TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP PROGRAM on TURKEY

March 30, 2012

DRAFTAGENDA

Portland, Maine

8:00 amRegistration and Turkish Breakfast

Welcome by the World Affairs Council of Maine

Recognition of WACA and TCF as co-sponsors

Showing of Broad Horizons, A Documentary on the Teacher Study Tours to Turkey,

with comments from teachers who traveled to Turkey in 2011(not confirmed)

Break

The Ottoman Empire: its origins and successor, Turkish nationalism

Professor FilizOtucu, Ph.D., Plymouth State University

Cultural Program / Lunch

Lunch of Turkish cuisine provided by the Mediterranean Grill

Turkey and her Region: Challenges and Opportunities; Turkish-US Relations

AykutKilinc

Bringing Turkey to the Classroom

Using Justin McCarthy’s Lesson, “Turkish Society.”

Group Discussion

Interactive wrap-up

By attending the workshop and based upon the presentations and materials provided, what three impressions and insights will the teachers take away with them.

3:30 pmEnd

This program is sponsored by the Turkish Cultural Foundation,

in cooperation with the World Affairs Councils of America

FilizOtucu is an associate professor of Political Science at Plymouth State University where she specializes in International Relations, the Middle Eastern Politics, and the United Nations. Dr. Otucu received her Ph.D. (2004) from the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, her M.A. (1995) from University of Central Oklahoma and her B.A.in International Relations from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Otucu teaches courses on politics and conflict in the Middle East, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Political Islamic Fundamentalism as well as a course called “Model United Nations.” She has conducted field research in Black Sea and South-Eastern regions of Turkey, looking at the causes of severe-ethnic violence between the Turks and the Kurds and lack of it between the Turks and the Lazes. She has led student delegations to different parts of the world, including Puebla (Mexico), the Hague (the Netherland), Taipei (Taiwan), Quito (Ecuador), and Singapore. Finally, Dr. Otucu advises PSU Model UN student organization, and with her students, every Spring, hosts a High School Model UN Conference at PSU Campus.

AykutKilinc was born in Turkey and earned his BA degree in history from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 2000. He came to the United States and completed an M.A. degree in history at the University of New Hampshire in 2006. Aykut's thesis dealt with Turkish-American relations during the 1920s. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at UNH writing a dissertation on U.S. foreign policy towards Cyprus during the 1960s and the 1970s. He has taught various courses at UNH on the history of the U.S. and its foreign relations, and the Middle East.