PROGRAM
Friday, October 26th, 2001
Curry Student Center
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsored by 17 collaborating Outreach Centers:
· African Studies Center, Boston University
· Asian Studies Curriculum Center, New York University
· Center for Economic Education, Bridgewater State College
· Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
· Children’s Museum: Harvard East Asian Outreach Program
· Choices for the 21st Century Education Project, Brown University
· Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
· David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
· Facing History and Ourselves
· Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Smith College
· Framingham State College Center for Global Education
· Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies
· Massachusetts Geography Alliance
· National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University
· New England China Network of Primary Source
· World Affairs Council, Global Education Office
· World History Center, Northeastern University
Symposium Overview
As in the past workshop sessions will provide scholarly perspectives and hands-on activities to use in their classrooms. This symposium does make three changes from past events:
· By offering a one-day event the focus will be on participating workshops without a keynote address
· By offering versions of popular sessions from last few years, teachers can participate in a session that they have may missed,
· By opening up sessions to all teachers and/or secondary teachers teachers can participate in a greater choice of sessions
The four sessions from the 1999 Symposium revolve around the links, both positive and negative, among peoples and regions as they interact to create worldwide patterns. Our textbooks give us ample stories of the evolution, advance and decline within individual nations or civilizations. But these localized stories do not give a clear picture of the world history that students are now asked to understand. These sessions give some examples of ways to focus on exchanges and conflicts with surrounding areas – in terms of empires, trade, geography, and war.
The four sessions from the 2000 Symposium focus on the details of ethics and justice in various social situations, and will also illustrate links among these situations across the globe. Sessions will explore how interaction in history has helped to promote these goals or compare how varying societies have risen, or not, to the challenge. As connections are made to the present, these themes will seem all the more relevant historically and currently, as we explore issues dealing with the environment, indigenous peoples, economic distribution, religious identity, and ethnic conflict. Sessions include cases from different periods and regions.
The four sessions from the 2001 Symposium investigates how different groups of people create their own communities in different places, at the dynamic connection between governments and peoples’ definitions and needs, and at the similarities and differences across age, class or estate, gender, location, race, religious belief, and time. Such comparative work allows us to place these complex issues in a historical and global context, and to pose questions of values, social organization, and politics and laws, as well as of conformity and diversity. It encourages students to learn that they and their families are a part of history.
8:00 – 8:15 Registration and Refreshments: Ballroom Lobby and Ballroom
8:15 – 8:30 A World History Symposium: Opening Remarks
8:30 – 10:00 Concurrent Session A: Workshops from 1999
· “The Rise of Great Civilizations: Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs” (for all) Room tba
· “Who and What Traveled on the Silk Road” (for all) Room tba
· “Integrating Geography into World History (for secondary) Room tba
· “War in the Pacific” (for secondary) Room tba
10:15 – 11:45 Concurrent Session B: Workshops from 2000
· “Colonization and Its Impact on Native Peoples: the Ainu of Japan and the Wampanoag of Massachusetts” (for all) Room tba
· “Biography Makes History: Richard the Lionheated, Saladin, and the Crusades” (for all) Room tba
· Moral and Ethical Ethos of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism” (for secondary) Room tba
· “Coming Together After Collective Violence: Nuremberg and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (for secondary) Room tba
11:45 – 12:45 Boxed Lunch and Outreach Tables Ballroom
12:45 – 2:15 Concurrent Session C: Workshops from 2001
· “Approaches for Teaching Culture: Moving from Students' Identities to the larger Culture” (for all) Room tba
· “Communities and Identities in Time, Place and Culture: the Irish and Chinese Cases in History”(for all) Room tba
· :”The Congo Free State: Revisiting the Imperialism Debate” (for secondary) Room tba
· “Living with War in Southeast Asia, 1945-2000” (for secondary) Room tba
2:15 – 2:30 Wrap-up, Raffle, and Evaluation Ballroom
Concurrent Session A: 8:30 – 10:00
Versions of these four workshop sessions were originally presented at the 1999 Symposium, Exchange and Conflict: Implementing the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.” The first two sessions are appropriate for teachers of all grade levels, while the last sessions may be more appropriate for teachers of secondary students.
This workshop will highlight each civilization’s ability to build an empire from the achievements of previous cultures through conquest and cultural exchange. Further it will provide an overview of each civilization’s achievements and resources for the classroom lessons.
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Sponsors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University, and World Affairs Council, Global
Education Office
·
Presenter:
“Who and what Traveled on the Silk Road”
This workshop will present an existing curriculum about early trade and communication links between East Asia and West Asia. Teachers will look at materials about the type of goods and ideas that moved about the type of goods that moved back and forth along these routes.
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Sponsor: New England China Network of Primary Source
·
Presenter:
This workshop will present the five themes of geography and key themes in world history. It will then offer a series of hands-on activities and teaching strategies demonstrating practical approaches for bringing a geographic perspective to the world history classroom. Highlights will include map work, simulations, and interaction group work.
· Sponsors:
Massachusetts Geography Alliance and World History Center, Northeastern
University
· Presenters:
Mary Ellen Sorensen, Spofford Pond Elementary School, & James Diskant, World
History Center
This session uses learning sessions for teaching about one of the formative events of the 20th century, the War in the Pacific. Lessons on the history and literature of Japan, the United States, China, and Korea are included.
· Presenters
Concurrent Session B:
10:15 – 11:45
Versions of these four workshop sessions were originally presented at the 2000 Symposium, “Ethics and Justice: Understanding the Human Condition” The first two sessions are appropriate for teachers of all grade levels, while the last sessions may be more appropriate for teachers of secondary students.
“Colonization and its impact on Native peoples: The
Ainu of Japan and the
Wampanoag of Massachusetts”
Indigenous peoples all over the world have been impacted by colonization. As a result, questions of ethics, justice, and the implications of interactions between cultures are at the forefront of the study of native peoples. This hands-on workshop will introduce two distinct native groups: the Wampanoag and the Ainu, their traditional ways of life and how they were impacted by colonization. Parallels will be drawn so that students will be able to understand and question the treatment of native peoples by dominant societies in diverse regions of the world.
· Sponsors:
Children’s Museum, Harvard East Asian Outreach Program and
Teacher Center
· Presenters:
“Biography Makes History: Richard the Lionhearted,
Saladin and the
Crusades”
Some historians believe that history is best understood by knowing the lives of the people who lived it. The Crusades were about more than just knights in shining armor. They were events that helped shape future relationships between eastern and western Christianity, and between Europe and the Muslim world. Ramifications of the Crusades are still being felt today. Traditionally the Crusaders have been portrayed in the west, in books and films, as “noble knights.” By telling the story of two warrior knights, and the world in which they lived, including clips from an excellent BBC documentary, this workshop will focus on issues of justice and ethics in war, making past history relevant to today’s students. Suggestions for resources and curriculum material will be distributed.
· Sponsor:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
· Presenter:
“Moral and Ethical Ethos of Buddhism, Hinduism, and
Confucianism”
This session -- organized around an illustrated presentation and including some hands-on activities -- will focus on the core ideas and values of Buddhism, Hinduism
and Confucianism as these teachings and traditions relate to issues of morality, ethics and justice. We will examine and discuss key ideas such as self-identity, treatment of others (including humans, animals and natural life), dharma, karma, ren, li, non-violence, tolerance of other faiths, salvation and forms of worship. These ideas will be explored in the major documents and texts of the traditions and through the use of art, poetry
and other literary forms. Finally, the key concepts of Buddhism, Hinduism and Confucianism will be compared to selected other philosophic traditions and codes of conduct such as West Asian law, Greek and Roman citizenship and Zoroasterian and Christian ethical dualism.
· Sponsor:
Asian Studies Curriculum Center, New York University
· Presenter:
“Coming Together After Collective Violence:
Nuremberg and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
This workshop will examine the ways in which individual societies and the international community have grappled with the questions of justice and ethics after atrocities have been perpetrated. An examination of the Nuremberg Trials after World War Two and South Africa’ s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will provide the workshop’s specific focus. Participants will use a range of sources (video testimony, poetry, and historical accounts) to investigate the similarities and differences between the two responses. They will also consider the possibilities and limitations of extending these approaches to other current day conflicts (Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor, and Guatemala), as well as come up with a working definition of justice and ethics.
· Sponsor:
Facing History and Ourselves
· Presenter:
Concurrent Session C:
12:45 – 2:15
Versions
to these four workshop sessions were originally presented at the 2001
Symposium, “Personal Identities and Public Communities in World History.”
The first two sessions are appropriate for teachers of all grade levels, while
the last sessions may be more appropriate for teachers of secondary students.
“Approaches for Teaching
Culture: Moving from Students' Identities to the larger Culture”
This workshop provides an introduction to the concept of culture, and offers approaches to develop student understanding of this abstract notion. The pedagogical approach will encourage students to develop a concept of personal and family identity, to explore the larger notion of culture and community. Depending on the grade level, teachers can initiate discussions about how students’ concepts of “individuality” are often in fact expressions of a shared culture or cultural construct.
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Sponsors: African Studies Center, Boston University,
& National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian
Studies
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Presenters: Barbara Brown, African Studies Center, & Pamela Kachurin, National Resource
Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
“Communities and Identities
in Time, Place and Culture: the Irish and Chinese Cases in History”
This workshop examines some of the cultural, economic, political, and social factors that influence group identity. The focus will be on two groups, the Chinese and the Irish, to locate similarities and differences over time in both their native countries and as part of a Diaspora. Three overarching issues will be discussed: whether individuals develop different group identities in homogeneous and multiethnic societies, in what ways the concept of “family” changes as a result of Diaspora, and what kind of role powerful groups have in managing identities of oppressed peoples.
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Sponsors: : Framingham State College Center for
Global Education & New England China Network of Primary Source
·
Presenters: Susan Dargan, Framingham State College,
& Wanli Hu, Primary Source
”The Congo Free State: Revisiting the Imperialism Debate”
This
workshop looks at issues of colonization and decolonization in the 19th
century, focusing on the Congo, and concludes with the 1903 Parliament debate
about of Europeans there. By exploring conflicting values and viewpoints at the
turn of the 20th century, students grapple with interests of the
different players by recreating the historical debate on colonial policy and
abuses against the native population in the Congo Free State. Participants
review primary sources from government officials in several European countries,
employees of various trading companies, missionary reports, and propaganda from
Belgian King Leopold’s agents. Participants recreate and debate the “options”
that governments faced in the Congo.
· Sponsors;
African Studies Center, Boston University, & Choices for the 21st
Education Project
· Presenters:
“Living with War in Southeast Asia, 1945-2000”
This session focuses on the lives of ordinary people in Southeast Asia during the various struggles that have taken place there since the countries gained their independence after World War II. It focuses on three conflicts: the Vietnam War, the ethnic struggles in Malaysia in the early 1960’s, and ethnic conflicts in Indonesia in the 1990’s. War and economic dislocations it brings have dramatically disrupted peoples’ family lives, job and consumption choices, and living arrangements. The session provides information about lesser-known conflicts, family and social structure, and economic issues. We will also introduce materials (novels, short stories, film and materials on using them) which teachers could use to teach this topic, and model activities that demonstrate the key concepts.
· Sponsors: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program & Center for Economic Education, Bridgewater State College
· Presenters: Anne Foster, St. Inseam, College, & Margaret Landman, Bridgewater State College