Migration and German Culture: Berlin's Diversity Across Two Centuries

FAIN: FV-50368-13

Texas A & M University, College Station (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Robert R. Shandley (Project Director: March 2013 to March 2015)

A five-week seminar for sixteen school teachers to study the centuries-old history of migrant and multiethnic culture in transnational Germany, to be held in Berlin.

Germany has been a land of migrants for at least two centuries and yet it is rarely understood as such, either by its citizens or those who learn about the country’s culture. Berlin has long been a microcosm of Germany’s immigrant culture and its attempts to integrate migrants into the country’s mainstream identity. NEH Summer Scholars will spend five weeks in Berlin learning about the dynamic history of migrant culture in Germany.