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History Camp 2024: "Stories They Tell"

Film will play an integral role in the workshop I Photo: John Moeses Bauan via Unsplash
Film will play an integral role in the workshop I Photo: John Moeses Bauan via Unsplash

What makes history such a powerful tool for propaganda? Why is it embedded in popular culture? And most importantly, how can this often subtle form of propaganda be detected – and countered?

Sixteen young prize winners of the recent History Competitions in Armenia, Georgie, Moldova and Ukraine will explore these questions in a three-day interactive workshop in Riga, Latvia, from 23 to 27 October, 2024. Together with workshop facilitator Lilit Dagabian, public history practitioner from Kyrgyzstan, they will delve into a wide variety of media products, ranging from music to films. They will critically examine these media products in order to develop a sensitivity for individual propagandistic elements as well as for cross-media narratives.

All participants already explored various aspects of history-based propaganda in their entries for their respective local history competitions. Now they can explore where history-based propaganda is present in pop culture and their everyday media consumption. Equipped with these insights, the participants will develop creative ways to counter history-based propaganda in popular culture that they can then share with their peers.

This year, the History Camp will be organised back-to-back with the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit 2024. Beyond their workshop, the 16 participants can get to know and exchange ideas with 100 young people from more than 20 countries taking part in the EUSTORY Summit. This way, the History Camp will be another opportunity to further strengthen international understanding across borders.

The History Camp 2024 is organised by Körber-Stiftung and DVV International. It forms an integral part of the international project “A Toolkit for Critical History Teaching", which is implemented by DVV International in cooperation with Körber-Stiftung and financed by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

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