The course, which takes place in July and August 2014, has as being of Educational Interest by the Directorate of Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Resolution No. 044/2014) and is supported by the Secondary Education Council, which, in its resolution, considers the course an “academic event for the professional development of teachers” (Res. Exp. 3/5512/2014, June 5, 2014).
2014Programme :
1 - Teaching the Shoah to New Generations. What and Why? July 22 – David Telias, M.Ed.
2 - The Shoah and Genocides. Particularities and universalities. 07/22 – Dr. Miguel Bresciano
3 – From prejudice to genocide. Anti-Semitism yesterday and today. 07/24 – Gustavo Perednik
4 - “On Nazism and its trivialization since Eichmann.” July 24 – Gustavo Perednik
5 – The Matrix of a Genocide. July 29 – Prof. Isabel Burstein
6 – The Legacy of Auschwitz and the Duty of Remembrance. July 29 – Prof. Isabel Burstein
7 – Social Euthanasia and Nazi Racial Policy: The Prelude to the Holocaust. Commentary on Götz Aly’s work “The Leftovers.” 07/31 – Prof. Oscar Destouet
8 – The Shoah as a universal “trope” of memory. July 31 – Prof. Oscar Destouet
9 – Human Rights and the Shoah. August 5 – Dr. Javier Miranda
10 - Testimony of a survivor. Coordinated by the Montevideo Holocaust Memorial Center. 08/05 – Speaker to be confirmed
11–14 – In-depth seminar: 08/11–12 – “Literature, Film, and the Shoah: Art and Victims” – Prof. Andrea Blanqué
15 – Guided tour of the Montevideo Holocaust Memorial Center Museum. (Canelones 1084). August 14 – Prof. Andrea Blanqué