We are an international network of higher education lecturers from Poland, Norway and Germany, who have conducted several student workshop- and seminar-activities related to the topic of Holocaust in Lodz, Sztutowo and Riga in the years 2016-2019. During our activities, we have established contact to both the Polin Museum in Warsaw and the Falstad Center in Norway – both institutions were guests at several of our workshop presentations, and during our stay in Poland, we have frequently visited the Polin Museum with our students.
“>After several years of informal, associated partnership, we formalised our cooperation through a Norway Grant project – which has led to three seminars in Poland and Norway – known as «Memory Dialogues» with international educators, experts and students from 2021 til 2023.
In association with Polin Museum and Falstad Center, the seminars were conducted by educators from Bergen, Volda, Hamburg, Berlin, Warsaw and Wroclaw* in Warsaw (2021, without students due to the Covid19 situation), in Warsaw (2022) and in Oslo/Falstad (2023). The results of the seminars – also covered in an online publication – will be presented at this congress for a selected audience. While the Holocaust memory culture has long relied on witness descriptions which now gradually disappear, communicating the memory includes a transition from lived culture to the culture of experts and mediated communication.
At the same time, the impact of legacy media is changing, the habits of young people’s use of media are in a flux and the political European landscape can be considered challenging. Antisemitism and racism have not only been part of history, but are very much contemporary phenomena we are facing in all forms throughout our societies.
In our international, interdisciplinary workshops and seminars, we are dealing with communicating sensitive topics (Holocaust, Anti Semitism, Racism) to younger generations and observing how young university students from within the fields of media, art, design, communication and psychology approach this communication challenge. The students in this project developed ideas and concepts in a short period of time – based on research, lectures, exhibitions, presentations, group working and coaching.
* University of Bergen (Norway), Volda University College (Norway), Hamburg Media School (Germany), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), University of Warsaw (Poland) and SWPS Wrocław (Poland).
2021 Warszawa
2022 Warszawa
2023 FALSTAD
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Irmgard Zündorf
FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Kathrin Lemme
HMS HAMBURG MEDIA SCHOOL
Thomas Lewe
VOLDA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Hilde Kramer
UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
Krzysztof Moszczyński
SWPS WROCŁAW
Kamila Zochniak
UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
Jon Harman
VOLDA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Sebastian Klein
FALSTAD CENTER NORWAY
Christina Svarva
FALSTAD CENTER NORWAY
Magdalena Dopieralska
POLIN MUSEUM WARSAW
Małgorzata Waszczuk
POLIN MUSEUM WARSAW
Joanna Longfors
POLIN MUSEUM WARSAW