COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2005
Workshops
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::: 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. Teaching Europe with the Web at the Beginner levels of Foreign Language Instruction. Code C1


Instructor: Fabienne Gerard

::: 2. Where is the Center of Europe? Code C2

How do teachers of World Languages and Social Studies at American secondary schools bring students to enduring understandings of the power of European identity in a changing European political, economic and cultural landscape? Teachers can achieve success in this endeavor using the film Die Mitte (The Center) by Stanislaw Mucha as a base text to explore issues of place and identity in the EU and beyond. The film provides strong points of departure for studying and discussing the EU in World Languages and Social Studies classrooms. This interactive session will guide teachers in developing solid teaching units.

Instructor:
Christopher Gwin,
Mr. Christopher Gwin, Teacher of German/Social Studies at Haddonfield Memorial School, Camden, NJ, was awarded the Mandel Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

::: 3.Central European Perspectives on the EU After a Year of Membership. Code C3


Instructor: Andrzej Harasimowicz, Visiting Professor at Columbia University was Director General in the Council of Ministers’ Office, 1991-92; Director of European Integration Bureau, 1991-96: responsible for Government’s programming and implementing activities within the area of European Integration; Director of European Institutions and Policy Planning Department in the Office of the Committee for European Integration, 1997-98: coordinating works leading to preparation of National Integration Strategy, Government official position in 1997; Spokesman for the Office of the Committee for European Integration, 2000-01; Director of European Information Department in the Office of the CEI, 2001-02; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Strategy and Foreign Policy Planning, Senior Counselor, 2002-03. He is now Professor at the Warsaw University Centre for Europe – since April 2003.


::: 4. Europe and the European Union: Crisis or Transition ? Teaching strategies for a work in progress. Code C4


Instructor: Dr Irene Finel-Honigman, Professor, Columbia's Institute for the Studies of Europe,

Senior Research Associate, European Union Center, The Graduate School of The City University of New York, Adjunct Professor, Queens College, Cuny, and former Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies. Courses taught: History and Development of The European Union Research and Teaching Specialization: European Union, Economic Culture of The Eu, Us/Eu Financial/Economic/Trade Issues, French Politics, Economics, Culture and Language, Business Communications Recent Publications: "Bank Failures, Bailouts and Too-Big-To-Fail in The Eu, " Co-Author, Working Papers, Ciber, (Spring 2001); "Reconfiguration of Us/Eu Financial Competitiveness: The Bank, The State and The Shareholder," Working Paper Series, University of Georgia (April 2000); Us/Eu Relations in The Last Decade: Fortress Europe To The Transatlantic Business Dialogue," Culture and Strategy: European Culture and The Global Business Context, Robert Crane Ed. (2000)..

 
::: PANELISTS

::: Ambassador Reinhard Bettzuege :::
Head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OSCE

Ambassador Reinhard Bettzuege comes to New York from Andrassy Gyula University in Budapest, which was founded in 2003 by the governments of Hungary, Austria, and Germany, and where he holds the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy. He was detached by the German government as a visiting Ambassador. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and has served in the German foreign service since 1974. He is an expert in international relations of Western Europe, European public policy, European constitutionalism, and security policy. E-mail: t rbettzuege@t-email.hu


::: David Jestaz :::
Columbia University
David Jestaz is Visiting Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also affiliated with the Earth Institute's Center on Capitalism and Society (CCS), and is Program Director of the Alliance Program. His research focuses on macroeconomic issues, such as the specificity of European unemployment compared to Anglo-American countries, the relationship between stock market performance and the accumulation of employees, and the functioning of the stock market as a "cornerstone" institution in the United States. He is especially interested in the role of financial performance in international migration. David is a French national, and he holds a Ph.D. with High Distinction from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. E-mail: dj2028@columbia.edu


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

pronounced by

::: H.E Martin Palouš :::
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States

Ambassador Palouš is a political philosopher and was among the first signatories of the Charter 77 document calling on the communist regime in power in Czechoslovakia to respect human rights. In November 1989 he became one of the founders of the Civic Forum, which replaced the communist regime, and in 1990 he became a Minister of Parliament. He was appointed Ambassador by Czech President Vaclav Havel in the summer of 2001.


10:30 - 12:45 PM ::: 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
::: LOCATION
International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue)
 

    

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