Announcing our Latest Workshop: Bringing the Natural Environment into Teaching History
I'm pleased to announce PHE's upcoming workshop "Bringing the Natural Environment into Teaching History: Nature and Culture in the History of the Americas." This workshop will invite teachers to explore ways in which the natural environment and human cultures shape the landscapes in which they live. Through lectures and discussions we will highlight the integration of nature and culture in the historical processes that communities remember and share in their sense of identity. This workshop will allow us to design teaching methods that help our students heighten their awareness of nature as an historical actor, of the dialectical relations between nature and culture, and of the central place of the environment in the exercise of power. Illustrative examples will lead workshop participants to consider comparative borderlands and their environments in different geographical and political regions of the Americas.
Dr. Cynthia Radding will lead this workshop. Dr. Radding is the Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of History at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She specializes in colonial borderlands, with an emphasis on the environment, culture, society, and indigenous peoples. Her latest works, Wandering Peoples and Landscapes of Power and Identity explore these themes in a comparative perspective for Latin America and the United States.
The workshop will be held on Saturday, May 2nd from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence located off of Seawell School Road near Smith Middle School in Chapel Hill. There is ample parking at this facility. Click here for directions.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please indicate in your registration email if you have any dietary restrictions.
This workshop is free to the public. Attendees can receive 0.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits. Please see download our flyer for more information.
Please let your colleagues know about our workshop by pointing them to this blog entry or sending them our flyer.
To register for this workshop, please respond by April 27th to phe [at] unc [dot] edu.