Monday, May 5, 2025
From 5.00 p.m. arrival of participants
Arriving at the Alte Münze, Check-in and time to get to know each other
From 5.30 p.m. Fingerfood and Drinks
7.00 - 8.15 p.m.: Opening Event
Moderation: Clarissa Correa da Silva
Welcome by the Director of the Federal Agency of Civic Education, Thomas Krüger
Keynote-conversation on the topic of violence and memory with
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Zadoff, Director of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National SocialismFireside-Chats with histoCON participants
Music by Diana Ezerex
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
8.30 - 9.00 a.m.: Arrival of Participants
Check-in and registration
9.00 a.m.: Get together & warm-up
9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.: Workshops 1 – 12 Part 1
Interner Link: Between Personal and National – Holocaust Commemoration in Different Countries Interner Link: Untold Stories in WW II: Voices Beyond the Battlefield Interner Link: HistoCourt: History on Trial – How the Law Remembers the Past Interner Link: The Winner Tells the Story? Memory, Power and WWII Narratives Interner Link: Multidirectional Memory and the Weaponization of WWII Narratives Interner Link: Filming the Past: Exploring WWII Through Visual Storytelling Canceled:
Interner Link: Histories in Motion: Personal Narratives, Global Migration, and WWII
12.30 – 2.00 p.m.: Lunch
1.30 - 3.30 p.m.: Networking and Activity Offers
Offers starting at 1:30 p.m.
Interner Link: Walking Tour: “Berlin as a Landscape of Remembrance” Interner Link: Walking Tour “Discovering Traces of Jewish Life”
Offers starting at 2.00 p.m.
3.30 – 6.00 p.m.: Workshops 1 – 12 Part 2
Interner Link: Between Personal and National – Holocaust Commemoration in Different Countries Interner Link: Untold Stories in WWII: Voices Beyond the Battlefield Interner Link: HistoCourt: History on Trial – How the Law Remembers the Past Interner Link: The Winner Tells the Story? Memory, Power and WWII Narratives Interner Link: Multidirectional Memory and the Weaponization of WWII Narratives Interner Link: Filming the Past: Exploring WWII Through Visual Storytelling Canceled:
Interner Link: Histories in Motion: Personal Narratives, Global Migration, and WWII
6.00 p.m.: Dinner and then End of the First Day
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
8.30 - 9.00 a.m.: Arrival of Participants
Check-in and registration
9.00 a.m.: Get Together & Warm-Up
9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.: Workshops 1 – 12 Part 1
Interner Link: Between Personal and National – Holocaust Commemoration in Different Countries Interner Link: Untold Stories in WWII: Voices Beyond the Battlefield Interner Link: HistoCourt: History on Trial – How the Law Remembers the Past Interner Link: The Winner Tells the Story? Memory, Power, and WWII Narratives Interner Link: Multidirectional Memory and the Weaponization of WWII Narratives Interner Link: Filming the Past: Exploring WWII Through Visual Storytelling Canceled:
Interner Link: Histories in Motion: Personal Narratives, Global Migration, and WWII
12.30 – 2.00 p.m.: Lunch
1.30 - 3.30 p.m.: Networking and Activity Offers
Offers starting at 1:30 pm
Interner Link: Walking Tour: “Berlin as a Landscape of Remembrance” Interner Link: Walking Tour: The New Synagogue under National Socialism
Offers starting at 2.00 p.m.
3.30 – 6.00 p.m.: Workshops 1 – 12 Part 2
Interner Link: Between Personal and National – Holocaust Commemoration in Different Countries Interner Link: Untold Stories in WW II: Voices Beyond the Battlefield Interner Link: HistoCourt: History on Trial – How the Law Remembers the Past Interner Link: The Winner Tells the Story? Memory, Power and WWII Narratives Interner Link: Multidirectional Memory and the Weaponization of WWII Narratives Interner Link: Filming the Past: Exploring WWII Through Visual Storytelling Canceled:
Interner Link: Histories in Motion: Personal Narratives, Global Migration, and WWII
6.00 p.m.: Dinner
7.00 - 8.15 p.m.: Panel Discussion on the Culture of Remembrance in Germany
Introduction and moderation: Clarissa Correa da Silva
Interactive Keynote Speech: Results of the Memo Study on the Culture of Remembrance in Germany
Michael Papendick, (Bielefeld University, Co-Author of the study)
Panel discussion: Who tells the Story and who listens?
Hanna Veiler, German activist and publicist. Until March 2025 President of the Jewish Student Union of Germany
Zeynep Karaosman, Peace-activist
Daniel Haberlah, Author of the book „Als ‚Asoziale‘ nach Ravensbrück – Das kurze Leben der Irmgard Plättner (As an ‘asocial’ to Ravensbrück – The short life of Irmgard Plättner)
Thursday, May 8, 2025
9.30 - 10.00 a.m.: Arrival of Participants
Check-in and registration
10.00 a.m.: Get together & warm-up
Get together & warm-up & Distribution of lunch packages
10.30 a.m. - 14.00 p.m.: “Schnitzeljagd”
Scavenger hunt through Berlin in small groups
14.30 p.m.: Back in the “Alte Münze”
Entrance to the Great Hall (histoCON stage), security check
14.30 p.m. - 16.00 p.m.: Meet & Explore Zones
Exhibition of workshop results and other attractions
16.00 p.m.: Visit of the Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Welcome to the Federal President by Thomas Krüger, Director of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
Address by the Federal President to the participants and opening of the photo exhibition
Viewing of the exhibition by the Federal President, including conversations with individual participants about their photos