Learning a History that is not

yet History?

Sarajevo Development Meeting: Memory in

the Classroom

21-23 April 2017

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Partners
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ABOUT THE PROJECT

How to teach the history of recent wars that is often considered not to be history
yet, but is remembered in so many different ways, and has been investigated in
great detail in the context of transitional justice? This is the main question the
project seeks to answer by investing in a unique partnership among teachers and
their associations from former Yugoslavia, in which transnational teams will
collaboratively create a free ready-to-use learning resource about the 1990s
Yugoslav wars.
This resource explores how this history should be addressed in a multi-
perspective way; how war impacts developed societies and everyday life and to
what extent history educators can also address current wars across the world
through the lens of the experiences in the wars of the 1990s.

PROJECT AIMS
The project aims to contribute to the field of European remembrance through
raising the awareness among teachers, students and pupils that common
approaches to the very sensitive past are possible, so that they may raise
awareness in their countries that common remembrance is possible.

SPECIFIC MEETING OBJECTIVES

To take stock of civil society initiatives (including NGOs, museums and higher
education) on remembrance and reconciliation.
To identify challenges and opportunities for a wider transformation on
common history teaching of the recent past in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the
region with key stakeholders including EU, OSCE and ICTY.
To peer-review and enhance a transnational joint position paper on the
contribution of history education for dealing with the violent past of the
1990s.
To assess the progress made and populate further the collection of
recommended resources for teachers to address the history of 1990s
Yugoslav wars.
To build the capacity of individual educators in regional cooperation and
educational innovation.

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ACCOMMODATION & MEETING VENUE

Hotel & meeting venue:

HOTEL SARAJ
Address: Nevjestina 5
71000 Sarajevo
Bosna i Hercegovina
T: +387 (0)33 239 510
recepcija@hotelsaraj.com

TRAVEL & FLIGHTS

Name Country Dat Arriv Means Date of Departu Means of
e of al of depart re time transpor
arri Time transpo ure t
val rt

Judith The 21- 14.20 OS 0372 24-Apr 15.10 OS 0375

Geerling Netherlan Apr
ds
Will Mason United 21- 14.20 OS 0372 24-Apr 15.10 OS 0375
Kingdom Apr
Marko Suica Serbia 21- 14:45 JU 0112 27-Apr 15:15 JU 0113
Apr
Natasa Serbia 21- 14:45 JU 0112 23-Apr 15:15 JU 0113
Kostic Apr
Aleksandar Serbia 21- 14:45 JU 0112 23-Apr 15:15 JU 0113
Todosijevic Apr

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Emina Serbia 21- 14:45 JU 0112 23-Apr 15:15 JU 0113

Zivkovic Apr
Denis Croatia 21- 15:45 OU 0344 23-Apr 16:15 OU 0345
Detling Apr
Miljenko Croatia 21- 15:45 OU 0344 23-Apr 16:15 OU 0345
Hajdarovic Apr
Igor Croatia 21- 15:45 OU 0344 23-Apr 16:15 OU 0345
Jovanovic Apr
Dea Maric Croatia 21- 15:45 OU 0344 23-Apr 16:15 OU 0345
Apr

PROGRAMME
Friday 21 April | Arrival and Public Event

Arrivals

18:00 Welcome and Registration

18:30 Official Welcome

EUROCLIO, Mr Mire Mladenovski, Vice-President

EUROCLIO Board

EUROCLIO HIP BiH, Ms Bojana Dujkovic-Blagojevi,

Board Member EUROCLIO HIP BiH

19:00 20:30 Debate amongst stakeholders Why do history

teachers need to work together to address the 1990s
in Bosnia-Herzegovina?

Moderators: Mr. Mire Mladenovski (Vice President

EUROCLIO Board, President of ANIM, Association of History
Educators of Macedonia) and Mr. Edin Radusi (University of
Sarajevo, President of EUROCLIO HIP BiH, Association of
History Teachers of Bosnia-Herzegovina)

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Panelists:

H.E. Mr. Martin Pammer, Ambassador of Austria

Mr. Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, Head of the EU Delegation

in BiH (tbc)

Mr. Jonathan Moore, Head of OSCE Mission,

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (tbc)

Mr. Almir Ali, ICTY Outreach Office

20:30 Drinks with dinner buffet

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Saturday 22 April | Panel Discussion, Thematic Working Groups,

Authors/Experts Meetings

09.00 09.30 Roundtable Pitches - plenary room

Where do we stand with the project? By Judith Geerling

Short introduction thematic working groups and experts

1. Social and Cultural Dialogue Actions by civil society

o Ms. Jelena Krstic, Humanitarian Law Centre

o Aleksandra Bogdanovska, CNA (Centre for Non-

Violent Action)

2. Museums and public education:

o Mr. Denis Detling, Director of Museum of Slavonia,
who has run an exhibition on Let me tell you about
1991.
o Ms. Elma Hasimbegovic, Director of the Museum of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
3. Remembrance and non-formal learning:
o Mr. Nicolas Moll, Initiator of Memory Lab, an action
based platform of history and memory
practitioners, which set up different projects for
dealing with the past around memory sites and
remembrance education.
o Mr. Kerim Somun, Anne Frank House project
Historija, Istorija, Povijest which produces
exhibition panels on the 1990s war in a human
rights context connected to the story of Anne Frank.

09:30 11:00 Parallel Thematic Working Groups: and now we

teach the 1990s?! Ideas, resources and experiences
from the field of remembrance for teaching.

Designed so that authors and experts can learn more about

the existing resources for the database and learn from
experience with implementing educational projects on the
1990s wars for the position paper.

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Themes

Social and Cultural Dialogue Actions by civil society

- Moderator/reporter: Bojana Dujkovic-
Blagojevic
Museums and public education
- Moderator/reporter: Milos Vukanovic
Remembrance and non-formal learning
- Moderator/reporter: Dea Maric
11:00 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 12:30 Common reviews of the findings of the thematic working
groups lead by the moderators of the groups
12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16.00 Authors and Experts Meeting in two parallel

working groups
1. Database of existing resources
2. Joint Position Paper for policy makers
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Continuation of Authors and Experts Meeting in
two parallel working
groups

17:30-17:45 Conclusions of the day

19:00 Dinner

Sunday 23 April | Conclusions and Next steps

09:00 11:00 Authors and Experts Meeting in two parallel

working groups
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 12:30 Management meeting, Logistics, Project timeline
12:30 13:30 Lunch
14:00 Parallel museum visits: Childhood Museum and Museum of
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Departures

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