From 08-16 April 2019, five Visiting Fellows from Germany visited the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC and the Center for German Studies at the University of Virginia (UVa) in Charlottesville, VA (United States). The exchange is part of the Transatlantic Partnership on Memory & Democracy programme:

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, junior research group leader at the Centre for Integration Studies, was there.

Below you will find some impressions and reports on the visit:

• #MemoryAndDemocracy on Twitter
• Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
• wmra news
• NBC29 news