BERGEN-BELSEN
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2022
We aim to gather international graduate & PhD students and young professionals. Building on our long-standing experience with student groups in different settings, we are convinced that we benefit from working with people from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Individual responsibility and leeway
- Motivation and dynamics of perpetration
- Reception and perception of perpetrator accounts
- Atrocity images and the perpetrator gaze
- (Transitional) justice
The working language of the Bergen-Belsen International Summer School is English. The participants’ language skills must be sufficient to enable them to understand the preparatory texts, follow the sessions and actively participate in the discussions. Sessions will be hosted in CEST (UTC +2). We will try to find times that are suitable across all time zones, but a certain flexibility is required.
The programme will be hosted on Zoom. Additionally, we will be using an online messaging platform and project management tools for small assignments and workshops. Participation requires internet accessibility and a workspace with suitable hardware (at least Windows 7/Mac OS X 10.10). Additional use of mobile devices is encouraged.
To apply for this year’s Summer School, we ask you to submit a video statement (max. 90 seconds) in which you tell us about yourselves, your expectations of the programme’s topic and what you could contribute. No creative limits are set on how you present your statement, but it should be in English. You can submit your application by filling out this form. Registration will close on May 15, 2022.
For more information, visit this website.
As a part of the „Houses of Darkness. Images of a contested European Memory“ (HICE) project, Bergen-Belsen Memorial will host a digital summer school programme from July 18 - July 2022 (with an introductory session on July 8) via Zoom.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial