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This page is an archive of past institutes and workshops at ORIAS. It includes links, presentation summaries, bibliographies, lesson resources.
Questions? Contact: orias berkeley.edu
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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
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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
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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:
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
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Encountering
Nature In World History:
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
WORKSHOP: Chinese
Folk Art, Festivals, and Symbolism in Everyday Life
- Phoebe A.
Hearst Museum of Anthropology/ORIAS - October 2, 2005
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Personal
Narratives: Studying Cultural Interaction,
Exchange And Migration Through First Person Accounts
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.
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Rule
of Law: The Story of Human Rights in World History
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 Birds-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
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Religion
inWorld History
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
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: The
Role of Food in World History (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
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: International
Children's Literature
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
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Ancient
Roots - Modern States
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
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ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Medieval
Travelers in World History
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
ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Islam
in a Comparative Context
ORIAS SUMMER INSTITUTE: Exploring
the River Civilizations of China, Middle East and South Asia
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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. |