In Your Shoes™ US-China
Georgetown Collaboration Brings Students Together to Discuss Identity and Perspective in the U.S.-China Context
The Lab humanizes global politics through performance. We cultivate a distinctive global community of collaborators that includes students, emerging and established artists, educators, policy leaders, and activists. Our work harnesses narrative, memory, and acts of witnessing with the aim of sparking transformation and change.
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In Your Shoes™ (IYS) employs innovative techniques tobrings students from diverse backgrounds into dialogue with one another to promote mutual understanding and empathy. … MORE
On September 22, 2023, the Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues hosted “Children on the Move: A Child-centered Policy and Learning Workshop,” an event that centered children in the discourse around forced displacement and migration. … MORE
What People Are Saying
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“That is why I think this effort that The Lab is doing today is so critical…the power of performance, the power of storytelling, and the power of narrative, are absolutely essential. In my mind, they are some of the only things that can actually have an influence on the political dialogue in this very, very peculiar moment in the politics of the United States and Europe.”
Joel Hellman
Dean of Georgetown School of Foreign Service“The Lab brings policy experts, employees from the State Department and embassies, American and global theater practitioners, students, and community members that can speak firsthand to the experiences you’re depicting on stage all in the same room-commenting and asking questions of your piece. There is no place besides The Lab that can create a conversation on a play like this. It was invaluable.”
Heather Raffo
Playwright and Lab Think Tank Member“[The Lab’s] goal is to put a human face on global politics…The nuts and bolts of it is to put people in a room from wildly diverse beliefs, political postures, cultural identities, and have them reckon with these issues that impact millions of lives today.”
David Strathairn
Jan Karski in Remember This: The Lesson of Jan KarskiAt a time characterized by polarization and distrust, the need for approaches that humanize others through narrative and empathy has never been greater. The Lab is dependent on outside funding in order to make our work possible.
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