SPRING 2018
CGI—GERMANY/AUSTRIA: Remembering the Common Good of an Ethics of Memory
Two credits | Interdisciplinary | Fully funded*
The course will offer a well prepared immersion in Southern Germany and Austria exploring Holocaust memorial sites and encountering communities of memory. It will employ of a multi-disciplinary approach, making use of insights and approaches from theology, philosophy, history, education, architecture, social geography, political science, sociology. The course intends to offer bridges to a discussion of the common good and its connections to an ethics of remembering. The course is offered to graduate students from different disciplines and requires travel to Germany and Austria over the spring break 2018.
*Apart from a modest participation fee of $250, the spring 2018 Common Good Initiative is fully funded, covering the complete cost of room and board, travel, and tuition.