Recent Member Activities
Multidisciplinary scientific conferences at the University of Split Croatia
Two interesting international multidisciplinary scientific conferences organized in May by the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split , Croatia:
„Relation between clergy and nation in SE Europe from the 19th to the 21st century“ was the theme of the conference held between the 3rd and the 6th of May in Split, Croatia. Co-organized by the Commission for History of SE Europe of the Foundation „Pro Oriente“, Catholic Faculty of Theolog...
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Hamburg, Germany: EUSTORY Annual General Assembly 2012
From 12-13 April 2012 the organizers of the national history competitions within EUSTORY, the History Network for young Europeans, gathered at the premises of the Körber Foundation in Hamburg for their Annual General Assembly. The core topic of the annual conference was the link between democracy education/citizenship education and history. Professor Bèatrice Ziegler, Director of the Centre for Civic and History Education at the Centre for Democratic Education in Aarau,...
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German-Polish History Textbook Enters the Next Project Phase
The work on the individual volumes of the “German Polish History Textbook” can now be commenced. The next phase in this project can now be completed after publishers have been secured on both the German and the Polish side. The textbook is curricula conform and identical (except in language) and can be used in both countries as conventional textbooks for history lessons in “Sekundarstufe I”. The book coincides with the traditional curricula contents (from prehis...
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German-Czech Textbook Conference in Prague
The twelfth German-Czech Textbook Conference, devoted to ‘History Teaching between Mass Media, Textbooks and Teaching Materials’, took place from 26 to 28 January in Prague. Among the talks were empirical studies of the significance of films as educational media, and of the emergence of historical consciousness in the Czech Republic, as well as two presentations of web-based teaching materials dealing with the Czech-German border (www.schulportal-thueringen.de and www.onlinemodule...
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Online Platform for German-French History and Geography lessons available online
After its transition to the content management TYPO3, the internet portal DEUFRAMAT (German-French materials for history and geography lessons) is online again, with a new design and various complementary tools. The bilingual portal, which was developed ten years ago with the support of the Robert Bosch foundation and the German Federal Foreign Office, consists of over 100 academic articles on the historical and geographical, societal and cultural relationships of the two countries, from a Ge...
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German-Israeli Textbook Commission: Experts meet at the Villa von Bülow
The historians of the German-Israeli textbook commission met for the second time on 15th February 2012. The workshop at the Georg Eckert Institute focussed on history textbooks. The experts from the “History Work Group” came together to evaluate progress made so far and to plan the next steps.
The methods with which the textbooks are analysed were explained by history didactition Alfons Kenkmann for the German side and mediaevalist Simcha Goldin for the Israeli side.They drew...
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Conference - "Lost in Translation"
Europe is a fragile construct. For some, Europe is synonymous with progress, humanity and freedom – for others it stands for intolerance and slavery, colonialism and genocide. Who translates the various, often rivaling perceptions of Europe and in what way?
The network for this project, supported by the BMBF, explores, together with the Universities of Kassel and Gießen and the Center for Contemporary Research in Potsdam, how perceptions of Europe have changed throughout the major 2...
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Zentrum Polis: Young ideas for Europe
Since 2011 Zentrum polis has been a partner of Young Ideas for Europe. This European project, which is an initiative of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Inspiring young people for the European idea and shaping Europe with their visions are the main goals of this project. polis coordinates the project week, where young people have the possibility to debate and develop their ideas for energy policy and climate change, together with a partner school of another European country.
In Austria t...
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Fourth Advisory Board Meeting of the Georg Eckert Institute
The members of the Georg Eckert institute met on 10 November in Braunschweig, Germany. They were welcomed by the director, Simone Laessig,who informed them about the results of 2011, a special year as it was the first Year the Institute has been operating within the framework of the Leibnitz Academic community. The profile of the institute is now firmly in research and several research projects were explained. The German/Polish Textbook Committee will celebrate its 40 years anniversary in 201...
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Linking the Past with the present - EUSTORY Seminars 2011-11-09
"Brussels: City of Minorities?" and "Neglected Victims - the Fate of Soviet Prisoners of WW II"
43 prize winners from EUSTORY competitions in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Ukraine participated in the two seminars EUSTORY offered in 2011. This year the students had the chance to discover what it means to be part of an ethnic minority living in Brussels or to find out mor...
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In the Press...
(05/25/12) Bosnia-Herzegovina: The War of Narratives
Source: Transconflict
For centuries the Balkans has suffered from too much history and too little mutual understanding. Winston Churchill perfectly enca...
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(02/22/12) Afghanistan; a new approach to teaching history: Leave out the wars
Source The Washington Post
Published: February 5
By Kevin Sieff
KABUL — In a country where the recent past has unfolded like a war epic...
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(01/26/12) Report on State of History Education Released!
Source: Teachinghistory.org
Date: 23 January 2012
What role do your state’s history standards play ...
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(01/26/12) EP Urges formation of Form Joint Committee on History with Bulgaria
Source: Novinite
Date: 24 January 2012
The European Parliament has urged the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to create a joint expert committ...
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(01/24/12) Ireland: An early end to history
Source: The Irish Times
Date: 28 December 2011
Sir, – From September 2014, history and geography are set to become compulsory in ...
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(01/24/12) Malaysia: History lessons must be objective
Source: The Star Online
Date: 29 December 2011
History education should tell us where we come from, how we have become the way we are a...
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(01/09/12) Real-time WWII twitter feed will create 'living memory'
From Channel 4 News: A Twitter account is reporting the events of World War II as it happened, minute by minute, for the next six years.
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(12/15/11) Launch of Eurypedia
On December 5th EUROCLIO was present at the launch of Eurypedia-The European Encyclopedia on National Education Systems, a new online resource for understand...
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Upcoming Events
| 31/05-31/05: European Civic Forum General Assembly 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark., (General Events) |
| 14/06-16/06: Turkey: 2nd International Symposium on History Education Trabzon, Turkey, (Member Event) |
| 17/06-21/06: 8th International Conference on the Holocaust and Education Jeruzalem, Israel, (Partner Event) |
| 27/06-29/06: Third Capacity Building and Curriculum Assessment Workshop in Veles Veles Macedonia, (History that Connects) |
| 29/06-01/07: Fifth Regional Work Session in the EUROCLIO Programme History that Connects Veles Macedonia, (History that Connects) |
| 04/07-05/07: 1st Regional Conference in the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme Tbilisi, Georgia, (Sharing History) |
| 06/07-08/07: Schools History Project 2012 Conference Leeds, United Kingdom, (Partner Event) |
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