MONDAY, JULY 25

INTRODUCTORY SESSION

8:30Continental breakfast and resource display

9:00Small Groups

9:30Using personal narratives in the study of history: Scottish Migrants
in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800.
Prof. Alan Karras, International and Area Studies Teaching Program,
U. C. Berkeley.

10:30Break

10:40"Voices From the Ancient Past"
Prof. Robert Knapp, Classics Department, U. C. Berkeley.

12:00Catered Lunch

1:00The Bancroft Regional Oral History Office (ROHO)
Prof. Richard Candida Smith, History Department and
Director of the Regional Oral History Office, U. C. Berkeley.

2:30Teacher's round table - Oral history classroom applications

3:30Credit student meeting

4:00Adjourn

TUESDAY, JULY 26

DIVERSE VOICES

How can perspectives preserved in interviews and letters construct a picture of diverse perspectives in world history?

8:30Continental breakfast and resource display

9:00Small Groups

9:30 "What Was Communism and What Did It Mean To Different People?"
Sener Akturk, Political Science Department, U. C. Berkeley.

10:30Break

10:40"Women as cultural emissaries."
Lyn Reese, Women in World History Curriculum.

12:00Catered Lunch

1:00Digital interviews in Southeast Asia and China.
Todd Carrel, U. C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism's
Digital TV project.
Christopher Beaver, independent film producer

2:00Classroom resources: Peace Corp's Worldwise Schools program
Dennis McMahon, Public Affairs Specialist, Peace Corps

3:00Credit student meeting

4:00Adjourn

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27

TRAVELERS' TALES

What can travelers' tales help teach about cultural interaction?

8:30Continental breakfast and resource display

9:00Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France
in 1845-1846.
Prof. Susan Miller, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, Harvard University.

11:00Break

11:10The First Chinese Embassy in the West
Michelle King, History Department, U. C. Berkeley

12:10Catered Lunch

1:10Memoirs of Hye-Ch'o, a Korean Buddhist monk's tour
of the stupas of India in the 8th century.
Wayne de Fremery, East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University.

2:30Small group discussion/ Credit student meeting

4:00Adjourn

THURSDAY, JULY 28

EYEWITNESSES TO EMPIRE AND ITS AFTERMATH

How is cultural exchange witnessed during periods of imperialist expansion and nation building?

8:30Continental breakfast and resource display

9:00Small Groups

9:30South Asians in London during the Raj.
Professor Riaz Khan, Global Studies, New York University.

10:30Break

10:40"Human Faces of Imperialism in India"
Abhijeet Paul, Center for South Asia Studies, U.C. Berkeley

11:40Resource review - Madiha Murshed, Project SPERA

12:00Lunch on your own.

1:30"What does love, sex and color have to do with it?:
Constructing Cultural Citizenship in Mexico and
Cuba after Colonialism"
Professor Alex Saragoza, Professor of History in the
Ethnic Studies Department, U. C. Berkeley.

2:30Classroom applications: Digital video interviews
"Legacies of the Vietnam War"
Barbara Blinick, History Department, Lowell High School

3:30Credit student meeting

4:00Adjourn

FRIDAY, JULY 29

EXPERIENCING MIGRATION

How can memoirs bring the experience of migration in world history to life?

8:30Continental breakfast and resource display

9:00Small Groups

9:30Panel: Southeast Asian refugee memoirs
Cambodian refugee narratives
- Nicol U, Ethnic Studies, U.C.Berkeley
"Stitching History: Hmong Story Cloths and Tales of Migration"
- Dr. Sandra Cate, San Jose State University

11:00Break

11:10"Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe:
From Bosnia to Bulgaria."
Sener Akturk, Political Science, U. C. Berkeley.

12:10Catered Lunch

1:10Forced migration: African slave memoirs
Prof. G Ugo Nwokeji, African American Studies Department,
U.C. Berkeley.

2:10"Ancient Forms, Modern Passages: The Poems of Angel Island"
Linda Chang, KQED Asian Education Initiative

3:10Credit student meeting

4:00Adjourn