Fall 2007
Race and Revolution in
Latin America
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September 2007
Dr.
John Chasteen, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History
PHE's first workshop for
Fall 2007 will acknowledge the two-hundredth anniversary of revolutions in
Latin America. "Race and Revolution in Latin America: Independence and Its
Consequences, 1808-1824," will take place on Saturday, September 29th, and
will be taught by Dr. John Chasteen. Dr. Chasteen is the Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Term
Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His
workshop will pull material and insights from his forthcoming book, Americanos: Latin American's Struggles for Independence, that will be
published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Teaching Religion in
the History Classroom
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December 2007
Dr.
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of
Religious Studies
Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp will lead the second
Fall 2007 Workshop on "How
to Teach Religion in the History Classroom" on Saturday, December 1st. Dr.
Maffly-Kipp will talk about analytical frameworks and
categorizations as teaching strategies, and she will use those strategies on
two case studies, including the African American religious experience and
Mormonism in America. She is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently teaches courses on
the African American and Mormon religious experiences in modern America.
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