The studdy visit to Krasnogruda and Sejny is a part of the wider cyclic program entitled "Culture and reconciliation policy" organized by Hane Cervinkova and Juliet Golden in behalf of the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw
Program of the meeting:
September 11 – September 13 / 2016
September 11
18.00 Arrival to Krasnogruda
20:30 meeting with Krzysztof Czyżewski
September 12
11:30 – 13:30 – Memory, Forgetting, Identity and Reconciliation – Class Working Session and Discussions – Part
14:30 – 16:00 – Memory, Forgetting, Identity and Reconciliation – Class Working Session and Discussions – Part II
Required Readings
Czesław Miłosz, “Place of Birth” and “Ancestry,” Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition. New York: Doubleday, 1968, pp: 7 – 35.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitan Patriots, pp: 21 – 29.
Gloria Anzaldúa. To Live on the Borderlands
Wislawa Szymborska. The End and the Beginning
September 13
A day at with the Borderlands Foundation
10:00 – 11:30 – presentation of Artistic workshop – Wiesław Szumiński
Educational work with children and youth.
The leading theme of the workshop is Memory. Memory of people, places, events. Using different artistic techniques and materials, the work on memory gets various forms of expression.
12:00 – 13:30 – presentation of Nature workshop – Ksenija Konopek
Workshop with primary school children on rich natural heritage of the region. Work combines the theoretical knowledge and practical, creative work.
travel to Sejny
15.30 – 17.00 - meeting with Bożena Szroeder
educational work with children – animated films as a tool for learning history of the town.
17.30 – 19.30 -presentation of the Borderland House, The White Synagogue, and old Jeshiwa, Michał Moniuszko
- presentation of Musical workshop connected with Memory of the Place – Michał Moniuszko
Long-term educational process with youth on the discovering and fostering the multicultural heritage of the place, using language of music.
Return to Krasnogruda
20.30 Closing session with the Borderland Foundation
Required Readings
Krzysztof Czyzewski, “Practices of Intercultural Dialogue,” A Handbook of Dialogue: Trust and Identity. Sejny: Fundacja Pogranicza.
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, The Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland, The Journal of the International Institute, Spring 2009
Elzbieta Matynia, “Post-scriptum on an Old Bridge,” Performative Democracy, Bolder, Co: Paradigm Publishers, 2009, pp: 165 – 169.
Students of american Syracuse University, under the guidance by prof. dr hab. Hana Cervinkova from University of Lower Silesia in Wrocław wrote about Borderland.
http://urbanlabsce.eu/creating
http://urbanlabsce.eu/the-bord
http://urbanlabsce.eu/explorin
http://urbanlabsce.eu/a-new-li
http://urbanlabsce.eu/contempl
http://urbanlabsce.eu/messages
http://urbanlabsce.eu/beyond-t
http://urbanlabsce.eu/preservi