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The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library offers free, week-long summer seminars for teachers. If you would like to spend a week in the beautiful Humanities and Social Sciences library exploring one of the topics below, please apply.
Summer Seminars for Elementary and Middle School Teachers Learning at the Library, K-12 Outreach at The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library, is offering the following seminar for elementary and middle school educators: My Neighborhood, Past & Present. Teachers will use the resources of The New York Public Library, especially the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division and the Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy, to create their own collection of historical photographs, restaurant menus, maps, aerial views, and other materials to trace the history of their schools' neighborhoods.
This two-week session will be offered two times this summer:
Option One: Monday, July 16 - Friday August 20, 2007
Option Two: Monday August 6 - Friday August 10, 2007
Time: 10:00 PM to 4:00 PM
A $300 stipend will be provided.
Location: We will meet at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, but will also arrange day trips to:
o The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
o Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
o Science, Industry and Business Library
More information and applications for the elementary/middle school seminars are available at:http://www.nypl.org/research/outreach/
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Summer Seminars for High School Teachers
The Cullman Center for Scholars and writers is offering the following free seminars for high school educators:
Border Crossings: Contemporary Latin-American and Latino Literature
Monday, July 9 – Friday, July 13 Carmen Boullosa (Cullman Fellow 2001-2002), is an award-winning writer and the author of a dozen novels, including They're Cows, We're Pigs; Leaving Tabasco; and Cleopatra Dismounts. Her plays have been staged to popular success in her native Mexico, and she has also published numerous volumes of poetry and book-length collaborations with artists. Boullosa currently serves as CUNY's Distinguished Lecturer at City College in the Foreign Languages Department.
Livin’ in the City”: An Introduction to African-American Migration Literature
Monday, July 16 to Friday, July 20 Farah Jasmine Griffin (Cullman Fellow
2006-2007) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she teaches African American literature, music (including a seminar on Billie Holiday), history and politics. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College. Her books include If You Can't Be Free Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday; Who Set You Flowin'?: The African American Migration Narrative; and the forthcoming Miles Davis and John Coltrane (tentative title).
More information and applications for the High School seminars are available at: www.nypl.org/csw .
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