A large shipping container is on campus to serve as a “portal” equipped with immersive audio-visual technology that allows people to have live, person-to-person conversations with individuals in displaced communities in Iraq, Jordan, and Germany (refugees from Syria) who are in an identical shipping container across the globe.
The effort at HDS is being organized by the Religious Literacy Project. Diane Moore, its director, traveled to Iraq within the last year and heard from refugees that they want people to hear their stories, and that they were frustrated so many people have little understating of what’s taking place.
Students in Moore’s class participated, in addition to high school students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.