The Bergen-Belsen International Summer School is aimed at international undergraduate students from different disciplines interested in the challenges of commemorative culture in a global, digital and medial context.

The summer school offers lectures, guided tours, workshops and discussions held in English. Its aim is to develop visions for the future of educational work at museums and memorials.

The Bergen-Belsen International Summer School wants to give participants a deeper insight into the work of Bergen-Belsen as an international place of remembrance and learning while also exposing the students to the perspectives and projects of international speakers and scholars. The Summer School is intended to be a forum for discussing various questions, such as:

• Which theories and concepts describe memory, remembrance and bearing witness?
• Which interest groups shape the memory of the Nazi era and the Holocaust?
• What role does a scholar’s own position play when researching the past?
• What are the special characteristics of different types of sources, such as files, witness accounts and pictures?
• How do feature films depict historical events?
• How do these depictions influence the viewers’ awareness of history and image of the past?
• How can something be made visible if there is no evidence of it or it has been forgotten?

Deadline for applications is 27 May 2016.

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Image: Preparation for the Summer School 2016, © 2016 Bergen-Belsen International Summer School "Memory in the Digital Age"