Istanbul Between East and West: Crossroads to History

FAIN: ES-50554-14

Regents of the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093-0013)
Matthew T. Herbst (Project Director: March 2014 to May 2016)

A three-week institute in Istanbul for twenty-five middle and high school teachers, exploring the history of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and modern Turkey.

The University of California San Diego's Making of the Modern World (MMW), a general education world history program, proposes a three-week Summer Institute in Istanbul (Sunday July 5, 2015 to Saturday July 26, 2015), to provide 25 middle-and high-school social studies teachers a better understanding of a city and region that has long functioned as a critical crossroad of regional and world history. The Institute uses Istanbul as an intellectual point of departure to explore the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and modern Turkey. The Institutes's program situates this history in the larger context of the Mediterranean and Middle East and in the even broader framework of world history with its emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and global comparisons.