ORIAS CLASS ARCHIVES

What are class archives?

This page is an archive of past institutes and workshops at ORIAS. It includes links, presentation summaries, bibliographies, lesson resources.
Questions? Contact: oriasberkeley.edu | 510-643-0868  -- Michele Delattre

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Academic year:
Fall 2008
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Summer 2009

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE:Visible Power - Art in National Life

July 27-31, 2009

CLAS TEACHER INSTITUTE: Center of Latin American Studies 2009 Summer Institute for Teachers

The Octopus and the Banana: United Fruit in Latin America • Thursday, July 9, 2009.

CLASSROOM VISITS: "Beijing Beat - Reports from Beijing and the Bay Area" • Digital TV and the World

This year’s project focuses on stories of hustle, stress and solace on the streets of Beijing and beyond. You can see the video reports posted at washingtonpost.com. In spring 2009 some of the returning reporters visited Bay Area classrooms to share their work and experience.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/emergingvoices/

FOCUS GROUP: African studies

In spring 2009 the Center for African Studies convened an educator focus group to evaluate their Web module, Understanding Sudan

ISEEES TEACHERS' CONFERENCE: Russia And Her Neighbors - April 25, 2009.

ORIAS WORKING GROUP AT HUMANITIES WEST - April 17-18, 2009.

Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads at Humanities West

EUCE INSTITUTE: European Union - April 4, 2009.

BOOK STUDY GROUP: Globalizing World History Study Group

October 15 - A Brief History of Central America by Perez-Brignoli

Tuesday, November 18 - Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois.

Wednesday, December 17 - BANANAS: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, by Peter Chapman.

Wednesday, January 14 - Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel

Wednesday, March 11- Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under US Imperial Rule, by Michel Gobat

Wednesday, April 22 - After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution by Brian Latell

WORKING GROUP: History Through Literature Working Group - Early Story Collections

Fall 2007
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Summer 2008

WORKSHOP: War, Justice and Human Dignity: Exploring Humanitarian Law Workshop for Educator

  • August 14-15, 2008 at the Presidio in San Francisco
  • Organized by the American Red Cross International Services 
    With support from: Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, International Committee of the Red Cross, and ORIAS
  • Visit the EHL Virtual Campus at www.ehl.icrc.org.
  • The workshop will be held in conjunction with the exhibit, "A Memory of Humanity: From Solferino to Guantanamo - 145 years of Red Cross Photography," showing July 15 - August 15.
    http://redcrossbayarea.org/photoexhibit/

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Pestilence and Public Health - ORIAS World History Summer Institute

  • July 28 to August 1, 2008.

CLAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Empire to Empire: The Americas in the Age of Exploration

  • Center for Latin America’s 2008 Summer Institute for Teachers - July 14-16

WORKING GROUP AT Humanities West: Schools of Thought at Humanities West (Flyer)

ORIAS/ BAGEP/Humanities West

  • Athens in the Time of Pericles - May 2-3, 2008
  • Voltaire and the French Enlightenment - October 5-6, 2007
  • The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan - February 22-23, 2008

ISEEES TEACHERS' CONFERENCE Russian Emigration in Historical Perspective: Russians in California

  • Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies - May 3, 2008 (Flyer)

IES SYMPOSIUM: Modern Sport and the Formation of European Identities

ROBBINS WORKSHOP:What's In a Document? A Look At Justinian and Roman Law

  • Robbins Collection/ORIAS - March 29, 2008 (Flyer)

WORKING GROUP: Enduring stories in religious traditions.

BAGEP/ORIAS History Through Literature Working Group

  • Hebrew Bible stories: Book of Ruth and sacrifice of Isaac
    January 27, 2008, 10:30AM - 1:00PM (Flyer)

  • Panchatantra: Ancient Hindu animal tales
    February 10, 2008, 10:30AM - 1:00PM
    (Flyer)

WORKSHOP: Digital TV and the World - ORIAS/IEAS/Graduate School of Journalism - Program for teachers

December 4, 2007

Fall 2006
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Summer 2007

CLAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Crude Awakening: Energy Policy in Latin America: 2007 Summer Institute for Teachers

  • Center for Latin American Studies - July 26 - 27, 2007

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: ORIAS 2007 SUMMER INSTITUTE: The Making of Cities:

  • July 9 -13, 2007

WORKSHOP: Exploring Humanitarian Law Educator Training & Digital Arts Professional Development

  • July 25-27, 2007
    Sponsored by American Redcross, Pearson Foundation, and ORIAS

ORIAS/BATDC SUMMER INSTITUTE: Blue Planet, "Green" Classrooms: Summer institute on human history and the environment.

  • Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative/ORIAS -June 26-27, 2007

SMCOE/IEAS/ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Silk Roads and Silicon Highways: Interwoven Threads of China and the Bay Area

  • San Mateo County Office of Education/Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley/Committee of 100 - July 1-14, 2007

WORKING GROUP: Engaging World History Through Graphic Novels

  • ORIAS/ BAGEP History Through Literature Working Group

Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman - Jan. 21, 2007

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - February 4, 2007

(Comic Relief's Workshop Feb 24)

Kampung Boy by Lat; American Born Chinese by Gene Yang - March 11, 2007

ISEEES TEACHERS' CONFERENCE: Remembering the Russian Revolution: 1917-2007.

  • Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Teacher Outreach Conference - Saturday, April 14, 2007

HW/IES LECTURE SERIES: The Crusades: Myth and Reality (Humanities West)

  • Humanities West program (with support from the Institute of European Studies, UCB) at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco - February 23-24, 2007

SPRING 2007 NCTA SEMINARS: (Informational Flyer)

  • National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA/International Studies Project/IEAS/ORIAS) - February 24, March 24, April 21, June 19, June 20, June 21

ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Chinese Language

ASA WORKSHOP: Teacher's Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association

  • African Studies Association/Center for African Studies/Bay Area Global Education Program/ORIAS - Saturday, November 18 at the World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco
Fall 2005
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Summer 2006

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Encountering Nature In World History:

  • July 24–28, 2006

CLAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Remembering Alta California, Remaking the Past

WORKSHOP: The Glorious Tang and Song Dynasties

  • Asian Art Museum/ Institute of East Asian Studies/ ORIAS - Sunday, May 7, 2006 at the Asian Art Museum

ISEEES TEACHERS' CONFERENCE: Russian Classics in the Classroom: Teaching About Russia Through Literature

WORKING GROUP: World Music in the Classroom

  • ORIAS/ BAGEP World Music Working Group

November 13, 2005- Thinking Musically:Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture with Bonnie Wade

December 10, 2005- Korean music with Hilary Finchun-Sung

January 7, 2006- Hip hop in Tanzania with Shani Omari

January 21, 2006 - Indian music with Matthew Rahaim

February 4, 2006 - Arab music with Tim Abdellah Fuson

February 12, 2006 - Music in modern China with Andrew Jones

BARNIE RECEPTION: Bay Area Resource Network for International Education IEW Reception

  • November 17, 2005

WORKSHOP: Chinese Folk Art, Festivals, and Symbolism in Everyday Life

  • Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/ORIAS - October 2, 2005
Fall 2004
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Summer 2005

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Personal Narratives: Studying Cultural Interaction, Exchange And Migration Through First Person Accounts

  • July 2529, 2005

WORKSHOP: Mithila Painting: Folk Art of India Workshop

  • ORIAS/Center for South Asia Studies/Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF - March 20, 2005

WORKING GROUP: Constructing Identities: Comparative Short Fiction From the Arab World, East Asia and Western Europe

  • ORIAS/BAGEP/Robbins Collection History Through Literature Working Group

Ovid's Metamorphoses Edan Dekel, Classics Department, UCB, December 4, 2004

The Return of Martin Guerre Julianne Gilland, Robbins Collection, School of Law, UCB, January 15, 2005

Arabic Short Stories, Margaret Larkin, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UCB, February 5, 2005

Chinese Short Stories Robert Ashmore, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB, March 12, 2005

Young Adult Fiction set in the Middle East and East Asia , April 9, 2005

MESA CONFERENCE PANEL: Innovative Approaches to Teaching About Islam in the Pre-Collegiate Classroom

  • Middle East Outreach Council/ORIAS/Center for Middle Eastern Studies/Bay Area Global Education Program - A Special Panel for K-12 Teachers and Other Scholars at the Middle East Studies Annual Meeting. November 21, 2004.

Fall 2003
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Summer 2004

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Rule of Law: The Story of Human Rights in World History

  • July 26 - 30, 2004

SERVICE LEARNING: Operation Pencil

  • Chris Loverro's 2004 humanitarian project for schools in Mosul, Iraq.

CLAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: The Making of Modern Cuba

  • Center for Latin American Studies' Summer Institute for teachers, August 2-4, 2004.

WORKSHOP: Finding the Korean Voice in K-12 Teaching

WORKSHOP: Teaching for Understanding: Anti-Bias in the Post-9/11 Classroom

PANEL DISCUSSION: Japan's Civil Society and Globalization

  • ORIAS/Bay Area Education Program - A panel of experts met with K-12 teachers at the World Affairs Council - May 11, 2004.

WORKING GROUP:World Poetry Working Group : the art of translation and world poetry on the thems of love, exile, death and nature.

  • History Through Literature Working Group

Introduction: Lost in Translation -January 3, 2004

Love in the cultural context -March 2004

Exile, fate and death -April 24, 2004

Nature poetry - May 8, 2004

WORKING GROUP: World History Book Club.

  • The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History by J. R. McNeill and William McNeill

November 13, 2003 - Prof. Jonathan Lipman

January 15, 2004 - Prof. Alan Karras

February 5, 2004 - Prof. Alan Karras

CLAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Fitting Cinco de Mayo Into Your Curriculum

ISEEES TEACHERS' CONFERENCE: Historical Juxtapositions: America and Russia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

PANEL DISCUSSION: Recent Changes in Japanese Security Policy

  • Japan Society of Northern California/Bay Area Global Education Program/ORIAS

Fall 2002
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Summer 2003

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Religion inWorld History

  • July 28 - August 1, 2003

CLAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Ten Years After NAFTA: How Has Globalization Affected Mexico?

  • Center for Latin American Studies - July 21-23, 2003

AFRICA SUMMER INSTITUTE: Teaching About Africa, Africa America & the African Diaspora

  • Center for African Studies/Department of African American Studies/Center for Race and Gender/ORIAS - June 16-17, 2003

WORKSHOP: Teaching About Korea

  • Center for Korean Studies - May 3, 2003

WORKING GROUP: Comparative Mythology Working Group

  • ORIAS History Through Literature Working Group
  • Myths from the 6th and 7th grade curriculum - December 14, 2002

    The Journey Myth - Homer - January 25, 2003

    Origin Myths - March 15 , 2003

    Man and Monster - May 3, 2003

ORIAS WORKING GROUP: Current Conflicts Working Group: Case Studies in the Muslim World

Teaching about peace and conflict - October 19, 2002

Iraq - October 24, 2002

Israel/Palestine - January 11, 2003

Kashmir and International Committee of the Red Cross - March 22, 2003

Fall 2001
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Summer 2002

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: The Role of Food in World History (2002)

  • July 29 - August 2, 2002

WORKSHOP LUNCH SERIES: Scripts, Spices and Stories

  • ORIAS/Bay Area Global Education Program

History of Writing - Jan 26 & Feb 2, 2002

Hanuman in South and Southeast Asia/ Monkey in China- March 16-17, 2002

Trade in the Indian Ocean - April 27, 2002

SUMMER RESEARCH RESIDENCY: Teaching About Southeast Asia

MESA CONFERENCE PANEL: Teaching About the Middle East (2001)

    Middle East Outreach Council/ORIAS/Center for Middle Eastern Studies - Panel for K-12 Teachers and Other Scholars at the Middle East Studies Annual Meeting - November 18, 2001 

Fall 2000
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Summer 2001

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: International Children's Literature

  • July 30 - August 3, 2001

WORKSHOP LUNCH SERIES: Teaching Comparative Religion Through Art and Architecture

  • ORIAS/BAGEP Spring Series

    Archaeology in the Indus Valley: Artifacts as clues to early religion in India -October 21, 2000

    The Spread of Buddhism in India and China: Images from the life of the Buddha - November 18, 2000 

    Architecture of Sacred Spaces: East and West - January 20, 2001

    Polytheism in Greece and Rome: The gods and heroes in stone and bronze - March 17, 2001

    The Rise of Monotheism: The iconography of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - April 28, 2001

Fall 1999
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Summer 2000

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Ancient Roots - Modern States

  • July 31 - August 4, 2000

WORKSHOP LUNCH SERIES: History Through Heroic Epic for 7th Grade

Comparative Mythology/West Africa -October 16, 1999

Dar al Islam - November 20, 1999

Japan - January  22, 2000

Western Europe - February 26, 2000

Mesoamerica - March 25, 2000

 

Summer 1996
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Summer 1999

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Medieval Travelers in World History

  • July 19-23, 1999

WORKSHOP LUNCH SERIES: History Through Heroic Epic for 6th Grade

Joseph Campbell - January 9, 1999

Gilgamesh - February 6, 1999

Chinese mythology - March 6, 1999

Ramayana - April 10, 1999

Star Wars - May 1, 1999

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: History Through Literature

  • July 13-17, 1998

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Islam in a Comparative Context

  • July 14-18, 1997

ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Exploring the River Civilizations of China, Middle East and South Asia

  • August 5 - 9, 1996

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Contact: Michele Delattre at the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at orias@berkeley.edu or by calling 510/643-0868.