PROGRAM
11th International Centropa Summer Academy
Budapest - Belgrade
July 4-12, 2017
Teaching 20th Century Jewish History – Building Bridges, Connecting Teachers.
A nine-day workshop for 75 educators from 18 countries
International Groups for Cold War Quiz
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CS2017 program as of June 27th, 2017
HIGHLIGHTS
Walking tour of Jewish Budapest
Walking tour of historic Budapest
Memento Park (old Communist statues)
Lectures by top historians
Hungarian Holocaust Museum
Meeting with Holocaust survivors
Tour of the Subotica art nouveau synagogue
A tour through historic Belgrade
An afternoon in the Museum of Yugoslavia
Meeting with Breda and Matilda Kalef
Walking tour of Breda and Matilda’s Belgrade
Concert of Sephardic music
Program as of June 29th, 2017
CSA Scholars and Speakers
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| Professor Michael Miller Central European University Budapest |
Professor Rudolf Klein Szent István University Budapest |
Tim Judah The Economist |
Professor Milan Ristovic | Biljana Stojanovic Ministry of Education, Serbia |
Tuesday 4 July
Budapest
To bring: Website Scavenger Hunt Assignment, elective materials you will need for first meeting, comfortable shoes and water for guided tour.
12:00- 13:30 Arrival & registration. Each participant receives welcome bag.
12:45 Buffet lunch with opening remarks by Centropa Team
14:00 Icebreaking games
15:00 Introduction to Centropa - who we are, what we offer. Followed by two student films to show Centropa school projects: 1 video, 1 cross-cultural project.
16:10 Logistic remarks.
16:15 Coffee break. Elective groups meet for first time.
17:00 Check-in/change for Guided Tours.
17:45 Guided tour of Budapest
20:00 Welcome Dinner at Café Vian (Liszt Ferenc tér 9)
21:30 Participants walk back to hotel. Centropa will provide directions.
Wednesday 5 July
Budapest
Day Two - Jewish community, Síp utca 12
To bring: note-taking devices (pen/paper, tablet, computer - whatever you use), Hungarian Jewish Source Book, elective materials (whatever you will need to work on your elective lesson).
08:15 Walking tour in the Jewish district
10:30 - Arrival at Jewish Community - Coffee break
11:00 - “Hungarian Jewish History in the Modern Era.” Lecture by Prof. Michael Miller, Head of Jewish Studies at Central European University, Budapest. Followed by discussion with teachers. Screening of Centropa films.
12:00 - Brief reflection session
12:15 - Ed Serotta and Marcell Kenesei introduce the Hungarian Jewish Source Book.
12:30 Source book activity
13:00 - Lunch
14:15 - "Synagogues of Habsburg Hungary". Lecture by Professor Rudi Klein, folleowed by Q & A.
15:00 - Screening of Centropa Film "The Mayor Who Worked in Hell - The Story of Miksa Domonkos"
15:30 - Coffee break
16:00 - Panel discussion with Centropa interviewees Judit Kinszki, Olga Sólyom, and Vera Szekeres-Varsa moderated by Centropa's former Hungarian director and chief interviewer, Dóra Sárdi
16:45 - Ed Serotta will speak about the importance of interwar Jewish Hungarian photographers.
Presentation of Yvonne Webber’s lesson about Hungarian Jewish photographers.
17:15 - Natália Baglyos and her student's film on Hungarian Jewish photography.
17:30 - Elective group work
18:30 - Free evening, dinner on your own
Thursday 6 July
Budapest
Day Three - Holocaust Memorial Center
To bring: note-taking devices, elective materials.
DRESSCODE - We recommend that you wear comfortable shoes for the guided tour at Memento Park, but please refrain from wearing shorts or flip flops due to our visit to the Austrian Ambassador’s residence.
PASSPORT (for reception at Austrian Residence in the evening)
8:15 - Meeting in the lobby.
8:45 - Arrival at the Holocaust Memorial Center. Tour museum.
10:15 - Coffee break
10:45 - Presentation of Hungarian traveling exhibition.
11:15 - Reflection of Hungary during the Holocaust.
11:45 - Marketplace of ideas: Veteran teachers present their succesful projects.
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Elective groups meet for third time
15:15 - Introductory briefing on Memento Park
15:45 - Visit to Memento Park, an open-air museum dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989).
16:15 - Tour Groups Guided tour (45 minutes) at Memento Park. Participants will then have 30 min to explore site on their own, take pictures and video to bring back to students.
18:00 - Cocktail reception at Austrian Residence
20:00 - Free evening.
Friday 7 July
Day Four - "Goulash Communism" - A day at the Central European University and the Parliament
To bring: note-taking devices, elective materials.
DRESSCODE: casual until afternoon; for evening synagogue services, men should wear long pants and nice shirt (not a t-shirt); women should a dress or skirt not too high above the knee, and make sure your shoulders are covered.
8:20 - Buses depart from Hotel to Central European University.
8:45 -Participants arrive at Central European University.
9:00 - Welcome Remarks
9:15 - How I teach the Cold War: teachers will share their experience.
09:45 - Cold War Quiz. Online "pub quiz" with international groups.
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Elective group work
12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Buses return to Zara hotel.
14:00 - Ed Serotta will introduce a new special Centropa website, “What it feels like when they turn against you. Remembering those who stood up,”with excerpts from Centropa interviews, when our Jewish interviewees recalled that very first time when they were bullied, taunted and made fun of by classmates or even strangers on the street. They never forgot those incidents. More than 70 years later, they relive them with us—and you.
14:30 - Regional groups meet.
15:30 - Free time. Also, you might want to purchase snacks for the bus ride tomorrow.
18:00 - We will walk to the Rabbinical seminary for Shabbat services.
18:30 - Shabbat Service. Rabbi Darvas will meet our group.
20:15 - Shabbat dinner at Mazel Tov (Akácfa u. 47). Nance and Marcell will lead through Shabbat.
21:45 - Participants walk back to hotel on their own. Centropa staff will provide directions.
Saturday 8 July
Subotica & Belgrade
To bring: everything! We’re leaving Budapest. On the bus you will need your passport /government ID, so please keep them in your “carry-on”, with your snacks, reading, elective materials - whatever you need for the bus.
PASSPORT
Traveling day - NOTE: Keep your passport handy, as we will cross the border from Hungary to Serbia.
Traveling day (for Shomer Shabbes folks - resting day) - NOTE: Keep your passport handy, as we will cross the border from Hungary to Serbia
8:00 - Check out
8:30 - Leave Budapest by bus
11:30 - Visit of the Jakab and Komor Square Synagogue in Subotica, Serbia. Ed Serotta will talk about the history of this remarkable Art Nouveau synagogue in Subotica, Serbia. It was built in 1901-1902 during the administration of the Kingdom of Hungary (part of Austria-Hungary), according to the plans of Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab,. replacing a smaller and less elaborate synagogue. Originally serving the Hungarian Jewish Neolog community, it is one of the finest surviving pieces of religious architecture in the art nouveau style.
12:30 - Lunch in Subotica
17:00 - Approximately—arrive Belgrade, Check in
Free evening
Sunday 9 July
Belgrade
TO BRING: Comfortable walking shoes for tour, your copy of the book “Goetz and Meyer”, and notes you took on the book, elective materials.
8:15-10:00 Walking tour of Jewish Belgrade and in the footsteps of the Kalef family: Kolarčeva Nr 2 (the family store is no longer there but they can photograph the outside), the Opera House where Breda performed, the First Belgrade Gymnasium where the Kalef girls went to school, their house in Dorcol, the former Jewish hospital where their father was taken away from in a gas van, the synagogue.
10:00 Bus to wait near former hospital and we drive to Staro Sajmiste.
10:30 Arrive at Staro Sajmiste. Guided tour.
11:30 Board bus and depart from Staro Sajmiste.
12:00 - Lunch at Museum of Yugoslavia.
13:00 - Screening of "El Otro Camino 1942", Centropa's film on the history of the Balkan Sepharidc Jews. Introductory remarks about the Museum, and the tumultuous 20th Century history of Yugoslavia
13:15 - Biljana Stojanovic of the Serbian Education Ministry will speak about how Serbian schools use Centropa films in Holocaust Education and Intercultural Education.
13:45 - Book discussion, Goetz and Meyer by David Albahari. Co-moderation by Marta Goldmann and Alan Götz.
14:45 Tour Museum—the permanent exhibition provides an excellent overview of Yugoslav 20th century history. We will also visit Tito’s Mausoleum.
15:50 - Prof. Milan Ristovic will speak about the Holocaust in Serbia. Followed by short Q&A.
16:30 - Elective group work (Coffee will be available).
17:30 - Ed Serotta will introduce Centropa's "When Friends Helped Friends exhibition on Sarajevo" about a synagogue in Sarajevo which became a safe haven for those who were looking for help during the siege in the 1990s. Michael Heitz from Germany and a Serbian teacher will give remarks on how they use the film and exhibition.
18:15 - Brief reflection.
18:30 - Bus takes us back to hotel. Free evening.
Monday 10 July
Day Seven
TO BRING: Elective materials, note-taking devices.
DRESSCODE: for the evening reception at the Catholic church at Banovo Brdo, men should wear long pants and nice shirt (not a t-shirt); women should a dress or skirt not too high above the knee,and make sure your shoulders are covered.
8:30 - Final formal opportunity to work on lessons. Follow guidelines from program guide.
10:15 - Coffee break
10:45- Screening of "Survival in Sarajevo". Introductory session on “Challenges for education in the 21st century in former Yugoslavia”. Democracy – Education - - Investigative Journalism - Reconciliation. Special guest: Tim Judah.
Ed Serotta will give introductory remarks on the politics of the Western Balkans since 1991. NOTE: Participants will have to read article in Centropa Balkan Source Book beforehand.
12:15 - Lunch at hotel.
13:15 - Several Civil Society NGOs from Serbia and Bosnia will present their work in Marketplace of Ideas. Invited NGOs include: Edukacija za 21. Vek”, a Serbian NGO aiming to promote human rights and improve education; CDRSEE – Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in South East Europe, and, from Novi Sad, the NGO Citizens Fund Pannonija; HAVER Serbia. we will also invite: BIRN – Balkan Investigative Reporting Network- to present its Balkan Transitional Justice project; and the Interreligious Council in Bosnia Herzegovina
14:45 - Coffee break
15:15 - Panel discussion with experts from the various sectors of civil society on “Promoting civil society, upholding civic values and human rights.” Discussion with teachers.
16:00 - Reflection
16:30 - Buses depart
17:15 - Arrive at Sephardic cemetery, where we visit the memorial for Jews who fought for Serbia in the Balkan Wars and World War I, the Kladovo transport memorial, and the Holocaust memorial.
18:15 - By bus to Catholic church at Banovo Brdo, where Father Tumpej, a Slovene Catholic, hid the Kalefs. Tumpej was made Righteous Gentile and we show our film about the Kalefs.
We will invite Breda Kalef and her sister Matilda. Group photo.
19:30 - Dinner
21:00 Bus returns to Hotel.
Tuesday 11 July
Day Eight
9 am -12:00 pm - Free time. Video elective groups will put final edits into their film.
12:00 - Lunch at Majestic Hotel.
13:00 - Final Presentations of elective lessons and videos, Part I
14:30 - Coffee Break
15:00 - Final presentations, Part II
16:30 - Feedback session. Teachers fill out online survey, followed by group discussions of the CSA experience.
19:00 - Final Dinner