PERSONAL NARRATIVES:
Studying Cultural Interaction, Exchange And Migration Through First Person Accounts
ORIAS Summer Teacher's Institute

July 25th to July 29th, 2005
2223 Fulton Street 6th Floor
University of California, Berkeley
Agenda



Passages


 

AFRICA


EAST ASIA


EAST EUROPE


EURASIA 


MIDDLE EAST


SOUTH ASIA


SOUTHEAST
ASIA


LATIN
AMERICA


WEST EUROPE



Application


Eyewitnesses
to World History

The theme for the 2005 ORIAS Summer Institute will be teaching and learning about world history, cultural interaction, exchange and migration through personal narratives.

The study of interaction among cultures and populations provides a fabric for holding the sequence of area studies in world history together and offers coherent threads for planning the overall curriculum. Illustrating the opportunities, events and systems that drive this interaction through eyewitness accounts engages students in the sense of historical empathy and promotes academic literacy by framing questions of research, evidence and point of view. Primary sources such as letters, diaries, interviews, autobiographies, and travelogues have long provided unique insights and perspectives on world history. Most recently, weblogs have added further raw material for analyzing current events as they are experienced and debated across borders.

What can we learn from these primary sources? How should they be placed in an historical context? What challenges and opportunities do they present for teachers and scholars?

Agenda

The institute is free and open to all interested educators. 

Enrollment is limited to forty.

Two professional development graduate credits can be arranged through U. C. Berkeley. A number of scholarships are available. 

The Institute meets from 9:00AM to 4:00PM daily. (Continental breakfast at 8:30 AM)

Applications are available on-line or by contacting ORIAS. 

ORIAS Contact:

Michele Delattre 
University of California Berkeley 
Office of Resources for International and Area Studies 
2223 Fulton Street Room 338 #2324 
Berkeley CA 94720-2324

510.643.0868 | orias@berkeley.edu

Sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS), Center for Korean Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of European Studies. 

University funding is provided by Title VI grants from the United States Department of Education and the Korea Foundation.

Co-sponsored by Bay Area Global Education Program (BAGEP) at the World Affairs Council of Northern California.