This international workshop is organized in Vienna from April 7-8, 2025 in the frameworks of the project 'Pasostar ando Prastape – Breaking into a Gallop' implemented by Centropa in cooperation with Terraforming (Serbia), TENET Center for Social Transformations, and the Intercultural Institute Timișoara (Romania).
We invite 5 teachers, educators in museums and memorials, teacher trainers, curricula and textbook creators, decision and policymakers in the field of education from across Europe to attend the workshop “(Mis)Representation of Roma and Sinti in Education, Museums, and Memorials” and contribute your perspectives and experiences as practitioners interested in education about the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities, who might have some or no experience in teaching about the genocide of the Roma and Sinti.
- The workshop is scheduled from 10:00 to 17:00 on April 7 and from 10:00 to 14:00 on April 8.
- The workshop is free for all participants.
- For international participants, we will cover travel costs (flight, train, or bus), hotel accommodation with breakfast (one or two nights in the hotel on April 6 and 7), and lunch on April 7.
- The event will be held in English. Good knowledge of English is required.
Please confirm your interest in participating by Monday, March 17, at the latest, by sending your CV and motivation mail to misko [at] terraforming.org (misko[at]terraforming[dot]org)
The workshop in Vienna is the first one a series of events across Europe fostering collaboration between teachers, policymakers, and educational institutions. The project aims to promote inclusive and innovative approaches to teaching the genocide of the Roma while addressing key challenges in the field. The event will bring together experts, educators, and stakeholders from Austria, Germany, Serbia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, to discuss teaching and learning about the genocide of the Roma and Sinti, and support the national implementation of the IHRA “Recommendations on Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era”, and will focus on the (mis)representation of Roma and Sinti in education, museums, and memorials. Participants will examine challenges identified by educators and propose strategies for improving the teaching of this history.
It will be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in the Anton Zeilinger Salon in the Academy’s main building (Doktor Ignaz Seipel Platz 2, 1010 Vienna) with local support by the Institute of Culture Studies (IKW/ÖAW Austria).
The project is supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Grant Program and the Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ) Foundation, with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office as part of the YOUNG PEOPLE Remember International program.
Distinguished speakers from Austria include Gerhard Baumgartner (former director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance – DÖW), Moritz Wein (Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research), Florian Zeller (DÖW), representative of the Austrian Roma and Romnja Student Union, and Ljiljana Radonić (Austrian Academy of Sciences), as well as international experts such as Miško Stanišić (Serbia), director of Terraforming and chairman of the IHRA project on developing Recommendations on Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era, Tetiana Storozhko (Ukraine), CEO of Tenet and editor-in-chief of “Djanes?” Informational Platform of the Youth Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture; Bas Kortholt (The Netherlands), researcher at the Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre, and others.
Further workshops will be held in June, September and October at authentic sites of Nazi persecution: Westerbork (Netherlands), Brno/Lety (Czechia), and Staro Sajmište/Topovske Šupe (Belgrade, Serbia).
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
