This interdisciplinary travel course explores the changing landscape of post-Soviet Holocaust memory in Poland through the study of museums, death camp memorials, and other forms of public memory. It includes five meetings between January and April, followed by a two-week trip to Polish sites of memory in May.
Special Note: This course is covered by regular winter tuition, but extends into the month of May. Students must cover flight + travel fees (which cover accommodation, some meals, museum/memorial entry fees, transportation, and historical tours and special seminars/workshops). The group will be based in Krakow, Lublin, and Warsaw, and the itinerary includes historical tours, workshops, and seminars with educators at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, the Schindler Factory Museum, the Auschwitz Jewish Centre, the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Grodzka Gate NN Theatre, and Polin: The Museum of the History of the Polish Jews. Travel fees will be finalized in late September and final deposits due in late October. All students are encouraged to access their Western “boarding passes” ($1000 travel grant awarded to all students with at least an 80% average in second year), the Global Opportunities Fund (applications due in November), and faculty travel grants to help support the cost of travel.
This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.
