Honors in Berlin 2017

Negotiating Identities and Mediating Community Berlin, Germany - Seattle University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Germany's neighbor: First round of voting on Sunday, April 23, in France.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/21/the-guardian-view-on-the-french-presidency-hope-not-hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZir1L7fSY
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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Take a look at articles referring to the referendum in Turkey and the consequences in German Turkish diaspora as well as in Germany


"How Divided is Turkey After the Referendum?"(EuroTopics) 
http://www.eurotopics.net/en/177768/how-divided-is-turkey-after-the-referendum

"Trump Congratulates Erdogan" (April 18, 2017, CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/europe/turkey-referendum-trump-erdogan/index.html

"Turkey's Vote Makes Erdogan Dictator" (April 18, 2017, NY)
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/turkeys-vote-makes-erdogan-effectively-a-dictator

"Turkish rifts stir up Germany as referendum nears" (Financial Times, April 10, 2017)


"Voting closes in Germany ahead of Turkey referendum" (Deutsche Welle, April 9, 2017
http://www.dw.com/en/voting-closes-in-germany-ahead-of-turkey-referendum/a-38361102



"Turkish diaspora in Germany divided by Erdogan's referendum" (reuters, March 14, 2017)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-referendum-germany-idUSKBN16L2FG

 

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Monday, April 10, 2017

Rosa Parks House- Berlin



















Rosa Parks House in Berlin





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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Visualizing Berlin's Metro

Visual Compendium of Berlin's Metro Stations



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About the Program "UW Honors Berlin: Negotiating Identity, Mediating Community"

  • 2017 Honors Berlin Negotiating Identities and Mediating Community
  • 2015 Honors in Berlin and Jena
  • 2013 Germany- Spain Study Abroad Honors

Student Blogs

  • Sophie Aanerud
  • Katie Anastas
  • Clayton Avalos
  • Becca Duncan
  • Hannah Farrell
  • Sophia Gillmer
  • Laurette Hanna
  • Bryan Hanner
  • Nikki Hegstrom
  • Justin Miller
  • Ally Picker
  • Amanda Ray
  • Catherine Schwarzwalder
  • Zosia Toth
  • Ying Wang

Berlin Resources

  • ORIENTATION PACKET (PROTECTED)
  • German Language Instruction
  • Tegel Airport Berlin
  • Die Fabrik Hostel, Berlin
  • Humboldt University
  • ExBerliner
  • Slow Travel Berlin-reading list for leisure

Community Partners

  • Empati in Neukölln
  • Jugendmuseum Schöneberg
  • Muanana
  • Berlin Center for Integrative Mediation
  • Die Gärtnerei
  • Exil Ensemble-Maxim Gorki
  • Maxim Gorki Theatre
  • House of Arts and Culture
  • Kotti e.V.
  • Neopanterra e.V

Summer: Final syllabus and schedule

  • Description, Expectations, Grading doc (protected)
  • Summer Schedule-Syllabus (protected)
  • Assignment Due Dates
  • Google Folder
  • Daily Diary Schedule
  • Community Asset Map Assignment

Summer Required Readings per Syllabus

  • "Crazy Blood" Maxm Gorkix - first play
  • The Things I am Thinking While Smiling Politely
  • "We Wear the Mask" Dunbar poem
  • No Humboldt 21 (Palace of the Republic controversy)
  • Ghosts of Berlin- Introduction and Chapter 1
  • Imagined Communities
  • Tranenpalast (Palace of Tears)
  • The Figure of the Migrant (intro), Thomas Nail
  • Arrival City, Chapter 8 (Saunders)
  • Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
  • Art and Thought (optional for Sachsenhausen reading)
  • Memorials of Pathos (optional)
  • Winterreise (Maxim Gorkix)
  • Rap, HipHop Kreuzberg

Hamburg, Germany

  • Mac City Hostel
  • Arrival Cities article
  • Urban Modeling for Refugees
  • CityScience Hamburg Blog
  • HafenCity Universitat CityScienceLab

Program Readings (resources)

  • Language and Migration, Berlin Lives
  • "Berlin as a Migratory Setting" from LITERATURE OF BERLIN
  • To Hell with Good Intentions
  • Three Myths of Migrant Literature
  • A Great Awakening, Eric Liu
  • NYT 2015 German Quandary: anti-immigration movement?
  • Turkish mother tongue
  • Turkish instruction
  • On not looking German
  • USA.GOV
  • Esker & Cheema, Who is a German?
  • Observations
  • Crutchfield, "Turkish immigrants in Germany"
  • Other Germans: Race, Gender and Memory in the 3rd Reich
  • Interviews
  • Arts Activism Article
  • GHOSTS OF BERLIN-INTRO and CHAPTER 1
  • "Introducing Globalization" Intro and Chapter 1
  • European Union Official Site
  • Age of Migration, Chapter 1 (Castle and Miller)
  • Age of Migration (pages 12-13)
  • Migration Process, Chapter 2( Castle and Miller)
  • New Ethnic Minorities, Chapter 10 (Castle and Miller)
  • Norton article
  • European Others- Intro- El-Tayeb
  • "Becoming a German: What does it mean?"
  • "The Lines that Continue to Separate Us: borders in a borderless world"

Additional Reading/Listening

  • Omprakash
  • The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems
  • Barbie Savior
  • Why Islam Gets Second-Class Status in German
  • International Monitors Question Turkish Election
  • Turkish Disaspora in Germany and Turkish Elections
  • Opposition Parties Contest Turkish Election
  • Gentrification in Berlin
  • How Smugglers Shape the Migrant Crisis
  • Refugee Experience in Children's Literature
  • The Journey

Research Resources

  • Abandoned Berlin
  • United States History Timeline (BBC)
  • Germany History Timeline (BBC)
  • Germany-Policy Briefs on Immigration, Integration and Refugee Flows
  • U.S. Migration Policy Institute
  • Chronicle of the Berlin Wall
  • Project Muse
  • Berlin History Overview (Berlin.de)
  • U.S. History Overview (government site)
  • Goethe Institute
  • UW Libraries
  • Berlin Themed Literature
  • Humanities Research: what is it?
  • Humanities Research: Tips and Techniques
  • German Studies Review
  • Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany)

Research Resources-Migration

  • BAMF German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
  • BAMF Germany - Stages of Asylum Procedure
  • UNHCR- The UN Refugee Agency
  • Pro Asyl
  • Dublin Regulation
  • Migration Terms
  • Global Migration - Future Trends

National and Global News Sources

  • Euro Topics
  • German Federal Agency for Civic Education
  • Current News Germany
  • Der Spiegel
  • Current News Germany
  • More News Berlin

Films - Berlin, Germany

  • German Films (compiled by Manuela Mangold and Markus Heide

Practical Travel Tips

  • Phones, prepaid sim card
  • Easyjet
  • Diversity Abroad
  • Andy Steves (son of Rick) Travel Tips
  • Bahn.com German Rail
  • Ryanair (flights within Europe)
  • AirBerlin (flights within Europe)

Powerpoints (from 2015 and current)

  • Political and Social Aspects of Indianervereine in the GDR
  • Young Islam Conference- Presentation slides
  • Immigration Schooling Language Slides
  • Race and Citizenship in Germany Slides

Spring Seminar

  • syllabus spring 2017
  • German Language Instruction
  • Berlin 2017 CERP Guidelines
  • Seattle International Film Festival

Instructors, University of Washington

  • Julie Villegas, Ph.D. Honors Program, Dept of English
  • Kathryn Pursch-Cornforth, Carlson Center & Public Service Center

Colleagues in Germany

  • Manuela Mangold, American Studies, Humboldt
  • Prof. Dr. Phil Martin Klepper, Chair, American Studies, Humboldt University
  • Kristina Graaff, Ph.D., Visiting UW Honors Program Scholar, Humboldt American Studies

Contributors

  • AmadoDiaz
  • Bec
  • Bryan
  • Juliana VIllegas
  • Justin
  • Manuela
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  • sophie

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