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10-Jul-2024

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Successfully Evaluated: Research and Innovation at the Highest Level

The GEI was evaluated by the Leibniz Association in October 2023. The statement released by the Leibniz Senate on 9 July 2024 affirms the outstanding work of the institute and recommends a further seven years funding.

08-Jul-2024

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Teaching Materials on Jewish Culture

The GEI's joint project with the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, on everyday Jewish life, will soon release its second publication ‘The visibility of Jewish Life’.

03-Jul-2024

Press Review

New beginnings for German-Polish Cooperation

German Chancellor Scholz met Polish Prime Minister Tusk in Warsaw to discuss plans for further reconciliation and understanding, and agreements on the use of the German-Polish Textbook ‘Europe – Our History’ in schools.

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Annual theme 2023: #PERSPECTIVES

Considering Perspectives in Educational Media. Conditions – Negotation Processes – Opportunities

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Annual theme 2021: #PERFORMANCE

Achievement is one of the central categories in the self-description of modern societies, whose individual and societal dimensions are reflected upon critically time and again.

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17-May-2024

Eckert. Dossiers

Johannes Barth: Vibrant Memory Production: Eine neomaterialistische Analyse der Produktionsweisen interaktiver 3D-Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der NS Verbrechen

Few terms are so closely associated with the Holocaust than that of contemporary witness. Whether as speakers at commemorative events or involved in (extracurricular) democracy and human rights education, contemporary witnesses fulfil a specific role: they make history more tangible and enable empathy with their stories. Those stories convey the significance of the suffering experienced and lend a personal character to the historiography of Nazi crimes, which is often perceived as abstract. Any…

Eckert.Dossiers 1 (2024) urn:nbn:de:0220-2024-003

26-Mar-2024

PSEM

Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks: The Politics of Historical Oblivion

Mneesha Gellman

Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024

01-Feb-2024

Policy Briefs

1/2024: Sinti and Roma in Curricula and Textbooks

Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe and together with Sinti are one of four nationally recognised minorities in Germany. A study from 2020 examines the extent to which Sinti*zze and Rom*nja are addressed in German curricula and textbooks and in which contexts. The study analysed 410 textbooks, and 201 curricula from 12 federal states.

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