Medieval Arabic sources are replete with stories about Muslims traveling far and wide. The abundance of such examples tempts one to believe that these traveling individuals created and maintained the pan-Islamic cultural commonwealth. Yet the Islamic written legacy is so vast that drawing decisive conclusions that traveling was indeed as widespread as our sources suggest is hardly possible.

Li Xi, IISE Visiting Scholar, Chongqing University of Science and
Technology, China ­

Shao Linna, IISE Visiting Scholar, Chongqing
University of Science and Technology, China Mapping Education Reform in Taiwan from 1994 to 2013: A Social Cartography Critique ­

Lee Feng-Jihu, IISE Visiting Scholar, National Chung Cheng University,
Taiwan

USA Education in Iraq During War, Sanction, and Democracy ­
-Hossein Yaroub, IISE Visiting Scholar, Professor, Baghdad University,

Iraq challenges to create and establish a national Department of Health
Promotion Within the Turkish Ministry of Health: How to Promote Good
Health in Turkey?
-Carl I. Fertman, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA

In the second of the spring series on integrating literature into a social studies or history curriculum, this workshop will focus on a Small Place. This novel is part fictional and part autobiographical published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. The work is an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourist industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy. After experiencing a frustrating and complex childhood, Kincaid expresses her opinions about Antigua, a small Caribbean island. The book can be viewed as composed of two parts.

This one credit mini-course is part of a series organized by regions around the world based on their role on the world stage, their importance within the Muslim world, and the critical influence they play in the global community. The series and course seeks to illuminate the various perspectives of the Muslim community around the world.

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.

Filmmaker Sam Bozzo examines the growing battle over control of the global water supply in the documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars. The film examines how major corporations and financial institutions are buying up territories where large water supplies can be found, the fight to protect the Great Lakes, allegations that one of the world's most powerful political families is attempting to corner the market on water in Paraguay, and what ordinary citizens can do to keep the water supply free and shared fairly by all.

The eighth edition of the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival is dedicated to the legacy of world-renowned filmmaker, psychologist, and Carnegie Mellon professor, Paul Goodman, and to his professional focus on the human challenges and achievements of diverse groups of workers worldwide.

Presenter: Shruti Rana, Associate Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Discussant: Michael J. Madison, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law