By Holger A. Klein and Alain Duplouy
In this issue of EuropeNow Campus, we feature a spotlight on Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with Columbia University.
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By Paul O’Keeffe
The European Union has led the way in terms of integrating art into teaching practices at schools to better enhance the integration and mental well-being of refugee children. Various projects provide learning opportunities and resources for teachers to enable their students to better cope with the realities of their lives in exile.
By Hélène B. Ducros
EuropeNow features a selection of scholarly material on topics pertinent to the teaching of Europe or teaching in Europe.
By Nicholas Ostrum
The first half of the course introduces students to Jewish life in early twentieth-century Europe, Germany’s interwar embrace of Nazi fascism, the hardening of the Nazi state, and the early Nazi and allied prosecution of the racial war in Germany itself and in Eastern Europe. The second half of the course focuses on Holocaust as it unfolded in the Second World War, with a special focus on the Final Solution to the Jewish Question as prescribed at the Wannsee Conference.
Reviewed by Biz Nijdam
Undesirables offers a corrective to our understanding of prewar and wartime Jewish-Muslim relations. The literal picturing of these relationships and visual acknowledgement of the shared humanity of Jews and Muslims complement the historical facts contained within the pages.
Translated by Sorcha de Brún
This day, forever framed by briny gorse / A queerness hangs in the shoreline air / Looking back to Ballythaidhg and a summer day there
By David Berridge
During art book fairs, book launches, readings, talks, and performances are programed elsewhere in the building, further emphasizing the importance of sociality, which arguably often trumps actual book sales.
By Alain Duplouy
From 1924 to 1931, Paul Bigot built an astonishingly audacious building made of steel and concrete behind an envelope of red bricks mirroring Venetian architecture. In its conception, the Institut d’art et d’archéologie was not only a facility for teaching but also a laboratory, a place for “science in the making.”
By Pierre Haroche
When the world was young / Places did not exist / Earth heaven ocean / Stood side by side / In every direction / Humans lived all together…
