Additional PIER Summer Institutes for 2008

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Yale University’s Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) will sponsor several institutes during July 2008.  The PIER institutes are intensive, interdisciplinary programs which include lectures and seminars by leading scholars and experts from Yale and other institutions, films, workshops, field trip and site visits, hands-on cultural activities, teaching resource and strategy sessions, and sessions on technological resources for teaching about different areas of the world.  Information on all of the 2008 PIER Summer Institutes can be found online at www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes.htm. 

Center for the Teaching of French:  Immersion Program “French West Africa Focus on Senegal” – June 21-23
PIER European Studies/Yale-Hopkins Summer Seminar 2008:  “Europe: Past or Future?” – July 7-11
PIER Latin American and Iberian Studies:  “The Southern Cone” – July 7-12
PIER African Studies:  “The Teaching of Africa” – July 7-18

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