Study Tours
The Cohen Institute’s study tour program offers experiential learning through travel to significant sites in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Each study tour typically includes pre-departure education (discussions, lectures, and readings), experiential learning abroad (museums, educational tours), cultural experiences (engaging with food, art, and people), and opportunities to share aspects of the experience with local or state-wide audiences upon participants’ return home. The target audience for these trips includes educators, community members, elected officials, KSC alumni, faculty and staff, and others.
Spain: Fascism, War, Memory, Lessons
July 2027 (Dates TBA) | Spain
The Cohen Institute is actively planning its next study tour. During July 2027, we will travel to Spain for an 8-day trip (dates TBA). Through pre-departure educational sessions held on Zoom and in the course of our travels, we will learn about the relationship between the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and World War II, the process of militarization under Franco, the methods of social control during the dictatorship (1939-1975), and the ways in which Spaniards have dealt with the traumatic memories of political repression and social fragmentation. Historical lectures and tours will be paired with cultural activities and visits to other significant memory sites in Madrid and Barcelona. The target audience for this trip is educators, community members, elected officials, alumni, and KSC faculty and staff.
Please email coheninstitute@keene.edu if you would like to learn more about this study tour. Enrollment will be open soon!
A limited number of partial scholarships are available to educators and other people who have ideas for how their participation in the trip might be shared in high-impact ways with their schools and/or communities. Please email coheninstitute@keene.edu if you are interested in learning more about funding.
Past Study Tours
| Year | Destination and Trip Leaders |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Jewish Refugees and Indigenous Rights in Australia: Intertwined Histories, to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia (led by Dr. John Sturtz and Dr. Kate Gibeault) |
| 2025 | International Human Rights in the Wake of the Holocaust, to Nuremberg, Strasbourg, and The Hague (led by Dr. Phil Barker and Dr. Kate Gibeault) |
| 2024 | Origins and Evolution of the Holocaust, to Germany and Poland (led by Dr. Dana Smith and Dr. Kate DeConinck) |
| 2017 | Bosnia and Herzegovina (led by Judge Patricia Whalen and Dr. Hank Knight) |
| 2010 | Eastern Europe (led by Dr. Paul Vincent and Dr. Hank Knight) |
