Tales of Two Camps - Single View

This course wll focus on Half Moon Camp, a prisoner of war camp in Wünsdorf erected in 1915 specifically for enemy soldiers from the French and British colonies. We shall attempt to trace select biographies and fates of African, South Asian and Indigenous Australian inmates of Half Moon Camp from the remaining visual, acoustic and written archive. We shall also try to bring them in conversation with stories from a refugee camp, erected on the very same site 100 years later. The course will combine classical classroom settings with more experimental and project-oriented formats.

All course materials will be provided online via Moodle.

Participants should reserve the whole of Saturday, 6 June for an excursion.

Short essay (2000 words), based on independent research. Additional long term paper (6-7000 words) depending on study programme.