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 of the three-year, EU-funded project TeacMem, which involves partners from Denmark, Germany and Norway. The participants (teaching educators, historians, teachers, memorial educators, disseminators and students) have studied the memory cultures regarding the Nazi era and World War II in the three countries. Together, they have developed and tested a range of educational methods for transferring knowledge about this subject in memorials and schools.

The concluding conference will feature the presentation of a publication and film. Participants will also talk about the methods they have developed during the project, which will be demonstrated in workshops.

The conference will take place in the Lichthof building of the Hamburg University Library and in the Centre for Historical Studies of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.

The language of the conference will be English.

More information please find here Conference Programme_Oct 24, 2012_extern or write an Email to Ulrike Pastoor (ulrike.pastoor@uni-hamburg.de)

Please register until November 7th, 2012.

From: Hannah Holtschneider <thefutureofholocauststudies@gmail.com>
Date: 16.07.2012
Subject: CFP: The Future of Holocaust Studies – Southampton and
Winchester 07/13
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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

As we approach the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camps in
2014 and 2015, the era of the living witnesses to the events of the
Holocaust is drawing to a close. This conference will explore current
and future trends in Holocaust studies, assessing the discipline after
70 years of historical research and its popular dissemination, and 70
years of cultural production, Holocaust education and musealisation.
What is the current relationship between the Holocaust in history,
memory and culture? How is this being informed and problematised by
other genocides, past and present? What will be the future of Holocaust
studies?

This major international conference is organised in conjunction with
Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, the Universities of
Southampton, Winchester, Edinburgh, Chester and London (the Institute of
Education’s Centre for Holocaust Education), the Holocaust Educational
Trust and the Higher Education Academy. We invite contributions that
address the production, exhibition, and reception of all forms of
Holocaust representation, from history writing through museums, films
and television to classical and popular music, internet and videogames,
literature, fine and performing arts. Moreover, the conference aims to
debate and discuss these issues as challenges that we all face as
educators and researchers, and to encourage engagement with these
provocative questions through exchange between academics and
practitioners, scholars and teachers, being aware that the questions,
challenges and roles listed here often also coincide. Are the demands of
the classroom reflected in the questions posed by researchers – and vice
versa? How and to what extent can recent cultural approaches to the
Holocaust be used by educators? What are their strengths and limitations
as teaching tools?

This will be a residential conference over three days. There will be
some funding available for bursaries for postgraduates and other
scholars whose home institutions cannot meet conference costs.

We welcome individual paper and panel proposals which address the future
of Holocaust studies in any relevant discipline. We envisage focusing
particularly on the areas of historiography, museums and public history
and, broadly defined, culture.

Individual proposals of no more than 300 words, and brief biographies of
no more than 100 words, should be sent to:
futureofholocauststudies@gmail.com by 16 November 2012.

Organising Committee:
Dr James Jordan (University of Southampton)
Professor Tom Lawson (University of Winchester)
Dr Emiliano Perra (University of Winchester)
Dr Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh)
Dr Tim Grady (University of Chester)
Kay Andrews (Centre for Holocaust Education, University of London)
Peter D’Sena (Higher Education Academy)
Alex Maws (Holocaust Education Trust)

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Hannah Holtschneider

University of Edinburgh

thefutureofholocauststudies@gmail.com

Homepage <http://thefutureofholocauststudies.wordpress.com/>

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