This PPT is designed for K-12 eudators who are interested in augmenting their study of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Through the use of award-winning author Thanhhai Lai's "Inside Out & Back Again," this presentation explores themes such as war, loss, immigration, alienation, prejudice, imperialism, assimilation, and diaspora, and offers teaching strategies and materials for various subjects and grade levels.
Resource Listing
Presentation Slides (e.g PowerPoint)
Intended Audience:
K-12
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
Nearly 2 million Vietnamese immigrants escaped to the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, many of them prospering in America's $8 billion nail economy. This PPT provides K-12 educators with a historical background of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and the diaspora to the United States and western Pennsylvania that followed in the 1970s and 80s in the hopes of creating new lives and opportunities for their families. Resources for the use of digital mapping to teach this history are also included in the PPT.
Ideally, the PPT should be accompanied by Adele Pham's documentary about the Vietnamese diaspora and multi-billion dollar nail industry, "Nailed It."
Intended Audience:
K-12
The theme of Globalizing Marginalized Voices is explored through the book Hunter School by Sakinu Ahronglong. This book shares Ahronglong's recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories from the perspective of an Indigenous Taiwanese man trying to reconnect with his lost tribal identity.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Post-Secondary
Curriculum ideas to use as a companion to viewing parts or all of Songs from the North, a film essay about North Korea directed by Soon-Mi Yoo.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Post-Secondary
Curriculum ideas to use as compantion to screening parts or all of The Missing Picture, by Cambodian-French filmmaker, Rithy Panh. Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his personal memories to revisit and recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed in the 1970s.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum component and interview is part of the Summer Screenshots series and accompanied the screening of the film Journey from the Fall, which tells the story of one Vietnamese family's struggle in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum component is part of the Summer Screenshots Series and was accompanied by the film, The Missing Picture, an autobiographical reflection of the director Rithy Panh's harrowing struggle and survival under the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge in 1970s Cambodia.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This PPT shares ways to teach about the topic of migration and diaspora through the true story of "To Swim Across the World" authors Frances and Ginger Park's parents Sei-Young and Heisook Park.
Video
Intended Audience:
9-12
This presentation was part of the 2021 Summer Institute for Global Studies and was recorded on July 28, 2021. Its length is 57:51.
Presenters:
- Lynn Kawaratani, Engagement Manager, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
- Cathy Fratto, Engagement Coordinator, Asian Studies Center
- Karen Lue, Manager, Global Hub
- Krista Stewart, K-5 Teacher, Banksville Elementary
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
The European Studies Center hosts several webinars each year called Conversations on Teaching Europe (CoTE). This virtual roundtable discussion was presented by Dr. Bernard Hagerty (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh) on October 16, 2015. Its length is 30:15.
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
A panel of experts from both sides of the Atlantic examines the potential impact of impending elections in both the U.S. and Europe and explores significant transnational trends in electoral politics, including the rise of populism and the polarization of the electorate as well as the increasing importance of issues related to immigration, the economy, and trade. How might the US elections in November 2016 impact European politics and the transatlantic relationship? What electoral contests in Europe are likely to have the greatest impact on the U.S.? This video is a part of Part of the European Studies Center's award-winning series of virtual roundtables. Its length is 1:17:29.
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
In January 2018, the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh invited faculty from two and four year institutions of higher education to attend a one-day workshop on internationalizing across the curriculum. For the past five years, UCIS has partnered with the Nine University and College International Studies Consortium in Georgia and with the Community College of Beaver County and other local community colleages to provide multidisciplinary faculty development workshops on incorporating global and international themes into syllabi. This workshop was the culmination of five years' worth of collaborations where the past participants of faculty development workshops gave presentations on how they globalized their classes.
Panel I: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Globalizing Institutional Curricula
Presenters: Rajgopal Sashti (Nine University and College International Studies Consortium/Middle Georgia State University), Lucia Gbaya-Kanga (Community College of Philadelphia), and Valerie Gray (Harrisburg Area Community College)
Panel II: Maximizing Limited Resources to Globalize History Curricula
Presenters: Bronson Long (Georgia Highlands College) and Brian Gurian (Harrisburg Area Community College)
Panel III: Globalizing Business Courses
Presenters: Denie Burks (Georgia Highlands College) and Jodi Carver (Community College of Beaver County)
Panel IV: Pedagogical Approaches to Infusing the Study of World Regions into the Curriculum
Presenters: Christopher Ward (Clayton State University) and Brad Maguth (University of Akron)
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
In Europe, the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. has struck a chord with some. Issues of procedural inequalities and police violence have been made more public in Black Lives Matter marches in cities throughout Europe. How does the movement in Europe differ from its American inspiration? How do issues of ethnicity and religion inform understandings of race in Europe? And what has been the response of authorities? This video is a part of Part of the European Studies Center's award-winning series of virtual roundtables. Its length is 1:07:41.
Intended Audience:
Post-Secondary
“Bridging Cultures with Community Colleges," a grant program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), was designed to support humanities education--and culture studies in particular--in our growing community colleges. Through this grant, University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) partnered with the Community College of Beaver County (CCBC) to internationalize CCBC’s curriculum.
To learn more about the program and access our open resources (including module plans, video recordings of curriculum development workshops, and participant reflections), please visit http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/outreach/postsecondary.
Intended Audience:
9-12
This presentation was part of the 2021 Summer Institute for Global Studies and was recorded on July 27, 2021. Its length is 1:03:24.
Presenter
- Dr. Drew Armstrong, Director of Architectural Studies and Associate Professor in the History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
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