The 3^rd Belgrade Symposium Disarming History (11-12.4.2024)

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

11.4. Rectorate of the Belgrade university (Studentski trg 1)
Languages: English

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch buffet

13:30-14:00 registration of the participants (registered participants and upon invitation only)

14:00-14:30 Official opening
Mr. Janos Babity, head of the CoE Office Belgrade
H.E. Silvia Davidoiu, Ambassador of Romania in Serbia
Mr. Danijel Sinani, dean of Faculty of Philosophy (TBC)
H.E. Edward Ferguson (TBC)

14:30-16:00 Introductory panel: Challenges of history teaching in Europe
with the support of Council of Europe office in Belgrade together with the OHTE

Speakers:

Ms. Aurora Ailincai, executive director Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE)/HISTOLAB
Mr. Raul Carstocea, Vice-Chair of Scientific Advisory Council OHTE, Lecturer in European History, Maynooth University, Irland
Ms. Ana Radaković, Vice-Chair of Education for 21st Century

         Chair  Ms. Mr. Fin Heckert, Project Officer HISTOLAB /OHTE

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

6:30-16:45 Walk to the Embassy of France (registered participants and upon invitation only)

Venue: Embassy of France, Gračanička 2, Belgrade
Languages: Traduction simultanée français-anglais / French-English simultaneous interpretation

17:00-18:30 Opening speech
H.E. Pierre Cochard

Second panel: Disarming history  
 Speakers:

Mr Steffen Sammler, Historian, Georg-Eckert-Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
Ms Valerie Hannin , Editorial director of the magazine L'Histoire, France
Mr Slobodan Markovic, Professor at Faculty of Political Sciences Belgrade/ Ratiu Forum/LSE program Ideas,Serbia
Ms Paula O’Donohoe, Program Director, EuroClio, Netherlands

       Chair Mr. John Lotherington, Historian, Ratiu Forum/LSE program Ideas, Great Britain

 
19:00-20:00 Public event: Reconciliation through history teaching with the support of Ambassade de France
Speakers:

H.E. René TROCCAZ, Ambassadeur, Envoyé spécial pour les Balkans occidentaux, France
H.E. Anke Konrad, Ambassador of Germany in Serbia
Mr Marko Šuica, Professor at Faculty of Philosophy Belgrade, Member of Scientific Advisory Council, OHTE

Chair: Ms Maria Branea Ratiu Forum/LSE

20:15 Cocktail party

12.4.

Venue: French Institute Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 31
Languages: Serbian/English

Parallel workshops
9:00-10:30.  
Workshop 1 (For participants of the Belgrade History Education Symposium)
Disarming history – regional perspective on war of 90’s: History textbooks (Ms Lidija Županić Šuica and Ms. Ana Radakovic, Education for 21st Century)

Venue: Goethe Institute, Knez Mihailova 50, Belgrade
Languages: English only

Workshop 2  (For participants of the Monumental Challenges International Workshop)
Public monuments - mirror of contested histories (Mr. Andreas Holtberget, EuroClio, The Hague and Prof Marko Šuica, Faculty of Philosophy Belgrade University of Belgrade)

10:30-10:35 Walk to the Rectorate of the Belgrade university

Venue: Rectorate of the Belgrade university (Studentski trg 1)
Languages: English

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Closing session

11:00-11:15 Report from the workshops

11:15-12:45 Round table discussion: Forging Paths to Reconciliation: How Young People Can Overcome the Legacy of Conflicts by Confronting Diverse National Historical Narratives
Mr Fynn Heckert Project Officer, HISTOLAB /OHTE
Mr Igor Mijović, Vice chair, Students history association KSIO, Belgrade, Serbia
Ms Nadira Ćurulija, RYCO Office, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chair Ms. Marija Bulat, RYCO, Serbia

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH

Venue/starting point: Plateau of the Faculty of Philosophy, Čika-Ljubina 18-20, Belgrade
 Languages: English only (no interpretation)

16:00-18:00 / Guided city tour in Belgrade with the support of Belgrade adventure-Beotura initiative
Contested monuments of Belgrade
Controversial murals on 20th Century history
Layers of history in Kalemegdan

18:30 dinner – buffet

19:00 Presentation of the "Onsite Remembrance learning" Toolkit (for Serbian participants)

https://edukacija21.com/