A course offers future educators pedagogical tools to study the history of genocides
Around forty students of Education and young researchers will take part in the course Genocides and mass atrocities. Teaching and pedagogical tools on history and memory on May 11 and 12. This seminar, to be given at the University of Barcelona and the Montjuic Castle, will be given by experts from universities in France and Spain. Some of these experts are Annete Wieviorka, Johann Chapoutout and Jean-Arnault Dérens. The course is coordinated by Jordi Guixé, Director of the European Observatory on Memories of the Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona (EUROM); Bruno Boyer, Director of the Memorial of Shoah, and Concha Fuentes, from the Research Group Teaching of History, Geography and Other Sciences (DHiGeCS) of the Faculty of Education of the UB.
Around forty students of Education and young researchers will take part in the course Genocides and mass atrocities. Teaching and pedagogical tools on history and memory on May 11 and 12. This seminar, to be given at the University of Barcelona and the Montjuic Castle, will be given by experts from universities in France and Spain. Some of these experts are Annete Wieviorka, Johann Chapoutout and Jean-Arnault Dérens. The course is coordinated by Jordi Guixé, Director of the European Observatory on Memories of the Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona (EUROM); Bruno Boyer, Director of the Memorial of Shoah, and Concha Fuentes, from the Research Group Teaching of History, Geography and Other Sciences (DHiGeCS) of the Faculty of Education of the UB.
The program covers pedagogical methodologies of prevention towards racism, anti-Semitism, and extreme violence out of a series of presentations on the Holocaust, crimes against humanity in Latin America, the genocide in Rwanda, the violence and sieges in Spain during the Franco regime, and the massive atrocities of the Balkan wars. Another topic will be the role of the museums and public space in the management of these memories, as well as the uses of technological tools in the teaching of recent history.
The seminar will start on Thursday, May 11, at 9.30 h, in the sala dʼactes room of the Faculty of Library and Information Sciences of the UB (Melcior de Palau, 140). In the opening session, Yves Ternon, from the Paris-Sorbonne University, and José Luis Pérez Triviño, from the Pompeu Fabra University, will give a comparative approach on genocides, massive atrocities, crimes against humanity and sieges. Then, Johann Chapoutot, author of the book La loi du sang (2015 Yad Vashem International Prize), will talk about racism and anti-colonialism. Professor David Bondia, from the University of Barcelona, will talk about the crimes against humanity in repressive regimes in Latin America. The Holocaust will be commented on in a lecture by Annete Wieviorka, researcher from the French National Center for Scientific Research and author of the books 1945. Cómo el mundo descubrió el horror and Auschwitz explained to my child. Josep Calvet, researcher from the University of Lleida, will explain the relation between Spain and the Holocaust, and Antonio Míguez, from the University of Santiago de Compostela, will talk about sieges and violence during the Franco regime between 1936 and 1952. Tal Bruttmann, from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of CNRS, will talk about nazi concentration camps. The Balkan wars and the Srebrenica genocide will be covered by the historian Jean-Arnault Dérens, author of several books on this topic. Florent Piton, expert in history of Africa, from the University of Paris 7, will analyze the Rwandan genocide.
On Friday, May 12, the activity will take place in the Montjuic Castle. It will start at 9.30 h with a guided tour to the common grave of the Cementiri del Fossar de la Pedrera and the castle of Montjuic, by the historian Ricard Conesa, from EUROM. Marta Simó, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, will show her research on education and learning of the Holocaust. The pedagogical and educational tools to explain the genocides in high school is the topic to be treated by the professors of Teaching of Social Sciences Joaquim Prats and Concha Fuentes, members of DHiGeCS. Their lecture will be completed with a presentation of technological tools on the memory project, by the researcher Miquel Albert Tarragona, also from SHiGeCS. The seminar will end with a presentation by the researcher Victoria López Benito, from the University of Zaragoza, about the role of museums in memory management.
The complete program for the seminar is available here.