2005 SUMMER INSTITUTE
Istanbul and Bodrum, Turkey
May 27 - June 3, 2005
Photos courtesy of: www.ankahotel.com and www.enka.nl/bodrum/anka.htm
Turkey at the Crossroads:
Women, Women's Studies, and the States
Sponsored by the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women
Karen Dugger, Director
in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University (link below).
www.gws.metu.edu.tr
Institute Highlights
About Turkey
PRIOR INSTITUTES
2003 Zagreb and Porec, Croatia
Photos courtesy of: http://www.bigfoto.com/Sites/galery/croatia/
Zagreb and Porec, Croatia on Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Nation in Post-Socialist Societies and the United States
Croatia stretches along the Adriatic coast. The country borders Slovenia, Hungary, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and Bosnia Herzegovina. The country's landscape ranges from small villages in the interior to the dramatic Dalmatian coastline. Zagreb, the economic, cultural and administrative heart of the region, sits prominently on the River Sava. Porec is located in the North in Istria, the biggest peninsula in the Adriatic. Istria is the part of the Mediterranean closest to Central Europe and located almost directly across from Venice which is easily accessible by boat (about a 2 hour boat ride)
In the 2nd century B.C. the roman Castrum was built on a peninsula where the town of Porec is situated today. During the rule of Octavian it was transformed into a city and in the first century proclaimed to be the Colonia Iulia Parentium. After the fall of the Roman Empire different rulers followed one another: Goths, Byzantines, Franks. Late in the 6th century Odoacars and Croats invaded this area and settled around Porec as early as 620. In centuries to come Istria and Porec were ruled by Lombardy, Frank, more then five hundred years by Venice, then Napoleon and Austria, when Porec became the capital of Istria . For a quarter of century Istria was under the rule of Italy and finally in 1943 it was united with Croatia. For more information, see http://www.istra-1.com/porec/eng/hotel.html.
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2000 & 2001 BARBADOS INSTITUTES
Barbados Summer Institute on Curriculum Transformation
Barbados: A Few Facts
Visited temporarily by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the early sixteenth century, Barbados was settled by the British in 1627 and is the only former Caribbean colony that never changed hands. It won independence in 1966 but continues to have a British flavor with some referring to it as the ‘Little England’ of the Caribbean.
Barbados is a coastal community of beaches, coral reefs, tide pools, cliffs, and underground lakes and caves, and it is the eastern most island of the West Indies with a total area of 166 sq. miles, about 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC. The capital and largest city is Bridgetown. Barbados is home to many indigenous and migratory species of wildlife, birds, and mammals, including the endangered green turtles. The average annual temperature is 79 degrees Fahrenheit. The official currency is BD$ (2BD$ = 1US$).
With more than 600 people per square kilometer, Barbados is one of the world’s most densely populated nations. Tourism has steadily increased its share of the island’s economy, which traditionally was dependent on sugarcane products such as refined sugar, molasses, and rum. Newly discovered petroleum and natural gas reserves are also being exploited. Barbados has a literacy rate of 97%. According to the United Nations, its human development index is the highest among middle income developing countries; and its gender-related development index, eleventh in the world, is higher than that of many industrial countries.
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