Browse our videos! Here you can find recordings from our events, including the European Remembrance Symposia and Genealogies of Memory conferences, video summaries of our educational youth projects, as well as Hi-story lessons animations for teachers and pupils.
Sound in the Silence is an intercultural and international remembrance project for youth. At historically challenging locations students work with artists representing different artistic fields in order to understand how the past is connected to their questions in the present.
This film presents the 2022/2023 edition of the programme during the conference “What’s the Point of History… If We Never Learn?” that took place in Berlin on 16-17 October.
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Roundtable discussion titled “Between Trauma, Memory and Forgetting - Nuclear, Environmental and Human-Induced Disasters in the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Discourses on Nuclear, Global and Environmental Crises.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “'Slow violence' and Memory of Industrial Catastrophes.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Hunger and Food Shortages - Collective Memory of Survival Strategies.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Narratives of Wartime Famines - Between Individual and Collective Memory.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Remembering Holodomor.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Narrating Covid-19.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Modern Epidemics - Between Trauma and Denial.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Inconvenient to Remember? Spanish Flu and Past Epidemics in Central and Eastern Europe.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Keynote lecture by Dora Vargha (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of Exeter) titled “Epidemic Times after the End: a History.”
The debate “Europe on the Move: A Debate on the Centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne” took place on 1 December 2023 in Bremerhaven, Germany.
The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, which ended the Greco-Turkish War and initiated the so-called 'population exchange' between Greece and Turkey. The treaty also became the ultimate peace agreement to conclude the First World War.
The debate, which will focus on the role of 20th-century migration (history) in today’s collective European memory. The panelists discussed forced migration resulting from wars, persecution, and political decisions, as well as population movements that are less politically controlled, more individually planned, and even 'voluntary.’
The second panel discussion focuses on less politically controlled, more individually planned, 'voluntary' population movements. Triggered by a variety of factors such as economic, demographic or social reasons, these movements have had social, political and cultural significance, dynamically changing (to this day) the reality of all the countries of the continent, including those of the European Union, where freedom of movement has been defined as one of the foundations of the community.
This project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
The debate “Europe on the Move: A Debate on the Centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne” took place on 1 December 2023 in Bremerhaven, Germany.
The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, which ended the Greco-Turkish War and initiated the so-called 'population exchange' between Greece and Turkey. The treaty also became the ultimate peace agreement to conclude the First World War.
The debate, which will focus on the role of 20th-century migration (history) in today’s collective European memory. The panelists discussed forced migration resulting from wars, persecution, and political decisions, as well as population movements that are less politically controlled, more individually planned, and even 'voluntary.’
The first panel discussion deals with forced migration resulting from wars, persecution and political decisions. However, they will be approached not so much from a factual perspective as from the point of view of their impact on the memory and subsequent actions of both the states and societies affected by them.
This project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
The debate “Europe on the Move: A Debate on the Centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne” took place on 1 December 2023 in Bremerhaven, Germany.
The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, which ended the Greco-Turkish War and initiated the so-called 'population exchange' between Greece and Turkey. The treaty also became the ultimate peace agreement to conclude the First World War.
The debate, which will focus on the role of 20th-century migration (history) in today’s collective European memory. The panelists discussed forced migration resulting from wars, persecution, and political decisions, as well as population movements that are less politically controlled, more individually planned, and even 'voluntary.’
The opening lecture "People on the Move"? Re-Thinking Narratives and Concepts through the Reflexive Turn in Migration Research by Prof. Christoph Rass (University of Osnabrück, Germany) aims to provide an overview of the most important types of migration that shaped European history in the 20th century. Afterwards it tries to resume the main impacts of migration on European societies from a 21st century point of view.
This project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
Reportaż i nauka to różne języki opisu i sposoby poznawania świata. Jak nauka może czerpać z narracyjnych możliwości i wrażliwego podejścia w reportażu i, vice versa, jak literatura non-fiction może korzystać z zasobu naukowych pojęć i systematyzacji? Czy próba takiego transdyscyplinarnego i transgatunkowego dialogu pozwoli nam lepiej zrozumieć to, co się dzieje z polską i europejską pamięcią?
Cykl dyskusji „Zrozumieć pamięć” składa się z pięciu rozmów historyków i reporterów. Pierwsze wydarzenie odbyło się 24. października 2023 w Domu Spotkań z Historią w Warszawie.
Wystąpią:
Filip Springer, Mein Gott, jak pięknie
Małgorzata Praczyk, Pamięć środowiskowa we wspomnieniach osadników na „Ziemiach Odzyskanych”
Prowadzenie: Małgorzata Pakier
Session 3: ‘Remembrance and Dealing with Conflicted Topics and Parties’
Speakers:
Oriol López-Badell, European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), Barcelona
Łukasz Kamiński, Ossolineum Library Wrocław, Wrocław
Kamil Nedvědický, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR), Prague
Aurora Ailincai, Council of Europe, Observatory on History Teaching in Europe, Strasbourg
Moderation: Andrea Despot, Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ), Berlin
The “What’s the point of history… if we never learn?” Dialogue, Remembrance and Solidarity in Europe. New Challenges for Public History and Historical Education international forum took place on 16-17 October in Berlin. The event was organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity with the Federal Institute For Culture And History of Eastern Europe (BKGE) and in cooperation with Stiftung Humboldt Forum.
The event aimed to showcase the diversity of perspectives that serve as a basis for discussing the current challenges for history teaching in public spaces and historical education. During the forum, we wished to focus on a shared conversation about the past and its importance for seeking the truth, peace, democracy, freedom and tolerance, as well as for a remembrance that respects differences, looks for connections and strengthens understanding and solidarity in Europe.
The forum was an event attended by politicians and representatives of cultural educational institutions, as well as actors in the field of historical and political education.
Session 2: ‘Remembrance at Sites of Memory and in Urban Spaces’
Speakers:
Axel Klausmeier, Berlin Wall Foundation, Berlin
Chantal Kesteloot, Cegesoma/State Archives, Brussels
Robert Kostro, Polish History Museum Warsaw, Warsaw
József Mélyi, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Fine Art
Theory Department, Budapest
Moderation: Constanze Itzel, House of European History, Brussels
The “What’s the point of history… if we never learn?” Dialogue, Remembrance and Solidarity in Europe. New Challenges for Public History and Historical Education international forum took place on 16-17 October in Berlin. The event was organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity with the Federal Institute For Culture And History of Eastern Europe (BKGE) and in cooperation with Stiftung Humboldt Forum.
The event aimed to showcase the diversity of perspectives that serve as a basis for discussing the current challenges for history teaching in public spaces and historical education. During the forum, we wished to focus on a shared conversation about the past and its importance for seeking the truth, peace, democracy, freedom and tolerance, as well as for a remembrance that respects differences, looks for connections and strengthens understanding and solidarity in Europe.
The forum was an event attended by politicians and representatives of cultural educational institutions, as well as actors in the field of historical and political education.
Session 1: ‘Remembrance and Education on the Internet and in Other Media’
Speakers:
Paweł Sawicki, Auschwitz Memorial, Katowice
Marlene Wöckinger, TikTok creator, educator, Mauthausen Memorial, Linz
Vjeran Pavlaković, University Rijeka, Department of Cultural Studies, Zagreb
Alina Gorlova, film director and producer, Kyiv
Moderation: Ulrich Herrmann, author and commissioning editor SWR, Baden-Baden
The “What’s the point of history… if we never learn?” Dialogue, Remembrance and Solidarity in Europe. New Challenges for Public History and Historical Education international forum took place on 16-17 October in Berlin. The event was organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity with the Federal Institute For Culture And History of Eastern Europe (BKGE) and in cooperation with Stiftung Humboldt Forum.
The event aimed to showcase the diversity of perspectives that serve as a basis for discussing the current challenges for history teaching in public spaces and historical education. During the forum, we wished to focus on a shared conversation about the past and its importance for seeking the truth, peace, democracy, freedom and tolerance, as well as for a remembrance that respects differences, looks for connections and strengthens understanding and solidarity in Europe.
The forum was an event attended by politicians and representatives of cultural educational institutions, as well as actors in the field of historical and political education.