• Online Application

This workshop is free of charge. Refreshments and resources are included.
Applications limited to community college faculty.

Application deadline to receive advance book copies of Abina and the Important Men: May 7, 2012.

The Teaching World History working group met for the first time in June and December 2011 to discuss building syllabi and share new concepts in global studies. This May, we will continue to work on pedagogy and content in teaching World History with a two-day institute exploring historical frameworks, case studies and resources for historical thinking skills.

Alan Karras (Associate Director of U. C. Berkeley’s International & Area Studies Academic Program and Senior Lecturer) will lead two-day working group with visiting lectures by world history scholars including:

Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules – For Now. Professor of Classics & History at Stanford University.

Trevor Getz, author of Abina and the Important Men. Professor of African and World History at SFSU. (See authors' forum note in Resources below.)

Robert Marks, author of The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty- first Century and Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial China. Professor of History at Whittier College.

Logistics

All meetings will be held at the Institute of East Asian Studies on the U. C. Berkeley campus at 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor.

Moderately priced housing is available on campus through the visitor’s center at http://conferenceservices.berkeley.edu/summervis_index.html

Working Agenda:

Tuesday 5/29 - Systems and Themes

9:30     Coffee and Introductions - Alan and Michele

10:00   Ian Morris –Writing Why the West Rules - For Now. Studying the big picture.

12:00   Catered lunch  

1:00     Robert Marks (History, Whittier College) Ecological Narratives in East Asia

3:00     Alan Karras  (Associate Director International & Area Studies Academic Program and Senior Lecturer, U. C. Berkeley) - Reviewing AP skills

3:30     Adjourn

Wednesday  5/30– Teaching Historical Method:Case Studies

9:30     Coffee discussion

10:00   Trevor Getz (History, San Francisco State University) Abina and the Important Men

12:15   Catered lunch

1:15     Alan Karras– Conclusions and Classroom Methods

3-330   Wrap-up Discussion

• Working world history general resources handout.
  
  
• Book websites for presenters:
  • Trevor Getz. Abina and the Important Men.
    http://www.abina.org/
    
  • Ian Morris. Why the West Rules For Now.
    http://ianmorris.org/whythewestrules.html
    
    
• ORIAS resource pages.

Sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS); Institute of East Asian Studies; Center for Latin American Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Center for African Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for South Asia Studies; Center for Southeast Asia Studies; and Institute of European Studies. Funding is provided by Title VI grants from the United States Department of Education.