Geschichtswerkstatt Europa (History Workshop Europe) is a programme of the Foundation EVZ addressing the issue of European remembrance. The Institute for Applied History coordinates the funding of projects in cooperation with the European University Viadrina. An International Forum is organised yearly by the Global and European Studies Institute i.G. at the University of Leipzig.

International Forum 2011

International Forum will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, from June 20 to 25, 2011. The Forum looks at the conflicting recollections of the contemporary history of Europe and at recent debates and research on the collective and cultural memory of the Europeans. It will be led by the Leipzig historian Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst. The Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig and the Foundation EVZ will provide up to 30 travel grants for participation in the International Forum 2011 of Geschichtswerkstatt Europa on  „1941: German War of Extermination in Ukraine and its Acteurs“.

Call for applications:

• english (PDF; 2,5 MB)
• german (PDF; 2,5 MB)

Projects examples can be found at www.geschichtswerkstatt-europa.org/projects

1941: German War of Extermination in Ukraine and its Acteurs
20-25 June 2011 in Kiev / Ukraine

• Speech by Günter Saathoff
• www.geschichtswerkstatt-europa.org/international-forum