2005 Summer Seminar

July 11-22

 

2005 Summer Seminar Flier.pdf

 

The 2005 Summer Seminar is titled "U.S. Foreign Policy and International Relations."  The seminar is composed of two areas: 

a).  A survey of United States Foreign Policy from the Revolution through the present day.

b).  A series of professional development sessions covering a vast array of technology topics for use in the classroom.

 

For a terrific review of the 2003 summer seminar, see the article on our program by Lee Formwalt, Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians, published in the OAH Newsletter.  Directions to seminar facilities at the bottom of this page.


The 2005 ten day summer seminar schedule includes:

Historiography and Program Introduction:  Dr. Lee Formwalt, Rick Walters , Carol Shick and Paul Benson

International law & order in the Atlantic states system during the Age of Revolutions & early 19th century. Dr. Peter Onuf, University of Virginia

Periods and Patterns in History:  The Uses of Social and Political Theory Dr. Nick Onuf, Florida International University

U.S. Foreign Policy 1830-1940. Dr. Philip Payne, St. Bonaventure University

Terrorism.  Dr. Ole Holsti, Duke University

American Foreign Policy: success and failures on hunger, energy and population. Dr. James Lang, Vanderbilt University

Cold War in American History, ideas and traditions in American foreign policy. Dr. Jeremi Suri, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Geographic Education and World Security. Harm de Blij, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Michigan State University         

The United Nations and the Battle to Draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Dr. Allida Black, George Washington University

Uses of Technology in the Classroom.  Dr. Nancy and Patrick Casey St. Bonaventure University

Addressing Change. Larry Robinson, Partners and Robinson

Technology Courses:  imovies, Keynote, Power Point, Streaming Video, Hotlists, Webquests, Library of Congress: Staff, Rick Walters & Carol Shick, Jamestown Public Schools, Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES

Speakers:

 

Dr. John Q. Barrett Robert H. Jackson: Nuremberg, International Law: Then and Now.  John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law in New York City, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure and legal history. Professor Barrett is the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, NY.  He currently is working on a biography of Justice Jackson that will include the first inside account of his year (1945-46) away from the Court as the chief American prosecutor of the principal surviving Nazi leaders at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.  Professor Barrett's edited version of That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the late Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson’s previously unknown memoir of FDR and the New Deal, was published in September 2003 by Oxford University Press.
Dr. Allida M. Black   The United Nations and the Battle to Draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights As project director of the The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University, Allida M. Black examines the impact Eleanor Roosevelt had on public policy, party politics, and the modern human rights movement. She is author of a political history of Roosevelt's post-White House career and is the Finley fellow in history at George Mason University and the author of "Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Post-War Liberalism" (1995), and editor of two volumes of Roosevelt's political writings. She is currently researching Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of the Twentieth Century. Black also teaches courses in recent U.S. political history and works closely with the National Council for History Education's programs for secondary school teachers. Image of Allida Black
Dr. Lee Formwalt, Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians speaks on Historiography, the study of the multiple ways in which history is written.    Dr. Formwalt will return for the third time to open our seminar.  Formally Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, and President of the Georgia Association of Historians. See his "Seven Rules for Effective History Teaching or Bringing Life to the History Class".  Lee W. Formwalt
Dr. Ole Holsti is the George V. Allen Professor of Political Science, specializes in international politics and foreign policy decision-making. He is the author of Crisis, Escalation, War, Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities, and Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy.  Professor Holsti was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1981-82. He was the recipient of the Nevitt Sanford Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for "distinguished professional contributions to political psychology". He won the Howard Johnson award for distinguished teaching in 1990 and The Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1995.
Dr. James Lang is Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.  Dr. Land will be returning from a multi-country course in the spring semester assessing various cultures and summarizing opinions of U.S. Policy.  His course can be viewed at Semester at Sea
Dr. Peter S. Onuf   International law & order in the Atlantic states system during the Age of Revolutions & early 19th century  Dr. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia was our lecturer.   He has written extensively on sectionalism, federalism, and political economy, with a particular emphasis on the political thought of Thomas Jefferson. With his brother, political theorist Nicholas G. Onuf, and historian James E. Lewis, Jr., he is collaborating on the second volume of Federal Union, Modern World, a history of international law and order in the Atlantic states' system during the Age of Revolutions and early nineteenth century.   

 

 

Dr. Nicholas G. Onuf  Specializes in international relations theories; the trajectory of the modern world, understanding the term "modernity" to refer to an ensemble of developments, material and conceptual, that have dominated Northern Europe and North America for several centuries. His research interests in IR theory are deeply affected by major developments in social theory and by his feminist students.  His theoretical studies culminated in the publication of World of Our Making.  In that book, he systematically developed a position he called "constructivism." 

 

Dr. Philip Payne, Dr. Payne will be offering a broad overview of American History with a particular emphasis on foreign policy and international relations.  He will focus on major events and turning points from 1830 to 1940.  These will include Manifest Destiny & Expansionism, the Rise to Global Power, the Spanish-American War, Imperialism & Empire, the Open Door & the China Market, Latin American Relations, Wilsonian Internationalism, Isolationism, and New Deal Diplomacy.  In addition, Dr. Payne will be discussing historiographical schools of though that offers differing interpretations of these events.  These include older schools such as Realism and the New Left and newer frameworks such as gender and culture.
Dr. Jeremi Suri is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches courses on American interactions with the wider world, social movements, and foreign policy. His research emphasizes the interconnections between grassroots politics and elite policy-making. In his teaching and writing, he seeks to internationalize understanding of American history by focusing on the foreign "others" who have contributed to local and national definitions of identity in the United States. He also examines how American citizens--from ordinary men and women through distinguished politicians and businesspeople--have influenced the world outside the United States. Professor Suri is the author of "Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente" (Harvard University Press, 2003). He is  a 2003-2004 national fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Jeremi Suri
Larry Robinson of Partners and Robinson is one of the Western New York's finest trainers in leadership development, team building and implementation strategies.  Larry brought the seminar to a close with methods for retention of the vast amount of material participants covered.  He conducted exercises in adapting new strategies to put the new material into practice.  Addressing the natural resistance to change, Larry  discussed the many ways of becoming better teachers and creating better students.

Schedule: This year's seminar will take place on two campuses simultaneously.  The following schedule is marked in Blue for Jamestown events and Green for Olean.

Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie County Schedule

 

Monday - All

Tuesday Paul B.

Wednesday Paul B.

Thursday Rick & Carol

Friday Rick & Carol

JULY

11 Tannenbaum Lodge

12 Quick Arts Center

13 Quick Arts Center

14 Quick Arts Center

15 Quick Arts Center

Topic

Program Introduction and Video @ Holiday Valley Creekside Lodge

International law & order in the Atlantic states system during the Age of Revolutions & early 19th century

Jackson, Nuremberg, International Law: Then and Now 0

American Foreign Policy: success and failures on hunger, energy and population

U.S. Foreign Policy 1830-1940

 

AM: Dr. Lee Formwalt, Rick Walters, Carol Shick  Paul Benson

AM: Dr. Peter Onuf University of Virginia

AM: Dr. John Q. Barrett St John University Law School

AM: Dr. James Lang Vanderbilt University

AM: Dr. Philip Payne St. Bonaventure University

Lunch

Holiday Valley

St. Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure

Topic

TAH Web Site, evaluation, payments, etc.

Cold War in American History, ideas and traditions in American foreign policy

Major Trends in United States History

Break Out Sessions

Terrorism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Olean

TBD

PM Dr. Jeremi Suri University of Wisconsin. at Madison

PM: Dr. Nick Onuf Florida International University

PM: Dr. Philip Payne St. Bonaventure University

PM: Dr. Ole Holsti Duke University

Week II

 

Monday All

Tuesday Paul B.

Wednesday Paul B.

Thursday Paul B.

Friday All

 

18 Chautauqua Inst.

19 STW Salamanca

20 Quick Arts Center

21 STW Salamanca

222 Yodeler  Lodge

Topic

Harm de Blij, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Michigan State University

Technology in small groups and budgets

 

Data Bases: Diane Crater

The United Nations and the Battle to Draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Technology

Sessions

 

See Attached

Larry Robinson

 

Addressing the Dynamics of Change in the Classroom

 

Bussed to site from St. Bon. 8:30 AM

AM: The Casey’s St. Bonaventure

AM: Dr. Allida Black George Washington U

AM: Various Instructors

Holiday Valley Creekside Lodge

Lunch

Chautauqua Inst.

Southern Tier West

St. Bonaventure

Southern Tier West

Holiday Valley

Topic

Hall of Philosophy

 

2:00 Lecture Robert Seiple, Institute for Global Engagement

Technology Library of Congress Video Conferences and Streaming & Media Net

Video

Studies and Historical Analysis

Technology

 

Technology Discussion Groups

Larry Robinson

 

 

Lunch Smith-Wilkes Hall

PM:  Rick Walters and Catt/Allegany BOCES

PM:  Dr. Jim Stephens Carlisle School, VA

PM:  TAH Teachers

Partners and Robinson

Chautauqua County Schedule

Location

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

JULY

11 Tannenbaum Lodge

12: JCC

13: JCC

14: JCC

15: JCC

Topic

Program Introduction and Video

 

Historiography

Major Trends in Unites States History

International law & order in the Atlantic states system during the Age of Revolutions & early 19th century

U.S. Foreign Policy 1830-1940

American Foreign Policy: success and failures on hunger, energy and population

Transportation from Jamestown to Holiday Valley.  JHS 8:00 AM

AM: Dr. Lee Formwalt, Rick Walters, Carol Shick  Paul Benson

AM: Dr. Nick Onuf

Florida International University

AM: Dr. Peter Onuf Univ. of Virginia

AM: Dr. Philip Payne St. Bonaventure University

AM: Dr. James Lang Vanderbilt University

Lunch

All

Rick and Carol

Rick and Carol

Paul & Phil

Paul

Topic

TAH Web Site, evaluation, payments, etc.

Jackson, Nuremberg, International Law: Then and Now

Cold War in American History, ideas and traditions in American foreign policy

Terrorism: Past and Present

Break Out Sessions

Jamestown

PM: Dr. Lee Formwalt, Rick Walters, Carol Shick, Paul Benson

PM:  Dr. John Q. Barrett of St. Johns University

PM: Dr. Jeremi Suri University of Wisconsin. at Madison

PM: Dr. Ole Holsti of Duke University

PM:  N/A

Week Two

Location

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

JULY

18: Chautauqua Inst.

19: JCC

20: JCC & JHS

21: JHS

22: Yodeler Lodge

Topic

Harm de Blij, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Michigan State Univ.

The United Nations and the Battle to Draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Technology

Dr. Nancy and Patrick Casey

 

Data Bases: Sue Bartle

Technology

 

Interactive Talk on Uses of Technology in the Classroom

Larry Robinson

 

Addressing Change

Jamestown

Chautauqua Institution

AM: Dr. Allida Black George Washington University

AM:  The Casey’s St. Bonaventure

AM: Rick Walters & Carol Shick, Jeff Kresge

AM:

Lunch

All

Rick and Carol

Rick and Carol

Rick and Carol

All

Topic

Chautauqua Institution

 

2:00 Lecture Robert Seiple, Institute for Global Engagement

Media Studies and Media Analysis

Technology

blogs

imovies

Hotlists/Webquests

Power Point

United Streaming.

Technology

 

Technology Discussion Groups by Grade Level

Larry Robinson

Jamestown

PM: Chautauqua

PM: Dr. Jim Stephens Carlisle School, VA

PM:  TAH Staff

PM:  : TAH Teachers

PM: 

Technology Sessions CAEW Cadre

Trainer

Southern Tier West

Time

Room

Nancy and Richard Casey of St. Bonaventure

 

Diane Crater

Technology in small groups and budgets

 

BOCES Data Bases

9:00-10:30

 

Whole Group

 

10:45-12:00

 

 

110 Teleconference Room (DL Lab)

 

Lunch

Time

 

Judy Graves LOC

 

Brian Edmister

Library of Congress Video Conferences             

United Streaming & Media Net

12:45-1:45

Groups switch

2:30-3:30

110 Teleconference Room (DL Lab)

 

Room 111

Technology Sessions Chautauqua Cadre

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