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Oxbridge Teacher Seminar Barcelona

Oxbridge Teacher Seminar Barcelona. July 2011 Ms. Kate Bloomfield. Details:. Week long seminar 17 teachers, about half were history teachers Stayed in a university residence Primarily had lectures in the morning and then site visits in the afternoon Cultural events in the evenings.

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Oxbridge Teacher Seminar Barcelona

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  1. Oxbridge Teacher SeminarBarcelona July 2011 Ms. Kate Bloomfield

  2. Details: • Week long seminar • 17 teachers, about half were history teachers • Stayed in a university residence • Primarily had lectures in the morning and then site visits in the afternoon • Cultural events in the evenings

  3. History • Lecture: The medieval and modern history of Spain and Barcelona • Lecture: Assessing the impact of the Spanish Civil War on contemporary Spanish and Catalan Culture (Dr. Carles Murillo) • Visit to El Refugi

  4. Dr. Carles Murillo

  5. Interesting facts from history lectures: • Catalonia has its own immigration policy • Must speak Catalan to become a citizen • Soccer reflects politics (Real Madrid v. FC Barcelona) • “If the Allies wanted to save Europe from fascism, maybe they should have looked to Spain.” Dr. Carles Murillo in reference to the Republicans just prior to and during the Spanish Civil War

  6. El Refugi

  7. Immigration in Spain • Ms. Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein

  8. Interesting facts from lecture: • 12% of population is from abroad (was less than 1% in 1991) • Main groups: Asia, Latin America (36%), Eastern Europe (18%), Western Europe (21%), North Africa (mostly Morocco) (15%) • Public health is not universal (only education is) • Recommended videos: The Visitor, Day and Night

  9. Barrigotic walking tour • Cathedrals Road • From La Catedral to La Catedral del Mar, Barri Born

  10. Art in Barcelona • Lecture: Art in Barcelona (Dr. CamiloHoyos)**- From Velazquez to Picasso- Las Meninas • Lecture: Teaching 20th Century Spanish culture and history through the looking glass of Berlanga, Bunuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodovar • Visit to MNAC (MuseuNacionald’Arte del Catalunya) • Visit to Museu Picasso • “After Napoleon, everything goes to Paris. It’s a bit unfair.” (Dr. Hoyos)

  11. Dr. CamiloHoyos

  12. MNAC

  13. Architecture • Lecture: Barcelona and Modernism (Ms. Monica Cruz) • Visit to the Casa Batllo • Visit to La SagradaFamilia

  14. Ms. Monica Cruz

  15. Interesting facts from lecture: • Gaudi was not well known or appreciated until the 1960s • When Gaudi dies in 1926, he was living in La SagradaFamilia.

  16. Casa Batllo

  17. La SagradaFamilia

  18. Cuisine • Visit to La Boqueria • Degustacio(Mr. Jeff Koehler)

  19. Spanish Literature • Lecture and discussion led by Dr. Adriana Patino • From medieval texts to Federico Garcia Lorca • Worked in pairs analyzing the texts and then reported to the whole group • My partner had an Ipad so we “cheated” a little but found great context for our poem • Our poem: Juan del Encina- “Ay Triste, QueVengo” • Beautiful poem about unrequited love • Author was a converso, originally Jewish

  20. The End!

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