Our 2023 webinar offer

June 2023 – The experience of Women and Children during wartime
As part of our new partner project Rememchild, we will host a panel discussion on the experience of women and children during the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the 1990s Wars in the Western Balkans. Three experts on this topic will tell us more about how the events impacted those who were not fighting at the front, and where we can find primary sources and testimonies on this.

We will host this webinar on Thursday 08 June at 16:30 (Amsterdam Time). Registrations will open soon!

June 2023 The Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement
2023 marks 25 years from the signature of the Good Friday Agreement. During this webinar, we will be talking with experts from Ireland, discussing the events that led to the signature of the agreement and how the Troubles and the Agreement are remembered and taught today.

We will host this webinar on Tuesday 20 June at 16:30 (Amsterdam Time).

Fall 2023 – An introduction to the History of Latin America
In the Fall, we will host a mini-series of four sessions that will introduce us to the history of Latin America, a topic often neglected by the history textbooks and thoroughly fascinating. Sessions will take place every month, at 16:30 (Amsterdam Time). We hope that, by spreading the sessions as further as possible in the fall, you will be able to join all the sessions that you find appealing. In particular, these are the sessions we foresee:

• 19 September 2023 @16:30 Amsterdam Time: Pre-colonial civilisations and peoples of Latin America
• 8 November 2023 @16:30 Amsterdam Time: Voices of the “New World”: Testimonies and commentaries of the Latin American conquest
• 22 November 2023 @16:30 Amsterdam Time: Independence and Decolonisation in Latin America: The case of Paraguay, 1800-1870
• 23 November 2023 @16:30 Amsterdam Time: Wearing cultures: How to teach history with fashion
• 14 December 2023 @16:30 Amsterdam Time: Old World, New World: Postcolonial Politics, Production, and Innovation

We will be able to only scratch the surface on these topics, and we hope that these sessions will mark the beginning of more sessions and projects about and with Latin America.

May 2023 – The use of Video Testimonies in the classroom
Together with the Zachor Foundation and the USC Shoah Memorial, we will talk about the iWitness repository, and discuss how to select video testimonies about the Second World War, as well as how to use them in the classroom. This webinar will take place within the framework of our partner project Rememchild. We will host this webinar on Wednesday 24 May at 16:00 (Amsterdam Time). Register now!

Summer 2023 – Fiction in the classroom
Gearing up towards the summer and some well-deserved rest time, we will be focusing on beach reads and on how to bring the books (and movies) that our students are interested in to the classroom as a tool to promote history education. In particular, we will be hosting two sessions:

• 11 July 2023 17:00 – Historical fiction in the classroom
• Postponed to 2024 – Dystopian literature in the classroom 

September 2023 – Worldbuilding – Postponed to date to be confirmed
Back from the holidays, we will turn our attention on how to help our pupils develop a strong sense of place and time. How can we help them visualise Medieval Germany, or Ancient Greece, or Renaissance France? How can we build an image of walking in the streets of Florence at the time of the Medici family? Or the royal court in Spain? We will borrow some techniques from Science-Fiction and Fantasy authors, and discuss world building.

02 November 2023 @16:30 Amsterdam Time – Teaching history at a time of planetary crisis
Finally, we will reflect on Climate Change and History, and on how talking about the environment and climate change from an historical perspective can help us engage students that might be failing to see how the teaching and learning of history relates to their life and their own experiences.

23 November 2023 – Wearing Cultures: How to teach history with fashion

Do fashion heritage and the history of fashion and costumes have a space in the classroom? We have asked this question to our members in October of 2022, and we will be discussing how to use fashion, and in particular costume history as a tool to help students reflect on everyday life in the past.