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Two-Day Workshops

Writing to Read: Reading History / Writing Memory: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (May 5-6, 2006)

Writing to Read: Creative Nonfiction: Mountains Beyond Mountains: Dr. Paul Farmer and the Quest to Cure the World of Infectious Disease (May 5-6, 2006)

Writing and Thinking (May 2-4, 2008)

Writing to Learn (May 2-4, 2008)

Fictions: Memory and Imagination (May 2-4, 2008)

Poetry for Today’s Classrooms (May 2-4, 2008)

Thinking Historically through Writing: Abraham Lincoln and Race (May 2-4, 2008)

Poetry: Reading, Writing, Teaching (December 7-9, 2007)

Teaching the Academic Paper (December 7-9, 2007)

NEW Revolutionary Grammar (December 7-9, 2007)

Reading India’s Ancient Texts through Contemporary Indian Politics (December 7-9, 2007)

Writing and Thinking (May 4-6, 2007)

Reading Narratives in Four Religious Traditions (May 4-6, 2007)

Poetry for Today’s Classrooms (May 4-6, 2007)

Learning through Listening: An Inquiry (May 4-6, 2007)

Writing to Read Scientific Texts (May 4-6, 2007)

Fictions: Memory and Imagination (December 8-10, 2006)

NEW: Reading Human Rights (December 8-10, 2006)

Writing to Learn (December 8-10, 2006)

Writing & Thinking (May 5-7, 2006)

Fictions: Memory and Imagination (May 5-7, 2006)

Poetry: Reading, Writing, Teaching (May 5-7, 2006)

Writing to Learn (May 5-7, 2006)

Writing from and about the Natural World (May 5-7, 2006)

Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: A Workshop on Assessment (May 5-7, 2006)

Writing and Thinking (December 2-4, 2005)

Fictions: Memory and Imagination (December 2-4, 2005)

NEW Teaching about Human Rights: Case Studies for the Classroom (December 2-4, 2005)

Thinking Historically through Writing (December 2-4, 2005)

The Modality Is the Message: Incorporating Writing into Classroom Practice (December 2-4, 2005)

Learning through Listening: An Inquiry (December 2-4, 2005)

Writing to Read Scientific Texts: What Is Evolution? The Current Status of Evolutionary Theory (December 2-4, 2005)

NEW July in December: Applying Institute Writing Practices (for past participants of July weeklong workshops) (December 2-4, 2005)

Writing and Thinking (May 6-8, 2005)

Poetry for Today's Classrooms (May 6-8, 2005)

Reading and Writing Nature (May 6-8, 2005)

Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: A Workshop on Assessment (May 6-8, 2005)

Writing to Learn (May 6-8, 2005)

Writing to Read Scientific Texts:Tuberculosis: The Biology behind the Disease (May 6-8, 2005)

NEW Listening: Using the Ear as a Learning Tool (December 3-5, 2004)

NEW The Modality Is the Message: Incorporating Writing into Classroom Practice (December 3-5, 2004)

Fictions: Memory and Imagination (December 3-5, 2004)

Writing and Thinking (December 3-5, 2004)

Poetry: Reading, Writing, Teaching (December 3-5, 2004)

CANCELLED! Writing to Read Historical Fiction: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (July 6-11, 2008)

Writing and Thinking (July 6-11, 2008)

Inquiry into Essay (July 6-11, 2008)

CANCELLED! Reading Narratives in Four Religious Traditions (July 6-11, 2008)

Poetry for Today’s Classrooms (July 6-11, 2008)

Fiction from the Inside Out (July 6-11, 2008)

Thinking Through Narrative: (Narrative: Thoughts of the Other) (July 6-11, 2008)

Writing Retreat for Teachers (July 6-11, 2008)

CANCELLED! Reading Narratives in Four Religious Traditions (July 8-13, 2007)

Writing and Thinking (July 8-13, 2007)

Fiction from the Inside Out (July 8-13, 2007)

Thinking through Narrative (July 8-13, 2007)

Poetry for Today’s Classrooms (July 8-13, 2007)

NEW FOCUS: Thinking Historically through Writing (July 8-13, 2007)

Writing to Learn (July 8-13, 2007)

Inquiry into Essay (July 8-13, 2007)

NEW: Reading Narratives in Four Religious Traditions (July 9-14, 2006)

Writing and Thinking (July 9-14, 2006)

Inquiry into Essay (July 9-14, 2006)

NEW: Fiction from the Inside Out (July 9-14, 2006)

Writing Retreat for Teachers (July 9-14, 2006)

Thinking through Narrative (July 9-14, 2006)

Poetry for Today’s Classrooms (July 9-14, 2006)

Poetry for Today's Classrooms (July 10-15, 2005)

Reading and Writing Nature (July 10-15, 2005)

Poetry: Reading, Writing, Teaching (July 10-15, 2005)

Writing and Thinking II (July 10-15, 2005)

Thinking through Narrative (July 10-15, 2005)

Poetry in Practice (July 10-15, 2005)

Writing to Learn (July 10-15, 2005)

Writing and Thinking (July 10-15, 2005)

Writing to Read: Texts on Memory and Identity (July 10-15, 2005)

Writing Retreat for Teachers (July 10-15, 2005)

Writer as Reader: Workshops on Literary Texts (November 5-5, 2004)

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“A snapping inside”: Things Fall Apart and Purple Hibiscus (November 7, 2008)

Telling War Stories: Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried and Yusef Komunyakaa, Dien Cai Dau (November 7, 2008)

“Spots of Time”: Wordsworth’s “The Prelude” (1799) and Lowell’s “Life Studies/For the Union Dead” (November 7, 2008)

Would you hand a 12-year old boy an AK-47? Approaching the Problem of Child Soldiers: Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone and Dave Eggers’s What is the What (November 7, 2008)

Writing with Teachers: King Lear and The Book of Job (November 7, 2008)

WRITING A WAY BACK IN: Meredith Hall’s “Shunned” & Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No-Name Woman” (November 7, 2008)

Star-crossed Lovers: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Junot Díaz’s “The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.” (November 7, 2008)

Looking for Robinson Crusoe: Text-Connecting with Defoe (November 9, 2007)

The Ethics, Art, and Politics of Documentary Film: Reading Hubert Sauper’s Darwin’s Nightmare (November 9, 2007)

Writing to Read: Genesis (November 9, 2007)

Living in the Attic: Reconsidering Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (November 9, 2007)

Blurring the Line: Poetry and Essay (November 9, 2007)

Teaching Contemporary Popular Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (November 9, 2007)

Biography as Literary and Historical Text: Mark Lytle, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring and the Rise of the Environmental Movement (November 9, 2007)

Presidential Rhetoric and the Craft of Revision: Abraham Lincoln’s speeches and Douglas Wilson’s Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (November 9, 2007)

Close Reading and “Truth” in Dramatic Texts: Richard Wright’s Native Son and Angelina Grimke’s Rachel. (November 9, 2007)

Exploring the Ethics of Argument: Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (November 10, 2006)

Bringing Voice to Text: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (November 10, 2006)

Ideas about Self and Race: Langston Hughes, Limitations of Life (one-act play) and Brent Staples, (essay) “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” (November 10, 2006)

Ancient and Contemporary: The Odyssey and Louise Glück’s Meadowlands (November 10, 2006)

Loyalty and Honor in Sophocles’ Antigone and the stories of Tim O’Brien (November 10, 2006)

Writing across Boundaries: Salman Rushdie’s story collection East, West (November 10, 2006)

Reading Documentary Film: Fact and Fiction in Nathaniel Kahn’s My Architect: A Son’s Journey and Spike Lee’s Four Little Girls (November 10, 2006)

What the Nanny Knows: Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (November 10, 2006)

Memoirs of Immigration: Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation, and Luis Urrea, Nobody’s Son (November 10, 2006)

Looking at War: The Seeing Eye and the Writing I (November 4, 2005)

Secret Keepers and Home Wreckers: Alice Munro's novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and Joyce Carol Oates's essay 'They All Just Went Away' (November 4, 2005)

Writer as Reader Workshop: Abused Ears and Charmed Tongues: Reading and Hearing Shakespeare's Othello (November 4, 2005)

Taking Back the Island: The Tempests of Shakespeare and Aimé Césaire (November 4, 2005)

Making Cultural Connections: Ha Jin's "The Bridegroom" (November 4, 2005)

Reading History / Writing Memory: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (November 4, 2005)

Objects and Ideas in Drama and Essay: Susan Glaspell's drama Triflesand Mary Gordon's essay "Still Life" (November 4, 2005)

Beyond Mountains Beyond Mountains: Dr. Paul Farmer and the Quest to Cure the World of Infectious Disease (November 4, 2005)

What the Lover Knows: Plato, The Symposium, and Vivian Gornick, The End of the Novel of Love (November 4, 2005)

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