The Tom Lantos Institute is organising a European Summer School on “Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance” with the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Education and Psychology (Budapest), and CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe (Brussels). The Summer School is supported by the Civil Fund-2014 of the Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

The Summer School will take place on 24-29 Aug 2014, and will focus on prejudice in the past and present, the Holocaust and the Roma genocide, collective memory and reconciliation, and on human and minority rights issues.

The Summer School will host around 25 participants and 10 observers from all over Europe and beyond, who are civil servants, educators, journalists, and representatives of civil society. Observers are selected from among those applicants who are based in Hungary and whose work is crucial in countering prejudice. This way, the organisers aim at empowering and strengthening civil society in Hungary.

The Summer School will combine substantive education with skills training. It employs a multidisciplinary approach that complements Holocaust education with human rights training. In its methodology it combines collective-memory workshops with the discussion of relevant cases of human rights violations and the teaching of skills to prevent and counter these violations.

Objectives of the Summer School:

The principle goal of this training is to develop understanding of the ways collective memories of traumatic past events shape inter-community relations in the present. Furthermore, the training situates prejudice and genocide in the context of human rights and democratic values.

This Summer School is envisaged as a space for meeting and consulting with authoritative academics and practitioners, providing participants the opportunity to share their experiences and present their views for discussion.

Speakers include:

Alex Maws, Head of Education at the Holocaust Educational Trust and Member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
Andreas Zick, Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University, Germany
Anna-Mária Bíró, President and CEO of the Tom Lantos Institute
Arie Nadler, Professor of Psychology, Argentina Chair for Research in Social Psychology, Tel Aviv University
Karen Polak, Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s Committee on the Genocide of the Roma
Kinga Déry, International Human Rights Lawyer
László Csősz, Senior historian at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest
Nenad Dimitrijevic, Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Central European University (CEU)
Matthias Heyl, Head of the Educational Services of Ravensbrück Memorial Site
Melissa Sonnin, Community Affairs Coordinator at CEJI-A Jewish Contribution to an Includive Europe
Mónika Kovács, Vice-dean for External Relations and Academic Affairs and associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Education and Psychology, Budapest
Péter Krekó, Director of the Political Capital Institute, member of the Advisory Committee at Hungarian Anti-Racist Foundation
Sejal Parmar, Senior Legal Officer at Article 19 and assistant Professor of Law at the Department of Legal Studies at the Central European University (CEU)
Stanislav Daniel, freelance Roma rights activist and educator
Zsuzsa Fritz, director of the Bálint Ház
The Summer School will be hosted by the ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology in Budapest, 7th district, Kazinczy Street 23–27, in one of the nicest streets in the Jewish district.