Category Archives: Public Debate

Ref.: International Comparison on Holocaust as a Subject in Schools

The Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Schoolbook Research today launched a short abstract to first findings of a comparative project on how the Holocaust is treated in schools worldwide: GEI.DE: Zum schulischen Umgang mit dem Holocaust weltweit – eine Studie des Georg-Eckert-Instituts … Continue reading

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New Article on Competence-Orientated History Learning at Memorials

Schreiber, Waltraud (2012): »„Kraft der Freiheit – Geist der Diktatur“. Über die Herausforderung, Besucherinnen und Besucher an Gedenkstätten in der Entwicklung ihrer historischen Kompetenz zu fördern«, in: Karin Fuchs/Karin Fuchs/Raffael von Niederhäusern et al. (Hg.), Kompetenzentwicklung an aussserschulischen Lernorten. Tagungsband … Continue reading

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International Dissemination Conference of the Comenius Project TeacMem (Nov 19 – Nov 21, 2012)

Learning Memory Culture. Concepts and Methods for Historical Learning in Memorials and Museums – International Dissemination Conference of the Comenius Project TeacMem (Nov 19 – Nov 21, 2012) How can we approach historical remembrance? This question lies at the heart … Continue reading

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CFP: The Future of Holocaust Studies – Southampton and Winchester 07/13

From: Hannah Holtschneider <thefutureofholocauststudies@gmail.com> Date: 16.07.2012 Subject: CFP: The Future of Holocaust Studies – Southampton and Winchester 07/13 ———————————————————————— The Universities of Southampton, Winchester, Edinburgh and Chester 29.07.2013-31.07.2013, Southampton and Winchester, University of Southampton and University of Winchester Deadline: 16.11.2012 … Continue reading

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Memory Revisited. The Holocaust in European Art and Popular Culture in the New Millennium – Uppsala 03/13

That seems to be a very interesting conference!

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Challenging free teaching material available about the Soviet Story

Dear Members of the EUROCLIO network, The Soviet Story is a documentary film, made by the Latvian Edvins Snore in 2008, about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941. The film is sponsored by the UEN Group in the European … Continue reading

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Museum Controversy

In the Jewish Museum New York artists created in 2002 “provocating forms” of dealing with Holocaust History. The exhibition was called “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/ Recent Art”. Here is a link to the Modiya Project: http://modiya.nyu.edu/handle/1964/256

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Third TeacMem Seminar in Oslo finished

Yesterday, March 28th, 2012, the Third TeacMem Seminar in Oslo finished its exploration of Norwegian Memory Culture and of Educational Methods for addressing them in competence-orientated history classes. From March 25th to 28th, Students in Teacher Training and Multicultural Education … Continue reading

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Third TeacMem Seminar in Oslo started

Yesterday, on March 25th, 2012, the third Seminar started with a venue of 15 students and roughly the same number of other participants from teacher training institutions, schools and museums resp. memorials from Hamburg (Germany), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Bergen and … Continue reading

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Discussion about Auschwitz Barracks

Today the german online magazine spiegel is reporting about a discussion between the Holocaust Museum in Washington and the Polish Governments. For more information please use the folowing link: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,822236,00.html

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