[Tlc] TLC-summer institute

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI.
Thanks,
justin

See below for a great opportunity for K-16 educators.  Please not that this is NOT an AEMS program; please direct all inquiries to Julia Lamb [jlamb at niu.edu].

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Tanya Lee
Program Director
Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS)
Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, MC-025
Urbana, IL  61801
TEL: 217-265-0642 or 888-828-AEMS
FAX: 217-265-0641
tanyalee at uiuc.edu
www.aems.uiuc.edu
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From: JULIA LAMB [jlamb at niu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:33 PM
To: JULIA LAMB
Subject: Southeast Asia Summer Institute: Genocide and Human Rights,    June 21-23, 2009; NIU, DeKalb

Register Now!

Spaces are filling up for the Southeast Asia Summer Institute: Genocide and Human Rights, June 21-23, 2009 at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb campus. The institute begins with dinner and a keynote speaker at 6 PM on Sunday, June 21 and finishes Tuesday, June 23 at 3 PM.

For the first 20 registrants, we will pay ALL EXPENSES except transportation to and from DeKalb.  We ask that you pay the $65 registration fee which will be returned to you in a stipend upon completion of the institute.  Other expenses covered include room and board (double occupancy), materials, and CPDUs for current K-12 Illinois educators.

All K-16 educators are welcome to attend - resource and curriculum materials will focus on the middle/high school/community college levels.

Highlights of the institute will include keynote speaker and institute presenter, Professor Nancy Lutz.  Professor Lutz who is an anthropology professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville has done extensive work in the first new sovereign state of the 21st century, East Timor.

Also highlighted at the institute will be a public showing with discussion of the new documentary film, "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy."  Directed by anthropologist Robert Lemelson and edited by two-time Academy Award winner Pietro Scalia, "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy" is a moving feature length documentary film about one of the most horrific chapters in Indonesia's history.
For more information on the film, see http://www.40yearsofsilence.com/

For more information on the institute, see the web at www.cseas.niu.edu/outreach/ghri2009 or contact Julie Lamb at jlamb at niu.edu or 815/753-1595.

The institute is sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, the Genocide and Human Rights Summer Institute and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Northern Illinois University.  Major funding for this institute comes from the U. S. Department of Education, Title VI, National Resource Center Grants. 

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu