This is a VERY rough draft – I still need to work and write out the details in the background, method, etc: Note: (added 5/15/17) – I will revise my final draft to reflect more on the concept of Heterotopias and Panopticism (re: Foucault) and space as power. Though I am still very much […]
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Berlin Study Abroad: Week 7 “research resources”
Review “Research Resources” and “Reading” resources sections on the blog and write up a short reflection on your blog about two resources that are helping you shape thinking thinking around your CERP topic. In addition, if you have additional research resources for your individual projects, please post to your blog. It is extraordinarily hard to […]
Berlin Study Abroad Seminar: Reading Reflection – week 7
While reading Educating the ‘Good’ Citizen, the middle section on the first page where the author quotes what Bill Bennet, Paulo Freire, Albert Shanker, and George Bush wrote regarding teaching ‘good citizenship’ in schools I had a somewhat visceral reaction. Not so much to Paulo Freire’s statement regarding political determination against oppression and Shanker’s statement about respect for […]
Berlin study abroad seminar – Week 6
Your blog post for the week should make connections between these three readings–are forces of gentrification similar or different than colonialism via “development”? We would also like you to generate two (or more) questions for our panelists on ethical community engagement with displaced people. Include these in your blog post, and be ready to engage […]
Berlin study abroad seminar: assignment – reading reflection, week 4
Reading Reflection, Age of Migration Chapter 10 On p 221 it says, “The third group consists of those countries which tried to cling to ‘rigid guestworker’ models, above all Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Such countries tried to prevent family reunion, were reluctant to grant secure residence status, and had highly restrictive naturalization rules.” This surprised […]
Refugee Camps / France
In doing a mini country report for my Berlin study abroad seminar, I came across articles about the “Jungles” in Calais, France – home to around 8,000 migrants. Rather than summarize, I’ll just post a link to the full article and opening paragraph here: France Dismantles ‘The Jungle’ in Calais: (Oct 2016) A small camp […]
Resources
Here, I will keep track of and share various resources in relation to learning Arabic and German, as well as links and articles regarding immigration and refugees.
Ich bin zzzzzzz….
I had been immersing myself pretty hard into German last Summer and had planned to keep going. But then I made a fairly spontaneous (and pretty fortuitous) decision to jump into Arabic for my language requirement at UW. I’ll need two years of it to fulfill my departmental honors requirement. I wanted something new, obviously, instead […]
UW Berlin Study Abroad – Summer 2017
This will be the link to all of my thoughts and posts regarding the UW Berlin Honors 2017 Study Abroad Program: Negotiating Identities and Mediating Communities. Stay tuned!
London Plane
You may recognize this name or just be tired of it – I mention it frequently (at least, on Instagram) but it’s one of our favorite places to spend a quick morning or afternoon. Aside from the fact that it’s in my favorite ‘hood – Pioneer Square, the interior is lovely, the staff is really […]
Pingin’ and pongin’
Husband is a bit of a ping pong player. 🙂 Last year he came in 2nd at the GeekWire bash and was determined to win it all this year – and he did! I’m not so much of a ping pong fan, but I do enjoy watching him play! Being at GeekWire was a flashback […]
Take two!
If you’ve been reading along, you may remember me talking about a study abroad program to Berlin that I had been accepted to for last Fall quarter. I wound up deciding to withdraw for several reasons – some that I won’t go into detail here (but quickly summed up as lack of faith in the […]