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2007 Summer Seminar

July 9-18, 2007

"Struggles for Justice: Civil Rights in United States History.

 

The 2006 EIGHT day summer seminar schedule included:

 

 

Opening Day: The Honorable Richard Lowell Nygaard, United States Circuit Judge for the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit started off the seminar with a talk on the Constitution and its Foundations.

He was followed by Dr. Peter Onuf who discussed the history of the construction of the Constitution in relation to Europe and the North Atlantic Political System developing at that time.  Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia.   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 collaborated 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. 

Day Two Dr. Paul Finkelman of the Albany Law School will cover the Constitutional Issues facing Civil Rights today.

Prior to accepting a position at Albany Law School, Paul Finkelman was Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law since 1999. He was previously the John F. Seiberling Professor of Law at the University of Akron Law School and has taught at the Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Hamline Law School, the University of Miami, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Brooklyn Law School, SUNY Binghamton, and the University of Texas at Austin.

A specialist in American legal history, race and the law, Finkelman is the author and editor of numerous articles and books. He was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago. He has published extensively and was the chief expert witness in the Alabama Ten Commandments monument case. His work on the religion and legal history is cited in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court involving this issue.

Paul Finkelman

Day Three: Dr. Douglas Monroy covered the history of Civil Rights for Hispanics and Latinos.  He is professor of history at the Colorado College. He is the author of Thrown among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (1990), winner of the OAH James Rawley Prize, and Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression (1999). He has recently a book of essays on a variety of topics including the missions of California, the novel Ramona, American liberalism and Mexico, and NAFTA and immigration.

Douglas Monroy

Day Four Dr. Chuck McDew of Metropolitan State University and Civil Rights leader discussed his experiences during the movement.  Materials from the Teaching Tolerance curriculum will be demonstrated.  McDew, the national chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was beaten, jailed, and charged with criminal anarchy for encouraging Black citizens to vote. In the South, in Mississippi, especially, where police colluded so readily with vigilantes, that was even punishable by death.
 

Day Five:
  • Opened with introduction lecture by Becky Bowen of the Seneca Nation Archive leading into film “Lands of our Ancestors”.  Each teacher will receive a DVD of the film.  Break.
  • Panel discussion moderated by Todd Waite, Seneca Nation Education Department Director:  Panel Rob Odawi Porter J.D., Professor and Director of The Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship at Syracuse University Law School and former Seneca Attorney General; Justin Schapp, Seneca Kinzua Dam Project Coordinator; Becky Bowen, Seneca Archivist; Dennis Bowen Sr., former Seneca Nation President.  Topics:
    • Current Political, Taxation and Legal issues
    • Sovereignty
    • Language
    • Ethnographic Stereotypes

The panel held an open discussion led by Todd Waite covering these topics and was open to the teachers to for questions and answers. 

Day Six:
  • General historical overview of Iroquois history and culture.  The day was planned by the Seneca Education Team opening with talk on Seneca culture and overview of the larger issues surrounding tribal political and clan structure.  Possible speaker is Dr. Don Grinde of the University of Buffalo American Studies Department: 
  • Seneca Youth Dancers demonstrated dances.
  • Samples of various traditional dishes at lunch.
  • Afternoon workshops on various Seneca and Iroquois traditions.

 

Day Seven: Dr. Allida M. Black of George Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. history from The George Washington University in 1993. Dr. Black is Project Director and Editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project, the first phase of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, an annotated collection of Eleanor Roosevelt’s writings as well as audio and video discussions of human rights and democratic politics.

 

Dr. Black covered the history of woman's rights in U.S. History including the transition of those rights at Independence, the suffrage movement, 19th amendment through the current day. 

 

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Day Eight:  

Morning with specialists Dr. Peggy Overbey and Dr. Joseph Jones from the "RACE: Are we so Different?" website developed by the American Anthropological Assoc.  Session on the broad use of the site and particular classroom applications therein. 

Dale Van Eck Colonial Williamsburg 4-8: Colonial Life in hyperspace.  Dale covered the education website and the games and simulations therein.

Rick Bates Student Guide for U.S. History 11-12: will make a presentation on his new student guide.

RACE - Are We So Different?

 

 

Week I

Day

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

9

10

11

12

13

Topic

Opening on the Constitution and its Foundations

Judge Richard Nygaard

Constitutional Issues facing Civil Rights Today

Hispanic and Latino Rights & Bi-Nationalism

Civil Rights Movement

 

Teaching Tolerance Materials

Iroquois Sovereignty Issues Workshops

“Land of Our Ancestors” Film

 

Dr.  Peter Onuf University of Virginia

Dr. Paul Finkelman Albany School of Law

Dr. Douglas Monroy Colorado College

Dr. Chuck McDew Metropolitan State University

 

 

Dr. Rob Porter

Todd Waite

Jare Cardinal

Dennis Bowen

Justin Schapp

Rick Hill

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topic

 

Lecture & Discussion on Curriculum Applications

Lecture & Discussion on Curriculum Applications

Lecture & Discussion on Curriculum Applications

Lecture & Discussion on Curriculum Applications

Location:

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Week II

Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

16

17

18

19

20

Topic

Indigenous Peoples

 

 

History of the Women’s Movement in the U.S.

Race Website:      Dr. Peggy OverBey & Joseph Jones

American Anthropological Assoc.

 

 

 

 

Introduction to the Seneca Nation

Becky Bowen & Rick Jemison

Seneca Nation's  Education and Archives Dept.

Dr. Allida Black

George Washington University

LUNCH

Dale Van Eck Colonial Williamsburg Elementary

American Revolution Live MS

Rick Bates Student Guide for U.S. History HS

 

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Topic

 

Lecture & Discussion on Curriculum Applications

Finale

 

 

 

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

Cutco Theater

JCC Olean Campus

 

 

Directions to JCC Olean's Cutco Theater

Park in the back Lot A

Olean JCC Map

 

 

 

 

 
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