Honors in Berlin 2017

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

Monday, May 8, 2017

Sweden - refugee children giving up on life

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/30/521958505/only-in-sweden-hundreds-of-refugee-children-gave-up-on-life

By Juliana VIllegas at May 08, 2017

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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

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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

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