Berkley Center

Junior Year Abroad Network blogger Trevor O'Connor (C'20) reflects on the unnerving extent to which many apartheid-era structures in South Africa are unchanged. The sites that were supposed to be graveyards of the apartheid era are now the sites of its most harrowing ghosts.

Junior Year Abroad Network blogger Rachel Angle (C'20) explains how spending Yom Kippur in Bulgaria taught her not just to treasure her days in synagogue back home, but also to identify what makes that space so special for her: understanding.

Junior Year Abroad Network blogger Emily Jonsson (C'20) wrestles with the uncomfortable contradictions of memorialization by examining the complicated history of the Catholic Church and Benito Mussolini's fascist government in both destroying and preserving Rome's classical monuments.