About Hemispheres
Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium at the University of Texas at Austin, utilizes University resources to promote and assist with world studies for K-12 and postsecondary schools, businesses, community groups, and the general public.
Hemispheres is coordinated by five independent units that receive funding from multiple sources, including the Title VI International Area Studies Program of the US Department of Education:
- Center for European Studies
- Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- South Asia Institute
Hemispheres provides quality, free and low-cost resources that enhance understanding of diverse world regions to K-12 and post-secondary educators, business, the media, and civic and community groups.
Since our beginnings as a loose consortium in the mid-1990s, Hemispheres has seen its activities expand from a single jointly-funded annual workshop and a twice-yearly broadsheet to encompass a slate of activities and resources that make us one of the most active educational outreach programs of our kind in the United States.
By coordinating projects, workshops, and curriculum units via Hemispheres, each of the component centers contributes standards-aligned content that greatly enhances its classroom usability.
In addition to participating in Hemispheres, each center continues to maintain its own outreach program, including managing its lending library, speakers’ bureau, public lectures, and conferences, all of which are reinforced by collaborative promotion of outreach resources to a growing audience in the educational community and beyond.
By using Hemispheres as a conduit for all of our activities, we are able to offer a comprehensive, "one-stop shopping" approach for all of our efforts that allows you, the end user, to bookmark one Web address to access all of our services.