This conference examined issues in the relations of the Iberian world with the Middle East, featuring presentations focusing on comparative, cultural, and political studies of Spain, Latin America, and the Middle East, and provided educators of grades 7-12 with information and material for building unit lessons on the Middle East.
School teachers from the University of Puerto Rico High School and the Puerto Rican Public School System, as well as undergraduate students from the University of Puerto Rico’s College of Education, and teachers from Michigan were invited to attend the symposium. The event was broadcasted live on the internet so that teachers who could not attend in person were able to participate in the discussions. The broadcast was made available through the Galileo website, a broadcasting system developed by University of Puerto Rico professors.
This conference was sponsored by the Centers for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan and the Colleges of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education at the University of Puerto Rico.
Featured Speakers
JUAN COLE, Professor of History, University of Michigan
JUAN F. CARABALLO-RESTO, Professor of Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico
Islamic Fundamentalism Across Cultures: Entanglements of Discourse, Agency and Power
SERGIO I. MOYA-MENA, Professor of Political Science, University of Costa Rica
Central America and the Middle East: Separated by Distance, Connected by History