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Entry to the Exhibition A soldier’s proud silhouette in front of the rising sun. Two photos of composed soldiers aiming with their gun. Another of one soldier guarding the door with a stony, tough expression on his face. I studied

During the time I’ve spent in Eastern Europe, I’ve traveled to three different countries and their national capitals. As a part of our program, we visited several sites significant to Jewish history in both Belgrade, Serbia and Bucharest, Romania. While

IF THERE’S ONE THING  the United States does exceptionally well, it’s making countless things seem infinite. Looking back at all the times I have been concerned about running out of something, it was always within the confines of my own

“Nothing less resembles ordinary travelling than the journeys of a court. Travelling alone, one sees men, countries, customs, establishments such as they really are; but in accompanying a monarch, the traveller finds every thing prepared, disguised, coloured for the purposes

After visiting both Budapest and Cluj, I have begun to think about how Brubaker’s framework in ethnic politics applies today. Recently, rapid globalization and modern development turned major Romanian and Hungarian cities into cosmopolitan hubs. Economic growth and inequality, greater

  I landed in Romania less than two weeks before Orthodox Easter and knew that I wanted to attend an Easter service. I grew up going to Catholic mass regularly but had never attended an Orthodox church service so the

The Chinese will Come from the East and drink water from the river Morava. So read the subtitles at the beginning of the documentary film The Chinese Will Come (2017), as I silently sat alone in a cinema full of Serbian

I wonder: if a city were a person, would the land be her skin and skeleton? Would the architecture be her identity markers? Would people inhabiting on her be her soul? I hope to discover a city as I get

I am not a great cook and during my time in Romania the most food preparation I have done is buying a bag of cereal to eat in the morning. Instead of making my own food I have explored almost

When my mom told me that she really wanted to go to the Black Sea, I was skeptical. I didn’t know much about the Black Sea and I thought it would be similar to a not-so-pretty beach that’s close to