Vom 08. - 16. April 2019 besuchten fünf Visiting Fellows aus Deutschland die Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC sowie das Center for German Studies der University of Virginia (UVa) in Charlottesville, VA (United States). Der Austausch ist Teil des Programms Transatlantic Partnership on Memory & Democracy:

Created in response to the white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville on August 11^th and 12^th, 2017, this Partnership provides UVa faculty and students with the opportunity to work with visiting fellows from Germany on common projects that explore how societies teach, memorialize, and engage with the past. Through hands-on projects in art, activism, and scholarship, teams of faculty and students address difficult chapters of history from slavery and segregation in the United States to colonialism, dictatorship, and genocide in Germany. Visiting fellows will also learn about Charlottesville’s complex history through conversations with curators at Monticello and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.

Dr. Noa K. Ha, Nachwuchsforschungsgruppenleiterin am Zentrum für Integrationsstudien, war mit dabei.

Folgend finden Sie einige Eindrücke und Berichte zum Besuch:

• #MemoryAndDemocracy auf Twitter
• Bericht der Heinrich Böll Stiftung
• wmra News
• NBC29 News