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The mission of the European Studies Alliance incorporates
the "Wisconsin Idea," the democratic
essence of which is that the university has a responsibility to
disseminate the knowledge it has acquired and produced to encourage
a better-educated citizenry.
ESA seeks to join European Studies to the Wisconsin
Idea. Toward that end, ESA faculty and staff meet regularly with
the press, leading members of the business community, teachers,
those involved with politics, and community activists who want to
make contemporary Europe more comprehensible for the community.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with your questions
or suggestions for events in which the European Studies Alliance
might assist you in learning more about today's Europe.
ESA Outreach Activities
Recent
ESA Outreach Activities
- 18 October 2006:
"World Cultures Day Middle School Extravaganza"
9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Memorial Union, UW-Madison, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI
Description: Bring your middle school students to the UW-Madison campus and discover the world through hands-on activities, games, lectures and music from cultures spanning the globe.
Sponsored by Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC)
Contact: European Studies Outreach Coordinator.
- 6 October 2006:
DANTE'S INFERNO IN WISCONSIN- K-12 teacher colloquium
Description: Schools and teachers from across Wisconsin were selected to participate in this project, which aims to bring Dante's classic into high school classrooms throughout Wisconsin. Each team will receive a financial award, teaching support and materials, access to university resources, and opportunities to participate in two teacher colloquia, and a student conference. More information is available at www.humanities.wisc.edu.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, with the support of the UW-Madison's Center for European Studies, the UW-Madison Language Institute, WisItalia, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
- 16 September 2006:
Transatlantic Outreach Program for K-12 Teachers:
Train the Trainers Leadership Workshop
8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., Greene Hall, UW-Milwaukee, 3345 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
Description: This workshop is directed toward outstanding Social Studies or German Language educators with an interest in international education and leadership skills. The workshop will focus on how to internationalize the curriculum using the Germany as a case study. A 50/50 mix of Wisconsin Social Studies and German Language educators will be selected for attendance.
- "Don Quixote in Wisconsin" - a year-long, state-wide initiative in 2005-06 coordinated by the UW-Madison's Center for the Humanities with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the UW-Madison's Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), Center for European Studies, Language Institute, Integrated Liberal Studies program, Honors Program, and department of Spanish and Portuguese. "Don Quixote in Wisconsin" joined organizations and universities around the world in marking the 400th (and 401st) anniversary of the publication of Part I of Miquel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The project involved more than 20 Wisconsin high schools and offered a teacher colloquium, lectures, curricular resources, and a student conference.
- "On
the Road with Hans Christian Andersen" - a series of presentations
at public libraries around the state of Wisconsin.
- 27-29 April 2006:
National Conference of Title VI Outreach Coordinators
Concourse Hotel, Madison, WI
- 19-24 June 2005:
Summer Teacher Workshop: "Environmental Problems and Politics in Europe and Asia"
- 9 April 2005:
"Islam in France and Holland" and other "Stories Behind the Headlines (Part I). Part of a series of workshops to be held in April on "Islam in the World Today."
- May
2003: Wisconsin
World Affairs Conference
ESA partners with leading civil society institutions in the state
and the upper midwest to extend UW-Madison expertise in European
studies to a wide variety of constituencies. An important example
of this effort is the partnering with the Institute
of World Affairs in Milwaukee, most recently in cosponsoring
the 2003 Conference
"Europe in Transition - Integration or Fragmentation?"
- ESA Executive Director Crister Garrett spoke at the
conference on "Crucial Issues Facing Europe Today" and
conducted an interview with public television and the Institute
for World Affairs on the same topic to extend outreach even further
to the region.
More information about the 2003 conference is available
on the conference
website.
- March
2003: International
Education Conference
This conference, represented the first state-wide gathering for
K-12 teachers dedicated exclusively to international and global
education, with area studies being the central component around
which panels were organized. The planning committee for "Education
Across Six Continents" consisted of teachers from
around the state, administrators of schools ranging from elementary
to high school, and university area studies experts.
- CES Associate Director and ESA Executive Director Crister
Garrett was closely involved in the early planning stages
of this conference that is expected to become an annual event.
- Mark Pollack (UW-Madison Department of Political Science)
presented a workshop at the conference on teaching the European
Union for high school students.
- The European Studies Alliance expects to continue as a driving
force behind this major addition to the K-12 area studies outreach
landscape in Wisconsin.
More information about the 2003 and
2004 international education conferences is available on
the conference
website.
- May
2002: WIOC
Conference
ESA is a member
of the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC), which
in 2002 organized the national outreach conference "Bringing
the World Home: Toward a National Community of International Outreach
Educators."
- The ESA sponsored a panel discussion at this conference entitled
"Contextualizing Area Studies Through Film: A Case Study
in Festivals, Publics and the Use of Film to Explain Contemporary
Europe in a Global Context." A video
of this presentation is available (requires
QuickTime, which can be downloaded here).
More information about the conference and about WIOC is
available on the WIOC
website.
Links to ESA Outreach Partners
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