ORIAS WORKING GROUPS AT HUMANITIES WEST

are established to nurture a professional community of K-12 and college educators with shared interests in international studies and world history. Join with colleagues and scholars at the Humanities West program on April 17 &18 to explore enduring legacies from the Napoleonic era:  legendary personalities, flamboyant art and music, and legal innovations in defining citizenship.

• WHERE: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister, San Francisco

• WHEN: April 17-18, 2009

• WHAT: Working Groups are free and open to all K-12 and community college educators and librarians.
  Registration required, space is limited.

Participants receive:

• Advance reading.
• Free ground floor tickets to Humanities West programs on Friday and Saturday ($100 regular price).
• Saturday lunch for break-out meeting.

A working group break-out meeting is held during the Saturday lunch break at the Herbst Theatre led by Michele Delattre(ORIAS) and Camille Mathieu (graduate student in the French Art History at U.C. Berkeley).

Other special offers for Teachers and Students from Humanities West:

• Reduced price balcony tickets for teachers not participating in the ORIAS working group can be purchased from www.cityboxoffice.com for $20/day plus $2.50 service charge per ticket. Direct link: http://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1234&c=18&pg

• A limited number of scholarships for k-12 students available. (Regular discount $20/day)
  Contact Humanities West, info@humanitieswest.org or 415 391 9700 for further information.

• Stipends of $100 for teachers bringing students to the program.
  Contact Humanities West, info@humanitieswest.org or 415 391 9700 for further information.
  
• All teachers and students are invited to join the ORIAS working group lunch meeting. RSVP required – lunch supplied, space is limited.
  Contact Michele Delattre at orias@berkeley.edu / 510-643-0868

AGENDA
See www.humanitieswest.org for more Napoleon program details and resources.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17
8:00 PM–10:15 PM

• Introduction - Pierre-François Mourier, Consul General of France.
• “Napoleon—The Grandeur Restored” - Keynote Address - Steven Englund
  (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales and American University of Paris).
• “Napoleon and The Visual Arts” - Michael Marrinan
  (Stanford University, Dept. of Art and Art History).

SATURDAY, APRIL 18
10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon

• “From Code Civil To Code Napoleon: The Birth Of A Myth” - Laurent Mayali (UC Berkeley, School of Law).
• “Tolstoy’s Napoleon: A Dethronement” -  Luba Golburt
  (UC Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature).

12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM

• Lunch Break and ORIAS Working Group meeting with Michele Delattre (ORIAS) and Camille Mathieu (UCB).

1:30 PM – 4:00 PM

• Beethoven’s Eroica Variations Op. 35. Piano Performance by Teresa Yu
  (San Francisco Conservatory).
• “Painting Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egypt” -  Juan Cole
  (University Of Michigan, History Department).
• Panel Discussion with Presenters. Roger Hahn, Moderator
  (U. C. Berkeley, History Department).

 

• Humanities West resource list for the program is listed at http://www.humanitieswest.org/resource_napoleon.html
  
  
• The Sourcebook To Accompany Humanities West’s "Confronting Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads" will be distributed at the working group.
  
  
• Napoleon: Portrait of a Man - Camille Mathieu's slides for Saturday breakout session.
• Discussion Questions

Application

Please email or fax registration to ORIAS with the following information:

• Application as pdf | doc
  

EMAIL: oriasberkeley.edu
FAX: 510-643-7062

Cut and paste into email:

• Name:
• Mailing Address/City/Zip:
  
• E-mail:
• Contact Telephone Number
• School Name:
• School City:
• District:
• Grade and subject(s)taught:
• Average number of students during school year:

Co-Sponsored by Humanities West, a Bay Area non-profit organization offering interdisciplinary arts and culture programs for the public and Office of Resources for International and Area Studies at U. C. Berkeley (ORIAS). Special support provided by Bank of the West. See www.humanitieswest.org for Napoleon program details and http://orias.berkeley.edu/  for Working Group resources and information.

For further information contact Michele Delattre at ORIAS: 510-643-0868 or oriasberkeley.edu