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SUMMARY:K-12 Professional Development Institute - The Crossroads of the World\: The Panama Canal
DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nThis professional development institute\, directed by Professor Frank Robinson\, will examine the Panama Canal\, providing a context and a lens through which to examine the following\: the history of Spanish America and Central America\, United States-Latin American relations\, maritime commerce\, the engineering marvels of the canal&rsquo\;s excavation and lock design/operation\, the medical and scientific struggle against malaria and yellow fever\, the migration of Afro-West Indians to Panama for the railroad and canal\, life for North Americans in the Canal Zone\, and\, in a larger context\, lessons that speak to the geopolitics between small and powerful nations.  &nbsp\;  This summer institute will show that the construction of the Panama Canal\, along with being an unprecedented feat of engineering\, was a profoundly important historic event with worldwide repercussions. It affected the lives of people at every level of society and of virtually every race and nationality.  \n 
URL;VALUE=URI:www.vanderbilt.edu/clais/outreach
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DTSTAMP:20080907T032456
CREATED:20080409T131725
LAST-MODIFIED:20080711T100629
ORGANIZER;CN=Sarah Birdwell:MAILTO:sarah.b.birdwell@vanderbilt.edu
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080711
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