Lukas Perikleous

Welcome to #heirnet25!

“What is the future of historical thinking?” An inspiring pre-conference event dedicated to the great Peter Seixas, organized by @thinkhist.bsky.social #heirnet25

Off to Cologne for #heirnet25, the largest international gathering of history educationalists!

The call for papers on Shifting Practices in History Education in Africa: Critical Perspectives and New Directions Edited by Abigail Branford, Denise Bentrovato, Johan Wasserman and Joanna Wojdon For publication from early 2026 Expressions of interest due: 1 May 2025 Due date for paper submission: 2 September 2025 Calls for improving the teaching of African history across the continent have been made by academics, activists, UNESCO, the popular press, and teachers and students themselves. These calls have identified issues such as the dominance of European history and the history of ‘great men’; the exclusion of marginalised groups; the lack of critical narratives; and the prevalence of rote-learning and teaching-to-test pedagogies. This special theme presents an opportunity to take stock of history education practices across African contexts, to identify shifts and resistance in addressing such issues. It also seeks to explore the role of different actors such as policy-makers, textbook authors, teachers and students in creating affordances and constraints in the history education space. The special theme also aspires to emphasise the voices of history teachers and students at all levels of education. Whilst curricula and policy play an important role in structuring history education, too often it is assumed rather than investigated how these are experienced by teachers and students. This special series seeks to ask how histories are navigated, internalised, ignored or resisted by teachers and students. This also includes teachers-in-training, as initial teacher education is a vital but under-emphasised arena which shapes later classroom interactions. Voices from these spaces can shed light on changing pedagogical interactions beyond the assumptions of official documents. Submit expressions of interest by May 1 2025.

HERJ has a #CallForPapers on Shifting Practices in #HistoryEducation in Africa: Critical Perspectives and New Directions.

For more information, including how to contribute, read the full call here:
journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/

Articles will publish #OpenAccess and without APC

At yesterday's session for our history education course, we talked about instances where governments attempted to erase the past, both in fiction and in real life.

The #HEIRNET25 Conference, titled "History Teaching and Historical Thinking for Countering Contemporary Challenges," will take place at the University of Cologne in Germany, from August 27th to 29th, 2025!
Call for Papers Coming Soon!

HERJ has a #Call4Papers on Investigating the Relationship Between Generative #ArtificialIntelligence and #HistoryEducation.
For more information, including how to contribute, read the full call here:https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/
Articles will publish #OpenAccess and without APC

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,362,349!

@lukasperikleous.bsky.social opening up our paper session with a presentation exploring teachers ideas about develop historical empathy in Cypriot contexts. #HEIRNET24

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My new article "'You don't go in their place': historical empathy in education" is now out in Revista de Historia! Read also pieces by Arthur Chapman, Marilia Gago, and Nilson Javier Ibagón Martín.
Open access. Knowledge is meant to be shared! revistas.udec.cl/index.php/hist…

IMO, disciplinary understanding does not prohibit emotions. Moral questioning is also not against disciplinary understanding. Historians feel and make moral judgments. What can be tricky is when emotional engagement and moral judgments are imposed. I do need to read Keith's paper though.

📣 HEIRNET 2024 Conference Call for Papers is OPEN! Join us in Stirling, Scotland for our 20th conference "History Education: Teacher of Life?".
Submissions Deadline: 15 April 2024
Details & Submissions: heirnetonline.com/heirnet-2024...

Instructive to be reminded of just how powerful a voice we lost on the 7th December. amp.theguardian.com/books/2003/n...

Sorbonne University unsubscribes from the Web of Science Sorbonne University has been deeply committed to the promotion and the development of  open science for many years. According to its commitment to open research information, it has decided to discont...

Well done Sorbone! www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

So pleased to be attending INTH again this year (1st time ‘post’-COVID ) and to be contributing - with
@proflevesque.bsky.social @demantowsky.bsky.social, Kenneth Nordgren and Marilia Gago - to a symposium on historical narrative.

Tonight we say goodbye to the most iconic Doctor for the second time and we welcome the first black Doctor. #DoctorWho

Dates are confirmed 4 the 2024 History Educators International Research Network conference. University of Stirling, 28-30th August. Further details 2 follow. @freereed59.bsky.social @lsgibson.bsky.social @victoriacrooks.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @onolgard.bsky.social @aronovsky.bsky.social

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