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FASPE’s Ethics Abroad Travel Program is an inspiring and compelling week-long program for intellectually curious travelers who are interested in engaging in FASPE’s distinctive approach to ethics and history. Participants travel to Berlin and Poland, with FASPE’s VIP access to historic and cultural sites (and their educators).
Upcoming Trips:
April 11 - 19, 2027
The program concludes the evening of the 18th with departures on the 19th
Ethics Abroad is a one week combination of lively conversation around critical issues of the day; engaging in the cultural (and culinary) fascinations of Berlin and Krakow; and a personalized exploration of what is no doubt the greatest ethical failure in modern history, culminating with a visit to the site, Auschwitz/Birkenau, that embodies that breakdown in basic humanity.
FASPE’s mission is to promote ethical leadership among professionals—beginning with recognition of the influence that professionals have on all aspects of contemporary society, and that with influence comes ethical responsibility.
[FASPE’s distinctive pedagogy begins by examining the roles and behavior of individual professionals who acted in support of Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today. By examining the behavior and motivations of those professionals who—by choice and action—enabled and executed Nazi policies, we create a lens that establishes the importance and urgency of self-awareness, professionalism, and ethical leadership today.]
The FASPE curriculum utilizes case studies, often using the example of professionals in Nazi Germany as the framing lens, to address themes within conceptual categories such as:
- The meaning of professionalism; what is the responsibility of a professional?
- Moral neutrality; is it enough to do my job well?
- Role morality; can I have a different moral structure at home than in my work?
- Personal and professional motivations; the requirement of self-awareness and humility.
- Dual loyalties; how do I navigate my various professional loyalties?
- The responsibility for unanticipated consequences; is that my job?
- The role of empathy; is that a professional requirement?
Trips are organized with a select and limited number of participants to ensure meaningful dialogue and special attention. They are led by FASPE faculty, composed of leading historians, professionals and ethicists.