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"American Culture" isan interdiscipli - of the North America have made
nary programme, w/uc/ i was held by American culture what it is today,and
the American Studies Summer Insti - the ways theseencounterscontinue to
tote 64SS/ , ) at the University of Illi - shape and shift American identity,
nois Chicago (UIC) from 15 June- 28 national and cultural.

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July 2001 y in which 30EFLteachersas The method was an interdisciplinary
Nelly Zafeiriadou ell as trainers and educators from 26 one:we looked at literature, art, poli-
tics,law,education, mass media, con-
countriesallovertheworld participated.
It comprises mutual Educational Ex - sumerism,music,geography,architec-
change Grant under the authority of ture and landscape.
(participant in the 2001 American the Fulbright- Hays Act ( Public Law In these, and through these the aim

Studies Summer Institute program) 256, 87th Congress) , granted by the was to discover some of the interwo-
United States Departmentof Statewith ven strands of American culture, his-
theapprovalof thej.William Fulbright torical and contemporary, and to pro-
Foreign Scholarship Board upon the vide working methods for teaching
recommendation of the United States American culture and life to an in-
Nelly Zafeiriadou is an Educational Foundation in Greece. creasinglysophisticated student popu-
Englishlanguage teacher. I. The seminar lation throughout the world.By inten-
sive study of key documents and arti-
She holdsa BA in English facts, the aspiration/ of ASSI was to
Languageand Literature To think of the United States not as a provide an overviewof American po-
from theAristotle Univer- single clear entity but rather as a shift- litical and cultural life and toallow the
... participants todelve as deeply as they
sity of Thessaloniki and an ing, often confusing collection of in-
MA in Applied Linguistics terconnected identities and communi- desired intospecificareas.
All of thiswas intermingled with close
and ELT from the Univer- ties:thiswas theapproach of theASSI interaction with American people and
for 2001.The Institute chosespeak of
sity of East Anglia. She America rather than the United
has served as a state States in order to focus atten-
school teacher at pri- tion on the ways in which of the

mary, secondary and SiSr , national boundaries and bor-
tertiary education for ders are permeable and the
UnitedStates is interlocked with
twelve years. Since 1997 the other countries and cultures
she’s beenteaching in the on the American continents.
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