The DCN Global Forum in July 2024 took place under the theme of „Unlocking Media Literacy: Shaping Tomorrow’s Minds“. At the Forum in Helsinki, 63 in-person participants from 40 countries and nearly 1.000 virtual participants, including media literacy experts, government representatives and educators, explored the concepts and practices of media literacy. They linked these to the … [Read more…]
In the summer of 2024, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, 16 students of various programs at MLU (English, French, History, Politics, Media), accompanied by two staff, Julia Nitz and Esther Wetzel, set out to study the memorial sites of the Allied landings in Normandy. The Second World War resulted in a new world order … [Read more…]
The field trip was dedicated to the post-colonial reappraisal (or the lack thereof) of Great Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. On the one hand, the aim was to understand how Great Britain, as one of the most important colonial powers, remembers its participation in the slave trade in museums and, in particular, what … [Read more…]