Engaging with Historical Traumas Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience

Introduction

Part 1: Creative Engagements with ‘Ghosts from the Past’ in Traditional Classroom Contexts

1. Why would you use a Fascist Greeting to Celebrate a Football Victory? Discussing Historical Revisionism and Genocide Memory with Danish High School Teenagers

Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Tippe Eisner

2. Breaking the Nationalistic Master-Narrative: The Case of Teaching History in Contemporary Croatia

Stevo Djurašković

3. Fictional Family Tree: Storytelling and Short Film Project

Elina Mäkilä and Taina Kilpelä

4. From Traditional to the Moving Classroom: Empathy as a Key Component of the Classroom Teaching

Alma Jeftić

Part 2: Places of Pain as Sites of Critical Knowledge Production

5. The Last Ones: Serbian and Russian Prisoners on the Alpine Front

Niccolò Caranti, Luisa Chiodi, and Marco Abram

6. #Never Forget: Teaching Trauma Experience at Historical Places

Neringa Latvytė

7. Exploring the 1991 Battle of Vukovar through experiential learning

Sandra Cvikić

8. Speak Your Mind but Mind Your Speech

Benedikt Hielscher

Part 3: Using Artistic Strategies to Respond, Reflect, and Overcome

9. Atomic Poetry and Active Learning: From Japan to Newfoundland

Shoshannah Ganz

10. "Through the Refugee’s Eyes’: Experiences with the Experiential and Interactive Theatre Show

Manca Šetinc Vernik

11. The Gestalt of Historical Research, Art, and Education: The Circus Theme and Performing Arts in Remembering the Tyranny of the National Socialist Regime

Malte Gasche

Part 4: Healing and Embodied Strategies of Learning

12. Utilising the Breath as an Experiential Tool to Teach, Learn and Manage Trauma

Anna Walker

13. Art Therapy and Integral Education with Traumatized Youths in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anna Druka and Hannah Scaramella

14. Poetry Against Trump: Shared Experience and Creative Resistance

Adam Beardsworths

Part 5: Playing (with) the Past, Rehearsing (for) the Future

15. Performative Experiential Learning Strategies: Reenacting the Historical, Enacting the Everyday

Ger Duijzings, Frederik Lange, and Eva-Maria Walther

16. Escaping the Thucydides Trap in IR class

Mikael Mattlin

17. Designing Videogames for Teaching about Transmission of Historical Traumas: A Case Study of Memory Gliders

Nena Močnik

18. In Memory of Memory Gliders: Preservation of EU-Funded Serious Games as Digital Heritage

Maria B. Garda and Jaakko Suominen

Biography

Nena Močnik is a researcher at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She is the author of “Sexuality after War Rape: From Embodied to Narrative Research” and “Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence: Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Societies.”

Ger Duijzings is Professor of Social Anthropology (with focus on southeastern and eastern Europe) at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He has published extensively on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and was a researcher and expert witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, Finland. She has authored The Ethics of Storytelling (2018) and co-edited (with Colin Davis) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (2020).

Bonface Njeresa Beti is an African multidisciplinary practitioner. He has co-published book chapters and journal articles. He is a committee member of NADTA and board member of Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed. He has an MA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba in Canada and has been admitted to the European Graduate School to pursue his PHD.