yearly seminar

Each fall semester, the international blended learning seminar takes place with students from Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Nijmegen, Warsaw and the MA History Education and Public History at the University of Teacher Education. Lucerne This year, the focus is on analysing memory practices and narratives in Europe - especially in museums - in relation to the topic of war. 

This international seminar presents a unique opportunity for the collaboration of students from a variety of European countries. Apart from online and live sessions, the exchange of ideas, reflection on texts and analysis of primary sources in small international groups are key elements of the seminar. Working in small groups, students will produce short projects (for example collaboratively elaborated papers, blog posts, online live presentations, videos, podcasts, etc.).  

The seminar usually consists of weekly online sessions between October and December, and a voluntary on-site workshop the following spring. In 2024 the on-site workshop took place in Dresden. 

The international blended learning MA seminar is part of the project «Fostering of international cooperation in education and research in the field of memory cultures and history teaching» of the University of Teacher Education Lucerne financed by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI. The project which started in 2019 aims at integrating concepts and approaches of memory studies and public history by centring on the analysis of the construction, usage and transformation of practices and narratives of memory in Europe and with regard to Europe by different agents in the public sphere, such as museums, monuments, literature and film, architecture, media and political agents. Imagined spaces, transnational entanglements, borders and the construction of ‘external others’, of racism, discrimination and violence and war are especially focused.