World View Seminar on Eastern Europe
March 10-11, 2004
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Co-Sponsored by the UNC
Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Sudies
Wednesday, March 10
What is Eastern Europe and Why Should it be Taught? By: Chad Bryant, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Enlargement of the European Union By: Thomas Oatley, Department of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Crisis and Change in a Post-Communist Eastern Europe By: Robert Jenkins, Director of Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Thursday, March 11
Slavic Identities: Peoples, Languages, and Religions By: Laura Janda, Director of Slavic and East European Language Resource Center and Slavic Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill
Websightings:
Using the Internet to Teach About Eastern Europe By: Jacqueline
M. Olich, Fellow of Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European
Studies UNC-Chapel Hill
Next Steps for Educators By: Robert Jenkins, Director of Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Session I
The Holocaust By: Michael Meng, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Ethnic Conflict and Minority Rights By: Robert Jenkins, CSEEES, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Velvet Revolution: The End of Czechoslovakia By: Miroslav Vanek, CSEEES, UNC-Chapel Hill
Hungary: Past and Present By: Thomas Cooper, Department of Slavic Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill
Session II
Three Baltic States: Independent, Soviet, and Independent By: David Olson, CSEES, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Balkans: Conflict, Breakup, and Reconstruction By: Ken Palmer, CSEES, UNC-Chapel Hill
Contemporary Challenges for Central Europe By: Aneta Spendzharova and John Surface, CSEES, UNC-Chapel Hill
Classroom Application Sessions
Teaching World Culture Through Art By: Rebecca Bailey, Dean of School of the Arts, Meredith College
Teaching About Eastern Europe By: Suzanne Gulledge, Director of International Social Studies Program, School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill
Using Oral History in the Classroom By: Joseph Mosnier, Associate Director of Beth Millwood, Outreach Coordinator Southern Oral History Program