Purpose UNESCO is convening an experts meeting with educators and scholars specializing in Holocaust issues to analyze various aspects of the relationship between Holocaust education and remembrance processes. The expert meeting will analyze how and why the genocide of the Jewish people has become a global reference for mass violence, as well as the challenges this entails in education. It will outline the role Holocaust Education can play in tackling difficult issues of the past in different national contexts and will explore ways to manage divisive and competitive memories through education. Programme Welcome address: Mr Qian TANG, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO Introduction: Mr Thomas LUTZ, Topography of Terror Foundation, 10.00 Session 1: Pedagogical Challenges of the Globalization of Holocaust Education 10.40 Break The Holocaust has become a global reference, beyond the regions where it took place. What in the nature of this genocide makes it a universal reference and a paradigm of mass violence? How can educators meet the challenges of this globalization? Mr Peter LONGERICH, historian, University of London, United Kingdom: Specificities of the Holocaust in history Mr Falk PINGEL, education consultant, Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, : From European to global event
10.50 Session 1 continued: Meeting the global challenge, examples of good practices Ms Leora SCHAEFER, Director for Canada, Facing History and Ourselves Ms Jennifer CIARDELLI, educator, National Institute of Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA Moderator: Mr Matthias HASS, Topography of Terror Foundation, 12.15 Lunch Break 13.45 Session 2: Holocaust Education as a Catalyser for National Memories Placed in different contexts, education on the Holocaust is confronted with epistemological and pedagogical challenges. Holocaust education may however, if comparisons are handled with care by educators, help tackle difficult issues of the past. Mr Paul SALMONS, Programme Director, Centre for Holocaust Education, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom: Challenges of comparative approaches of genocides and crimes against Humanity in an educational context Case studies: Latin America: Ms Estela SCHINDEL, University of Konstanz, China: Mr Xin XU, historian, Nanjin University, China South Africa: Mr Richard FREEDMAN, Director, Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, South Africa Moderator: Mr Karel FRACAPANE, Section of Education for Peace and Human Rights, UNESCO 15.45 Break
16.00 Session 3: Towards a Pluralistic and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance Holocaust education is intimately intertwined with memorial narratives, which can be fragmented and divisive. How to build on education to prevent conflicts of memories? Mr Matthias HEYL, educator, Memorial Museum Ravensbrück, Case studies: European issues: Mr Werner DREIER, Director, erinnern.at, National Socialism and the Holocaust: Memory and Present, Austria Mr Michael BROWN, co-director of the project Learning from the Past, teaching for the Future, York University in Toronto, Canada Moderator: Thomas LUTZ, Topography of Terror Foundation, Mémorial de la Shoah More information on: www.unesco.org/education/holocaust
Participating Experts BOLLIN Brittney, Permanent Office of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research BROWN Michael, York University in Toronto, Canada BRUTIN Batya, Beit Berl College, Israel CAPACCHI Françoise, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Belgium CHYRIKINS Mariela, Anne Frank House, The Netherlands CIARDELLI Jennifer, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States CORBI Henar, Casa Sefarad-Israel, Spain DREIER Werner, _Erinnern.at_, Austria FREEDMAN Richard, South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, South Africa HASS Matthias, Topography of Terror, HEYL Matthias, Ravensbrück Memorial, JOVICIC Natasa, Jasenovac Memorial, Croatia KABANDA Marcel, IBUKA France, Rwanda/France KALISMAN Raya, Beth Lohamei Hagetaot, Center for Humanistic Education, Israel LAMOTTE Ruth, Government of Flanders, Belgium LONGERICH Peter, University of London, United Kingdom LUTZ Thomas, Topography of Terror, MALANHOUA Kouassi Aimé, UNESCO Chair for a Culture of Peace, Côte d'ivoire MILETIC Loranda, Education and Teacher Training Agency, Croatia MUGINAREZA Assumpta, IRIBA Centre, Rwanda PERRIN Alban, Shoah Memorial, France PINGEL Falk, Georg Eckert Institute, RADKIN Abe, Aladdin Project, France SALMONS Paul, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom SCHEAFER Leora, Facing History and Ourselves, Canada SHINDEL Estela, Konstanz University, STANESCU Maria, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) TIAN Xiangjun, Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum, China TRIMBUR Dominique, Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, France WOOLF Inge, Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre, New Zealand XIN Xu, University of Nanjing, China With the participation of the UNESCO Permanent Delegations of Belgium, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, Uruguay and the United States of America