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9 am - “Using Online Materials to Teach German at Various Levels”
Professor Richard Korb, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University
10 am - “New Approaches to International/Global History”
Professor Volker Berghahn, History Department, Columbia University
11 am - “Europe after the Treaty of Lisbon”
Philippe Lalliot, Consul-General of France in New York
12 pm - Lunch and discussion
1 pm - “Using Inexpensive Technology in the Classroom”
Bill Koulopoulis, Insrtuctional Technologist, Language Resource Center, Columbia University
2 pm Wrap-up and discussion
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Bill Koulopoulos
Bill Koulopoulos helps Columbia faculty integrate technology in the
curriculum, and create pedagogically sound applications of technology
in the classroom. He has taught English as a Second Language for
thirteen years, including six years at Columbia, and has participated
in curriculum design projects in Canada and the US. He has an MA in
Instructional Design and Media and he is currently a doctoral student
in the Communication and Education program at Teachers College,
Columbia University.
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Richard Korb
R. A. Korb holds a Ph. D., Germanic Literature (University of
Pittsburgh, 1988) and has been teaching at Columbia since 1994. As
Senior Lecturer and German Language Program Director, he specializes in
pedagogy and teacher training, regularly offering elementary,
intermediate, and advanced German courses for undergraduates. Since
1997 he has taught a popular course on Berlin, developing video and web
materials entitled "Berlin-Berlin."
He is author of the Jannach's German for Reading Knowledge (Heinle/Cengage, 2009)
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Volker R. Berghahn
Volker Berghahn,
Seth Low Professor of History, specializes in modern German history and
European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University
of North Carolina , Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the
University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before
coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His
publications include: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); and most recently Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006).
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Philippe Lalliot
Mr. Philippe Lalliot took up the post of Consul General of France in New York on August 26, 2009.
Philippe Lalliot, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration
(1996) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, passed
the high-level examination in Social Sciences. He holds degrees from
Sciences-Po Paris in Administration and from the Sorbonne University in
French Literature and Civilization.
Appointed Foreign Affairs Advisor in 1996, he worked in the Foreign
Ministry’s Legal Affairs Department until 1999, when he was seconded to
the Prime Minister’s office.
In 2001, he was named First Secretary at the French Embassy in
Washington, DC, and in 2005, Second Counselor to France’s Permanent
Mission to the European Union in Brussels. In 2006, he returned to the
Quai d’Orsay, where he served on the staff of the Secretary-General.
In August 2009, he assumed his duties as France’s Consul General in New York.
Philippe Lalliot has been a lecturer at Sciences-Po and ENA.
He is married and has three children.
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