The fourth of the panel series about the practices of dealing with the difficult pasts and promotes inspiring best practices from different parts of the world will be organized on the 15th of November, at Hrant Dink Foundation Havak Hall.
How can one tell about genocide to a child? What is the right way to tell about the events which caused social trauma and wrenched the social conscience to the new generations so that they are never repeated again? How can one deal with difficult questions?
Memory sites and museums that deal with the difficult pasts contribute to social transformation through implementing education programs and developing pedagogic materials which foster mutual understanding, empathy and dialogue. By developing alternative education programs for different age groups, memory sites and museums offer a platform for asking new questions and finding responses for the current pressing issues through shedding light on the experience of the past. Memory sites that shed light on the past and play an important role in divulging information that has been erased from collective memory and in revealing the histories that have been hidden from the public. The education programs render the information accessible for different age groups.
‘Practices of Dealing With the Difficult Pasts: Transformative education programmes in museums and memory sites’ panel organized by Hrant Dink Foundation and DVV International will address the aims, targets, impact and the challenges of the education programs that are implemented in the museums and memory sites that deal with the difficult pasts.
The director of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Andrej Kacorzyk; Georgina Marques who is one of the coordinators of the education department of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and Cornelia Steibeck who develops education programs and education materials in the House of Wannsee Conference which was the location for a conference in which leading figures in the Nazi government and SS met to discuss their so-called Final Solution to the Jewish Question, will participate in the panel as speakers.

Program:

Date: 15 November 2018, Thursday
Time: 18.30
Venue: Hrant Dink Foundation, Havak Hall

Nisya İşman Allovi ( Director, Jewish Museum of Turkey)
Moderator

Andzrej Kacorzyk (Director of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust - Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum)
The present and the future of the education in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site

Cornelia Siebeck (Education Department,Wannsee Conference House )
Studying the perpetrators' society: Educational work at House of the Wannsee-Conference

Georgina Marques (Education Coordinator, Apartheid Museum)
What is the quality of learning experienced in South African museums? A case study of The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa.