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Updates is the electronic newsletter from ORIAS informing educators about about campus events and resources related to international studies. Click on the date for a pdf of the associated Update. If you would like to be included on this email list contact me at:

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a href="UPDATES/11-23-09.pdf">11-23-09

• Events

ORIAS workshop for world history and science educators.
ENERGY THROUGH THE AGES: Global Stories of Energy in Social and Political Life

World Savvy
Teacher Workshop: Water around the World

• Resources on-line:

Origins: December 2009 issue, features: “1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe” by Theodora Dragostinova
eHistory at The Ohio State University
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=35

The Pacific Film Archive Library and Film Study Center announces the launch of the newly redesigned CineFiles website.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/Welcome.jsp

• Of Note: Winners of the 2009 Children's Africana Book Awards.
  
  
• Grant and travel opportunities: 

  Fund for Teachers
  2010 Toyota International Teacher Program to Costa Rica
  Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)

10-21-09

• New at ORIAS:
  • Energy Through the Ages: Stories of Energy in Social and Political Life
    Around the World - January 23, 2010
    
• On Campus:
  • CONFERENCE: "Object Knowledge: Art, Artifact, and Authority in Southeast
    Asia" - Friday, October 30, 2009
• Off campus
  • East Asian Regional Materials and Resource Center (EARMARC) fall
    workshop.- Saturday, October 31st
  • At the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco: An Evening for Educators at
    MATCHA (Thai River Festival, Thursday, October 29, 2009; 4:30–7:00 pm)
• Online Resources
  • World Savvy Monitor on the Global Status of Women.

10-13-09

• At ORIAS - Exploring Humanitarian Law -Curriculum Workshop - November 7, 2009
• On campus event and web resource - Islam Today: New Media and Youth Culture in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia - Thursday, October 15.
• Online resource - World History Connected - ejournal of learning and teaching issue on Big History

10-1-09

• Enrollment open now for Exploring Humanitarian Law -Curriculum Workshop at ORIAS.
  November 7, 2009

• Public lectures focus on science education:
  • Lecture: "A Scientist Addresses Science Education" & "A Sense of Wonder"
    Oct 14 &15, 4:10 - International House Auditorium
  • Colloquium: “What is the Future of Science Education?”
    Oct. 12, 3:00-4:30 pm
    
• Fall 2009 Webcast courses at webcast.berkeley.
  
  
• Free speakers in the schools for Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma at the Asian Art Museum. Contact: docent@asianart.org | 415-581-3664.

9-23-09

• In celebration of its 25th season, Humanities West is offering free tickets to their Astronomy program, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler,on October 2 and 3 for teachers and students age 25 and under. For tickets please contact Patricia Lundberg at info@humanitieswest.org or 415 391 9700.October 2-3, 2009–
  http://humanitieswest.org/currentGalileo.html
  

• Symposium: Domestic Challenges to China’s “Peaceful Development”
  Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
  IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley
  http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2009.09.30.html
  
  
• Public lectures: "A Scientist Addresses Science Education" & "A Sense of Wonder"

  Lecture I: Wednesday, October 14, 2009.
  Lecture II: Thursday, October 15, 2009.
  Both lectures start at 4:10 p.m.
  International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley.
  

• Resources on-line
  • Revised Asia for Educators Web site has been launched at http://afe.easia.columbia.edu.
    
  • Revised American Red Cross web site for the Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) curriculum at www.redcross.org/ehl.
    
  • South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy (Michigan State University) at http://www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/index.php
    
  • Now free World Savvy Monitor (August edition: Mexico)
    
    
• Student opportunity: Distance learning in Japan studies for high school juniors and seniors (Stanford’s Reischauer Scholars Program).
   
• Reminder: Application Closing Date October 9, 2009: Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program Summer 2010
  

8-18-09

• ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West • 2009-2010
  
• World History Study Group 2009-2010
• Travel: FULBRIGHT-HAYS SEMINARS ABROAD PROGRAM Summer 2010 Application Closing Date:  October 9, 2009
  
• Lessons and Resources
  • Hot Spots and Current Events
  • Culture – arts, stories, and games
• Human Rights – Exploring Humanitarian Law
  

6-29-09

• A few spaces left! Center of Latin American Studies 2009 Summer Institute for Teachers
  The Octopus and the Banana: United Fruit in Latin America
  Thursday, July 9, 2009, 8:45 am – 4:00 pm
  
• Visible Power: Art In National Life: 2009 ORIAS Summer Teacher's World History Institute July 27-31, 2009
  Wait list open.
  
• World History Study Group for 2009-2010
  
• ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West 2009-2010

5-6-09

• Last call for World Savvy Teacher Workshop on Global Migration
  
• Public lectures and symposia at U. C. Berkeley
  • Doing the Dirty Work: The Cultural Politics of Garbage Collection in Dakar, Senegal Colloquium | May 6 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
  • Conference on Islamic Norms in Secular Public Spheres: Political Problems, Legal Issues and Social Practices Conference | May 7 –8
  • Qing China's Perspectives on India before 1850, Some Approaches and Conclusions Colloquium | May 8
  • Science at the Theatre: Berkeley Lab showcase Monday, May 11 |
  • Stair Steps to the Gods: Building the Great Pyramid at Giza Lecture | May 17
• At ORIAS
  • Visible Power: Art In National Life: 2009 ORIAS Summer Teacher's World History Institute July 27-31, 2009
  • ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West 2009-2010

4-23-09

• Study travel: Silk Road to Silicon Highways -  Institute on China studies followed by study travel to Beijing, Xian, Chongqing, and Wuhan - June 29 - July 19, 2009.
• World Savvy Teacher Workshop - Global Migration:  The World on the Move - May 12 & 14

4-20-09

• Bay Area Educators' Focus Group for Understanding Sudan web module.
• This weekend! Russia and Her Neighbors

4-8-09

• At ORIAS:
  • ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West • April 17-18, 2009
    Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads
    Deadline for sign-ups: Monday, April 13.
  • New on-line resources at ORIAS.
  • ORIAS Summer Institute – July 27-31, 2009
    Art in National Life
• At ISEEES:
  • Russia And Her Neighbors • Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' annual Teachers' conference - April 25, 2009
• Public lectures at the Phoebe Hearst Museum on campus:
  • April 9 -Aztec Words in Ancient Maya Inscriptions: Signs of  Early Contact 
  • April 16 - Weaving Identity, Wearing Identity, Walking Identity: Classic Maya Dress and Embodied Life
• Web walking:
  • March issue of World History Connected
• Travel:
  • GEEO trips for teachers
  • IREX International Travel Grants for Teachers:
  • International Research and Studies (IRS) Program:

3-16-09

• ORIAS Events.
  • European Union: A Teachers’ Institute
  • Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads
  • Russia And Her Neighbors
  • Visible Power: Art in National Life
    
• Lectures and Films on campus.
  • Sexism in the Temples? Women and the Religious Hierarchy of Ancient Egypt
  • Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the EU and US
  • Film Series: Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehra
• Science connections for history teachers.
  • The law schools at UC Berkeley and UCLA have launched a new blog, Legal Planet
  • Conference: Sustainable Professional Development for Global Systems Science in the 21st Century - July 13-15, 2009.
• Off-campus travel tours to China and Uganda.

  Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WW II in Asia
  2009 Peace And Reconciliation Tour Of China -  June 30 to July 15, 2009

  • Uganda - Teaching Global Issues:  July 11 - 24, 2009

2-25-09

• ATTN: Chinese Language Teachers : NOTE ROOM CHANGE
  • “Chinese Instruction and Grammar Learning” (lecture in Chinese)
    Prof. Chaofen Sun, Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
    Saturday, April 4 - 2:00pm -5:00 pm
    

    The lecture will show how to explain Chinese grammar in a simple way so that a Chinese language class does not become a Chinese grammar class.Prof. Professor Sun will use authentic materials such as popular song (Deng Lijun's "Tian Mimi" to show the grammatical structures.) Conducted in Chinese.

    U. C. Berkeley
    2223 Fulton Street 6th Floor
    Admission free; refreshments serviced
    RSVP: Stella Kwoh  stellakwoh@berkeley.edu  / 510-642-8390

  • Chinese teachers see also the “funded travel” below.
    
    
• EVENTS/REMINDERS:
  • EUROPEAN UNION: A Teachers’ Institute at U. C. Berkeley • April 4, 2009.
    (Five spaces left)
    http://orias.berkeley.edu/2009/EUhome.htm
    
  • Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads • April 17-18, 2009
    ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West
    Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
    Applications: http://orias.berkeley.edu
    
  • Russia And Her Neighbors •  April 25, 2009
    Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' annual Teachers' conference. Contact: Libby Coyne at ISEEES
    elizabeth.coyneberkeley.edu or (510) 643-58
    
    
• OFF-CAMPUS:
  
  
  • This weekend! INDIA RISING - Humanities West  program February 27-28.
    
  • Human Rights Watch International Film Festival comes to San Francisco in March.  One of the evenings' screenings are dedicated to nine short films that are the winners of the "Youth Producing Change" program. - March 12 - 13, 2009 .
    
  • EARMARC Spring video workshop – Saturday, March 14, CSUEB, Hayward.
    
    
• FUNDED TRAVEL:
  
  
  • Department of State Intensive Summer Language Institutes for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian Teachers
    
    
• LESSONS ONLINE:
  
  
  • The Asian Art Museum survey
    
  • Concern Worldwide Creative Writing Competition:
    Students are presented with the task of writing a letter to President Obama on a critical global issue.

2-9-09

• EVENTS:
  • EUROPEAN UNION: A Teachers’ Institute at U. C. Berkeley – April 4
    http://orias.berkeley.edu/2009/EUhome.htm
    
  • ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West • April 17-18, 2009
    Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads
    
  • Graduate Council Lectures for Spring 2009 – Science Connections.
    
    
• OFF-CAMPUS
  
  • INDIA RISING - Humanities West  program February 27-28.
    
  • “Teaching About Religion in Public Schools” - February 21, March 14, and May 16
    
  • NEH Seminars – deadlines coming up! Including:
    • NEH Seminar:"Roots: Researching the African Dimensions of the History and Cultures of the Americas (Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)"
    • NEH seminar at UCSC on “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950” June 28 – July 24, 2009
      
      
• LESSONS ON-LINE:
  • “Modern Sport and the Formation of European Identities” (ORIAS/IES )
    
  • Global Systems Science units on climate change, population growth, and energy use (Lawrence Hall of Science, UCB)
    
  • Tibet and China (Indiana University)

1-27-09

• ORIAS EVENTS
  • European Union: A Teachers’ Institute - Saturday, April 4, 2009.
    
    
  • Digital Tv And The World "Beijing Beat - Reports From Beijing And The Bay Area"  Classroom Visit
    
    
• STUDY TRAVEL
  • Funded Study Travel In Korea this summer
    
    

1-20-09

• EVENTS / OPPORTUNITIES
  • Study Travel - Oakland and San Francisco Unified School District Teachers: Fund for Teachers Information Session Webinar – (online rsvp required) Tomorrow (1/22)!
    http://www.fundforteachers.org/apply/ca.html
    
    
  • NSLI for Youth Scholarships to Study Less Commonly Taught Languages Abroad – deadline Feb. 2.
    http://www.nsliforyouth.org/
    
    
  • “India Rising” at Humanities West - Feb. 27-28 – Special offer to teachers and students.
    http://orias.berkeley.edu/updates/IndiaRising.doc
    
    
  • Indiana University -No-cost 2009 Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School workshop (July 12-18, 2009). Application deadline is March 6.
    http://www.iub.edu/~easc/outreach/educators/literature/index.shtml
    
    
  • CAIS Institute Conference for Teaching Chinese Language - March 13-15.
    http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Invitation.aspx?i=f33d0d44-4b0d-4041-a068-0a4f6500fad3
    
    
• ORIAS SAVE THE DATE:
  
  
  • ORIAS Working Group At Humanities West – Napoleon: European Culture and the Crossroads – April 17 & 18, 2009.
    
    
  • ORIAS 2009 Summer Institute – Visible Power: Art in National Life, A World History Teachers’ Institute. July 27-31, 2009.
    
    
• NEWS AND RESOURCES
  
  • Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies online
    http://clas.berkeley.edu/Publications/newsletters/Fall2008/index.html
    
    
  • “Rise and Fall of Chinese Dynasties Tied to Changes in Rainfall.”
    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=monsoon-climate-change-chinese
    
    
  • "With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare"
    http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/
    
    
  • Teaching about the Indian Ocean World – AP World History publication
    http://click.collegeboard.com:8080/17411914.6144.0.3952

• 12-15-08
  • Travel: Focus on service learning and professional development in Africa - Details below.
    • Visit BeadforLife in Uganda
      
    • eduWeavers - Teacher-to-teacher experience in South Africa July 2009
  • On-line Resources -
    • The Obama Administration and The Challenge of China – USC US-China Institute.  (I’ve retitled this documentary from “Election ’08 and the Challenge of China” to indicate that it is still a relevant classroom tool.)
      
    • ORIAS resource pages for 1001 Nights and Jataka Tales.
      
    • Animated maps for studying globalization through the spread of Empire
      
    • Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth (Matt Harding & Melissa Nixon)
  • Reminders: Currently at ORIAS - Details below.
    • Buddhist Jataka Tales, Globalizers Book Group, Napoleon, European Union
      
      
• 11-20-08
  • ORIAS Programs:
    

  • History Through Literature Working Group
  • Globalizing World History Study Group
  • ORIAS Working Group at Humanities West - Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads
  • The European Union • A special one-day teachers’ institute • Spring, 2009.

  • Travel: Focus on Korea

  • Korea Society’s Travel spring fellowship to Korea – applications due January 12.
  • In Los Angeles - Korea Academy summer seminar on Korean History & Culture and the Korean American Experience for K-12 Educators -August 3-7, 2009
    

  • Web walking:
    

  • WorldMapper
    http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html
    

• 11-12-08

• CWHA Annual Meeting this week!
• NEH seminar at UCSC on “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950” June 28 – July 24, 2009
• Other notes - Today - Linda and Loretta Sánchez “A Conversation with the Sánchez Sisters”
• Reminder - Three free slots left in the History Through Literature working group.
  
  
• 11-4-08
  • December 6, ORIAS History Through Literature Working Group workshop on 1001 Nights - taking applications now at http://orias.berkeley.edu/2009/2009HistoryLiteratureHome.htm
    
    
• 10-28-08
  • November 3, Miguel Altieri: "An Agroecological Strategy to Taking Back Our Food System"
  • UCTV Webcast: "A Food Agenda for the Next Administration"
  • November 14 – 15, Recovering Afghanistan's Past: Cultural Heritage in Context
  • November 14, Walls and Barricades
  • November 19, "Patterns of Interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Painting"
  • Web Walking:
    • Georgia
    • China
    • Interviewing as primary source
  • Travel - Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)
  • Oct. 31: applications due for the 2008-09 Savvy Scholar Fellows Program at World Savvy.
  • Nov 14-15: California World History Association annual conference at SFSU
    
    
• 10-6-08
  • Oct 10, 9-5 - This Friday: public symposium on "Reunification: Building Permanent Peace in Korea"
  • Oct 9-10 – A two-day Rajasthani cultural festival (flyer) at UCB
  • October 17 and 18 - Teachers and students offered a special program at Humanities West: “Benjamin Franklin and The Invention Of America” (flyer)
  • Oct 25 - EARMARC fall 2008 East Asian video workshop
    
  • Teacher Workshop from KQED, World Savvy, and ITV: Civic Engagement in the Classroom - October 29, 2008
  • Manga/Anime Drawing Contest – entries due Oct. 24
  • Legislation of note: H.R.7063 United States and the World Education
  • Election resources:
    • 2008 Presidential Election Resources KQED – from www.kqed.org/HistoryEd
    • Election ’08 and the Challenge of China (USC)
      

• 9-23-08
  • Film Screening and Panel: Anime Masters and Masterpieces: Grave of the Fireflies, Saturday, September 27, 2:00-5:00 pm
  • Exhibit and programs at Hearst museum: Traje de la Vida: Maya Textiles of Guatemala opening September 25.
  • Service learning: San Francisco’s Blue Planet Run Foundation
  • Exhibit: Doctors Without Borders: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - October 15-19, 2008
  • On-line Resource: African Access and Africana Book Awards
• 9-3-08
  • Coming Events at ORIAS - Globalizing World History Study Group; Humanities West
  • Campus Events in September
  • On-line Resources for the new school year:
    

    Archive of classroom resources developed during ORIAS workshops.
    http://orias.berkeley.edu/lessonplan.html

     Archive of resources and links from past ORIAS events.
    http://orias.berkeley.edu/internat.html#ORIAS

    FORA.tv’s World forum has a tremendous library of multimedia commentary, discussion, and debate on world events and ideas by leading area experts recorded during  public forums.  Engaging and useful material for high school classroom discussion “starters” abounds.
    http://fora.tv/section/world

  World History Connected: the Ejournal of Learning and Teaching. This issue features a variety of essays on world history pedagogy, as well as interviews, regular columns, and book reviews.
  http://www.worldhistoryconnected.org

• Travel: The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad deadline Sept. 12, 2008

• 6-16-08

• Event: War, Justice and Human Dignity: Exploring Humanitarian Law Workshop for Educators
  August 14-15, 2008 Exhibit: "A Memory of Humanity: From Solferino to Guantanamo - 145 years of Red Cross Photography," showing July 15 - August 15.
  http://redcrossbayarea.org/photoexhibit/
  Held at Presidio of San Francisco (Officer's Club)
• Event: Educators for Nonviolence offers its 3rd Annual Summer Conference & Teacher Training July 18-19, 2008 At Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA
• Podcast: BBC has posted the first of four broadcasts by China scholar Jonathan Spence speaking on Confucius. (Transcript is also posted.) The talk is followed by an interesting Q&A addressing Confucian thought and contemporary China.
  Web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2008/
• 5-31-08
• June issue of World History Connected: the Ejournal of Learning and Teaching http://www.worldhistoryconnected.org
• From World Savvy: the Global Affairs Monitor – check it out for free during the months of May and June.
• BAGEP/ORIAS/Humanities West Working Group resources on-line for 2007-8 programs on Voltaire, Genghis Khan, Pericles: http://orias.berkeley.edu/2008/2008WorkingGroupHome.htm
• Reminders: PFA Educators’ workshop - How to Read a Film: A Visual Literacy Workshop ORIAS reminders at: http://orias.berkeley.edu
• 5-6-08
  • Empire to Empire: The Americas in the Age of Exploration Center for Latin America’s 2008 Summer Institute for Teachers
    July 14-16, 2008
  • Performance: "Rakugo: Japanese Sit-down Comedy in English" Kaishi Katsura, Ambassodor, Ministry of Culture, Japan
    When: Saturday, May 17, 2008 -7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • ORIAS Summer Institute Agenda now on-line.
  • Reminders:
    Lecture Thurs, May 8 : Samuel Garang Akau, of the “Lost Boys” who escaped from Sudan during the 1990s, speaks on his recent work in Sudan.
    PFA Educators’ workshop - How to Read a Film
• 4-29-08
  • Lecture: Samuel Garang Akau, of the lost boys who escaped from Sudan during the 1990s, speaks on his recent work in Sudan.
  • Exhibit: A Memory of Humanity: From Solferino to Guantanamo 145 Years of Red Cross Photography
  • Educators workshop - Exploring Humanitarian Law
  • Film: (This Thursday!) Bolinao 52 - Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker Duc Nguyen
  • Educators workshop - How to Read a Film: A Visual Literacy Workshop for High School Teachers and Media Educators
  • Reminders from ORIAS:
    Teacher Institute: Russian Emigration in Historical Perspective: Russians in California
    Pestilence and Public Health - ORIAS World History Summer Institute waiting list
• 4-14-08
• Russian Emigration in Historical Perspective: Russians in California (34th Annual Teacher Outreach Conference at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at U. C. Berkeley). May 3, 2008.
• Webcast: Story Hour in the Library at UCB.
• ORIAS event reminders:
  Pestilence and Public Health Summer Institute
  Athens in the Time of Pericles - working group at Humanities West, May 2-3
• 4-8-08
  • ORIAS/BAGEP 2008 Working Group at Humanities West
  • Pestilence and Public Health - ORIAS World History Summer Institute
  • Cal Day – Open House on campus April 12
  • 2008 Edith Coliver Festival of Cultures at International House, April 12 5. At the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
  • KQED: Community Classroom: Engaging Students and Teachers Through Film,
    April 22, 2008
  • "Water and the Developing World: Voices from Industry, Policy, and the Human Rights Perspective" Conference at Stanford
  • Travel opportunities:
    Toyota International Teachers Program – Galapagos Islands – Fall 2008
    IREX – Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program – Eurasia/South Asia
• 3-13-08
• Featured campus event: Modern Sport and the Formation of European Identities
• ORIAS upcoming events:
  • What's In a Document? A Look At Justinian and Roman Law - Hands-on workshop with rare manuscripts in the Robbins collection and focus group for curriculum resource on Justinian and Roman law. March 29th, 2008.
  • ORIAS at Humanities West - Athens In The Time Of Pericles Friday, May 2 - Web resources from the Legacy of Genghis Khan meeting
    
• World Affairs Challenge
• EARMARC Spring 2008 Workshop/Screening
• 26th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
• 3-3-08
  • Registration due for Robbin’s Collection Workshop: What's In a Document? A Look At Justinian and Roman Law
  • Modern Sport and the Formation of European Identities
    http://orias.berkeley.edu/2008/IEShome.htm
  • Public workshop at the Center for Chinese Studies, UCB: “The Beijing Olympics”
  • Pestilence and Public Health - ORIAS World History Summer Institute
  • From World Savvy: “Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War"
  • This weekend! The 47th Annual CCSS Conference (special pre-conference World History workshop in San Francisco this Thursday)
• 2-19-08
  • ORIAS events
  • Opportunities from: The Pacific Film Archive, BAGEP, Facing the Future and World Savvy.
  • News for Foreign Language teachers.
  • Webwalking: Lostboyz - Cambodian-American life
• 2-5-08
  • Coming events at ORIAS
  • This Sunday: The Panchatantra: Indian animal fables
  • The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan - Free ticket offer.
  • Off-campus events: Hearst Museum; BAGEP; World Savvy; CCSS.
  • Courtesy Announcement - travel: Global Alliance; East West Center
• 1-16-08
  • Heads-up on the Panchatantra Indian animal fables meeting at ORIAS, Feb 10, 2008: we are adding a related workshop on using theatre in the classroom conducted by Dave Maier, outreach coordinator for the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.
  • Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America – teach-in at Berkeley on Jan. 31, 2008.
  • Portrait of Turkey: One-day workshop at the World Affairs Council with a special educator session - Feb 2, 2008.
  • Web-walking: Muslim Minorities in Southeast Asia; 2007 Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies; The U.S. and Iran: Confronting Policy Alternatives from Choices
• 1-2-08
  • ORIAS/BAGEP History Through Literature Meeting – Literature from the Hebrew Bible –January 27, 2008.
  • Asian Art Museum - Arts of Buddhism: Cultivating Mindfulness - Saturday, January 12, 2008
  • Web walking: Digital TV and the World Chinese Voices now on-line
  • Looking ahead:
    • ORIAS Summer Institute, July 28-August 1, 2008 – Disease in World History
    • WACSP Foreign Policy Conference at Asilomar, May 2-4, 2008 – Deadline 2/15
    • NEH Summer Seminars – Deadline 3/3

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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.