Travelers:

Cultural Interaction in the Medieval World

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UC Berkeley's International and Area Studies

Summer Institute for Teachers

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July 19-23, 1999

9:00AM -4:30PM

2223 Fulton Street 6th Floor


 
 


Monday v Islamic Travelers

8:30 Coffee and Pastries

9:00 Introductions

    vIbn Battuta 9:30 Marina Tolmachev, History Department, Washington State University

10:30 Break

10:45 Gloria Neumeier, (San Domenico School), College of Marin

                     11:45 Meeting with credit students         vCatered Lunch hosted by the Institute of East Asian Studies

                                        12:00-1:30

        vMansa Musa

                    1:30 Tabitha Kanogo, History Department, UCB

                    2:30 Small group work

                    4:30 End
 
 

 Tuesday v Trade and Tribute

                                    8:30 Coffee and Pastries

  vMarco Polo

                9:00 Eddi Vulic, Department of History, UCB

                10:15 Break

                10:30 Carolyn Rinetti, Pleasanton Middle School

                11:30 Small group work

        vLunch Break                 12:00-1:30

  vGreat Khans and Tamerlaine

               1:30 Izaly Zemtsovsky, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, UCB

                3:00 Break

        vZheng He
 
                                    3:15 Fred Wakeman, History Department, UCB

                                    4:30 End
Wednesday v Scripture Bearers and Mythic Travelers

       vExploring on the Internet

                9:00 Meet in Rm 212 Wheeler Hall computer lab Sheryl Hott, Little Oak School        vLunch Breakv                    12:00-1:30        vCyril and Methodius                 1:30 Sabine Stoll, Slavic Department, UCB

                2:30 Break

        vJourney to the West

                                    2:45 Edan Dekel, Classics Department, UCB

       vPrester John

                3:45 Edan Dekel, Classics Department, UCB

                4:30 End

 Thursday v Conquerors

                                    8:30 Coffee and Pastries

       vThe Black Plague

                9:00 Eddi Vulic, History Department, UCB        vThe Crusades                 10:00 Pegatha Taylor, History Department, UCB

                11:00 Break

                11:15 Judy Gruszynski, Mill Valley Middle School

        vLunch Break                 12:00-1:30        vNew World Encounters                 1:30 Jose Rabasa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB

                2:30 Break

                2:45 Christiana Hart, Luther Burbank Middle School

                3:45 Small group work

                4:30 End

 Friday v Towards the Modern Age         8:30 Coffee and Pastries

 vTwo Frenchmen in Mughal India: Bernier and Tavernier and Life at Court

        9:00 Gail Minault, History Department, University of Texas, Austin

        10:30 Break

       vConcluding Remarks         10:45 Alan Karras, International and Area Studies Teaching Program       vLunch Break          12:00-1:30       vClosing Activities         1:30 Group work and presentations

        4:30 End