Outreach to Educators
Our mission is, in part, to support K-14 institutions and educational professionals. ISEEES sponsors a teacher outreach conference each spring, offers a speakers bureau service, publishes information for educators in our newsletter, selects links of Web sites that may be useful to educators, and participates in ORIAS, the outreach program that is jointly supported by the area studies centers at UC Berkeley.
Educator Mailing Lists
ISEEES advertises the upcoming Teacher Outreach Conference and other programs in special mailings, both in print and electronically. Printed announcements are sent to subscribers to our newsletter who have identified themselves as educators; subscription to the newsletter (3 issues a year) is free of charge. Announcements are also sent to our educator email list. Contact our outreach coordinator, Libby Coyne, at (510) 643-5844 or to subscribe to either list or to get more information. We do not sell or share our mailing lists.
Teacher Outreach Conferences
ISEEES holds an annual conference for education professionals on timely topics relating to our Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These conferences are made possible by a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education.
The weekend conference, usually held in the spring, brings together Berkeley faculty and other specialists to give lively and informative presentations. Attendees are provided with a variety of materials—such as bibliographies, timelines, lists of Web sites, background readings, reference maps, and suggestions for curriculum.
34th Annual Teacher Outreach Conference (2007 - 2008)
Russian Emigration in Historical Perspective:
Russians in California
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley campus
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Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00 - Registration
9:00-10:00 - Fort Ross and the Russian Empire in California. Ilya Vinkovetsky. Assistant Professor of History, Simon Fraser University
10:00 - 11:00 - Russians in California: The First and Second Post-Revolutionary Waves, 1918-1955. Anatol Shmelev. Project Archivist, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
11:00 - 12:00 - Russians in Hollywood/ Hollywood on Russia. Olga Matich. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
12 noon - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 - The Third Wave of Russian Immigration: California Dreaming at the End of the Cold War. Paul Belasky. Professor of Geology and Geography, Ohlone College
2:30 - 3:30 - The History of Immigration in California. Kerwin Klein. Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley
3:30 - 4:30 - Russophobia in America After 9/11. Andrei Tsygankov. Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science, San Francisco State University
4:30 - Reception
Registration
This conference is intended for teachers but is open to the public. There is no fee. Pre-registration is requested so that we may prepare materials to distribute. Please contact ISEEES at (510) 642-3230 or elizabeth.coyne at berkeley.edu and provide your name, address, E-mail address, telephone number, and—if applicable—school and grade level. You can download the registration form here.
Flyer
Download as a pdfFor information on traveling to UC Berkeley, please consult:
- Map of the Berkeley Campus—See D-3 for The Alumni House
- Driving to Berkeley
- Public Parking
- Public Transportation to Berkeley
Go to:
- The top of this year's conference
- Past Teacher Outreach Conferences
- the top of this page for Outreach to Educators
- Outreach Programs, main page
Let us know how ISEEES can meet your educational needs. Contact our Outreach Coordinator, Libby Coyne, at (510) 643-5844 or elizabeth.coyne at berkeley.edu.
