New Graduate Course Summer 2017: Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada

Open to graduate students in the Humanities, European studies, Memory studies, Holocaust studies, Social sciences, Education, Fine Arts and Music.

Students from Aix-Marseille Université (France), Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), the University of Osnabrück (Germany), and the University of Victoria will study and travel for three weeks in Hungary, Germany, France and Canada engaging in intercultural discussions and musical performances at sites of traumatic memory. At each location, students will reflect on how narratives of the past shape present-day EU decision-making processes regarding immigration, refugee and asylum policies.

For more information, please check out the course syllabus here.