Upcoming Events in 2010
September 2010 - March 2011 / Europeanwide
"25 Years After Chernobyl - Paths towards a Culture of Transnational Remembrance"
Between September 2010 and March 2011 EUSTORY alumni try to close some gaps in the history oft the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. 61 young students from 19 European countries are researching about the reaction to the accident in their countries. In a virtual classroom they present the results of monthly assignment and discuss with each other. In April 2011 all participants will meet „in reality“ in Berlin in order to form an exhibition out of their research material. This exhibition will be presented during a public event on 26th April in the French Dome in Berlin, together with other presentations from the cooperation partners oft he project "25 Years After Chernobyl" - "Paths towards a Culture of Transnational Remembrance". This project is organized by EUSTORY in cooperation with the IBB Dortmund / IBB Minsk and financed by the Mercator Foundation.
27 September - 03 October / Scuol (Engadine), Switzerland
Youth Academy: “Food – more than a way to fight hunger? The culture of alimentation”
FOOD is about more than just satisfying hunger. It is – and always has been – the centre of our lives. Volumes have been written about various aspects of food and its implications in cultural history. What kind of work did it take to earn our daily bread? What tools were invented to make life easier? What kind of food was served? Who went hungry and why? In the mountains of Switzerland’s Lower Engadine, finding food was usually an arduous task; the soil was quite infertile, the fields steep and the winters long and hard. So inhabitants had to be inventive and tenacious in order to make ends meet.
10 October - 17 October / Sofia / Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Youth Academy: “Between Occident and Orient – Religious diversity in Bulgaria”
Bulgaria has an interesting mix of religions. The dominant faith is Eastern Orthodoxy, but other religions also have a long history in Bulgaria and one can easily find their traces throughout the country. Islam in the Balkans has been influenced by the local Christian culture and represents a unique mix of Islamic, Christian and Bulgarian traditions and beliefs. Many Bulgarians converted to Islam during the Ottoman times. Bulgaria also still has a small but active Jewish community consisting of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition. The impressive, domed Sofia Synagogue is the largest Sephardic synagogue in Europe.
