From June 22nd to June 27th 2019, the second summer school of the “Jean Monnet Network for Applied European Contemporary History” will take place in Belgrade. The summer school is part of the network’s activities which are funded by the European Commission. The network consists of scholars and practitioners from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Poland, and Serbia dealing with memory studies and public history. The aim of the Network is to discuss and compare different approaches to representing and debating historical experiences of the 20th century in the partner countries. Special attention is drawn to the ‘sore points’ of twentieth century European history, i.e. memories that present obstacles to developing a positive outlook on a shared European history. As applied scholarship, Applied European Contemporary History is concerned with demonstrating concrete means and approaches for dealing responsibly with such negative historical experiences. At the same time, the network aims at contributing to current debates on internationalizing and theorizing public history (for more information: http://aec-history.uni-jena.de/).

The summer school is part of the network’s efforts to internationalize academic teaching on public history. Besides classroom work and excursions, the summer school’s programme includes public lecture to which we would like to invite an interested audience.

For more information please contact Željana Tunić (zeljana.tunic@uni-jena.de).