Our 2023 webinar offer

May 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 open registrations to this webinar in April, so keep your eyes peeled for it!!

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.

Fall 2023 – An introduction to the History of South America
In the Fall, we will host a mini-series of four sessions that will introduce us to the history of South America, a topic often neglected by the history textbooks and thoroughly fascinating. Sessions will take place every month, at 16:00 (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:

• September 2023: Pre-colonial empires and civilisations in Central and South America
• October 2023: Colonial empires of South America
• November 2023: Independence and Decolonisation in South America
• December 2023: Central and South American history from the independence until today

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 South 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). Registration will open in April.

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:

• June 2023 – Dystopian literature in the classroom 
• July 2023 – Historical fiction in the classroom

September 2023 – Worldbuilding
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.

October 2023 – Fashion and History
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.

November 2023 – Climate and History
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.