Fall Workshops

2014: Global Climate Change: Science Meets Society

• Living Climate Change: Using Anthropological Encounters and Actions in Teaching 
• Climate Worlds: Geographies of a Changing Planet
• Climate Change and Security: Research, Policy, and Teaching
• Teaching and Writing about Climate Change: A View from History

2012: Global Crises, 2012

• The Dynamics of Violence and Human Rights in Latin America
• Youth and Transformation: How Young People Are Grappling with Change in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the Arab World
• Energy, Resources, and Crisis
• It's All About Economics!

2011: Technology: Its Impact on Global Politics, Economics, Education & Culture

• Exploring Interdisciplinarity - Promises and Challenges
• Technology and Society in the 21st Century
• Technology and Intelligence
• New Media, New Wars, New Middle East

2010: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

• Putting Women's Lives into Context: Power, Family and Economy
• Women's Income as the Magic Potion for Development?
• Empowering Women: Economic Challenges and Opportunities
• Beyond Brothels: Women and Girls in Slavery and Freedom

2009: Emerging Economics: The Post-American Century

• First, Post-Soviet: Now, Post-American? -- The Evolving Economic Landscape for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Brazil as a BRIC?: Is Brazil Ready to Invest in Competitiveness?
• The Middle East's (Very) Political Economics
• Globalization in the 21st Century: Changing the Rules of the Game

2008: The Impact of Global Movement

• Disposable People: The Challenge of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
• Open Borders: The History of an American Tradition
• Human Displacement and Cultural Survival: Does Migration Destroy Cultures?
• The Politics of Travel and Tourism in an Age of Globalization

2007: Learning from the Developing World

• Learning for East Asia: Virtuous Cycle or Tough Choices?
• Literature and the Developing World
• Grassroots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Understanding Africa in its Global Context

2006: Globalization & Education: Challenges for the 21st Century Citizen

• The Asian Human Resource Approach: Dilemmas and Challenges
• Translating Politics to Learning: The Meaning of Political Change in European Cases for 21st Century Citizenship
• Comparative Perspectives on Latin America
• 'By Means of the Pen': Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East

2005: World Regions and the Globe: Past, Present, & Future

• Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East

2004: How the Media View the World

• A Middle-East Perspective
• Media and Public Policy in the Age of Terrorism
• A Reporter's View from Vietnam to Ground Zero
• What We Get from 'The News': A Broadcast Journalist's Perspective

2003: The Global Challenge: Four Perspective for America

• Religion and Foreign Policy
• Economic Globalization and the Global Citizen Backlash
• Climate Change and Environmental Issues
• American Culture and U.S. Hegemony

1999: Global Migration

• The Politics of Migration
• The Political Economy of Migration
• Migration Geography
• Culture and Migration

1998: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Trade

• International Trade and Investment in the U.S. Economy
• Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of International Trade
• The Domestic Politics of U.S. Trade Policy
• American Trade in Historical Perspective

1997: Teaching World Cultures Through Literature and Film

• Brazil
• Germany
• India

1993: The Impact of Religion and Ethnicity in a Changing World

• Islam and Social/Economic Change
• Religion and Ethnicity in the States of the Former Soviet Union
• Religion and Reform in Latin America
• Quebec and Canada

1992: The New Europe: Adjustments to the Post-Cold War Era

• East European Adjustments to the Post-Cold War Era
• West European Adjustments to the Post-Cold War Era
• Breaking Down Linguistic Walls in the European Community

1991: Intercultural Contact: Conflict and/or Enrichment

• The Transatlantic Encounter of Cultures: The Forging of a New World
• Migration and the Global Refugee Crisis
• Intercultural Understanding: The Role of Foreign Languages

1990: Agenda for the 21st Century: Global Cooperation

• The Global Environment
• North-South Issues
• Peace and Security

1983: The Comparative Approach Applied: Women Around the World; The Comparative Approach and the Social Sciences