The African Studies Outreach Program organizes and supports regular workshops for educators to discuss curricular approaches to the teaching of Africa.
Upcoming Workshops
Past Events:
- 2011 International Summer Institute: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
July 25-29, 2011 - 2011 Middle East Summer Institute: Political and Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa, June 17-18, 2011
- UN Terminology and Resolution Workshop, March 21-April 3, Urbana, ILÂ
- Strategies to Globalize the Research, Teaching and Engagement Missions at UIUC, March 5, 2011, Urbana, IL
- African Institute for Educators, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 27-30, 2010
- Teachers' Workshop:African Women: In Theatre, In Society, & In History
February 27, 2010 - Urbana Free Library, Conference Rm. - Effective Strategies for Teaching and Learning about Africa: A Workshop for K-12 Schools,
New Orleans, Louisiana
November 21, 2009 Â 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
ASA Teachers' Workshop - Midwest Institute's Summer Workshop (co-sponsorship)
Global Poverty and Inequality
August 3-7, 2009 - International Education Teacher's Workshop
Keynote lecture: Professor Rudy Mattai, SUNY-Buffalo
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 14, 2009 - International Summer Institute: Music in Many Languages
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
June 14-19, 2009 - International Summer Institute: Perspectives on Teaching World History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
June 22 - 27, 2008 - African Studies Association Teachers' Workshop
Chicago, Illinois
November 2008
Program - Africa Institute for Educators, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 29 - July 2, 2008
- Workshop on Teaching with African Film, February 9, 2008
- "Africa in the K-12 Curriculum," African Studies Association, New York October 19, 2007
- International Summer Institute: World Cultures Through Literature and Film 2007
- "Teaching and Learning about the African Experience," African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 18, 2006
- Teachers' Workshop on A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
November 4, 2006 - International Summer Institute: World Geography & World Cultures 2006
- "Learning & Teaching about Africa and the Middle East," African Studies Association and Middle Eastern Studies Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2005
- International Summer Institute: The Lives of Kids Around the World 2005