What do your students know about the country of KURDISTAN, in northern IRAQ and the Kurdish people???
Nashville, Tennessee (home for the Vanderbilt Virtual School) became a “city of refuge” in the United States for the Kurds in 1990, and Nashville now has the largest Kurdish community in the United States, numbering approximately 12,000 people.
Come and find out more about KURDISTAN on WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009 as our Windows on the World series spotlights the country of KURDISTAN, in northern IRAQ.
KURDISTAN Lesson Plan: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/windowsontheworld/kurdistan.htm
REGISTER for VIDEOCONFERENCE: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
Come join this videoconference as we take a virtual tour and learn about KURDISTAN and meet
some Kurds living in Nashville.
KURDISTAN as a country on a map was erased from the world's maps after World War I when the Allied Powers carved up the Middle East and denied the Kurds a nation-state. More than twenty million Kurds live in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Throughout the 20th century their struggles for political and cultural autonomy were opposed by the region's countries, and the Kurds were often used as pawns in regional politics.
A largely Sunni Muslim people with their own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria – a mountainous region of southwest Asia generally known as Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds"). The Kurds have been subjugated by neighboring peoples for most of their history. In modern times, Kurds have tried to set up independent states in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, but their efforts have been crushed every time. After centuries of invaders, the Kurdish people remain unconquered and unassimilated. The geopolitics of the oil and water rich region inhabited by Kurds keeps the fractionalized countries constantly in ethnic conflict. Kurdistan, "the land of Kurds", is an extensive plateau and mountainous area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by Kurds and encompasses the Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.
Time: 9:00 and 10:00 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Targeted Audience: students in grades 5-12
Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then 15-20 minute Q & A
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu
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YOU MAY ALSO REGISTER FOR ARCHIVED STREAMING OF ANY VIDEOCONFERENCE SESSIONS at:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registrationstreaming.htm
Archived Streaming is “on demand” any day and any time of the day!
Nashville, Tennessee (home for the Vanderbilt Virtual School) became a “city of refuge” in the United States for the Kurds in 1990, and Nashville now has the largest Kurdish community in the United States, numbering approximately 12,000 people.
Come and find out more about KURDISTAN on WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009 as our Windows on the World series spotlights the country of KURDISTAN, in northern IRAQ.
KURDISTAN Lesson Plan: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/windowsontheworld/kurdistan.htm
REGISTER for VIDEOCONFERENCE: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
Come join this videoconference as we take a virtual tour and learn about KURDISTAN and meet
some Kurds living in Nashville.
KURDISTAN as a country on a map was erased from the world's maps after World War I when the Allied Powers carved up the Middle East and denied the Kurds a nation-state. More than twenty million Kurds live in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Throughout the 20th century their struggles for political and cultural autonomy were opposed by the region's countries, and the Kurds were often used as pawns in regional politics.
A largely Sunni Muslim people with their own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria – a mountainous region of southwest Asia generally known as Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds"). The Kurds have been subjugated by neighboring peoples for most of their history. In modern times, Kurds have tried to set up independent states in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, but their efforts have been crushed every time. After centuries of invaders, the Kurdish people remain unconquered and unassimilated. The geopolitics of the oil and water rich region inhabited by Kurds keeps the fractionalized countries constantly in ethnic conflict. Kurdistan, "the land of Kurds", is an extensive plateau and mountainous area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by Kurds and encompasses the Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.
Time: 9:00 and 10:00 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Targeted Audience: students in grades 5-12
Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then 15-20 minute Q & A
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu
____________________________________________
YOU MAY ALSO REGISTER FOR ARCHIVED STREAMING OF ANY VIDEOCONFERENCE SESSIONS at:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registrationstreaming.htm
Archived Streaming is “on demand” any day and any time of the day!
