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1. Why Germany Matters. CODE C1
Instructor : Keith Chu
Keith
Chu is a professor at Bergen Community College
He
received a BA at Rutgers University in History and Religion, took his
MA from SUNY (Stony Brook) in Early Modern European History, and is
currently applying to enter the Ph.D program in the History Department
at Columbia University in New York City. He works in the society and
economy of Early Modern Britain and the Low Countries. He also has an
interest in Reformation Germany. And on certain occasions, he has done
some research and writing in Modern Germany, as well. As Goethe-Institut
Fellow, M. Chu wishes to promote knowledge of Germany and European Union
to other educators.
In
addition to his role as a historian, he also does research, writing,
and teaching in geography. He is coordinator of the geography program
at the college. One of his main interests is using geographic technology,
such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems), in order to enhance historical
study. The courses he teaches at the college include World Geography,
Human Geography, and the Western Civilization sequence. On certain semesters,
he also does the U.S. History survey courses.
2. Literature and Film in the Countries of East Central Europe. CODE C2
Instructor : Ivan Sanders
Ivan Sanders is Professor Emeritus of English at Suffolk County Community College and Adjunct Asst. Professor at Columbia University's East Central European Center. He has translated works by prominent contemporary Hungarian writers, including George Konrád and Nobel laureate Imre Kertész. His studies and essays on Hungarian and Central European literature have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE NEW REPUBLIC, WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, THE POLISH REVIEW, THE WILSON QUARTERLY, and others.
3. Teaching with Technology - Challenges and Opportunities. CODE C3
Instructors
: Stephane Charitos and Bill
Koulopoulos
Stephane Charitos
After
studying Statistics and Econometrics at the U. of Athens, Greece, Stephane
Charitos earned a B.Sc. in Data Processing and Quantitative Analysis
from the U. of Arkansas. He took his M.A in French and Philosophy from
the same university in 1983 before completing a Ph.D. in French and
Spanish from the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992.
He taught French and Modern Greek at a number of universities includingUNC-Wilmington,
NC Trinity College, CT and Hollins College, VA before becoming Assistant
Professor of French at OldDominionUniversity in Norfolk, Virginia in
1991. At ODU, he taught throughout the French language, literature,
and culture curriculum as well as helping design, implement and deliver
distance learning courses in conjunction with the school's Darden Department
of Education.
In 1996, he moved to the U. of Memphis, TN and was hired a year later
by Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL to design and direct
the university's Foreign Language Media Center. In 1998, ColumbiaUniversity
hired him to design and direct the LanguageResourceCenter, a Mellon
funded initiative which serves as the university digital language lab,
the administrative center which oversees language instruction in the
less commonly taught language and provides training and assistance to
language faculty integrating media-rich applications into the second-language
teaching curriculum.
He has given papers and published in areas as diverse as 16th and 20th-century
French and Francophone literature, Cultural and Film Studies, Modern
Greek Studies, Critical Theory as well as on issues related to technology
and language instruction.
Bill Koulopoulos
Bill has taught English as a Second Language for fourteen years, including six years at Columbia University. Currently he is working as an educational technologist atColumbia University. His goals are to help faculty integrate technology in the curriculum and create pedagogically sound applications of technology in the classroom.His graduate work is focused on curriculum and instructional design and has participated in curriculum design projects in Canada and the US.
4. Russia and Europe: The Perils of Partial Integration. CODE C4
Instructor : Cynthia Roberts
Cynthia
A. Roberts is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College,
City University of New York and also an Adjunct Associate Professor at
the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the Theoretical Foundations
of International Politics, War and Strategy, European and International
Security, Post-Communist Transitions, and related topics. Previously,
Dr. Roberts was Director of the Russian Area Studies Graduate Program
at Hunter. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science and the Certificate
of the Harriman Institute, both from Columbia University. Dr. Roberts
has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Stanford
University, and received numerous grants, including from the Ford Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served as a consultant
to various departments of the U.S. government including the Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory, Department of Energy. Dr. Roberts is also a member of the
John J. McCloy Roundtable on Setting the National Security Agenda at the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York and on the international board
of trustees for the Centre for European Security in Moscow.
, TO BE ANNOUNCED
9:00 - 10:25 am
Keynote
speech + Q&A : Being « European »
Laurent Pic
Mr Laurent Pic is the Counsellor for economic and social affairs at the French Permanent Mission to the United Nations (New York). Prior to coming to New York he was Antici Counsellor at the French Permanent Representation to the European Union (Brussels, Belgium) between 2002 and 2006.
He also was Adviser to the French Minister in charge of European Affairs (Paris, France) (2001-2002), Desk Officer at the European Cooperation Directorate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paris, France) between 1997 and 2001, Deputy Chief of Mission at the French Embassy to the State of Bahrain (Manama) between 1995 and 1997, Desk officer at the European Directorate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of Russian Foreign Policy and the Caucasus (Paris, France) between 1993 and 1995 and sServed as Cultural Attaché at the Consulate General of France in Leningrad (Former Soviet Union) between 1987 and 1989
He holds a Diploma from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (“Sciences Po”)/Public Administration – 1991 and a Masters degree in Russian Studies, from the National Institute of Oriental Languages (“Langues O”) – 1987, as well as a Diploma from the National Institute of Oriental Languages in Russian – 1985
