The annual Merrill Center workshop, usually conducted in June at the Basin Harbor Club on the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont, focuses on teaching in the field of strategic studies. Normally, this workshop brings together approximately half a dozen senior and two dozen junior faculty for a four-day pedagogical colloquium. Topics include teaching an introductory course in strategic studies; syllabus construction; case teaching; use of film in the classroom; gaming and simulations; and staff rides. Occasionally the Merrill Center convenes a more senior group to explore a substantive set of issues and how they might be addressed in academic and professional curricula. The 2012 Basin Harbor Teachers' Workshop 
The 2011 Basin Harbor Teachers' Workshop The 2011 session of our Teachers' Workshop was held at the Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, between June 13-17, 2011. This workshop was designed to help prepare faculty who are new to the national security or strategic studies field. The 2010 Basin Harbor Workshop The 2010 Workshop was held at the Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, between June 7-11, 2010. The workshop brought together eminent scholars, practitioners and members of the media to discuss the subject of irregular warfare. The 2010 Workshop was a content workshop, the alternative workshop conducted every third year, rather than the normal workshop that fouses on different aspects of pedagogy in the strategic studies field. A report on the 2010 Workshop is available here. The 2009 Basin Harbor Teachers' Workshop The 2009 Teachers' Workshop was held at the Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, between June 8-12, 2009. This workshop was designed to help prepare faculty who were new to the national security or strategic studies field. Topics included: Teaching an introductory course in strategic studies; syllabus construction; case teaching; use of film in the classroom; gaming and simulations; and staff rides. The 2008 Basin Harbor Workshop The 2008 Workshop was held at the Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, between June 9-13, 2008. The workshop brought together eminent scholars, practitioners and members of the media to discuss the subject of intelligence. The 2008 Workshop was a content workshop, the alternative workshop conducted every third year, rather than the normal workshop that fouses on different aspects of pedagogy in the strategic studies field. Merrill Center senior fellow, John McLaughlin, former deputy and acting director of the CIA was central in forming the agenda and participant list. A report on the 2008 Workshop is available here. The 2007 Basin Harbor Teachers' Workshop The 2007 Teachers' Workshop was held at the Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, between June 4-8, 2007. Topics included teaching an introductory course in strategic studies; syllabus construction; case teaching; use of film in the classroom; gaming and simulations; and staff rides.
The 2006 Teachers' Workshop The Center held a teachers' workshop between June 19-23, 2006, at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. This workshop brought together approximately half a dozen senior and two dozen junior faculty for a four-day pedagogical colloquium. The workshop was designed to help prepare faculty new to the national security or strategic studies field. Topics included teaching an introductory course in strategic studies; syllabus construction; case teaching; use of film in the classroom; gaming and simulations; and staff rides. Presenters included: Eliot Cohen and Thomas Keaney (SAIS); Richard Herrmann (Ohio State University); Tom Griffith, SAAS); and Stephen Rosen (Harvard University). The 2005 Basin Harbor Workshop The 2005 Workshop was a content workshop held between June 6-10 at the Basin Harbor Club in Vermont. The subject was irregular warfare. In attendance were a mixture of serving and retired officers and civilian officials and senior academics from the United States, Britain, Australia, and Israel. The seven sessions included discussions of theory and doctrine; the Afghan and Iraq cases; teaching irregular warfare; advisory and training support; failed states and the future of insurgency; globalization and irregular warfare. A report on the 2005 Workshop is available here. | 
