Outreach

K-12 Educational Outreach

The Outreach Program has numerous resources available for K-12 educators and students, as well as community groups and organizations, businesses, and other interested parties.

Lending Library:

A wide range of supplementary teaching materials for K-12 classrooms and general audiences are available for loan free of charge nationwide. Many of these materials are also suitable for community and adult study groups.

Online Resources:

Find lesson plans and curriculum guides, as well as educational sites for you and your students.

Public Events:

All of the Center's events are open to the public. For additional events, you may also want to look at the Hemispheres website.

Teacher Workshops:

On a regular basis, teacher workshops on various aspects of global studies are sponsored by the Center and by Hemispheres, the international area studies outreach consortium, which is a collaborative partnership of the four Title-VI funded area studies centers on the University of Texas campus, representing Latin America; the Middle East; Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia; and South Asia.

Previous topics have included:

• The Silk Road Revisited: Integrating Central Asia into your Curriculum (Fall 2005)
• Antiquity and Continuity (Summer 2005)
• Changing Borders: The Balkans in Transition (Spring 2005)
• Teaching About Russia Workshop (Fall 2004)
• People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations (Summer 2004)
• Explorers, Traders and Immigrants: Tracking Cultural Contact through Food (Summer 2003)
• Folklore and Mythology Around the World (Fall 2002)
• On War & Peace: Teaching about World Conflict (Summer 2002)
• Presenting and Re-presenting Islam: Teaching and Studying about Islam in the United States (Spring 2002)
• Faith, Worship & Devotion: World Religions in Central Texas (Spring 2002)
• World Cultures through the Arts (Summer 2001)

Speakers Bureau:

The Outreach program maintains a speakers bureau of outreach staff, graduate students, and faculty members who are willing to come to speak to schools, community groups, businesses, workshops and events about the Middle East and related topics. Usually, the requesting party specifies the topic, and we will try to find someone to meet your specific request.

A wide variety of topics can be covered. Please contact the Outreach Coordinator to arrange speakers. We do appreciate advance notice of at least two weeks.

Photo Galleries:

The Center has developed several photo galleries with Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian subjects and/or themes. These include:

• Georgian Jewelry Exhibit
  Part of a 2005 symposium which included a week of speakers and activities related to the Republic of Georgia.
  
  
• Through Our Lens: Russia - Eastern Europe - Central Asia - Siberia in photographs by students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin
  A web exhibit sampling of the popular photography exhibit organized by the Center in June through October 2001. The actual exhibit is offered for display in the Austin area from time-to-time.
  
  
• Portraits of Russian senior citizens
  A web gallery created for the conference "From Red to Gray: Aging in the Russian Federation" (UT Austin, April 6, 2001.) All pictures in the collection were taken by Prof. Cynthia Buckley during her research trips to various regions of Russia.
  
  
• UT Austin Russia Day Photo Gallery
  Pictures taken at this annual spring semester event.
  
  
• Russian 506 Photo Gallery
  Class pages from Fall of 2004, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies.

For More Information:

Contact Allegra Azulay, Outreach Coordinator, at (512) 471-7782 or by e-mail at aazulay@mail.utexas.edu.