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ORIAS UPDATES: I frequently find out on very short notice about campus events or resources related to international studies that might be of interest to educators. I notify teachers about these through emailed "Updates." If you would like to be included on this email list contact me at oriasberkeley.edu | 510-643-0868  -- Michele Delattre

ORIAS Updates Archive (pdf files)

From ORIAS:

• Current ORIAS offerings.
• ORIAS keeps an archive of teacher classes with lots of on-line resources at http://orias.berkeley.edu/internat.html#ORIAS

From other international centers at UCB:

• Upcoming Programs and Events at UCB International and Area Studies
• International House Calendar of events and multicultural speaker's bureau
• California Subject Matter Projects - teacher workshops throughout the year
• Archaeological Research Facility arranges for graduate students from U.C. Berkeley to visit classrooms and community organizations in Berkeley and Oakland where they do a short (45 minute) introduction to archaeology. These interactive presentations are fun and involve hands-on activities such as a mock-dig for younger students, or showing real artifacts, tools, and slides to older students.
• Cal Performances schools program has an active outreach series called SchoolTime.
• Berkeley Art Museum exhibits, events, school programs
  2626 Bancroft Way (between College & Bowditch)
  Information: 510/642-0808  http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
• Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology exhibits, events, school programs
  Kroeber Hall at the corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue
  http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/
  http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/outreach/k12.html
• Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the Unversity of California hosts a variety of distinguished humanities-related lectures and exhibits on the Berkeley campus. Though these are not specifically targeted to K-12 educators, they frequently of great interest. You can find their calendar listings at http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/townsend/
• Webcasts of prominent speakers and events at Berkeley. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
  Webcasts prominent speakers and events from the Graduate School of Journalism.
• Berkeley lectures on-line through Google
  http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html

Off-campus events:

• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: The education department at the museum conducts wonderful teacher workshops in conjunction with its exhibits, and has published equally wonderful teacher materials to go with them. These include videos, resource packets and slide sets. Since moving from Golden Gate Park to its new home in San Francisco's Civic Center in the fall of 2002 it has added an education resource center located right by the main entrance including a good library, computers and viewing machines for videos. A number of their resource packets are now in the ORIAS lending library. If you have any questions about their resources or workshops, contact Alina Collier at (415) 379-8710.
• Film and Video: East Asian Regional Materials and Resources Center (EARMARC) maintains an excellent catalogue of educational videos on East Asia. They may be borrowed for classroom use by mail. You may request a catalogue by mail: EARMARC c/o History Dept; San Jose State University, One Washington Square; San Jose, CA 95192-0117.  By telephone to : 408-924-5518 or 408-924-5523. By fax to 408-924-5531 and by email to ereynold@email.sjsu.edu Twice a year EARMARC holds a Saturday workshop (generally at CSUEB in Hayward) to screen interesting new materials. The workshop is open to educators, students and the interested public. It is free and includes lunch. Highly recommended!
• Teachers looking for good multi-cultural literature should watch for the annual Reading the World Conference at University of San Francisco in March. http://www.soe.usfca.edu/institutes/childlit/rtw6.html
• Silk Road House is a non-profit organization near the U. C. Berkeley campus created to promote and support an impressive array of diverse ethnic cultural traditions. There lectures and exhibits series includes presentations on ancient and modern Central Asia and other areas along the Silk Route.
  
• World stage in the San Francisco Bay Area directory.

• Center for South Asia Studies Speaker's Bureau
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies Speaker's Bureau
• IAS Global Ambassadors (under construction)
• International House Mulitcultural Speaker's Bureau

• Aramco Educators to Saudi Arabia Program.
  www.iie.org/programs/aramco
  Email: hhalenbeck@iie.org
• The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program provides short-term study/travel seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities for the purpose of improving their understanding and knowledge of the people and culture of another country(ies). There are approximately seven to ten seminars with fourteen to sixteen participants in each seminar annually. Seminars are four to six weeks in duration. All seminars are held in countries outside of Western Europe. http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html
• Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
  http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html
  
• Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program
  http://www.iie.org/template.cfm?&template=/programs/fmf/overview.htm
• Korea Society offers educators fellowships for travel to Korea in the spring and summer. Infomation at
  http://www.koreasociety.org/content/blogcategory/71/55/
  
• NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for Teachers in the United States.
  http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html
  
• Toyota International Teacher Program - study travel to Japan 2008.
  Applications are due by December 10, 2007 - http://www.iie.org/Website/WPreview.cfm?WID=194
  
• Have you ever wondered what it would be like to teach abroad? The Institute of East Asian Studies has published an engaging and vivid personal portrayal of how Americans adapt to living in China from the perspective of thirty-six Americans sent by the Colorado China Council to teach in universities in China in the 1990s. Alice Renouf, director of the Colorado China Council, collected the letters under the title Dear Alice: Letters Home from American Teachers Learning to Live in China,  Purchase information is available from IEAS Publications at easia@berkeley.edu.
• If you are interested in spending time in Asia check out VIA programs. Volunteers in Asia "sends between 30 - 40 English teachers on a life-changing adventure to Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam and China. Our mission and method are simple. We provide Asian host institutions with needed resources, while at the same time offering volunteers a unique opportunity to become a valued member of an Asian community."
  infoviaprograms.org
  

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