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Remembrance

Dealing with the legacy of a violent past inHistory and Heritage education

Programme and information19 - 24 March 2016, Belfast, Northern-Ireland

23rd Annual EUROCLIO ProfessionalDevelopment and Training Conference

In Cooperation with

History Educators in Northern

Ireland

Reimagining

Foreword

Conference Programme: 23rd EUROCLIO Annual Professional Training and Development Conference, 1924 March 2016, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Societies which have experienced conflict and reached a peace accord have difficulty inmoving from "negative" to "positive" peace. Often remembering and commemorating thedifficult past presents particular challenges in the reconciliation process for governments,civil society and history educators. Northern Ireland is no exception to this. Thisconference will take place close to Easter, 2016. In the spring and summer of that yeartwo important events are being commemorated locally, the Easter Rising and the first dayof the Battle of the Somme, both of which, subsequently, have helped shape cultural andpolitical attitudes in Northern Ireland and beyond.

These commemorations are part of a series of events, 191222, which contributed to thepartition of Ireland and are now being remembered in a Decade of Centenaries. Theseoccasions can be exclusive and therefore cause community tensions but there is also thepotential to reexamine their significance from a wider range of perspectives including thepresent and, thereby, reimagine the contribution this deeper understanding might make tobuild a transformative peace.Participants attending the conference would have the opportunity to engage with the ongoing debate within civil society as to how best these events might be handled, toexperience educational initiatives to help young people better understand the Decade'shistorical and contemporary importance and to reflect on how similar events areremembered in their own countries.The 23rd edition of the EUROCLIO Annual Professional Development and TrainingConference in 2016 will focus on the roles, impact and challenges of the decade’shistorical and contemporary importance and to reflect on remembering andcommemorating the difficult past presents particular challenges in the reconciliationprocess for governments, civil society and history educators.

The Northern Ireland history community has had over 40 years’ experience of teachingsensitive history in a divided society. During that time it has gained considerable expertisethrough adopting an enquiry based, multiperspective approach and applying the historicalprocess to sensitive events from the past. It has also encountered significant challenges,not least in developing in teachers the aptitude, skills and confidence to enable them tomove beyond the distant narrative and make connections between the difficult past andthe contentious present. The programme is premised on the view that local practitionerscan influence the practice of visitors but also that engagement with the innovative ideas ofvisiting educators can deepen the professional knowledge of all participants. Thisprogramme provides an overview of what events and discussions will take place duringthe week. As you can see, each day will have a theme of discussion that will developthroughout the week and help fuel the debate on an important aspect on the discipline ofhistory and how it ties in with ideas of citizenship.

AT A GLANCE

For details on the exact location ofeach element of the programme, lookinto the day to day programme.

Message from the EUROCLIO president


Dear friends of EUROCLIO,

We are proud to introduce to you the program of the23th EUROCLIO Annual Conference and ProfessionalTraining Development Course in Belfast: ReimaginingRemembrance. In the coming week we will discuss howwe can deal with the legacy of a violent past in historyand heritage education and how sensitive events shouldbe remembered. We hope the lectures, workshops, discussions, school and museumvisits will contribute to your professional development and that you will have plenty ofopportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from different participating countries. I'dlike to thank all who contributed to this Conference, especially the local organizers, themembers of the EUROCLIO Secretariat and of course our sponsors. Without theirgenerous contributions it would not have been possible to organize this conference.

I wish you all a wonderful week in the beautiful city of Belfast.

Marjan de GrootReuvekamp, EUROCLIO president

Saturday19 March

Sunday20 March

Monday21 March

Tuesday22 March

Wednesday23 March

Thursday24 March

All day arrival of

participants

15:00 Start of

Registration

17:00 Welcoming

ceremony:

Marjan de GrootReuvekamp,

Jonathan EvenZohar

Alan McCully, Robert Heslip18:0018.30

Carmel GallagherThe history of

history education in

Northern Ireland: a

SWOT analysis

19:00 Drinks

reception

19:30 Meet the

delegates,

Icebreaking, warm

buffet with snacks,

culture from across

Europe.

8:30 Registration

09.00 Welcome by

the National

Museums Northern

Ireland/Ulster

Museum PaddyGilmor, Fiona

Baird 09.15 Historiana

Your Portal to the

Past RobertStradling, Steven

Stegers09.30 How have

commemorations

sustained

tensions? EamonPhoenix

What does 1916

mean for 2016 and

beyond? Philip Orr11:30 Discussion

Panel

14:00 Departure

from the museum

and start of the

thematic tour

around the Belfast

murals

17:45 Exchange

and Learning

sessions

18:45 Departure to

dinner venue

9:00 Tony

Gallagher The role

of education

systems in

a divided society

10:15 John

O’Dowd, Minister

of Education,

Allen

Thurston, Tatiana

Milko

10:45 International

Fair

11:15 Discussion

Panel

12:45 Lunch

13:40 Collaboration

Session Europeana

14:00 Parallel

Workshops 1

(15:30 break)

16:00 Parallel

Workshops 2

16:00 Departure to

Belfast Castle

7:45 (!) \Departure

to Nerve Centre or

Corrymeela

9:45 Round 1

tours

11:15

Departure to

Nerve Centre

or Corrymeela

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Round

2 tours

18:30 Dinner and

International Pub

Quiz

8:30

Departure to

schools

9:00 Small

Educational

study visits

12:30 Return to

venue with lunch

13:45

Presentation

Luisa de Bivar

Black

14:00 Parallel

Workshops

16:00 17:30

Plenary workshop19:30 Gala

Reception and

Dinner

8:30 Registration

for EUROCLIO

General

Assembly

9:00 EUROCLIO

General

Assembly

12:30 Lunch and

tour at museum

14:00

Dialogue Tables

16:00 Concluding

Session

19:00 Dinner at

Titanic Andrews

Gallery

Free evening

= Official programme= Registration, lunch= Departure (on site learning)= Workshop= Fun & food

18:30 Dinner at

Belfast Castle

Aysel Gojayeva, Conference Manager EUROCLIO, Tel: +31614613595Anna van der Tas, Conference Assistent EUROCLIO, Tel: +31611476716

Practical Information

Contact Information


Emergency number: 999Country code: +44Taxi: +44 28 9080 9080Currency is Pound Sterling

In the previously send Conference Information package additional information is provided.

Queen's University,Medical Biology Centre (A)97 Lisburn RoadBelfast BT9 7BLNorthern IrelandTel: +44 (0)28 9097 5787

Ulster Museum (B)Botanic GardensBelfast County Antrim BT95ABUnited KingdomTel: +44 28 9044 0000

City Hall Belfast (D)Donegall Square S.Belfast BT1 5GSUnited KingdomTel: +44 28 9032 0202

A

B

C

D

E

Belfast City Hospital (C)Lisburn RdBelfast BT9 7ABUnited KingdomTel: +44 28 9032 9241

City Centre (E)College Av./Castle St.

Sponsors and partners

Support for participation


Council of Europe, History Teaching Unit supports the participation of two experts who will lead plenarydebates and workshops.

Council of Europe, Citizenship Education Unit supports the participation of one expert who ill present theFramework of Competences for Democratic Culture

Danish History Teachers Association together with a private donation supports the participation of a historyeducator from BosniaHerzegovina.

EU Europe for Citizens Programme supports the participation of the EUROCLIO Board and Staff Membersthrough the fouryear framework partnership agreement that the European Remembrance Unit has withEUROCLIO in 20142017

EU Connecting Europe Facility supports the participation of two EUROCLIO project managers and one BoardMember

Open Society Foundations, Education Support Programme supports the participation of four experts,educators and civil society experts from Croatia, Poland and the United Kingdom, which will meet during theconference to prepare a new project entitled "Football. A People's History of Europe. Legacies and Memories ofEurope's favorite sport for inclusive history education"

This booklet was designed by Romana Sijakovic with

Welcoming ceremony with opening presentations by

Registration opens

Saturday 19 March,Arrival of participants throughout the day

Marjan de GrootReuvekamp, EUROCLIO PresidentJonathan EvenZohar, EUROCLO DirectorAlan McCully, Senior Lecturer in History and Citizenship Education, Ulster UniversityRobert Heslip, Culture and Heritage Officer, Belfast City Council

Arrival & Welcome

Carmel Gallagher, Registrar General of the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland(GTCNI): "The history of history education in Northern Ireland: a SWOTanalysis".

19:00

18:00 - 18:30

17:0015:00

Drinks receptionMeet the delegates, icebreaking, warm buffet with snacks, culture from across Europe (from 20:30)

Queen'sUniversity

Queen's University Belfast was founded asQueen’s College in 1845, before becoming auniversity in its own right in 1908. Today, it is aninternational centre of research and educationand a major part of the fabric of Northern Ireland.Within the university the School of Educationplays a leading role in influencing thedevelopment of educational policy and practice inNorthern Ireland and has an establishedreputation for providing challenging and rewardingcourses for professionals on both a fulltime andparttime basis.


Queen's University, Lanyon building

@Canada room

@Front door

@Foyer of the Canada room

Reflecting Remembrance: What historyemerges from a decade of centenaries?Sunday 20 March,


Ulster Museum

8:30Registration

9:00Paddy Gilmore, Director of Learning and PartnershipFiona Baird, Learning Officer

Welcome by the National Museums Northern Ireland/Ulster Museum:

9:15Bob Stradling, EditorinChief of Historiana and Steven Stegers, EUROCLIO Programme Director

9:30Eamon Phoenix, Senior Lecturer in History, Stranmillis College, Belfast How have commemorations sustained tensions?Philip Orr, Historian What does 1916 mean for 2016 and beyond?

Keynotes:

Discussants: Alan McCully (Senoir Lecturer in History and Citizenship Education, UlsterUniversity), Joke van der Leeuw Roord (Special Advisor to EUROCLIO)

11:00Coffee Break

11:30Discussion Panel: Bridging the gap what should be remembered.How do museums, civil society and artists deal with the past and present?

Legacy of the past. Difficulties with bringing reconciliation followed withthe panel with the museum educators, artists and civil societyrepresentatives.

Chair: Martin Melarkey, Director, Nerve Centre

View of the Nerve Centre Short Movies

Discussants:

William Blair, Head of Human History, National Museums of Northern Ireland/UlsterMuseumPaula McFetridge, Artist, Kabosh Theatre

@Front door

@Lecture theater

@Belfast room

@Lecture theater

13:00Lunch break

@Deli cafeteria area


UlsterMuseum

14:00Departure from the museum and start of the thematic tour around the Belfast murals inparallel groups, lead by local historians.

Group 1 starts off Shankill from road (coordinated by Peter Collins)Group 2 starts off Falls from road (coordinated by local historian)

16:30End of the thematic tour city centre

Free evening

As Northern Ireland's treasure house of the pastand the present, the National Museums of NorthernIreland/Ulster Museum is home to a rich collectionof art, history and natural sciences and is free to allvisitors. The revitalised museum tells the story ofthe people of the north of Ireland from earliesttimes to the present day. Impressive galleries andinteractive discovery zones bring history, scienceand art collections to life for visitors of all ages.

The visit to murals will shed a light to thehistory of Belfast which faced times of gloryand troubles throughout the last century. Thevisit to murals will run into two parallel groupsto Falls Road and Shankill Road which willdrive the participants through ‘InternationalWall’, Divis St, the Bobby Sands, Easter1916, ‘Peace Wall followed by the UVFmurals/1912 14 Home Rule crisis/Battle ofthe Somme, on the upper Shankill and theUDA ones on the Lower Shankill, paramilitarymurals/memories of the 1941 Blitz. The tour isdesigned in a way that the participants get achance to observe the depiction of historythroughout murals of different periods,communities, and motivations and help toapproach history of Belfast from differentperspectives.

BelfastMurals


9:00

History education in divided societies amidstmemories and legacies of conflictMonday 21 March, Queen's University, Medical

Biology Centre (MBC)Keynote and short teacher presentations on the role of education systems in adivided society, the case of Northern Ireland Tony Gallagher (Professor ofEducation), with contributions by history and citizenship educators from NorthernIreland.

10:15Statements

John O’Dowd, Minister of Education, Northern IrelandAllen Thurston, Head of the School of Education, Queen's UniversityTatiana Milko, Head of History Teaching Unit, Council of Europe

10:45International Fair & Coffee Break, including materials of

Queen’s University, School of Education Resources (for more information see page 6)Resources by Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (for more information onCCEA see page 17)Council of Europe materialsEUROCLIO materialsParticipants' contributions

11:15Discussion Panel:What is the role of international community to develop history as a means forpeace and understanding in conflict areas and divided societies?Strategies, challenges and experiences form the field.

Introduction and Facilitation: Tatiana Milko, Head of History Teaching Unit, Council of Europe andJonathan EvenZohar, Director, EUROCLIO

Discussants:

Emir Filipovic, History Educator, Association of History Educators in BosniaHerzegovinaDea Maric, Project Coordinator, Documenta Centre for Dealing with the PastKhaled ElMasri, History Educator, Lebanese Association for HistorySamuel Lee, Professor of Social Philosophy, History NGO Forum for Peace in EastAsia, South Korea

12:45Lunch break

@Lecture Theater 1 LT1

@MBC Foyer


@MBC Foyer

InternationalFair


13:40Collaboration Sessions on Europeana: how to collaborate online to createtransnational and multiperspective source collections on key moments in European history.

14:00

Workshop 1: Investigating andcommemorating the difficult past in a DividedSociety by Alan McCully & Matthew Jess, UlsterUniversity (Northern Ireland) @MBC/OG/101There will be an initial input outlining principles for

history teaching that have emerged from research

on how young people in Northern Ireland mediate

between history learned in schools and that they

encounter in their communities. Application of

these will be illustrated in practice by participants

working with materials produced for young people

(and adults) to address Ireland’s Decade of

Centenaries, 191222. Participants will have the

opportunity to examine two aspects of the

material in detail.

Parallel Workshops

Workshop 2: Educating for diversity anddemocracy: teaching history in contemporaryEurope by John Hamer, Council ofEurope @MBC/OG/112Sixty years ago the European Cultural Convention

asserted that the road to peace passes through

education and culture and accorded a special role

in this process to the teaching of history. The

message of the Convention remains equally valid

today, but we need to show how it might be put into

practice in the context of the increasingly complex

and diverse societies that young people inhabit.

What identifies quality in history teaching and

learning in the diverse context of the 21st century?

Workshop 3: The Didactic Potential ofArchives for Dealing with the violent Past inHeritage Education by Markus Mueller, TheHessian State

Archives (Germany) @MBC/0G/113The workshop will focus on topics regarding the

violent past of the outbreak of World War One,

encouraging students to develop historical and

political questions by themselves. Intending to

motivate teachers to integrate archives into

heritage education by opening the educational

sphere towards its surroundings in communal

spaces. The chosen files strive to show

teachers some very helpful methods just how

working in archives to study World War One

enables students to comprehend the

connection between their own environment and

“big politics”.

Workshop 4: The Pedagogy of HolocaustSite Visits by Jenny Carson, HolocaustEducational Trust (United

Kingdom) @MBC/0G/114This workshop will explore the rationale,

practice, and value of taking students and

teachers to visit authentic Holocaust sites

across Europe. Since 1999, over 28,000

students and teachers from across the UK

have taken part in the Holocaust Educational

Trust's oneday Lessons from Auschwitz

Project. Our fourday Teacher Study Visits

enable small groups of teachers to explore the

history of a particular European city (to date

this has included: Berlin, Budapest, Paris,

Vilnius, and Warsaw).

Workshop 5: How to teach students criticalthinking skills by Annemiek Schrader and SjefSchmiermann, University of Applied Sciences

De Kempel (The Netherlands) @MBC/0G/117In this workshop we give reasons for using this

didactic approach and the choice for using the

Habits of Mind. The approach itself will be

outlined and examples of experiences using this

approach will be given. Finally, participants will

be working with the approach itself. Afterwards

there is room for discussion.

Workshop 6: Army Uncut: Does MilitaryMatter? by Amy Cameron and KristinBuhnemann, National Army Museum (United

Kingdom) @MBC/0G/118Since 2013, as part of the Heritage Lottery

funded Building For The Future project, the

National Army Museum Learning team has

been reaching out to new, diverse

communities. Over its long history, British

armies have been everywhere, and as a

result the NAM Collection is rich, deep, global

and highly controversial. NAM has addressed

this challenging legacy through the Discovery

gallery redevelopment programme, exploring

difficult Collections in partnership with experts

and communities of origin.Workshop 7: Promoting a dialogue withnarratives from former Japanese soldiersby Asakawa Kazuya, Tokaigakuen University

(Japan) @MBC/0G/119This workshop will explore how narrative is

powerful to promote a dialogue. The film of the

interviews by former Japanese soldiers was

made by the Japanese NGO, Bridge for

Peace’s (BFP). The founder of Bridge for

Peace’s (BFP), Ms. Jin, will share her first

experience in the Philippines. Using this film,

BFP conducts workshops for youth groups,

colleges and high schools in Japan and

overseas.

Monday 21 March


Located at the heart of Titanic Quarter only a short walk from Belfast’s city centre, is not only an

architectural triumph for the city, but it houses the world’s largest Titanic visitor

experience. Located beside the Titanic Slipways, the Harland and Wolff Drawing Offices and

Hamilton Graving Dock – the very place where Titanic was designed, built and launched in 1912,

Titanic Belfast tells the story of the Titanic, from her conception in Belfast in the early 1900s,

through her construction and launch, to its maiden voyage and subsequent place in history.

TitanicBelfast


Workshop 1: Teaching the troublesthrough oral history by Denver Charlestogether with Teacher Union members and

students, Secondary School (Northern

Ireland) @MBC/OG/101The NASUWT Civic Voices project is taught

through Citizenship in Northern Ireland

classes, but the content is specifically linked

to the requirement within History to deal with

the Consequences of Partition. The project

allows students to investigate the causes

and legacy of the Troubles, by allowing

them to interview those who, through

personal experience, can deliver a key

insight into the conflict, while also offering a

perspective on formulating and embedding

peace in a postconflict society.

16:00

15:30Coffee Break

Parallel Workshops

Workshop 3: ‘My adopted soldier’by Angela Hanratty and Gerry Moore

, History Teachers Association of

Ireland @MBC/OG/112This workshop relates to both

‘Commemoration’ & ‘Divided Societies’. In

this the 100th Anniversary year for the Battle

of the Somme the students each researched

a soldier from their own county who had died

at the Somme. They commemorated the life

of the soldier by researching their life and

their war experience including visiting their

grave in France last June. The memory of

involvement in World War 1 became a very

controversial issue on the island of Ireland,

which was partitioned shortly afterwards.

Workshop 2: Dynamics of war and peace inEurope Discovering the House ofEuropean History's online learningresources by Blandine Smilansky and AlanKirwan, House of European History

(Belgium) @MBC/OG/102The workshop will develop the capacity of

teachers from across Europe to use

transnational online resources in the

classroom and integrate museum learning

approaches in their professional practice. The

workshop will also focus on a thematic unit of

resources dealing with the dynamics of conflict

and cooperation that have shaped Europe

through activities and questions that

encourage both historical inquiry and civic

responsibility amongst students.

Workshop 4: Historical conflicts andreconciliation in East Asia by JeongIl Lee(moderator), Speakers: Hyunsuh Jo (Jamsin

Highschool), Bumhee Park (Choongang

Highschool), Sebyong Yoon (History

Teachers' Association of Korea) (South

Korea) @MBC/0G/114History education in East Asia has been

burdened much by the distorted description of

the violent past during the colonial period and

second world war, especially in Japan and

Korea. Nationalistic interpretation and

textbook conflicts have built thick barriers to

the historical reconciliation and peaceful

cooperation. This workshop will present the

process of the joint efforts and some issues of

historical conflicts and reconciliation.

Workshop 5: Recognising Stereotypesby Tatiana Juric, History Teachers

Association of Bosnia

Herzegovina @MBC/0G/113In the first part of the workshop through

analysis of names, we would try to discover

connection between names, nationality and

identity and to show how it is related with

stereotypes and intercultural relations in

the postconflict and divided society in

Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the second

part photo analysis of the people are used

to show how sometimes we form our

opinion about the certain groups and

events based just on media reports without

real knowledge and understanding of

situation.

Workshop 6: Applied Heritage Method research the past and reflect on itsrelevance today. Teaching history andcitizenship in conflict or postconflictsocieties by W.G. Glendinning, Maura

Maginn and Michelle Maloney HEE

(Northern Ireland) @MBC/0G/117Applied heritage uses local resources to

teach about the past. Nearby historic sites,

local people, and the environment that

surrounds a community all contribute to the

method. It is interdisciplinary. Learners

engage with local people in the past in their

area. The process involves stepping into

another persons shoes in the past.

Participants then reflect on the learning for

today

Workshop 7: Exchange innovativehistory tools on WW1 to learn in a multiperspective way by HeidiTimmerman, Government of the Province of

West Flanders (Belgium) @MBC/0G/118The workshop will address multiple topics

such as: enhancement of history and

citizenship education, the similarities and

differences in history education systems,

policies and approaches, exchange of local

and national experiences of dealing with the

violent past, how to teach history and

citizenship in postconflict societies and the

responsibility of history toward

remembrance practices (including memories

and commemoration).

Workshop 8: How do you explaindilemmas and choices of people in asituation of conflict? by Femke deKoning, Anne Frank House (The

Netherlands) @MBC/0G/119In this workshop participants learn how to

teach about the holocaust using “The

Search”, an educational graphic novel

about Jewish persecution developed for

pupils aged 13 to 16. It asks; what

happened during the holocaust? Why did

some people help Jews while others turned

away? The graphic novel and

accompanying digital lesson aims to give

pupils an insight in the choices and

dilemma’s people faced and an awareness

of social psychological processes like

prejudice and discrimination.

Monday 21 March@MBC Foyer

School's out at Ballycastle


Founded in 1994, the TheatreCompany Kabosh iscommitted to challenging thenotion of what theatre is andwhere it takes place. Thecompany aims to reinvent theways in which stories are told,commissioning new writingand devising work for sitespecific environments andinstallation.

Core group in Northern IrelandMaureen Cooney, History Teachers Association of IrelandDean Smart, EUROCLIO AmbassadorJoke van der LeeuwRoord, EUROCLIO Special Advisor

Welcome by Titanic Visitors Centre (from 20:05)Toast for the Initiative for an History Teachers Association of Northern Ireland

19:00Dinner at Titanic Andrews Gallery(Titanic Belfast, 1 Olympic Way, Queen's Road)

Presentation on Interaction design of historical apps on mobile phone (JimKosem) @MBC/OG/112Networking and Planning session with History Teachers from Northern Ireland Building a new Association. (Alan McCully, Denver Charles) @MBC/OG/113Historical Dialogues in East Asia @MBC/OG/114Teachers as Researchers @MBC/0G/117

Exchange and Learning sessions:

17:45 - 18:45Break

17:30Monday 21 March

18:45Departure to dinner venue

Drama performance and discussion by Kabosh Theatre (starting from 20:30)

22:00Departure (with drop off provided @ IBIS Queens quarter and @city centre)

Networking and Planning Session forHistory Teachers in Northern IrelandThe initiative to host the 23rd Annual

Conference in Belfast was taken a core

group of history educators in Northern

Ireland, who feel the time has come also for

them to reach out to all history teachers in

the country to set up a new association,

which can support networking, exchange of

resources and development of common

views on the importance and approaches in

teaching history. This session aims to start

the detailed future planning for this tobe

founded association. Experiences history

teacher association leaders from other

countries will join to inspire and inform the

Northern Ireland delegates on their views.

Interaction Design of History MobileApps. Example of BastionBastion is a new publishing platform in

development which allows people and

organisations with lots of structured content

to push that content to incredibly readable,

browseable and manageable slices on

mobile devices. In this session, interaction

designer, product manager, researcher and

producer Jim Kosem will show some key

design work, and, in the context of past

educational and public sector work, he will

demonstrate the Gates of Vienna project.

Join this session to find out what role apps

could play to stimulate historical learning.

Networking East and West: History Education for Peace in East AsiaIn East Asia history is at the top of political and civil agenda, aiming to address

territorial disputes, controversial commemorations and historical interpretations. Also

history education, in particular textbooks, is constantly in the spotlight. Join the

session to discuss with delegates from East Asia that work tirelessly for the fostering

of cooperation across East Asia and beyond in variety of projects and partnerships,

which include the production of joint history textbooks, youth and teacher exchanges.

Help us to strengthen the cooperation between Europe and East Asia.

Special Interest Group: Teachers asResearchers?!EUROCLIO supports the development of the

capacity of teachers to also join researcher

groups, or conduct their own research on a variety

of topics on history education. This session is a

possibility for researchers to briefly present their

current research and reach out to teachers.

Moreover, EUROCLIO will present what else is on

the research agenda and delegates can identify

opportunities to collaborate.


Facing, Dealing and Healing - How can civilsociety deal with the legacy of a violent past?Tuesday 22 March,Nerve Centre and Corrymeela

centres07:45Departure from Belfast in two buses, the visits will be implemented in two parallel groupsGathering point at 07:45 @Holiday INN hotel Queens QuarterGathering point at 07:50 from @Front Gate Belfast City hall

09:30Arrival & refreshmentsGroup 1 arrives in Nerve CentreGroup 2 arrives at Corrymeela Centre

09:45Group 1: Introduction to the innovative tools and resources developed by NerveCentre, modules from Creative Centenaries, FabLab and Teaching Divided Histories byJohn Peto, Director of Education at the Nerve Centre, Matthew McAleer, CreativeMedia Facilitator, Eamon Durey, FabLab Project Manager and Niall Kerr, DigitalResource Developer, Nerve Centre

Group 2: Tour of the venue followed with an Introduction to Corrymeela by SeanPettis, Project Coordinator at Corrymeela. Discussion around the legacy of the pastwith representatives of several Civil Society RepresentativesPresentation by Deirdre MacBride, Programme Director, Cultural Diversity CommunityRelations Council

11:15Group 1 departs to Corrymeela CentreGroup 2 departs to Nerve Centre

13:00

14:30Group 1: Introduction to Corrymeela by Sean Pettis, Project Coordinator at Corrymeela.Discussion around the legacy of the past with representatives of several Civil SocietyRepresentativesPresentation by Deirdre MacBride, Programme Director, Cultural DiversityCommunity Relations Council

Group 2: Introduction to the innovative tools and resources developed by Nerve Centre,modules from Creative Centenaries, FabLab and Teaching Divided Histories by JohnPeto, Director of Education at the Nerve Centre, Matthew McAleer, Creative MediaFacilitator, Eamon Durey, FabLab Project Manager and Niall Kerr, Digital ResourceDeveloper, Nerve Centre

Arrival & LunchGroup 1 to Corrymeela, lunch @ CorrymeelaGroup 2 to Derry, lunch @ Moldron Hotel, Derry


16:00Departure from Corrymeela and from Derry

17:00 - 17:30Arrival in Belfast Castle (exploring the park around, participants can order tea/coffee atthe cafeteria of the castle if they wish)

18:30Dinner at Belfast Castle, check page 16 for more information on the Castle!

Departure (with drop off provided @ IBIS Queens quarter and @city centre)

Corrymeela has a residential centre on thenorth coast of Ireland that hosts over 11,000people a year, as well as a lived community

of volunteers and staff. Corrymeela alsohas a dispersed community of over 150

members who commit to living outCorrymeela’s principles of reconciliation in

their own communities. Corrymeela’sprogramme staff travel to work with school

and community groups throughout NorthernIreland, as well as hosting groups on site.

21:30

The Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland'sleading creative media arts centrereaching more than 120,000 peopleeach year through a wide rangingprogramme of arts events, cutting edgeprojects, creative learning centres,training opportunities and productionfacilities. Over the last twenty five yearsthe Nerve Centre has pioneered a rangeof creative approaches to teaching andlearning around contested and dividedhistories. During the visit to the NerveCentre, participants will have theopportunity to select from three handson projects, including:

Creative Centenaries is the hub for information, eventsand resources around the Decade of Centenaries in

Northern Ireland. Get hands on with some curriculum

linked creative resources including comic books and

iBooks helping students to explore the events of 1916

while producing some of your own creative responses.

Teaching Divided Histories is an EU funded teacherCPD programme introducing new curriculum linked and

creative digital approaches to the study of conflict into

schools across Ireland. Explore some of the indepth

resources and case studies from the international project

and take part in a digital workshop to recreate a classroom

based project.

The FabLab is a place where you can make almostanything using 3D printers, laser cutters, milling

machines and much more. In the last two years the Nerve

Centre has applied these technologies to the teaching of

contested histories here in Northern Ireland. Visit the Lab


Where does history education stop andcitizenship education start?Wednesday 23 March, Queen's University, Medical

Biology Centre (MBC)08:3009:00

Departure to schools

Study visits to educational institutes

12:30Return to venue with Sandwich Lunch

13:45Teaching Competences for Democratic Cultures, Luisa de Bivar Black, Member ofthe expert group on Competences for Democratic Culture, The Council of Europe

Check page 17 for more information on the project!

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More information following soon on www.euroclio.eu


Wednesday 23 March

Workshop 1: From San Diego to Belfast: Openinghistorical dialogues across ideological borderswith studentproduced oral histories by JonathanShulman, Secondary School (United

States) @MBC/OG/101History educators have more than the option of

introducing students to these immigrants’

experiences; we have an obligation as global citizens

to connect our students to these stories. This

workshop will present participants with the tools

necessary for conducting the oral history project at

their schools in Northern Ireland and throughout

Europe. This workshop also introduces attendees to

the “Ten Essential Elements of Dignity” and the “Ten

Temptations to Violate Dignity” as created by world

renowned conflict resolution facilitator Dr. Donna

Hicks.

Workshop 2: Silencing Citizens of throughCensorship in 20th century Europe by JacekStaniszewski and supported by Martin Liepach,

Mire Mladenovski, Harri Beobide and Maria

Laura Marescalchi

(Poland/Germany/Macedonia/Spain/France

and Italy) @MBC/OG/102As part of a large European project, History

Teachers Associations from France, Germany,

Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Poland and Spain,

are working together to prepare readytouse

multiperspective material to their students on

the aspect of censorship as a means of

repression in totalitarian regimes, but with an

eye on today’s information society. Join this

workshop to see initial transnational source

collections and innovative learning activities,

and provide your ideas and insights to help the

international team develop their Historiana unit.

Workshop 3: How to successfullyengage students with controversialtopics by Neil Johnston and NicholasTyldesley, Historical Association

(United Kingdom) @MBC/OG/112The workshop has multiple aims such as:

sharing diverse interpretations and to

produce some practical and positive ideas

for classroom activities, drawing together

some general principles about the

pedagogy of controversial topics that can

be used in studying UK and European

controversies, reflecting on issues around

independence and strategies used to try

and achieve this. The conference focus on

Ireland will give a multiplicity of examples

to feed into the various discussions.

Workshop 4: "I was there too!" Acknowledgingand valuing Parallel Narratives in History" byMarie Sheerin, Edinburgh College (United

Kingdom) @MBC/OG/113The workshop uses short “testimony” clips to show

accounts of the same event in setting the scene.

Groups then are each given an envelope containing

two or more narratives/personal accounts of the same

event(s) with differing perspectives reflecting own

community or group interpretation. After this a group

discussion of approaches/resources (provided) –

would these be appropriate in own setting?

Workshop 5: The thin line betweendiplomacy and intervention. How to facecomplex conflicts? by Henk Bolk, LorentzCasimir Lyceum (The

Netherlands) @MBC/OG/114We all are familiar with the famous

Conferences that tried to create international

world order and peace like the Vienna

Congress at the beginning of the 19th century.

Or Versailles 1919, Yalta and Potsdam 1945.

That’s in our curriculum. We know and still

discuss the decisions that were made by the

policymakers back then in those complex

situations. What about public opinion and press

coverage in contemporary conflicts like let’s

say, Ukraine, Syria and the Middle East?

Workshop 6: Socialism Realized Lifein Communist Czechoslovakia byVojtěch Ripka and Karina Hoření, Institutefor the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

(Czech Republic) @MBC/OG/117The workshop is based on the ideas as

well as content of the Socialism Realized

multimedia portal. The workshop offers

modular approach in achieving diverse

educational goals in various environments.

It remains the task of the individual

teacher/user to design specific pathway

using individual subsets of primary

material, our commentaries and

suggested questions. The main aim of the

workshop is collective work in groups that

suggests activities using the multimedia

portal and their use in particular, mostly

national/local settings.

Workshop 7: Considering current conflictrelatedmigration flows and dynamics in relation toconflict and postconflict migration flows of thepast by Emily Miller, The Migration Museum (UnitedKingdom) @MBC/OG/118The workshop will give an introduction to the Migration

Museum Project and educational work. After some

discussion and hearing about the attendees’

knowledge, there will be an image based group

activity from the ‘100 images of migration’ exhibition

and contemporary and historical source material and a

comparison of two case studies, one contemporary

and one historical.

Workshop 8: “Vanished People, Vanished Cities,Vanished History. Teaching the Violent Story of theVohlynian Massacre 194344” by Anna Brojer andMałgorzata Żuławnik, Institute for National Remembrance(Poland), IPN (Poland) @MBC/OG/119The workshop will be based on a specially prepared lesson

scenario for school use “Righteous Ukrainians” which

shows silhouettes of Ukrainian people that where brave

enough to save Poles from the Volhynian Massacre 1943

1944. They often payed the highest price for their kindness.

We will try to show how talking about extremely difficult

truth can make nations closer. We will also show other

education material and techniques used in school to teach

this topic.

14:00Parallel Workshops

The first Belfast Castle was built by the Normans in Belfast city centre in the late

12th century. Sadly, the castle burned down almost 100 years later. In 1862, the

third Marquis of Donegall decided to build a new castle, which passed to Lord

Ashley in 1884, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. The Shaftesbury family was

very generous donor to Belfast, supporting many charities and hosting garden

fetes in the castle grounds. In 1978 the castle closed as part of a £2 million

refurbishment programme, overseen by Hewitt and Haslam Partnership

architects. It reopened on 11 November 1988 and is now a popular venue for

weddings, conferences and other events.

Belfast Castle

15:30Coffee Break

16:00- 17:30Plenary workshop; Engaging young people with conflictthrough history and citizenship education by Lesley Emerson, Lecturer in Education,Deputy Director, Centre for Children's Rights, School of Education Queen’s University

18:30Dinner with International Pub Quiz

PubQuiz

Competences for Democratic Cultures (CDC)The Council of Europe is currently working on a new projectentitled Competences for Democratic Cultures (CDC). The keyaim of the project is to assist national education systems acrossEurope to enhance the democratic and interculturalcompetences of young people. The project is developing a newEuropean framework of reference of the competences whichyoung people need to acquire in order to participate effectively indemocratic culture and intercultural dialogue. The project isgoing to use the CDC framework to formulate detailedrecommendations and guidelines on the development of newcurricula, new pedagogical methods and new assessmentmethods for use in citizenship education and interculturaleducation.


@MBC foyer

@MBC/OG/LT2

9 April 2011 in Poland winning team led by Peder Wiben

4 April 2012 in Turkey winning team led by Tamara Eidelmann

10 April 2013 in Germany winning team 'Dream Team'

3 April 2014 in Macedonia winning team 'Bus number 1'

23 April 2015 in Denmark winning team 'Soundbites'

23 March 2016 in Northern Ireland winning team ........................

The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations

and Assessment (CCEA) is a unique

educational body in the UK, bringing together

the three areas of curriculum, examinations and

assessment. Advising Government on what

should be taught in Northern Ireland’s schools

and colleges. Monitoring Standards by ensuring

that the qualifications and examinations offered

by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an

appropriate quality and standard.

Council of Europe

@Queen’s UniversityStudents Union MandelaHall Bar Sub

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Future of History in Europe - Constructingnew partnerships and initiativesThursday 24 March, Ulster Museum

EUROCLIO General Assembly, including partnership announcements byeTwinning and Northeast Asian History Foundation and Future activities announcements

Lunch and tour at the museum

Dialogue Tables: Europe, History and Remembrance: Needs andOpportunities for History Educators in Europe, lead by EUROCLIO Ambassadors

Coffee Break

16:00Concluding Session

Summaries/reporting back of dialogue tablesEvaluationFinal statements by Organising TeamAnnouncement of Annual Conference 2017

Start of registration (start from 19:30)Gala dinner opened with reception drinks (start from 20:00)Opening of dinner ceremony (start from 20:30)Performance by Tracey McRory and Richard Laird (start from 21:00)Traditional dance performance by Belfast Traditional Set Dancing )start from 21:30)Instrumental Irish music (start from 22:00)Continuation with music (start from 22:30)Last round of drinks can be ordered (start from 00:00)

19:30

BelfastCity Hall


8:30Registration for EUROCLIO General Assembly @Front door

@Lecture Theater

@Deli cafeteria area

@Grainger Room

@Lecture Theater

@Belfast room

@via Donegall SquareSouth, Belfast City Hall

Gala Reception and Dinner

Belfast City Hall is Belfast CityCouncil's civic building. It islocated in Donegall Square, inthe heart of Belfast city centre. Itfirst opened its doors on 1August 1906.


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EUROCLIO Board

Marjan de GrootReuvekamp is a lecturer of history education and didactics at Fontys University for Applied Sciences, School forChild studies and Education in ‘sHertogenbosch. Before being President of EUROCLIO she was VicePresident and

Treasurer. She organized several seminars for Dutch Teacher Trainers and in 2010 she was project manager of the organizing

committee for the Annual Conference of EUROCLIO in Nijmegen. She is coauthor of a textbook on teaching history in primary

education that is widely used in Dutch colleges and universities.

Lóa Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir graduated from the University of Iceland as a historian and teacher of history and political sciences.Teacher in Menntaskólinn við Sund (Upper secondary school/gymnasium) since 1989. Head of the history department and director

of Social Sciences 20012009 at the same school. Member of the board of History Teachers Association of Iceland. Teacher trainer

from 1996. Has organized many In Service Teacher Training seminars both in Iceland and abroad for history teachers and

sociology teachers.

Erwin Capitain studied business economics and has made his career in the Financial industry. Until 2008 he was partner at Deloitte,one of the Big Four Auditing Firms. Nowadays he runs his own advisory practice, focusing on governance and strategic issues for

midsized companies and institutes. Also he is supervisory board member at a hospital, a homecare institute and a housing

cooperative. Last but no least he is business economics lector at the Free University. As an outsider in history teaching, he joined the

Board in 2010 for his financial expertise and his experience in supervisory boards. He takes part of the Finances and Governance

Workgroup.

Semih Aktekin graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Ankara University, and then received qualified teacher status(PGCE) in History in the UK in 1999, studied for a Masters degree in School Improvement and Professional Development of

Teachers in 2000, and completed a doctorate in Teacher Education in 2004 from the School of Education, University of Nottingham,

UK. He is currently an assistant professor in history education at Karadeniz Technical University, Fatih Faculty of Education, in

Trabzon, Turkey. He is also the Project Coordinator in the EUROCLIO/MATRA Project A Key to Europe: Innovative Methodology in

Turkish School History (2009‐2012).

Peter Wiben is National School Coordinator in the Danish school network working with The Transatlantic Slave Trade in theframework of UNESCO’s ASP school network, where he works to find materials on the slave trade, develop it for teaching and

making it accessible for teachers and students. He is web editor of a widely used portal on history teaching funded by the Danish

Ministry of Education. He is also a teacher trainer and has published textbooks for history teaching and acted as a consultant on a

great number of other textbooks. He is still a consultant on history textbooks for the biggest Danish publishing house on school

books.

Mire Mladenovski graduated from the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje in 1991. Since 1992 he has beenworking in a primary school. Furthermore, Mire has been editor of teaching material for secondary schools in Bosnia and

Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. He is an expert in employing information and communication technology in education since he is

currently involved as an editor in a web application initiative of EUROCLIO: Historiana – Your Tool to the Past. Besides, he is one of

the founders and currently President of the ANIM (History Teachers Association of Macedonia).

Riitta Mikkola has graduated from the University of Tampere as a historian and teacher of history and social studies. She hasbeen teaching in both lower and upper secondary schools in since 1994. At the moment she teaches history, social studies and

Russian language in Karakallio School in Espoo. She has been the chairman of Finnish HTA 20062011 and since 2012 she has

been the vice chairman and also the chief editor of the Finnish HTA’s quarterly magazine Kleio.

Paolo Ceccoli studied philosophy at the University of Milan and started his career as a history and citizenship teacher in 1986.After, he became a Italian literature and language teacher for ten years. Since 1997 he teaches philosophy in secondary school. He

holds a Master of Arts in history education from the University of London. He is particularly interested in contributing to EUROCLIO’s

work through Historiana contributions and editing, reflection and spreading of a discussion about content and language integrated

learning in history teaching and promoting discussion and educational tools for teaching controversial historical matters.

BiographiesConference Programme: 23rd EUROCLIO Annual Professional Training and Development Conference, 1924 March 2016, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Biographies EUROCLIO Secretariat

Anna van der Tas is working as a trainee at EUROCLIO from October 2015 until February 2016. She has studied the bachelorand research master in History at the University of Amsterdam and has also finished the bachelor in Slavic Languages and

Cultures (Russian) there. For her studies she has stayed in Russia a couple of times. She is mainly interested in modern social

and cultural history, with a special interest in the history of migration. Recently she stayed for eight months in Sofia, Bulgaria as

an EVSvolunteer, where she was one of the coordinators of The Refugee Project.

Judith Geerling has a background in International Relations at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, and ConflictStudies and Human Rights at the University of Utrecht, for which she did three months of fieldwork and an internship with the

local NGO Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone, Africa. At the Secretariat she coordinates the Historian Programme including several

projects focusing on innovating history education, and thematically on European integration, is involved in the Inclusive

Education project and projects in the Western Balkans programme.

Jonathan EvenZohar has a degree in History from Leiden University, relating to WorldHistorical perspectives in History

Education with an honorary Crayenborghdegree in Islam and Europe. Between 2006 and 2013 Jonathan worked as a project

manager at EUROCLIO – European Association of History Educators. He has been heavily involved in the fundraising for and

execution of Europeanwide history education conferences, projects and training programs, all over Europe and beyond.

Since becoming Director of the Secretariat in 2013, he is responsible for office and financial operations, programmes and

association coordination.

Aysel Gojayeva is a postgraduate student from Leiden University in the Netherlands in MA European Union Studies. Her BAdegree was in the field of Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages: English. Before her studies in the Netherlands, she

was actively involved into the youth work as the elected board member of European Students’ Association Baku Public Union

(AEGEEBaki) in her home country Azerbaijan. Her activities are mainly framed within coordination of international training

seminars, Member Administration and management of the projects and activities in the Black Sea region.

Steven Stegers is responsible for the management of three longterm programmes (Sharing History, Cultural Dialogues –Innovating History in the Black Sea Region; Mediterranean Dialogues in the EuroMed region; and Historiana – Your Portal to

the Past) and fundraising. He has contributed to the implementation of crossborder history education projects in many

countries throughout Europe. Steven has been consultant to the International Baccalaureate for the History Curriculum Review

in 2012, to KAICIID Dialogue Center, and is an author of the Handbook for Intercultural Citizenship Education developed by the

Anna Lindh Foundation.


Biographies Conference CommitteeDenver Charles has taught History, Citizenship and Politics for 18 years and has been teaching the History of the NorthernIreland Troubles to junior classes for the last ten years. He has been involved in the different manifestations of school inter

community work in Northern Ireland and currently teaches Government and Politics to students from all schools in the

Magherafelt Learning Partnership. For the past six years, he has facilitated Year Ten (1314 year old) students in their

collection of Oral Histories.

Peter Collins has published extensively in Irish history. During the worst years of the conflict in Northern Ireland, he wasHead of History in a secondary school, located in the ‘Troubles’ area of Belfast. He has had much experience in delivering

crosscommunity teacher inservice programmes especially related to the teaching of controversial issues in history. He has

participated in many conferences and workshops in Europe and the United States.

Sinéad Fitzsimons is currently completing her PhD at Queen's University Belfast. Her research primarily considers howstudents construct their sense of national identity while attending international schools. At Queen's, she also teaches the

history module in the initial teacher training program. Prior to Belfast, she completed her Master's in inclusive history

curriculum at the University of Toronto before working as a history teacher at the International School of Brussels. She has

been involved in several citizenship education projects in Toronto, Brussels, Tokyo, The Hague and Stockholm.

Alan McCully is a Senior Lecturer in Education (History and Citizenship) at Ulster University. His career has spanned fortyyears as teacher, teacher educator and researcher during the period of conflict and post conflict transformation in Northern

Ireland. Currently, he is working with the Consortium for Education and Peacebuilding on a four country study to strengthen

educational policy and practice which promote sustainable peacebuilding.

Sean Pettis joined the Corrymeela team in September 2010 as Project Coordinator for the, ‘Facing Our History, Shaping theFuture’ project. He has 10 years of experience in the design, delivery and evaluation of community relations and active

citizenship programmes as both a trainer of educators and a youth work practitioner. He holds a BA Joint Hons in Modern

History & Politics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Youth Work.


Biographies SpeakersFiona Baird has worked within the department of Learning and Partnership at the Ulster Museum for over 20years. Responsibilities include the development and implementation of schools and community programmesbased on exhibitions and the History and World Culture collections. She also has long term experience ofschools outreach projects to areas of socio economic deprivation.

Luisa de Bivar Black has been working as a consultant for the Council of Europe since 1996. As a member ofthe Council of Europe's expert group on Competences for Democratic Culture and she is also involved in theCouncil of Europe's intergovernmental project Educating for diversity and democracy: teaching history incontemporary Europe. She has organized largescale projects in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo.

William Blair is Head of Human History, National Museums of Northern Ireland/Ulster Museum

Khaled ElMasri is a supervisor and head of department of social sciences at the Lebanese InternationalSchool, located in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a holder of BA in Islamic Jurisprudence, and currently pursuingMA courses in education at Saint Joseph University. He has a 20 yearexperience in the educational field. Hehas been training teaching skills to colleagues at his workplace and teachers from different Lebanese regions.

Lesley Emerson is a lecturer in education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights, School ofEducation, and Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses primarily on political education, with a focuson conflictaffected societies. She has particular expertise in relation to the role of former combatants ineducating young people about conflict, its legacy and transition to peace. She is involved actively in thepromotion of effective citizenship education and is NI country lead of the Five Nations Citizenship Network.

Emir Filipovic is lecturer in medieval Bosnian history at the University of Sarajevo. He obtained his PhD in2014 at the History department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He is also the president of the Societyfor the Study of Medieval Bosnian History. He was involved in several teachertraining programmes and as amember of EUROCLIO HIP Bosnia and Herzegovina he has actively participated in numerous regional andinternational seminars and conferences.

Carmel Gallagher is the Registrar and Chief Executive of GTCNI (the General Teaching Council NorthernIreland). Formerly she was Curriculum and Assessment Manager within CCEA (the Council for CurriculumExaminations and Assessment) where she led the development of the Revised Northern Ireland Curriculum,which has been implemented since 2007.

Tony Gallagher is a Professor in the School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast. From 200510 he wasHead of School and from 201015 he was Pro Vice Chancellor at Queen’s. His main research interest lies in therole of education in divided societies. He has led work on school collaboration, or ‘shared education’, inNorthern Ireland, and is working on related projects in Israel and California.

Paddy Gilmore joined National Museums Northern Ireland in 2001 and has been Director of Learning andPartnership since 2009. He is involved in the development of learning and engagement programmes designed todevelop a much broader audience base at NMNI sites. Critical to this has been the development of partnershipswith a wide range of community based organisations. He is also responsible for Operations across all NationalMuseums Northern Ireland sites.

Robert Heslip is a history curator in the Ulster Museum, with a specialism in numismatics and a developmentofficer in the Tourism, Culture, Heritage and Arts section of Belfast City Council. He is also a board member ofMINOM, an international organisation focussing on sociomuseology. At Public Achievement he is a boardmember and treasurer, involved the development of innovative engagement processes with teenagers inmuseums.


Sungho Kang worked for Kyung Hee University in Seoul as its faculty from 1995 to 2009. At the same time, hehas engaged in NGO and Civil Society Programs, contributing to the development of the Korean Civil Society. Heis now leading “the History NGO Forum for Peace in East Asia” as the chair of its steering committee. His areasof interests are regional cooperation, conflict resolution, historical reconciliation, and NGO or CSO programs.

Jim Kosem has been working on everything from design research for mobile devices to snowboard graphics. Asa producer, manager, leader, consultant, researcher and designer, He’s worked for and with a wide range ofpeople including Horizon Digital Economy Research, Samsung Design Europe, EA Games, Google, Intel andnow the British Government. He is specialized in technology for difficult situations like mass graves, productmanaging across four time zones, smith grinds, making salad and heavy metal trivia.

Samuel Lee has been a Professor of social philosophy at Soongsil University, Seoul Korea and served asfounding Director of "AsiaPacific Centre of Education for International Understanding". He served also asSecretaryGeneral of "Korean National Commission for UNESCO" and as DirectorGeneral of "AsiaPacificCentre for Intangible Cultural Heritage". Since 2012 he is serving as Representative of "History NGO Forum forPeace in East Asia". He studied philosophy and social science in Seoul National University (MA) and inGoettingen University, Germany.

Joke van der LeeuwRoord is Historian and Founder and Special Advisor of EUROCLIO. She received herdegree in history at Groningen University in the Netherlands. She worked from 1972 till 1993 as a history teacher,teacher trainer and history advisor. Since 1989 she has initiated and coordinated a multitude of internationalprojects in at least 20 countries. These projects are characterized by the focus promoting innovative andresponsible history, citizenship and heritage education.

Deirdre Mac Bride is director Cultural Diversity, Community Relations, convenes a Roundtable on the Decade ofCentenary Anniversaries 20122023 as a partnership between CRC and Heritage Lottery Fund. She graduatedfrom University College Swansea in Politics and Social Policy (1978), worked in London on housing and minorityissues. She worked in community development, the Belfast Peace Programme Partnership.

Martin Melarkey is a founder member of the Nerve Centre and has been the centre’s Director since 1990. Hehas worked closely with Derry council’s Museum Services on several major projects and is currently leading onthe development of a new exhibition on 1916 for the Tower Museum in Derry. He is also Chief Examiner ofMoving Image Arts GCE, a digital filmmaking qualification offered by CCEA which is currently being taught inover 80 local schools.

Tatiana MinkinaMilko is currently Head of History Education Programmes in the Directorate of DemocraticCitizenship and Participation in the Council of Europe. She is responsible for the development of activities in theframework of the intergovernmental project on Shared histories for a Europe without dividing lines which bringstogether 50 countries. She is also the author of a number of publications on intercultural relations and onteaching history in conflict and postconflict situations.

John O’Dowd became Minister for Education in May 2011. In the autumn of 2011 he stood in as Deputy FirstMinister while Martin McGuinness was contesting the Irish presidential election. He has been a member of SinnFein for over 25 years. Between 2007 and 2011 he was Sinn Féin group leader in the Assembly and served asChair of the Public Accounts Committee before becoming a member of the Education Committee in 2008.

Philip Orr has written on several local topics, including the Irish experience of the Great War. He engages incommunity education and has employed oral history, exploratory public debates, sitespecific theatre andcommunity drama to explore challenging historical narratives, most recently during the current decade of politicalcentenaries in Ireland. His latest project, Halfway House, dealt with the commemorative and personal legacy ofthe Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme.

John Peto is the Director of Education at the Nerve Centre, responsible for a range of projects that supportDigital Creativity in Schools and Communities across Northern Ireland. From a background in film and televisionproduction John has overseen the establishment of Ireland’s first FabLabs, as well as operating the NerveCentre’s Creative Learning Centres and pioneering the use of Digital Creative Media in Conflict Educationthrough the Teaching Divided Histories Project.


Éamon Phoenix is Principal Lecturer in History and Head of Lifelong Learning at Stranmillis University College,Queen’s University, Belfast. A political historian, he is a former Research Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies,Queen’s University, Belfast. His books include Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and theCatholic Minority in Northern Ireland 18901940 and Conflicts in the North of lreland 19002000 (Four CourtsPress, 2010). He is member of the Taoiseach’s Expert Advisory Committee on Centenaries.

Bob Stradling is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Blueprint Research Centre at the University ofEdinburgh. After teaching modern history and politics at London University he became deputy director of a policyresearch centre in 1988. He is the author of Teaching 20th Century European History (Strasbourg 2001) andMultiperspectivity in History Teaching (Strasbourg 2003). He is also the editor of Crossroads of EuropeanHistory: Multiple outlooks on five key moments in the history of Europe.

Allen Thurston is Head of the School of Education and Director of the Centre for Effective Education, Queen’sUniversity Belfast. His research interests include improving learning in schools, disability research and researchmethods. His school based work looks at how to raise attainment for those students from socioeconomicdisadvantaged backgrounds. His work on disability focuses on social and emotional impact of vision impairment.Allen is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Educational Research (IJER).

Biographies WorkshophostsHarri Beobide graduated in Modern History from the University of Deusto. She has worked as a Secondaryschool teacher in the ikastola of Andoain and in Jesuitas school, and is currently writing and coordinating theSocial Sciences schoolmaterials of the Ikastolen Elkartea in Basque and English. She teaches on the master’sdegree in secondary teacher training courses focused on methodology at the University of Mondragon and theUniversity of the Basque Country.

Henk Bolk is a history teacher at the Lorentz Casimir Lyceum Eindhoven where he coordinates foreign studytrips. His school has a long tradition in taking their students to Vienna, Rome, Barcelona, Istanbul, Krakau, theNormandy beaches, even China and India. He also likes to take his students beyond the curriculum into specialprojects bringing experts into the classroom. He calls this the X factor in education. He studied contemporaryhistory and economics at Utrecht University.

Anna Brojer holds an M.A. in history from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her thesis was devoted to thePolish Catholic Church’s attitude towards major moral issues of the 1970s. She is an educator at the PublicEducation Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw.

Kristin Buhnemann is the Learning Assistant (Schools) at the National Army Museum in London. As part of aHLF funded traineeship, which aims to diversify the cultural sector, she supports the development of a newlearning programme at NAM until it’s reopening. She recently graduated from King’s College London with an MAin Education in Arts & Cultural Settings and has a degree in secondary school teaching in English and History inGermany. She is interested in innovative ideas for visitor engagement.

Amy Cameron is the Learning Producer (Schools) at the National Army Museum. A former primary schoolteacher in Australia and the UK, she has worked in learning in the heritage sector for over 10 years. Her favouriteparts of the job involve uncovering new stories or new angles in collections, and bringing these stories to life withstudent visitors, helping them to connect with the past. She looks forward to welcoming schools with a newlearning programme later this year.

Jenny Carson is responsible for the Holocaust Educational Trust's Initial Teacher Training and ContinuingProfessional Development programmes. An oral historian by training, she previously worked as a Lecturer inHumanitarianism and Conflict Response at the University of Manchester. Jenny’s research explores the postwarrelief work provided by British Quakers, including their assistance in the liberation of BergenBelsen andSandbostel concentration camps.

Denver Charles for full biography see Biographies Organizing Committee on page


Will Glendinning has been working on dealing with the past in Ireland for 20 years. He has run threestorytelling projects using ethical storytelling. He has presented to conferences in Cape Town, Sarejevo, Berlin,Skopje as well as Ireland

John Hamer had over 20 years’ experience as a teacher and senior manager in schools and colleges, as ahistory examiner and as a textbook author before joining Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools in England. Forthe last 15 years he has worked as a consultant on aspects of history education, assessment and nationalexaminations for the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and ministriesof education in central and eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America.

Karina Hoření is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Education, Institute for The Study of TotalitarianRegimes. She earned MA in sociology and history at the Masaryk University in Brno. Currently she is a Ph.D.student at the Department of Sociology, Masaryk University and her research topic is contemporary memorypolitics in Czech republic. She works regularly with primary and secondary school teachers as well as withundergraduate university students. She is coauthor of the educational web portal “Socialism Realised”.

Hyunsuh Jo is working as a history teacher at Jamsin High School in Seoul. He majored in history at the collegeof education,Korea University. He taught history at the Seoul French School. He also used to teach at the SKS(Shanghai Korean School) in Shanghai, China. He was dispatched to Melbourne Victoria State, Australia throughteachers’ exchange programs with foreign schools organized by the Korean Ministry of Education.

Neil Johnston is a classroom teacher of History in the largest secondary school in Glasgow, where he isexplicitly approved to do so by the Catholic diocese. He is an active Member of the National Committee ofSATH, the Scottish Association of Teachers of History, with a particular interest in international perspectives onEducation. His growing awareness of the religious and related divisions within society in the West of Scotland,stimulated his interest in researching the sociological phenomenon of Scottish Sectarianism.

Tatjana Juric is an IB DP History and Latin teacher at the Gimnazija in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.She is IB Examiner for history. Author of lesson plans about Holocaust. She is a member of experts team in theproject “Historija, Istorija, Povijest – Lessons for today”, organized by Anne Frank house and regional NGOs,which created pedagogical materials on the last 60 years of history of Yugoslavia to be used in Croatia, Serbia,BosniaHerzegovina and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Kazuya Asakawa is a professor at Tokaigakuen University, Nagoya, Japan. He has been developing teachingmaterials including the topics: peace, human rights, environment and development issues and promotingparticipatory methodologies in foreign language education. He belongs to GPPAC, Global Partnership forPreventing Armed Conflicts Peace education reference group and also Global Campaign for Peace Education.Since 2005 he has been active in the field of education for sustainable development.

Alan Kirwan is currently developing learning and public events programmes for the House of European Historyin Brussels as part of the Education Department. He has worked in the field of museum and gallery learning forover 18 years, formerly holding posts with the Museums and Culture Service of the Royal Borough ofKensington and Chelsea, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Dulwich Picture Gallery. Alan received his PhDfrom the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester in 2013.

Femke de Koning has a study background in the fields of communication science and history. She receivedher MA degree in Holocaust and genocide studies at the NIOD (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocidestudies) in 2012. Since 2014, she work at the educational department of the Anne Frank House, mainly forprojects involving Dutch History and Sociology teachers, teachers in training and youngsters. She coordinatesteacher trainings and provides trainings and support with published educational materials.

JeongIl Lee is now serving as Director of the Office of External Affairs and Public Relations for NortheastAsian History Foundation in Korea. Among his research interests are early modern and modern Koreanintellectual history, Korean classics and literature in global contexts. He has engaged in finding new methods forresearch on cultural and literary exchange in Eurasia as well as furthering global networking with Asian scholarsin Eurasia and North America.


Martin Liepach studied history and mathematics. In 1995 he finished his PD in political science at the FUBerlin. Since 1999 he is teaching at lower and upper secondary level at the Liebigschool in Frankfurt/Main. Heis also working at the Paedagogic Centre of the Fritz Bauer Institute and Jewish Museum Frankfurt, especiallyin the field of teachers training and textbook research, and is teaching seminars at the Goethe University ofFrankfurt.

Michelle Moloney is an oral historian and researcher and is based in Belfast. She is an independentconsultant and has worked on a range of oral history, conflict transformation and art projects in Northern Irelandand the border counties.

Maria Laura Marescalchi graduated in Philosophy at the University of Bologna in 1985 and started teaching inthe high school three years later and became a qualified teacher in History, Philosophy and Italian Literature.Since 2010, she teaches at the Liceo A. Tassoni in Modena. She involved in History Education experiencesconnected with the network of the Institutes for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Society, whichwere, during the 90s, the most important providers of teachers training in history.

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Emily Miller has a background in education and youth development work. After teaching she moved on to coordinate an international education programme encouraging secondary school pupils into giving their time andtalent to local social service charities. Currently she manages the education programme for the MigrationMuseum Project a team working to establish a major museum of migration for the UK. MMP works to contributeto a more reasoned debate about migration at this time.

Gerry Moore is a teacher of history in St Columba's Comprehensive School in Glenties, Co Donegal since2003. Before that he has taught in Mount Temple School in Dublin and for 4 years in the USA. Gerry is also theDirector of the My Adopted Soldier Project which he set up two years ago. Gerry and a small committee justcompleted their first World War One commemoration trip in June 2015 involving students from every county onthe island of Ireland.

Markus MüllerHenning is a historian, history teacher and director of studies at an upperlevel secondaryschool; principal representative in Hesse regarding the German Federal President’ds annual historycompetition; member of the History Teacher Association in Germany, head of the education department of theHessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden.

Bumhee Park has served as a history teacher at Seoul Choongang Highschool since 1998. The NationalAssociation of History Teachers in Korea and the Association of History Educators in Japan jointly publishedFace to Face: A History of Japan and Korea (three volumes, 2006 and 2014) to which he contributed as a cowriter. He also participated in writing a high school history textbook of Dusan Donga Publisher. He contributedto publishing History of History Education (Humanist publisher) as a cowriter.

Maurizio Riotto is a professor of Korean Studies at University of Naples “L’Orientale”, was visiting professor invarious universities and cultural institutions of Korea. He has written more than 170 books and articles onKorea. Member of various cultural associations and editorial committees of scientific journals. In 2011 hereceived from the President of the Republic of Korea the Medal of Honor for cultural merits “for his outstandingcontribution, through research and teaching, to the development and the diffusion of Korean studies”.

Vojtěch Ripka is a social scientist and an educator. He has studied at the University of Oxford and earned hisPh.D. at the Masaryk University in Brno. He has been working with secondary school students in citizenshipeducation in Agora CE, an NGO, from 2004 till 2008. Currently, he is a principal investigator of the Media andHistory/History and Media Educating creatively project, part of which is the Socialism Realized multimediaportal or School x Memory conference.

Sjef Schmiermann studied at the Pedagogical Academy. He was a teacher at a primary school from 1972 till1991. Besides his work he studied at the Gelderse Leergangen to get a second and first degree as teacher ofhistory and civics. Since 1991 he has been working as a history teacher at the Teacher Training College DeKempel in the Netherlands. He is (co)author of several historical books and some books with historical storiesfor children.

Annemiek Schrader is a history teacher at the teacher training college De Kempel in the Netherlands. In 2003she complete het study at the Pedagogical Academy and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary school.In 2010 she completed her master degree in Political and Cultural History at the University of Utrecht in 2010.She is an active member of the history teachers’ society for teacher trainers in the Netherlands.


Marie Sheerin studied History and English Literature at Glasgow University, going on to gain a PGCE in Historybefore working in a community setting with marginalised young people aged 1625. For a number of years, shespecialised in setting up and managing a range of Transition from Care and Supported Accommodation projectsin both the voluntary and public sectors. In 1996, Marie returned to teaching, working in Further Educationcolleges. She recently completed the Yad Vashem Teacher Training Programme.

Jonathan Shulman graduated Tufts University magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science,and he earned a Master of Arts in War Studies with distinction from Kings College London. He chairs the HistoryDepartment at La Jolla Country Day School, where he teaches universitylevel government and world historycourses. He promotes student civic engagement with a passion in collaboration with local organizations such asthe City Club of San Diego and the San Diego History Center.

Blandine Smilansky works for the House of European History Academic Project Team at the EuropeanParliament since April 2015, developing the learning and events programmes of the future museum as part ofthe Education Department. Previously she worked for the EUROCLIO Secretariat in the Hague and in Brussels,where she gained experience in developing and delivering complex panEuropean projects related to theimplementation of innovative and responsible history, heritage and citizenship education.

Jacek Staniszewski is a Senior Researcher in the Educational Research Institute (IBE) in Warsaw. Hegraduated in the History at the University in Gdansk. He became a member of History Section at IBE thatprepares a research projects concerning historical competences of students in Polish schools and intends todevelop and implement good teaching practices, new educational solutions and to examine their effectivenessin empirical research. He is especially interested in using ICT skills during history teaching process.

Heidi Timmerman has completed her master degree history at the university of Gent and a degree of bachelorsocial worker. She has taught history, art and culture sciences. In 2013 she decided to work as an expert onremembrance education for the government of the Province of West Flanders in the frame of thecommemoration of WWI.Their common task is to support teaching teams by contributing to transparency andquality of what is on offer in the field of remembrance education.

Nicholas Tyldesley studied European history and literature, film studies (role of cinema in defining histories)and educational management. He teaches history at a secondary level. He also lectures at the HistoricalAssociation on topics such as commemorating Conscientious Objectors and deconstructing the reality of NorthKorea.

Sebyong Yoon is a history teacher at Yuseong BioScience Technology Highschool in Daejeon in Korea. He isa member of the History Teacher's Association of Korea. He majored in history education and Chinese modernhistory. He had finished his doctoral course in Kongju National University with his dissertation, “The HistoryEducation in Contemporary ChinaFocused on the Analysis of the Context and Ideology of History Textbooks.He has taught history of Korea, East Asia, and World for 17 years.

Małgorzata Żuławnik graduated from the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, Poland where shecompleted an M.A. thesis on the discourse about the Mariavite Church. She worked at the Karta CentreFoundation. She is currently employed at the Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrancein Warsaw where she coordinates educational projects. Her main interests are modern social history, history ofreligion and issues of social memory.

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