"Antiquity and Continuity"
2005 Summer Teachers' Institute
June 7-10, 2005
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Executive Education Center, 5th floor (5.142), Graduate School of Business (GSB) Building
8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 am Welcome
Natalie Arsenault, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Allegra Azulay, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
Jordan Phillips, South Asia Institute
Diane Wilson, Center for International Business, Education & Research
Icebreaker Activity
Teacher-Facilitator: Karol Giblin, McNeil High School, Round Rock ISD
9:45 – 11:00 am People, Places & Values in a Globalized Economy
Jaime Alonso Gómez, Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico
11:00 – 11:15 am Break
11:15 am – 12:30 pm The Search for Identity in Mexican Architecture
Juan Miró, School of Architecture
5th Floor Lunch Room, GSB Building
12:30 – 1:30 pm Catered Lunch
Executive Education Center, 5th floor (5.142), GSB Building
1:30 – 2:45 pm Chersonesos-Sevastopol: Past, Present and Future
Joseph Carter, Department of Classics
2:45 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 4:00 pm Teaching Strategies and Discussion
Karol Giblin
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Executive Education Center, 5th floor (5.142), GSB Building
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 am Teaching Strategies
Karol Giblin
9:00 – 10:15 am Romani Reality, Gypsy Myth
Ian Hancock, Department of Linguistics
10:15 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:45 am A Mayan Worldview: Ancient Cultures in the 21st Century
Heather Teague, Department of Anthropology
5th Floor Lunch Room, GSB Building
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Catered Lunch
Executive Education Center, 5th floor (5.142), GSB Building
12:45 – 2:00 pm Continuity and Change among Nomadic Peoples of Africa and the Middle East
Barbara Michael, University of North Carolina Wilmington
2:00 – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 – 3:30 pm Continuity and Change among Nomadic Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, cont.
Barbara Michael
3:30 – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 – 4:30 pm Teaching Strategies and Discussion
Karol Giblin
Thursday, June 9, 2005
Executive Education Center, 5th floor (5.142), GSB Building
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 am Contemporary Indian Buddhism and Its Ties to the Past
Betty Nguyen, Department of Asian Studies
10:15 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:45 am Ramayana: The Life of an Ancient Text in Modern India
Ian Woolford, Department of Asian Studies
5th Floor Lunch Room, GSB Building
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Catered Lunch
Executive Education Center, 5th floor (5.142), GSB Building
12:45 – 2:00 pm Japanese Pop Culture: How the Past has Influenced the Present
Michael Roemer, Department of Sociology
2:00 – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 – 4:15 pm Teaching Strategies and Discussion
Karol Giblin
4:15 – 4:30 pm Evaluations and Field Trip Instructions
Friday, June 10, 2005
Breakfast on Your Own
9:00 am Meet at Littlefield Fountain (21st St & University Ave) to load bus
Field Trip to Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL)
J.J. Pickle Campus of UT-Austin
10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome & Introduction
Steve Black, Editor, Texas Beyond History
10:15 – 12:00 pm Groups will rotate through the following 30-minute presentations:
Maps and Records
Susan Dial, Co-Editor, Texas Beyond History
Artifact Collections
Laura Nightengale, Head of Collections
Texas Beyond History Web Site
Carol Schlenk, Education Editor, Texas Beyond History
12:00 – 12:45 pm Boxed Lunch
12:45 – 1:00 pm Evaluations & Wrap-Up
1:00 pm Load bus to return to UT
