Workshop with Dr. Erika Berroth: "Intercultural Knowledge and Competence – Exploring Connections: Making Meaning of Foreign and Familiar Matters"
"Intercultural Knowledge and Competence – Exploring Connections: Making Meaning of Foreign and Familiar Matters" is an interactive workshop that includes hands on experiential learning, guided exercises, and creative transformations invites participants to increase their awareness of the importance of self-knowledge, cultural competence, ways of making connections, and ways of making meaning. Building on students’ observations about artifacts from contexts foreign to their own, the workshop challenges us to explore connections. How does culture affect our interactions with others? How may our assumptions about ourselves and others be challenged? How can we increase awareness and find productive ways to navigate cultural differences? Engaging those and other questions, participants learn how cultivating curiosity, openness, empathy, and flexibility of mind are important practices on our way to get ready for the world.
Refreshments will be available for workshop participants.
This workshop is free but spaces are limited and registration is required. You find the registration form at the bottom of the following webpage: http://mfll.utk.edu/connections/workshop.php .
About the Workshop Facilitator
Dr. Erika Berroth is Associate Professor of German at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Her current book project titled Transnational Identity Narratives analyzes the complex relationships between migration, trauma, memory, and identity. In her research and teaching she integrates the study of German language literature with critical approaches in the Environmental Humanities and Feminist Studies. Her German courses contribute to an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to develop the intellectual practice of identifying connections between fundamental questions and ideas that shape our world.
In addition to this workshop, Dr. Berroth will also give a lecture on "Looking Daring – Daring to Look: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Journeys of Discovery" on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm in Hodges Library, Lindsey Young Auditorum. Attending this lecture is not a prerequiste to attend the workshop. For details see http://mfll.utk.edu/connections/lecture.php. Attending this lecture is not a prerequiste to attend the workshop.
This workshop is a Ready for the World event and part of the interdisciplinary, multi-media project "Mapping 'Knoxville' Across Time, Media, and Cultures: Tracing Unexplored Connections Between the Work of Cormac McCarthy, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and Buddy and the Huddle" (http://mfll.utk.edu/connections/index.php). Co-sponsors and supporters are listed here: http://mfll.utk.edu/connections/sponsors.php.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 2:00pm to 5:00pm
John C Hodges Library, 253
1015 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville TN
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865-974-7098
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