Workshop Programme

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A Look at Jewish Life after 1918

This workshop examines the impact of oral testimonies on the historical narrative. The period after 1918 was marked by dramatic...
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Balancing National Self-Determination and Realpolitik

This workshop will focus on the principle of Self-Determination which was championed by President Woodrow Wilson in the deliberations at...
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Borders and Orders in the Middle East during the Last 100 Years (and Today’s Consequences)

This workshop will be focussed around the three-part series “World War One Through Arab Eyes” in which Tunisian writer and...
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Building Personal Memorials and Monuments through Storytelling

In this workshop we will build personal memorials from hidden memories. It can be difficult to understand the whole picture...
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Comparing Social Changes in Times of War and Peace

In this workshop, we will examine social changes during war and peace times and how they are reflected on in...
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Deconstructing the Conceptions of History in Digital Games

Have you ever had the feeling that computer games manipulate the way you perceive history? In this workshop we will...
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Drawing Comics from Propaganda Posters

This workshop gives you the opportunity to artistically deal with emerging political institutions of the interwar period and their campaigning....
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Exploring Narratives and Storytelling in a Museum Laboratory

This workshop will give you both the chance to receive interesting insights into professional museum work and gain first-hand experience...
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From WWI to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

This workshop aims at bringing together past and present by discussing the complex questions of identity, gender roles and future...
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Geographies and Biographies of Flight

The Ottoman Empire will be in the focus of this workshop which will broadly involve visual elicitation and group reflection...
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Identifying Prejudices in Arts

This workshop is based upon the experiences and the recent outcomes of the international Necropolis Project, a multi-media research cooperation...
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Oral History and the Diversity of Historical Narratives in Jordan and Europe

In “Local : National”, you will be introduced to Oral History as a distinct methodology that might be used to...
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Putting WWI Remembrance into Perspective

As a group we will explore different memorials and places of remembrance in Berlin that refer to World War I...
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Remembering WWI a Hundred Years from Now

This workshop aims to develop ideas how a Paneuropean museum commemorating WW I could look like. For this project it...
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The Aftermaths of Parliamentary Democracies and Authoritarian Ideas Born Right after WWI

In „Democracy : Dictatorship”, we will examine the legacy of parliamentary democracies and authoritarian ideas of the twenties. We will...
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The Meaning of WWI to Namibia

This workshop focusses on the events that led up to the World War I in German South West Africa and...
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The War is (Not) Over. Personal Perceptions of the End of War

In this workshop we are going to use the everyday lives’ history approach to investigate personal perceptions of the end...
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Threading a Fabric of Peace for Southern Africa and the World

This workshop is aimed at revealing the Southern African narrative of the war and its ripple effects that have shaped...
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Turning Geography Upside Down

This workshop will focus on the rise of independence movements in the wake of the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) and discuss...
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Unravelling Warfare and Peacemaking in Central Europe 1618-1918

Through the lens of historiography, this workshop will explore fundamental aspects of warfare and peacemaking. Throughout human history until today,...
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