The course, which takes place in July and August 2014, has as being of educational interest by the Education Directorate 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).
2014 Thematic Program:
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 Memory. 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