Virtual Book Club – SIETER France and SIETAR Polska
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We are pleased to invite you to our next webinar in collaboration SIETAR Polska and SIETAR France:
“Blue Feet Monsoon—exploring the experience of growing up interculturally through fiction”
– Book Q&A Event with Cynthia Green, author and historian.
About:
This lecture, based on the novel Blue Feet Monsoon (2025) explores how people who grow up across cultures, countries and languages are profoundly affected by this experience. It highlights how intercultural competence can be present in unexpected places and how multiple cultural layers of experience and identity can exist in a single person during the course of their life. Looking through the lenses of multigenerational characters across diverse ethnic backgrounds will help attendees hone intercultural skills such as recognizing diverse perspectives, resisting divisive narratives, and finding the deeper levels where contemplation and conversation are needed.
Topics to be addressed:
– Intercultural Competence as a life skill
– What growing up cross-culturally brings to our deeper levels of identity and worldview
– How fiction can be used as a tool for inter-cultural exploration
For who?
For academics, trainers, and practitioners in intercultural communication and counseling, expatriate and TCK studies, and pluricultural community building. Q&A and dialogue will include how we define cross-cultural experience, how it can remain with us throughout life and how it might surface in unexpected details of daily life both in and outside of the workplace.
Where to find?
Blue Feet Monsoon is available in print and ebook format from multiple vendors including Amazon, Waterstones, Bookshop.org, and Expatbookshop.org. Reading the book in anticipation of the dialogue is recommended.
Cynthia Green, M.A., is a historian with a philosophical approach to how culture travels and how this impacts us as intercultural beings. These themes are explored in her novel Blue Feet Monsoon and in over sixty published non-fiction works. She has 30+ years of lived and professional international experience (EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Americas) and hosts the cross-cultural podcast @ConversationsWithCynthia on Youtube.
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Contact Details:
Cynthia Green, M.A.
Historian and Writer
Website: cynthiagreenauthor.com/
Book: blue feet monsoon: on Amazon / on Waterstones
Podcast: youtube.com/@ConversationsWithCynthia
Academia: emory.academia.edu/CynthiaGreen
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/cynthia-green-writer/
TikTok: @cagreenauthor
Instagram: @cagreenauthor