Berkley Center

Sarah Baron (SFS'20) discusses traveling to Turkey and Lebanon despite U.S. State Department advisories and why she felt safer in those countries than in Paris, questioning how people can learn about the world and the people around them if they are not permitted and encouraged to go out and explore.

Grace Ramstad (C'20) encounters a Swedish interpersonal culture characterized by simplicity and blunt forthrightness that first strikes her as rude and uncomfortable, a cross-cultural conflict she identifies as largely rooted in a different understanding of private versus public.

Jessica Frankovich (C'20) explores the historical roots of the contemporary syncretism between indigenous religions and Catholicism visible in many Mexican traditions, exemplified in the buildings surrounding Mexico City’s Zocalo (town center).