MONDAY, September 18th - ROOM S227

16.00-17.00 – Conference registration

17.00-19.0 - Keynote Lecutre and Discussion:

Introduction: Porf. Bogdan Wojciszke, SWPS University

Prof. Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, University of Leuven, Torn between national, civic, critical and disciplinary aspirations: evolving faces of Belgian/Flemish history education, from 1830 to the future.

Prof. Rok Stergar, University of Ljubljana, Schools as Ethnic Boxes: Habsburg Education System and Nation Building.

20.00-23.00 - Welcome Party at Club "Bazar", Jagiellońska 13, Warsaw

TUESDAY, September 19th -  ROOM S227

9.30-11.30 – Keynote Lecutre and Discussion:

Dr Jernej Kosi, University of Ljubljana, The Textbook Myth: Slovene Peasants as Heroes of the Glorious past

Prof. Christian Karner, University of Nottingham, Memory Acts, "Mythscapes" and Nationalist Topoi in Times of Crises.

11.30-13.30 – SESSION I

Prof. Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski, APS Warsaw, The Maria Grzegorzewska University), Is the past necessary for the people of today?

Dr Vittorio Caporrella, Bologna University, Language education as an instrument of historical national identity: Italian language schools in the Habsburg monarchy at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Dr Piotr Podemski, Warsaw University / SWPS University, A Myth of Nation Larger Than Life. Nation-Building through Politics of History in Fascist Italy.

Miłosz Zieliński, IS PAN and SWPS University, Subjects of the Empress. Internalisation of the history of East Prussia in contemporary regional history education in Kaliningrad Oblast [of the Russian Federation].

13.30-14.30 – Lunch break

14.30-16.30 – SESSION II

Oliver Pejić, University of Ljubljana, The Treatment of History in Austrian-Hungarian State Primary School Readers for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Prof. Oscar Lansen, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, Not my Nation, Not my History: Political influence and Ethnocentric Bias in American Historical Education and Vision of Nation.

Dr hab. Mariusz Ausz and Prof. Jarosław Krajka, Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, The image of Poland’s southern neighbours in Polish history textbooks published during the People’s Republic of Poland and at present.

Dr Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski, SWPS University, Antinomies, Principlism and Representations of the Pasts.

16.30-17.00 – Coffee Break

17.00-19.00 – SESSION III

Dr Michał Rauszer, University of Warsaw, People’s Republic without The People.

Bartosz Korinth, Tamara Rutkowska, University of Gdansk, Geographical determinism in historical education in schools - current state, opportunities and potential for development.

Piotr Krzyżański, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Polish textbooks in Stalinism era. A lost opportunity for socialism?

Piotr Pasisz, The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, The vision of the Polish nation in marxist historiography on the example of the textbook by Celina Bobińska.

WEDNESDAY, September 20th - ROOM S227

9.00-10.00 – Keynote lecture and discussion:

Dr Miri Yemini, Tel Aviv University, Invoking the global? Global/local nexus in the Israeli history curricula.

10.00-12.00 – SESSION IV

Dr Michał Mochocki, Kazimierz Wielki University – Bydgoszcz, Tabletop RPG in Historical Settings: From Textbook History to Performed Heritage

Prof. Krzysztof Jaskułowski and Dr Piotr Majewski, SWPS University, Politics of memory in Upper Silesian schools. Between Polish homogeneous nationalism and its Silesian discontents.

Tadeusz (Tadek) Wojtych, University of Cambridge / University of St Andrews, Joint textbook commissions in Central and Eastern Europe – a transnational approach.

Agnieszka Kania, Jagiellonian University, Development of a sense of
national identity in the process of Polish language arts education.
From (less) ethnic to (more) cultural vision of the nation.

12.00-12.30 – Coffee break

12.30-14.00 – SESSION V

Anna Szczeblewska, SWPS University, The teaching of history in post-genocide Rwanda: a case-study of the re-education camps in Ingando

Stanisław Lipiec, Pedagogical University in Cracow, About Poland: nothing, or just stereotypes. Teaching about Poland in schools of Northern Europe.

Dejana M. Vukasović, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, Stereotypes about the Balkans: the case of the Western Balkans and its membership in the EU.

14.00-15.00 – Lunch break

15.00-16.30 – SESSION VI

Dr Paweł Dobrosielski, University of Warsaw, Peripheries of the Holocaust on the peripheries of education. The destruction of European Jews in the Polish history textbooks - an overview.

Dr Mohammad Nourian, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Using the principles and standards of organizing the contents of a book. Titled history of Iran and world in high school

Olena Dobosh, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, University: place for memory or memory place. How historical universities deal with the past in the era of commercialization?

• Professor Wojciech Burszta (SWPS University)

• Associate Professor Krzysztof Jaskułowski (SWPS University)

• Assisstant Professor Piotr Majewski (SWPS University)

• Paweł Dobrosielski, Ph.D. (Institute of Polish Culture - University of Warsaw)

• Marcin Lisiecki, Ph.D. (Nicolaus Copernicus University)

• Michał Rauszer, Ph.D. (Institute of Slavic Studies Polish Academy of Sciences)

• Katarzyna Majbroda, Ph.D. (University of Wrocław)