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Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe

Emma Rehr — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:48:57 +0000

The reference work aims to make the genocide of the Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era visible and accessible. It provides a detailed overview of the persecution, the murder in concentration camps, and the impact of the genocide.

Elif Shafak Interview: Art is About Resistance

Emma Rehr — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:27:45 +0000

In this inspiring interview award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak speaks forcefully about the importance of sisterhood and global solidarity, and about the novel as an increasingly needed democratic space.

Unmasking racism: guidelines for educational materials

Emma Rehr — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:25:11 +0000

UNESCO has released this material as a comprehensive collection of empirical findings and recommendations regarding racism in educational media.

Rethinking ‘Us’ & ‘Them’: Integration and Diversity in Europe

Emma Rehr — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:32:45 +0000

In immigration societies, who is attributed the role of “us” and who is attributed the role of “the others”? Migration Matters explores this question through a total of 37 videos featuring diverse individuals from research, practice, and civil society.

Diversity-Oriented Organizational Development. Basics, Principles als Quality Indicators.

Emma Rehr — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:08:00 +0000

Until 2019, RAA supported organizations in their diversity-oriented development through its project. Principles and quality criteria were documented, which organizations can continue to consider in the future to leverage diversity as a resource.

Video series: Migration and displacement in times of climate change

Emma Rehr — Tue, 28 May 2024 04:45:18 +0000

Migration and climate change are closely linked. Climate change repeatedly triggers new migration movements by destroying people’s livelihoods, especially in the Global South. This video series addresses this issue and aims to discuss key questions surrounding it.

How diverse is the media industry in Germany?

Emma Rehr — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:02:24 +0000

Diversity in the media shapes our perspectives. In this episode, three journalists discuss German newsrooms, the need for representation, and diversity in journalism. Ideal for youth, students, and young journalists, this series sparks discussions on media impact.

Forced Abroad – Days of a Forced Laborer

Agata Wiezorek — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:15:43 +0000

The visual novel is based on original diary entries and tells a little-known chapter of German history – for the first time in the form of a game. The app is accompanied by educational materials for teaching about Nazi forced labor, designed for teenagers aged 12 and older.

Virtual Migration Museum

Agata Wiezorek — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:34:19 +0000

A journey through time from 1945 to the present makes the societal transformation instigated by migration tangible. Visitors can explore urban buildings, discover intriguing objects within them, and listen to accounts from witnesses of the time.

Didactic classification of the game ,,My Memory of Us”

Emma Rehr — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:44:19 +0000

My Memory of Us is a moving story about friendship and hope in one of the darkest times of our past. Enter the hand-drawn and beautifully animated 2D world full of discoveries and adventures to solve its mysteries.

Didactic classification from the game ,,Passengers”

Emma Rehr — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:37:54 +0000

The browser game “Passengers” lets Passengers step into the role of a smuggler who brings refugees across the Mediterranean to Europe.

Migration history in pictures

Sinan Beden — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:45:26 +0000

Short online stories with rich visual content from the DOMiD collection documenting the diversity of German migration history. These short stories illustrate how migrants have influenced the history of Germany since 1945.

Didactic classification of the game ,,The Inner World: The last Wind Monk”

Emma Rehr — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:34:39 +0000

Puzzle your way through a bizarre world full of secrets and save the Flute Nose family in the digital game “The Inner World – The Last Wind Monk” from Studio Fizbin.

Multi-peRSPEKTif: TO FEEL A STRONG CONNECTION THROUGH HISTORY

Emma Rehr — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:10:10 +0000

Who shapes sites of memory and how can they be transformed? This documentary serves as an illustration of a multi-perspective exploration of various locations associated with the Nazi era and its legacies.

Stolpersteine App – Map, Biographies, Backgrounds, and Teaching Concepts

Agata Wiezorek — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:05:27 +0000

The app displays Stolpersteine in North Rhine-Westphalia on a map, provides short biographies, and offers guidance for using the app in educational contexts.

To remember globally

Agata Wiezorek — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:56:31 +0000

Through the method of digital GLOBAL ERINNERN (Global Remembering) cartography, the project by glokal e.V. contributes to the exploration of historical and present connections between the Global North and South, making them accessible to various target groups.

Empowerment and Learning in Europe’s Migration Societies

Emma Rehr — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:26:12 +0000

The Methods Handbook presents the results of the post-migrant European journey, in which vibrant migration societies were made visible. It combines methods of communication as well as substantive results of the ‘Postmigrant Europe’ program.

Game Glasfäden – From the East to the East

Agata Wiezorek — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:18:38 +0000

An interactive comic about the history of Vietnamese contract workers, with a duration of just under 30 minutes and a supplementary booklet with background information, the app is excellent for classroom use.

„We are here because you were there“ – Black Perspectives on Flight & Migration

Emma Rehr — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:00:55 +0000

The event series addresses colonial continuities in Germany and Europe through discussions with activists Jennifer Kamau from International Women* Space, Bethi Ngari from Women in Exile, and Muna AnNisa Aikins.

To the Materiality of Flight and Migration

Emma Rehr — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:48:37 +0000

A research project that investigates the relationship between people and objects within the context of flight and migration.

Didactic classification from the game ,,Through the darkest of Times”

Emma Rehr — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:49:32 +0000

This game lets you coordinate a civilian resistance group in Nazi-era Berlin: fight for freedom, weaken the system and lead your group through the darkest of times. “Through the darkest of times” is a game about the resistance against National Socialism during the Third Reich.

Companions

Agata Wiezorek — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:44:25 +0000

They protect, warm, and comfort us. They have accompanied us for a long time or are useful everyday helpers. Whether unassuming, quirky, or even ambivalent: we all have things that are important to us, with which we associate special memories – What are your companions?

Didactic classification of the game ,,Papers please”

Emma Rehr — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:40:53 +0000

The Game Papers Please puts you into the position of a fictional country’s border official. The Zentrum für didaktische Computerspielforschung (English: Centre for research regarding didactical use of computer games) wrote a classification about this game.

Flight and Escape in Historical Perspective

Agata Wiezorek — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:34:59 +0000

How can the situation of German Jews in the 1930s serve as a starting point for reflecting on escape and migration today? The Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee Conference and the Schiller-Gymnasium Berlin provide insights into practical work.

Mythical Norm – Audre Lorde

Emma Rehr — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:31:16 +0000

This video summarizes Audre Lorde’s concept of the Mythical Norm.

Didactic classification of the digital game “Papers Please”

Emma Rehr — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:31:10 +0000

In Papers Please, players slip into the role of a border official in a fictitious state. The Center for Didactic Computer Game Research at the Freiburg University of Education has written a classification of the game.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story

Emma Rehr — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:15:04 +0000

“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2009)

Multidirectional Memory and Entangled (Hi)stories

Emma Rehr — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:02:18 +0000

How are memories told? What memories are shared? How does the hegemonic, and “overwhelmingly national perspective” deal with the challenge that more stories and memories demand entry into historiography and public memory?

Good Ancestor Podcast by Layla F. Saad

Emma Rehr — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:49:02 +0000

Layla F. Saad speaks on the topics of race, identity and social change. In her podcast she introduces acivists, authors, thinkers, educators, speakers etc.