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2012 International Summer Institute: Global Protest Movements

Speaker

--Mr. Aaron Ammons (Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice)
--Professor Brian Dolinar (African American Studies)
--Professor Ken Cuno (History)
--Professor Rajmohan Gandhi (Global Crossroad Living and Learning Community; CSAMES)
--Professor Glenda Garelli (Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago)
--Ms. James Kilgore (Center for African Studies)
--Mr. Geshe Lobsang Kunga and Mr. Tenzin Nyamgal (Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, IN)
--Ms. Lucinda Morgan (College of Education Office of International Programs)
--Mr. Tony Nelson (Autonomous University of Social Movements, Chicago)
--Professor Ken Salo (Urban and Regional Planning)
--Professor Carol Skalnik Leff (Political Science)
--Professor Timothy Wedig (Global Studies)
Date Jun 18, 2012 - Jun 22, 2012
Location University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cost The institute fee is $150. This includes lodging, most meals, and materials.
Sponsor Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; European Union Center; Center for Global Studies; Center for International Business and Education Research; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone 217-244-5939
Registration Register online
Event type Conference
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This summer’s ISI will feature lectures, films, performance, visual arts and other learning activities to provide cross-regional and global perspectives of protest movements.

The goal of this year's ISI is to provide educators with resources to teach about protests from a global perspective.  While all are welcome to attend, material will be geared towards high school and community college educators. Topics to be discussed include:

--Social justice movements in Mexico
--Artistic expression of protest, including performance and demonstration signs
--South African anti-apartheid and current human rights movements
--the Arab Spring
--Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations
--Indian anti-corruption demonstrations
--Tibet, human rights and independence demonstrations
--Post-Soviet “color revolutions”
--Immigrant rights in the EU
--Global Occupy movement
--Local social justice movements; poetry and spoken word

Participating teachers will receive CPDUs for IL teachers or CEUs for non-IL
teachers.

Lodging will be provided for out-of-town participants.

Deadline for registration is April 15, 2012.


The following films will be screened as part of ISI. Films are open to the public in room 126 LIS, 501 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL (map)

-- Tambien la Lluvia ("Even the Rain")
-- Egypt: The Story behind the Revolutio
-- Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!
-- Putin's Kiss