Welcome to the Hawaiian Expedition Blog of 2010! Much like the summers of 2007 and 2000 when I participated in Florida Institute of Technology's summer programme at Jesus College, Oxford, I am going to maintain a blog for my trip to Hawaii. This isn't a vacation trip, but a working one.
I applied and received an invitation to attend a workshop on Infusing South Asian studies into college programs that have no history of having such courses. This workshop is three weeks in length and runs from July 11th through July 31st.
The second program is a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII in the Pacific. Part of this grant is to help improve college courses that teach WWII courses, especially those focusing on the Pacific. I am currently teaching my WWII through Film course during the 2010 summer session at Florida Tech, and this course alternates between European/African theater of operations and the war in the Pacific. This year the course has the latter focus. The NEH program has gathered 25 scholars per session (I am in session 2) from all over the US, Europe, China, South Korea and Japan. It is a week long and ends on Saturday, August 7th.
So I'll be gone from July 10th and I'll return back to Melbourne on August 9th, just a week before classes resumes on Monday the 16th.
As in the past, posting will be on a fairly regular basis once I get to Hawaii. I'll also try to post pictures as I can. Feedback is always welcome, just keep in mind that a variety of people are reading this blog so keep it fairly clean.
Just a little more than two weeks remaining...
Matt
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