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PROGRAMS:

Coming Events:

Pestilence and Public Health - ORIAS World History Summer Institute
Registration required - the institute is full (wait list available with preference for credit scholarship applicants)

Flyer July 28 - August 1, 2008 Home page Agenda, Speakers, Links, Registration

 

War, Justice and Human Dignity: Exploring Humanitarian Law Workshop for Educators
Organized by the American Red Cross International Services 
With support from: Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, International Committee of the Red Cross, and ORIAS

August 14-15, 2008 Held at Presidio of San Francisco (Officer's Club) Applications at http://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=WARJ11E&OID=130 The workshop will be held in conjunction with the exhibit, "A Memory of Humanity: From Solferino to Guantanamo - 145 years of Red Cross Photography," showing July 15 - August 15. http://redcrossbayarea.org/photoexhibit/ This is a special touring photography exhibit from the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva. The powerful photos showcase humanitarian efforts during armed conflict. Visit the EHL Virtual Campus at www.ehl.icrc.org.

Other news:

• UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events, including peace and conflict studies courses.

ORIAS CLASS ARCHIVES: links, presentation summaries, bibliographies, lesson resources

Empire to Empire: The Americas in the Age of Exploration
Center for Latin America’s 2008 Summer Institute for Teachers

July 14 – July 16, 2008 Applications at http://www.clas.berkeley.edu

ORIAS/ BAGEP Educator Working Group: Schools of Thought at Humanities West (Flyer)

Athens in the Time of Pericles May 2-3, 2008 Voltaire and the French Enlightenment October 5-6, 2007 The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan February 22-23, 2008

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)
Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley campus

Flyer Saturday, May 3, 2008 Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley campus

ORIAS/Robbins Collection

• What's In a Document? A Look At Justinian and Roman Law (Flyer)

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 10:30AM - 1:00PM Teachers’ Workshop at the Robbins Collection School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

History Through Literature 2008 Working Group: Enduring stories in religious traditions.

• Hebrew Bible stories: Book of Ruth and sacrifice of Isaac
  January 27, 2008, 10:30AM - 1:00PM (Flyer)
  
  
• Panchatantra: Ancient Hindu animal tales
  February 10, 2008, 10:30AM - 1:00PM (Flyer)

 

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