::: TEACH EUROPE 2004 :::

::: WORKSHOPS

	Please choose two workshops by order of preference, and report your choices on the TES application form, using codes.
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::: 1. Building bridges across cultures and fostering cross-cultural understanding: a new mission for the language class. Code C1
Workshop based on the Cultura web-based tool for developing cross cultural understanding. Participants will get a close look at the overall comparative, cross cultural methodology used and see how American students (taking a class at MIT) and European students (taking an English course at INT) collaboratively and gradually construct an understanding of each other's cultures. Participants will see how European and American students analyse together material derived from their respective cultures, such as personal questionnaires, national opinion polls, films, press articles, literary and historical texts… and how they exchange perspectives on notions such as authority, individualism, success, work, family, government, etc.

Instructor: Dr. Gilberte Furstenberg, Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

::: 2. Some important European Literary movement. Code C2
A "comparative literature" focused on some important European literary movements as such as Romanticism, Naturalism and how the ideas conveyed by these movement crossed nations and became patrimony of the intellectuals in many European countries. In other words, the presentation aims at the idea of Europe who never stop to exchange ideas and arts despite political and economical barriers.

Instructor: Vincenzo PASCALE, Department of Comparative Literature, Fordham University

::: 3. Working with pictures in foreign Language Teaching. Code C3
Present topics include (contemporary) images of Europe, Germany and France for social and cultural studies in foreign language teaching. The goal is to mediate techniques for "Working with Pictures" to foreign language teachers.

Instructor: Dominique MACAIRE, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

::: 4. Old Europe, New Europe: challenges and opportunities for the European
Union. Code C4.

Instructor: Irene Fingel-Honigman, Columbia's Institute for the Studies of Europe.

::: PANELISTS

::: Professor Hussein KASSIM
Hussein Kassim is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level on the European Union and comparative European Politics. He has been Director of the MSc/MRes in European Politics since its creation in 1997. Before moving to Birkbeck in 1994, Dr. Kassim held College Lectureships at Balliol College, New College and Worcester College in Oxford, and a Lectureship at the University of Nottingham. He has also taught at the London School of Economics. Holder of a BA Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, an M.Phil. and a doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford, he is currently New York Consortium Visiting Professor in European Studies at New York University and Columbia. He has also held visiting positions at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

::: Professor Seamus O'Cleireacain
Columbia University
Born in Galway in the West of Ireland, Professor O'Cléireacáin is Professor of Economics at Purchase College, and Adjunct Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. A specialist on international economic relations, from 1991-1994, he was in charge of the Ford Foundation's program in International Economics and Development. He has been a consultant and advisor to the United Nations, the State Department, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

::: PROGRAM

9 AM -10:25 AM		::: KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A

		Graca Castanho Educational Counsellor at the Embassy of Portugal, Washington

10:30 - 12:45		::: WORKSHOPS >> Workshop: 10:30 - 12:00 >> Exchange session: 12:00 - 12:30 >> Evaluation: 12:30-12:45
12:45-13:30 PM		::: LUNCH
1:30 - 3:30 PM		::: PANEL SPECIALISTS OF EUROPEAN ECONOMY, HISTORY AND POLITICS + Q&A