July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER πŸ—“

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER πŸ—“

Additional Course Offer – Summer Term 2018

for M.A./M.Ed. and advanced B.A./B.Ed. students
Cultural Studies IV and V

For course registration and further information, please contact Dr. Sonja Georgi.

Interdisciplinary Workshop

“History of United States Indian Law and Policy”
Prof. Lindsay G. Robertson (University of Oklahoma)
Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law
July 9-12, P 108

This course will trace the development and political and cultural impact of British colonial and United States policy towards indigenous peoples in North America from the Seventeenth Century through the present day. Among other topics, we will explore Treaty-making, Indian Removal, the Reservation System, late-Nineteenth Century Assimilation and Allotment, mid-Twentieth Century Indian Reorganization, and modern Tribal Self-Determination.

You can find the workshop poster here.

Jan 12-14 – 3-day Workshop on Narrative Medicine πŸ—“

Jan 12-14 – 3-day Workshop on Narrative Medicine πŸ—“

“Narrative Medicine Workshop”

3-day workshop organized by faculty members of the Obama Institute and Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program
January 12-14, 2018, Alte Mensa (rechte Aula)

 

This intensive weekend workshop, organized together with core faculty from Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program, offers rigorous skill-building in narrative competence. Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation and reflective reasoning. Small group seminars offer first-hand experience in close-reading, reflective writing, and autobiographical exercises. Participants will receive a packet of readings prior to the week- end that will include seminar articles in the filed of narrative medicine by leading educators. The target audience is health care professionals and scholars in- terested in narrative medicine.

The plenary lectures are open to the public. The small group seminars are reserved for registered workshop participants.

 

For more information see the workshop poster and the workshop schedule.