By Renata Husted It has been 70 years, 9 months, and 20 days since the complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau was in use. 70 years, 9 months, and 20 days since the German National Socialist party murdered over 1.1 million people, causing the grounds to be an international symbol of the Holocaust. Since its liberation, the preservation […]
Erin Kenney Being in Berlin, a significantly historical city and now the booming capital of Germany, I began to think about how many people are truly aware of their surroundings. I realize that I can be greatly unaware of my surroundings, as evident by the inevitable event of my running into any nearby desk or […]
By Farrell Brenner Three months ago, I stood ankle-deep in the Dead Sea, staring at the misty mountains of Palestine on the other side. Breathing the briny air, burning my lungs a bit. Next to me, my friend, whose grandpa is Palestinian, squinted. How close it was. How far. “If things had worked out, I […]
By Marcin Zak The Berlin Wall is a testament to the fact that not even a war as incomprehensibly destructive as the Second World War was enough to put an end to the political divisions between human beings living in Central Europe in the 20th century. Of course, the situation is much more complicated […]
By Monica Pellerano Military Museums have so often been nothing more than spaces dedicated to the demonstration of armament and capacity, that the Militär Historisches Museum in Dresden, Germany will forever remain in my memories as a singular attempt at the recognition and honest treatment of a past many would prefer to forget. This exposition, […]
By Erin Kenney Several months ago, if someone asked me what I knew or thought about Roma people, I likely would have answered with a blank stare. Eventually, I would have made the connection to the name frequently used throughout the United States, gypsy. And with that realization, I solely would have been able to […]
By Marcin Zak To visit the old Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps located in Oświęcim, Poland was nothing short of an overwhelming experience. But perhaps not overwhelming in the sense that one may initially expect. Walking through this prison engineered for killing people, my reactions ranged from disgust to numbness. But I didn’t cry. The overpowering feeling […]
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang write about the prevalence of pain-centered research in the social sciences through the lens of settler coloniality. Indigenous, Black, queer, and poor people are consumed through their narratives of pain, which are collected, examined, archived, re-written and published in much the same way that their […]
By Monica Pellerano You know how some of the most beautiful animals are often the most dangerous? Their captivating colors serve as warning signs of their venom. In nature, therefore, appeal is quite often equated with danger. I guess the subconscious awareness of this relation between enthrall and danger significantly informed the way in which […]