Genocides and mass atrocities. Teaching and pedagogical tools on history and memory

by EUROM | Apr 7, 2017

Organized in collaboration with the Mémorial de la Shoah and the research group DHiGeCs (Didactics of History, Geography, and other Social Sciences) of the University of Barcelona, the workshop is addressed to young researchers and students of education. Pictures:...

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

by EUROM | Apr 3, 2017

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at...

Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)

by EUROM | Mar 15, 2017

The Berlin Wall Foundation was established as a foundation under public law by legislation passed on September 17, 2008. The foundation encompasses two institutions: the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial, both of...

European Memory in the Making: Refugees and Global Expulsions

by sergi | Oct 10, 2016

The future of the European society after the current refugee crisis is the key topic of this seminar, organized throughout the MEFRO project.  European memory in the making: Refugees and Global Expulsions will try to identify the most critical areas of social...

Civil Wars in the Contemporary Era

by sergi | Sep 29, 2016

  In line with the contemporary narrative about the causes and consequences of current and past conflicts, this year’s Walter Benjamin Lecture Session, Memory and Exile of the University of Girona will held the seminar “Civil Wars in the Contemporary...