This conference is the concluding event of IHRA's Education Research Project. The Education Research Project aims to provide an overview and a mapping of knowledge coming out of empirical research studies about teaching and learning about the Holocaust. The goal is to establish what can really be stated from empirical research about the current state of Holocaust education, taking us beyond anecdotal experiences and programmatic texts, in order to identify the key challenges and
opportunities.
A multilingual expert team has collected existing research in over ten languages, and undertaken a scholarly, critical review of a selected number of studies carried out in the field of Holocaust education. This multilingual aspect is a crucial dimension; it allows knowledge transfer and discussion between various regions and countries, as a
cross-language and cross-cultural initiative.
The final conference of this project aims to discuss the findings among educators, researchers, academics, educational experts, educational decision makers, NGOs, diplomats, and funding organizations, and to bring together these different groups in order to design the new directions and strategic approaches needed to further Holocaust education.
This International Conference will comprise a series of keynote presentations featuring the results not only of the IHRA's Education Research Project but also other major research studies in Holocaust education that are currently underway. The main part of the conference lasts two days, 15 and 16 February 2016. In the morning of 17 February there will be an opportunity for networking. This last half-day is designed to offer opportunities to research teams, academics and educators to build networks for future research projects and pilot projects.
Programme
Sunday 14.2.16: Pre-Program
from 14:00 Social Pre-Program: Bourbaki or Rosengart Collection / Excursion to Rigi / Boat trip on Lake Lucerne by inscription
Monday 15.2.16: Conference Day 1
09:00 - 09:20
Welcome and introduction Swiss Authorities and IHRA Chair
Benno Baettig DFAE, Head of the Swiss Delegation to the IHRA / Christian
Amsler, Government Council of the canton of Schaffhausen, Head of the
Department of Education, President of the Conference of Cantonal
Ministers of Education from the German Speaking Part of Switzerland
(D-EDK) / Szabolcs Takács, Chair of the IHRA
09:20 - 09:30
Introduction to the conference: aims of the conference
Monique Eckmann, Switzerland
09:30 - 10:30
Lecture: The IHRA Education Research Project - aims, challenges and findings
Monique Eckmann, Switzerland and Doyle Stevick, USA
11:00 - 13:00
5 Parallel presentations of the IHRA Education Research Project: Regional trends and thematic trends in research on Education about the Holocaust (long version):
1. Magda Gross, USA; 2. Oscar Österberg, Sweden; 3. Marta Simò, Spain;
4. Doyle Stevick, USA; 5. Mikhail Tyaglyy, Ukraine
14:15 - 15:15
5 Parallel presentations of the IHRA Education Research Project (short version)
15:45 - 16:45
Keynote lecture 1: "Educational Research on Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust" (provisional title)
Simone Schweber, USA
16:45 - 17:45
Keynote lecture 2: "Difficult Pasts and Conflicted Histories: Museums as Sites of Experiential Learning" (provisional title)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Poland
17:45 - 18:00
Retrospection on the first conference-day
Peter Gautschi, Switzerland
Tuesday, 16.2.16: Conference Day 2
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote lecture 3: "Conflicting narratives, education and emotions relating to traumatic experiences" (provisional title)
Michalinos Zembylas, Cyprus & Zvi Bekerman, Israel
10:25 - 13:00
4 parallel thematic research-panels (each 3 Inputs) focusing on recent research initiatives:
A. Classroom didactics/methods and interactions
1. Sabrina Moisan, Canada; 2. Niklas Ammert, Sweden; 3. Matthias Proske, Germany & Wolfgang Meseth (tbc), Germany
B. Comparative and transnational studies
1. Werner Dreier, Austria & Peter Gautschi, Switzerland; 2. Peter Carrier, GEI & Karel Fracapane UNESCO; 3. Stanislas Hommet, France
C. Multicultural classroom/ competing memories
1. Michal Bilewicz, Poland; 2. Elke Gryglewski, Germany; 3. Benoît Falaize, France (tbc)
D. Student's knowledge and attitudes
1. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Poland; 2. Alice Pettigrew & Paul Salmons, Great Britain; 3. Paula Cowan, Scotland
14:30 - 15:00
Introduction to the roundtables
15:00 - 16:00
Roundtable: Funders conclusions, view on the research, recommendations.
Moderator: Debòrah Dwork, USA
16:30 - 17:30
Welcome to the roundtable: Bernard Wicht, EDK, Switzerland
Roundtable 2: Educational Policy and curriculum Makers: Inputs from Research and Perspectives for Educational Policies
Moderator: Cecilie Stokholm Banke, Danemark
17:30 - 17:45
Retrospect and Prospect
Bodo von Borries, Germany
Wednesday 17.2.2016: Networking Post-Conference
09:15 - 09:45
Networking Post-conference: Further conclusions and operational perspectives after the conference
Small plenary
09:45 - 12:00
Poster-presentations, project-meetings, discussions
5 small group rooms
Date
15.-16.2.2016
You will find further informations on the conference website.
