The GHL program will cover all travel expenses. Please book your trip to Berlin with Princeton University's designated travel agency, World Travel. Our travel agent, Stephanie Shores, will be able to assist in booking your travel, including your flight and/or train and hotel. You can reach Stephanie at:

• Stephanie Shores, Senior Group Specialist, [email protected] (direct) or the Princeton Travel Team at [email protected].
• +1-888-530-4087 | Direct Dial Overseas:  +1-484-722-6215
• Office hours:  Mon-Fri 8am-430pm EST (Email Box is not monitored outside these hours)
• Please have the following information in order to book your travel:
  • Departure city
  • Last name as appears on passport
  • First and middle name(s) as appears on passport
  • Passport number
  • Country of issue
  • Full expiration date
  • Date of birth
  • Gender
  • Cell phone number
• Please review your final ticketed itinerary from Stephanie Shores very carefully. Once the hotel room block deadline has approached 12/9 lodging cannot be guaranteed. 

We have a group booking at the Hotel Amano in Central Berlin, The GHL program will pay for up to three nights for each traveler at the Hotel Amano. Please confirm with  ([email protected]) the number nights you intend to stay.

Check-in from 15:00. On the day of departure, the rooms are available until 12:00 breakfast is included.

The Summit will be held across the street at the Hotel AMANO Rooftop Conference Room. 

The GHL program will disperse per diem Visa cards to each traveler on your arrival day. You will have to activate this card and can use it in all places credit cards are accepted in Berlin. The GHL will pay for up to 3 days of per diem funding to be used for meals, taxis, and other travel incidentals.

For those that will need travel visas, please begin this process right away. Contact Nicole Bergman if you need a letter of invitation from the host institution in Berlin, Germany. The GHL will cover all German visa expenses.

GHL-Berlin Teaching Fellows Summit

Agenda

January 23-24

AMANO Rooftop Conference Center Rosenthaler Straße 63-64, 10119 Berlin

Monday January 23

9:00-10:30: Preparing to be a Teaching Fellow. Chair: Yuri Rudnev

• Summer “training” – was it helpful? Why? Why Not? What should be done differently?
• Is there sufficient training for History Dialogues?
• Teaching Manual – ditto
• Staff support – Jeremy, Nicole, Fiona; stuff they should know before the program starts?
  • Kostas Katsoudas
  • Maryna Lakhno
  • Riikka Muhonen
  • Manav Kapur

Break

(coffee available in-room)

11:00-12:30 Site Visits. Chair: Nassim Abi Ghanem

• Preparing and optimizing your time
• Personal testimonies and lessons:
  • Faruh Kuziev
  • Murielle Djomatchoua
  • Una Blagojević
  • Yassine Ait Ali

Lunch

(AMANO Restaurant)

2:00-3:30: All about pedagogy I.

I. Cases and Gallery. Chair: Niharika Yadav

• What works and doesn’t work?
• How can we get more out of the Gallery?
• Sidebar note on Track E for those who taught it.

• • Blasco Sciarrino
  • Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo
  • Utku Gungor
  • Solomiia Rozlutska

Break

(coffee available in-room)

4:00-5:30: All about pedagogy II.

II. Textbook and Narrative Mapping. Chair: Izidor Janzekovic

• What works and doesn’t work?
• How can we get more out of the teamwork?

• • Elizaveta Berezina
  • Maryna Lakhno
  • Michael Mandelkorn
  • Aaron Stamper

7:30 Group dinner at the Hofbräu Wirtshaus Berlin (Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 30 [map])

Tuesday January 24

9:00-10:30: Creating Synchronicity. Chair: Riikka Muhonen

• How to create more real-time (synchronous) exchange?
• The open houses on Friday? Do they work? Can they do better?
• Alternatives: 

1. Institutional pairings (create joint teams)
2. Regional collaborations (all Africa, all South Asia, Latin America, etc)
3. Mobilizing students and TF’s to be conversation-creators

• Izidor Janzekovic
• Ivana Zimbrek
• Nassim Abi Ghanem
• Friedrich Asschenfeldt

Break

(coffee available in-room)

11:00-12:30: Creating Teaching Fellow Community. Chair: Gabi Gobl

• How do collaborate as teachers?
• Create internal readings groups (why are the students the only “learners?”)
• Other ideas?
  • Flora Ghazaryan
  • Niharika Yadav
  • Yuri Rudnev

Lunch

(AMANO Restaurant)

2:00-3:00 Misc: Chair Jeremy Adelman

• Connectivity and infrastructure
  • Teaching without bandwidth

• Assessments and evaluations
  • How to get the right kind of feedback

Break

(coffee available in-room)

3:30-5:00: Moving Forward

1. History Dialogues – Fiona Romaine Chair
2. July 17^th student “Border Crossing” Conference – Nicole Bergman Chair
3. Publication – Jeremy Adelman Chair

7:30 Group dinner at royals & rice Berlin (Torstrasse 164 [map])

7:30 Monday -1/23 -Hofbräu Wirtshaus Berlin (Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 30 [map])

7:30 Tuesday -1/24 -royals & rice Berlin (Torstrasse 164 [map])

As the summit is planned for early winter, we will be in contact with all travelers immediately if there are any new travel-related restrictions for Germany.