How do educational and research settings contribute to building narratives of the processes of European integration?
Taking the end of the Cold War as a point of departure, this workshop will explore the ways in which key moments in history have shaped how European integration is taught and the impact of this process itself on educational institutions.
Silvia Benini, research fellow at the University of Bologna, will present her research on the representation of European integration and the EU in history and geography curricula and textbooks published in Italian and English from 1986 to 2017.
Martin Hamre, a researcher at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, will present his work on the ideas and processes of Europeanisation at Humboldt University before, during, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the perspective of its students and leadership.
Margaret Pulk, a researcher in the EUI’s History Department whose PhD research concerns futures studies in the EU institutions will discuss forward-looking visions and imaginations of Europe from the 1970s and 1980s, with a special focus on the ‘end of history’.
The presentations will combine new perspectives and methodological approaches to exploring European integration in education, academia, and research. The event will be concluded with a roundtable discussion on the connections between historicising narratives of European integration and temporal change.
Alice Zamai, a researcher in the EUI’s History Department, will chair the session.
The event is organised by the ADG Centre with a contribution from the EUI's Robert Schuman Centre.
The Alcide De Gasperi Centre supports researchers working in areas related to the history of European integration and cooperation. It coordinates networks of historians, facilitates the use of primary sources and increases public interest in the history of European integration.