zhejiang

University of Technology at College of Engineering, NIU, U.S.A.•DEBATE:

“Leadership Workshop”

Training Coordinator• With Associate Dean He Xing (China), Dr. Louis Gau, & Dean Dr. P. Vohra

College of Engineering, Northern Illinois University

Staff & Volunteer• Marianna

(Ukrainian) • Anastacia (Russian-

American)

Hiroshima Memorial Day

•August 26, 2013

•Dropping of flowers to Kishwaukee River to remember the dead

Training Coordinator• Aug. 28-Sept. 15, 2013

• Indonesia Future Leaders Program: Building a Generation of Transformational Leaders Equipped to Respond to Global Challenges• Northern Illinois

University

Workshop Facilitator•August 30, 2013

•Rey Ty's “Curriculum Workshop: Learning Strategies, Learning Mission, & Learning Contract”• Indonesian Youth Leadership Program (IFLP)

Workshop Facilitator

• August 30, 2013• Project Planning

Workshop• Indonesia Future

Leaders Program: Building a Generation of Transformational Leaders Equipped to Respond to Global Challenges

Workshop Facilitator•August 30, 2013•Project Planning Workshop•Indonesia Future Leaders Program

Workshop Facilitator•Aug. 28-Sept. 15, 2013•Indonesia Future Leaders Program: Building a Generation of Transformational Leaders Equipped to Respond to Global Challenges

Presentation• Sept. 11, 2013 Wednesday• Northern Illinois University• Rey Ty discussing "Protecting

Human Lives in Times of Armed Conflict & Peace: International Human Rights & Laws of War—Jus Cogens, Peremptory Norms, & Non-Derogable Rights." Here's the PowerPoint file at http://www.slideshare.net/reyty1/2013-0911rey-tyihrlihlreyonly• Credits: Slide photo by Will Chang.• Credits: Photo by Natalie Santiago.

Event Planner• Sept. 11, 2013

• “Never Again! What can we do to stop human rights abuse” Forum at Northern Illinois University (NIU)• As a member of the Planning

Committee of the Interfaith Network for Peace & Justice, I organized this event.• Cosponsored by the Department of

Philosophy NIU, Interfaith Network for Peace & Justice, Amnesty International NIU

Lecturer•Sept. 11, 2013

• Rey Ty "Protecting Human Lives in Armed Conflict & Peace: Human Rights

Event Planner• Sept. 11, 2013

• Dr. D. Skanthakumar's Lecture on Sri Lanka

Conference Paper Presentation• Sept. 21, 2013

• First paper: Rey Ty & Awni Alkarzon. (2013). The Human Condition, Humor, & Adult Learning: Lessons from Shakespeare for Adult and Higher Education and Human Resource Development. Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult and Higher Education, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, September 20-21, 2013.

Conference Paper PresentationSeptember 21, 2013St. Louis, Missouri

Conference Paper Presentation• Sept. 21, 2013

• Second paper: Rey Ty & Awni Alkarzon. (2013). International Teaching Assistants in Higher Education in the U.S.A. Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult and Higher Education, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, September 20-21, 2013.

Conference Paper Presentation

•Sept. 21, 2013

Conference Paper Presentation

• Sept. 23, 2013•Rey presented papers on

"Education for Justice" and "Early Freire, Scientific Freire, and Mature Freire: Partial Ontological and Epistemic Shifts or Complete Rupture?”

Conference Paper Presentation

• Sept. 23, 2013• Rey presented

papers on "Education for Justice" and "Early Freire, Scientific Freire, and Mature Freire: Partial Ontological and Epistemic Shifts or Complete Rupture?”

Conference Paper Presentation

•Oct. 19, 2013 Social Justice Conference Northern Illinois University•Video playlist at

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7CWmBwaMJJDhVPNfFkHMxNyxcWopJU5d

Oct. 19, 2013

Autumn 2013

Community Involvement:

Regular Friday Peace

Vigil

Community

Involvement:

Regular Friday

Peace Vigil

Community Involvement: Regular

Friday Peace Vigil

Winter

2013

Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda•Published: Wednesday,

Nov. 13, 2013 5:30 a.m. CST•Daily Chronicle•Area residents searching

for relatives after Typhoon HaiyanBy FELIX SARVER - fsarver@shawmedia.com• http://www.daily-

chronicle.com/2013/11/12/area-residents-searching-for-relatives-after-typhoon-haiyan/a9vpog/

Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda•Published: Tuesday, Nov. 12,

2013 11:54 p.m. CST • • Updated: Wednesday, Nov. 13,

2013 8:27 a.m. CST• Searching for relatives after

Typhoon Haiyan•By FELIX SARVER -

fsarver@shawmedia.com• http://www.nwherald.com/

2013/11/12/searching-for-relatives-after-typhoon-haiyan/a9vpog/

T.V. Interview•November 13, 2013, NTC News Tonight, Rey Ty

Interviewed about my relatives in Leyte affected by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

3 Radio Interviews•Nov. 11, 2013

•Nov. 15, 2013 •Dec. 9, 2013 •WBEZ Public Radio in Chicago• Live Recording:

https://soundcloud.com/afternoonshiftwbez/rey-ty-updates-us-on-his

•Interviewed about my relatives in Leyte affected by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

Fundraiser for Super Typhoon Haiyan• Nov. 24, 2013

• Super Typhoon Relief Fund Raiser• Filipino-American Association of Northern Illinois Typhoon Haiyan Relief, Oak

Crest-DeKalb Area Retirement Center, 2944 Greenwood Acres Drive, DeKalb, IL 60115, U.S.A.

Social Media Marketing for NIU!• Dec. 12, 2014, Saudi friend Othman

AlFreyan wrote: • “Let me tell you something you may

not believe!• I saw a handful of your videos on

YouTube when I was researching the school and area• I liked the international orientation

week presentation.• You rock it!”• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxX1nAv0Y04

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOaMlEgLhZQ

Division of International Programs

Northern Illinois University

Summary1. Training Coordinator2. Teaching3. Workshop Facilitator4. Volunteer Event Planner5. Community Relations6. Consultant7. Peace Activism8. Radio Interviews9. TV Interview

10. Fund raising11. Interfaith

dialogue12. Research13. Publications

Rey Ty’s Year in Review

for 2013