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NewsAméricas Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureCLASP announces the 2008 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, along with its annual annotated bibliography of recommended titles. Global Citizenship: International Service Learning in the Dominican RepublicKaren Hewitt, Visiting Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois, relates a story about a "service learning trip" to the Dominican Republic in June of 2007. The students and teachers participating in this project raised funds to work on several projects identified by the community. Fundraising efforts covered the purchase of cement, cinder blocks, roofing, timber, paint, and all supplies necessary to build a replacement house for a family in the community. Scholars Explore Mexico's History in New BookGeorgetown University Associate Professor John Tutino joins co-editors Elisa Servín and Leticia Reina in exploring how Mexico’s tumultuous past informs its unpredictable present and future. In conjunction with the contributions of leading scholars, the editors closely examine how revolutionary periods during the last three centuries served to shape Mexico’s political and social landscape.
Pursuing Liberty at LibertadA barren soccer field, grassless with fading white lines. Brightly painted cozy homes next to shacks whose walls are pieced-together scraps of metal, the colors of the advertisements they once bore only just starting to fade. Dirt floors, dirt streets. No running water. Smiling children run about, the teens are laughing, singing. The women wash clothes in the street and the men play dominoes. These are the images that met us as we first stepped foot in Batey Libertad in the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic. Saddam Biography Reveals His YouthBiography of Saddam Hussein by New York University's Middle East Outreach Director explores his upbringing and rise to power MEOC Announces Book AwardsMiddle East Outreach Council Honors Books for Children and Youth on Sumerian (Iraqi), Palestinian, Egyptian Topics.
Russian Heritage Speakers Course in Pittsburgh and MoscowSpecial opportunity for secondary school language teachers: 3-year Fulbright-Hays GPA grant supports intensive summer study of advanced Russian at home and abroad Best Practices in Area Studies Educational OutreachIntroduction to Best Practices in Outreach to the K-12 Community by the National Resource Centers for Area Studies Teaching HavelIU REEI workshop features Václav Havel and performance of "Unveiling" by the Cardinal Stage Company Children's Africana Book AwardsThe African Studies Association announces the winners of the Children's Africana Book Awards.
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