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Monday, July 30	Groundwork: Finding, Evaluating and Using International Materials
	8:30 Coffee and pastries 9:00  Introductions, ORIAS 9:30  Using International Children's Literature in the K-5 classroom 10:30  Break 10:45  Focus on East Asia Junko Yokota , professor of multicultural children's literature and past president of the U.S. national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) 12:00  Catered lunch and resource review 1:00  Panel: How we find and evaluate books Francis Ann Day, author of Multicultural Voices in Contemporary Literature: A Resource For Teachers Marianne Halpin, head librarian San Francisco Day School 3:15  Addressing Literacy Sharon Zinke, reading specialist, Hayward Unified School District  4:00  End
Tuesday, July 31	Comparative Narratives
	8:30  Coffee and pastries 9:00  Cinderella and other comparative fairy tales Shirley Climo, children's author and folklorist, author of The Egyptian Cinderella; The Korean Cinderella; The Irish Cinderlad; and The Persian Cinderella A Serenade of Mermaids: Mermaid Tales from Around the World; and A Treasury of Princesses: Princess Tales from Around the World 10:30  Break 10:45  Classroom experiences with Cinderella Jennifer Martinez, ESL teacher, Hayward Unified School District 11:45  Sharing Favorites 12:00  Lunch on your own and resource review 1:30  Comparative Fairytales  Alan Dundes, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley, international expert on the interpretation of diverse folklore and fairy tales. Author of over 200 articles and books on folklore, custom and mythology  including, Cinderella: A Casebook and Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook 3:00  Break 3:15  Credit students working time 4:00  End
Wednesday, August 1	World Areas: Cambodia, Africa, India
	8:30  Coffee and pastries 9:00  Sharing Favorites 9:30  Focus on Cambodia Karen Greene, anthropologist and Cambodia specialist, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley 10:30  Break 10:45  Focus on Africa Martha Saavedra, vice-chair, Center for African Studies, UCB Amma A. B. Oduro, program assistant, Center for African Studies, UCB 12:00  Lunch on your own and resource review 1:30  Focus on India Meena Khorana, editor-in-chief of Bookbird and specialist in children's literature of South Asia 3:00  Break 3:15  Credit students working time 4:00  End
Thursday, August 2	World Areas: Muslim Countries, Latin America
	8:30  Coffee and pastries 9:00  Literature from the Muslim Countries 10:30  Break 10:45  Tesselations Project Audrey Shabbas, founder of AWAIR (Arab World and Islamic Resources) and author of Resource Guide to Materials on the Arab World 12:00  Catered Lunch and resource review 1:00  Sharing Favorites 1:15  Focus on Latin America  Teresa Stojkov, vice-chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, U.C. Berkeley and professor of Spanish language and literature 2:00  Working time with Audrey Shabbas  3:00  Break 3:15  Credit students working time 4:00  End
Friday, August 3	World Areas: Russia
	**Meet at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 340 Stephens Hall  (MAP)** 8:30  Coffee and pastries 9:00  Focus on Russia Glen Worthey, specialist on the history of Russian and Soviet children's literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, U.C. Berkeley. Head of the Humanities Digital Information Service, Stanford University Libraries. 11:30 **Meet at South and Southeast Asian Library,120 Doe Library** Introduction to exhibit: "Echoes of Freedom: South Asia Pioneers in California, 1899-1965" Suzanne McMahon,South Asia Librarian/ University of California, Berkeley  12:00 Catered Lunch and resource review in 120 Doe Library 1:00 Summary sharing and evaluations 2:00  Field trip to Cody's Ira Steingroot, educational sales

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