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STUDY: GERMANYBerlin: Navigating the Refugee Experience

SUMMER PROGRAM

Berlin: Navigating the Refugee Experience will take students to Berlin for two weeks in Summer 2020 to visit with human rights organizations operating on the ground with Berlin’s refugee population, meet and work alongside people who have to come to Germany as refugees, and learn how refugee and immigrant groups use the arts and culture – food, music, film, theater, art, and storytelling - to communicate their experience.

Berlin is an exceptional place to consider the question of refugee experience and policy in Europe: alongside its extraordinary diversity and international profile, Berlin is also the German capital and a compelling site of German memory, memorial and meaning. To give us a comparative perspective, we’ll incorporate a short trip to Nuremberg in our program, too, to discuss the development of ideas surrounding citizenship and belonging in German history. Taken together, these encounters will help students understand the ways that the past informs the present in Germany, consider how refugees integrate and create in Berlin, and interrogate the reality of U.S. refugee and immigrant policy in comparison to the German model.

Financial aid and scholarships are available.

APPLICATION DEADLINE February 1

Program Directors Anna Souchuk Shailja Sharma

Courses GER 319: Multicultural Germany:

Literature, Art, Film

INT 498/398: Immigration, Memory, Integration in Germany

Liberal Studies Domains Arts & Literature (A+L)

Experiential Learning (EL)