Call for papers: History education, public memory and difficult pasts

With keynote speaker Olga Manojlović Pintar (Institute of Recent History, Belgrade).

Public memory, understood as shared and official interpretation of the past, plays a crucial role for the coherence of contemporary societies. History teaching and school curricula in history are among the key tools through which societies attempt to convey knowledge, understanding and reflections about the past to their future citizens. Thus, history teaching also serves to endorse public memories that may contribute to shared values and societal coherence. 

While public memory and the role of history teaching are important concerns to most contemporary societies, they pose a particular challenge to countries characterized by difficult, painful or divisive recent pasts.

This workshop aims to explore the role of history teaching in building or challenging public memory of difficult pasts in post-conflict societies around the world.

We hope to be able to compare different examples of how history education contributes to, relates to, or is perhaps being excluded from societies’ attempts to deal with their pasts. Moreover, we are keen to create a dialogue across various disciplines (history, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies etc.)

 

 

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