20 February 2008

DeBoer Travel Lectures

For today's common lecture we heard from Stan Brand and Ryan Miller who described their trips from last summer supported by the Roy DeBoer Travel Prize.

Stan explained how a kibbutz works and described his time at the fairly progressive Kibbutz Lotav. In particular he learned a lot about their alternative building practices and eco-village project.

Ryan traveled to Berlin. He studied the ways that the city has been repeatedly remade to reflect the images of the German nation. Some key landmarks for illustrating the symbology and imagery include the Brandenburg Gates, the Reichstag, the Berlin Wall and its art, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

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