Newsletter


News from Hemispheres is a free biannual newsletter for teachers who use, or would like to incorporate, area studies materials in the classroom. Recent newsletter topics have included peace and conflict activities, international holiday calendars, and more. The newsletter also announces all upcoming Hemispheres events.

  • Spring 2008 (1.3 MB) -- "Restoring Women to World Studies." This issue features an image analysis activity that focuses on photographs of women from each region, with short articles to provide background information, and links to further resources.

  • Fall 2007 (376 KB) --"Explorers, Traders and Immigrants." This issue features short excerpts from our new curriculum unit that uses primary source documents to track the spread of various commodities around the world, and their cultural, social, and political effects on various societies.

  • Spring 2007 (376 KB) -- "Catching up with Hemispheres." This issue discusses new resources and initiatives that we have introduced in recent years, including our new curriculum materials, professional development for educators around the state of Texas (and beyond), and opportunities for educator travel abroad.

  • Fall 2006 (376 KB) - this issue examines notable women from Inda, Democracy in Latin America, Investigating Human Rights in Morocco and The Challenges of Chechnya.

  • Spring 2006 (376 KB) - this issue revisits the theme from “Antiquity and Continuity,” Hemispheres’ 2006 Summer Teachers’ Institute.

  • Fall 2005 (376 KB) - this issue commemorates the UN International Year of Microcredit, looking at small-credit programs that benefit women and low-income people around the world.

  • Spring 2005 (423 KB) - this issue examines notable women from each of the four regions represented by Hemispheres.

  • Fall 2004 (491 KB) - this issue features articles on human geography in Egypt, India, Latin America, and Russia that were developed from the 2004 Summer Teachers' Institute.

  • Spring 2004 (512 KB) - this issue features articles on individual outreach projects from each of Hemispheres' 4 component centers.

  • Fall 2003 (488 KB) - this issue features articles on food culture, and recipes from around the world.

  • Spring 2003 (171 KB) - this issue features an advocate/decision-making activity based on lessons presented at the 2002 Summer Teachers' Institute.

  • Fall 2002 (248 KB) - part two of our Holidays around the World series, covering the months July - December.

  • Spring 2002 (184 KB) - part one of our Holidays around the World series, covering the months January - June.

  • Fall 2001 (208 KB) - This article features highlights from the 2001 Summer Teachers' Institute, new resources from Hemispheres' lending libraries, and spotlight on curent events.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions to the Hemispheres newsletter are free.  The newsletter can be received in one of two ways:

  1. To receive a hard copy of the Hemispheres newsletter via US mail, please send your name, school, and preferred mailing address to hemispheres@austin.utexas.edu

  2. To receive an electronic version of the newsletter in Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) format, please join the Hemispheres Newsletter mailing list.   You will be sent an e-mail when the latest issue of Hemispheres is published notifying you where you can download the new issue.