CENES has identified funding opportunities to provide 4 students attending the Global Seminar: Multicultural Vienna–Mutikulti Wien (GMST 424 | 3 credits) with $400 scholarships to cover the GoGlobal fee associated with this program.
GMST 424 focuses on the multiculturalism of contemporary Vienna, the former Habsburg imperial capital located at the crossroads of East, West, and South Europe.
The Extended Deadline for course enrollment and the CENES GoGlobal Scholarships is February 29th, 2024.
Students will learn about the long history of multiculturalism as a feature of imperial life. They will consider how multiculturalism shapes post-imperial political struggles and how it comes to define the lived experience of marginalized peoples in contemporary Vienna. Through scholarly texts, literature, film, and essays about Black, Jewish, migrant, and queer life in Vienna, students will learn about how multiculturalism serves as a major lens for marginalized populations to talk about their lived experience today. The study trip will permit students to visit the major sites for cultural contact and exchange in Vienna’s multicultural topography: pedestrian zones, public parks, cultural monuments and centres, cafés, universities, the central cemetery, the Nasch market, the Afro-Asian Institute, and faith organizations.
See GMST 424 syllabus here
Please email Uma Kumar (uma.kumar@ubc.ca) for more information.
