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Ancient Roots - Modern States
Legacies of History

UC Berkeley's International and Area Studies Summer Institute for Teachers

July 31 -August 4, 2000
9:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
2223 Fulton Street 6th Floor

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
 
Monday
8:30 Coffee and Pastries
9:00 Introductions

Conflict, Cooperation, Coercion and States

9:30 David Leonard, International and Area Studies, UCB
10:30 Break

Preventing Deadly Conflict: Towards a World Without War

10:45 Greg Francis, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)

Catered Lunch

12:00-1:30

Regional Diversity and Imperial Unity: The Roman Empire and the Creation of a Universal People

1:30 Richard Hoffman, Department of History, SFSU
3:00 Workshop
4:30 End
Tuesday

8:30 Coffee and Pastries

Shredded Memories Among Indigenous Peoples in the Valley of Mexico, 1530-1580

9:00 Amos Megged, Visiting Scholar to UCB
10:30 Break

Renegotiating Tradition in Post-Apartheid South Africa

10:45 Ariana Reynolds, Department of History, UCB

Lunch Break

12:00-1:30

India and the Colonial Encounter: the 19th Century

1:30 Deana Heath, Department of History, UCB
2:30 Break
2:45 Colonialism roundtable, UCB faculty
4:30 End

Wednesday
8:30 Coffee and Pastries

Legacies of the Ottoman Empire in Modern Turkey

9:00 Leslie Peirce, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UCB

University Resources

10:45 Berkeley Art Museum

Lunch Break

12:00-1:30

Israel: Lessons, Insights and Challenges of Emerging Nations

1:30 Allan Solomonow, Director of the Middle East Program for the American Friends Service Committee, San Francisco
2:45 Break
3:00 Workshop
4:30 End

Thursday

8:30 Coffee and Pastries

Monarchs, Merchants and Middle Classes in Russia's Periods of Transition

9:00 Lisa Walker, Department of History, UCB

Revolutions in Daily Life: Views from Home and Work in Russia

10:45 Christine Kulke, Department of History, UCB

Lunch Break

12:00-1:30

Europe, the Nation-State, and Transnational Visions

1:30 Mark Vail, Department of Political Science, UCB
2:45 Break
3:00 Workshop
4:30 End
Friday
8:30 Coffee and Pastries
9:00 Resource Review

Empire and Republic: The Ancient and Modern Chinese State

10:00 Frederic Wakeman, Institute of East Asian Studies, UCB

Catered Lunch

12:00-1:30

Closing Activities

1:30 Class Presentations
4:30 End
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