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The
New Jersey Teach Europe Seminar took place at Rutgers
University on November 5th, 2003. Handouts
and documents - including PowerPoint presentations -
provided by the keynote speaker, the workshop presenters,
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::: Contemporary European Films as Social Commentary
A workshop on European cinema of the 90s in which films will be considered as social commentary. In order to investigate how filmmakers represent urban politics, participants will view and discuss excerpts from the works of Belgian, French, Italian, and German filmmakers.
Dr. Beth
Curran, Department of French, German, Italian, and Slavic, Temple University
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::: Ethnic diversity in Germany and America
Until very recently, Germany tenaciously resisted being seen as a "country of immigration"; and many, including some liberals, maintain this view to this day. Yet, since the 1960s, and particularly by means of the influx of "guest workers" (Gastarbeiter) and their families, Germany has indeed become increasingly diverse ethnically and religiously. The founding myth of the United States, on the other hand, is precisely its claim to be a country of immigrants. Yet true cultural integration has remained an unfulfilled dream, particularly in poor urban areas with the greatest concentration of diverse ethnic groups. This workshop considers, against the backdrop of legal, historical and political data, how this problematic is reflected culturally. The goal of the workshop is to provide educators with basic insights on how each society conceives of and approaches the challenge of ethnic diversity. In the process, suggestions will be presented on how this important topic can be dealt with successfully in the classroom.
Dr. William
C. Donahue, Chair, German, Russian and East European Languages and Literature Department, Rutgers University
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::: Using Technology and
Institutional EU Websites as Teaching Material
In this workshop, participants will learn how to develop a thematic unit for the foreign language classroom, using technology as a source for teaching materials with institutional EU websites serving as a basic source of information. The unit will incorporate "Digiclass", a Rutgers University web based application, audio and video segments, a PowerPoint presentation, and assignments created with TrackStar or Maxauthor, all of which will enhance students' reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
Dr. Ursula Atkinson, Program Co-ordinator, Rutgers University
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Documents provided by Dr. Ursula Atkinson
>> PowerPoint
presentation
>> PowerPoint
presentation handout (PDF)
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::: Professor Eugene N. White
Professor Eugene N. White is Editor of Explorations in Economic History. He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His area of research is monetary and financial history. He has written extensively on the monetary and financial history of the French Revolution. In a series of articles, he has examined the origins of the Ancien Régime's fiscal crisis, the macroeconomic policies of the Revolution, the Napoleonic regime, and the postwar reparations. In addition, he has explored aspects of nineteenth century French banking and Gaullist international monetary policy, which has led him to a keen interest in current economic issues in Europe. Professor White teaches European Economic Histrory at Rutgers University. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Paris X - Nanterre in 1995.
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::: Professor Jan Kubik
Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Recurring Visiting Professor of Sociology, Central European University, Warsaw. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught previously at the Jagiellonian University, Barnard/Columbia and the College of Wooster. Currently serves as Director of the
Center of Comparative European Studies at Rutgers. His work is focused mostly on postcommunist transformations in Eastern Europe and revolves around the relationship between culture and politics and contentious politics. Kubik is currently working on a book investigating the relationship between political science and anthropology, an essay on the formation of historical memory and its political relevance (through an analysis of Andrzej Wajda’s movies), and selected issues of European integration. Selected publications: Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993, with Grzegorz Ekiert, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press (1999; paperback 2001); The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power. The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland. University Park: Penn State University Press (1994); “Cultural Legacies of State Socialism: History-making and Cultural-political Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Poland and Russia.“ In Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, edited by Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003).
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Documents
provided by Professor Kubik
>> European
Union in the 21st century: Enlargement, Governance, Identity
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::: Professor Argia M. Sbordone
Assistant Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. She received her M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before joining Rutgers Faculty in 1998, she was Staff Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Lecturer at Princeton University. She teaches macroeconomics and international finance. Her main research interests are on business cycles analysis and monetary economics. She has analyzed in particular cyclical fluctuations in productivity, and the inertial behavior of wages and prices over the business cycle.
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