Training / History conference
The aim of the training series is to present current research and work with new historical sources on selected topics in the form of specialist lectures. In workshops, the speakers reflect together with the participants on ways to implement these in the classroom.
The concept is fundamentally based on the idea of presenting topics and new questions, approaches or methods to teachers in a way that is as close to research as possible. An essential component is also the presentation of new sources that are suitable for opening up diverse, new and exciting facets of historical life to pupils.
The event is also intended to provide an opportunity for exchange and cooperation between members of the various educational phases and different levels of experience.
Ideas and materials for teaching and learning
Workbooks for the conferences are published in the series Historica et Didactica, Fortbildung Geschichte. The series will be published by universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen from 2022 (volume 13).
The practice-oriented workbooks offer a wide range of materials and suggestions for implementing the respective main topics in the classroom. Academic introductions by historians, which provide insights into the current state of research in the various time periods on this topic, are supplemented by specific teaching suggestions.
Published to date:
Volume 14: Ad fontes. New perspectives for working with sources in history lessons
Volume 13: Trade, power, capital: Historical dimensions of economic activity
Volume 12: The First World War - a global historical perspective
Volume 11: Region and extracurricular places of learning
Volume 10: The Flossenbürg concentration camp. History and Literature
Volume 9: Gender constructions. Gender in history lessons
Volume 8: History for eyes, ears and noses
Volume 7: The First World War in the history classroom
Volume 6: Experiencing history in the museum
Volume 4: Environment and climate in history lessons
Volume 3: Religious dimensions in history lessons
Volume 2: European perspectives in history lessons
Volume 1: World historical perspectives in history lessons
Training / Conference for teachers
Ad fontes. New perspectives for source work in history lessons
Friday, February 2, 2024
Organizer: University of Siegen, Department of History in cooperation with the Centre for Practical Teacher Training (ZfsL Siegen)
Conference venue: ZfsL Siegen, Hammerwerk 6, 57076 Siegen
Program of the conference
from 10.00 Registration
10.30-10.40 Welcoming remarks
Dr. Jens Aspelmeier (ZfsL Siegen)
10.40-11.00 Welcome & introduction
Ad fontes. New perspectives for working with sources in history lessons
Prof. Dr. Reinhild Kreis, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn (Siegen)
11.00-11.30
Beyond the texts: Case studies of archaeological sources
Dr. Polly Lohmann (Heidelberg)
11.30-12.00
World maps and map worlds of the Middle Ages in the classroom: possibilities and perspectives
PD Dr. Christoph Mauntel (Osnabrück)
12.00-12.45
Workshops
12.45-13.45
Lunch break
13.45-14.15 Presentation of the results of the workshops
14.15-14.45
I never read. I just look at pictures - Teaching history with pictures
PD Dr. Astrid Windus (Hamburg)
14.45-15.15
Behind the numbers: A new look at statistics as sources for historical research
Dr. Philipp Kröger (Siegen)
15.15-15.45
Interviews as sources of migration history. Oral history in history lessons
Matthias Kirchbach (Siegen)
15.45-16.00
Coffee to go
16.00-16.45
Workshops
16.45-17.45
Presentation of the results & final discussion
18.15
Evening lecture
Original sounds from the past: working with sources in complex times
Prof. Dr. Hiram Kümper (Mannheim)
19.00
End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Prosperity, happiness, progress: historical dimensions of the good life
Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21, 2022
Organizer: University of Siegen, Department of History in cooperation with the Haus der Geschichte, Bonn.
Conference venue: Haus der Geschichte Bonn, Willy-Brandt-Allee 14, 53113 Bonn
Program of the conference
Friday, May 20, 2022
from 13.00 Registration
13.30-15.00 Guided tour of the exhibition
15.00-15.15 Welcoming remarks
Dr. Simone Mergen (Bonn)
15.15-15.35 Welcome & introduction
Prosperity, happiness, progress: Historical dimensions of the good life
Prof. Dr. Reinhild Kreis, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn (Siegen)
15.35-16.00
Awakening, progress and material culture under Emperor Augustus. Prosperity after the catastrophe?
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Huttner (Siegen)
16.00-16.25
The good life from the perspective of children in the early modern period
Prof. Dr. Claudia Jarzebowski (Bonn)
16.25-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-18.00
Workshops
18.00-19.00 Presentation of the results of the workshops
Saturday, May 21, 2022
10.00-10.25
The good life as staging and experience: the world of goods and consumption at early world's fairs
Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz (Siegen)
10.25-10.50
Good work, better life? Automation and humanization of the world of work after 1960
Prof. Dr. Noyan Dinçkal (Siegen)
10.50-11.15
The fried pigeons fly into the mouth. Finished products since 1945
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn (Siegen)
11.15-11.40
The good life as a promise. Socialist ideology and material culture in the GDR
Prof. Dr. Reinhild Kreis (Siegen)
11.40-12.15
Coffee break
12.15-13.15
Workshops
13.15-14.30
Presentation of the results of the workshops & final discussion
14.30 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Trade, power, capital: historical dimensions of economic activity
Friday and Saturday, February 7 and 8, 2020
Organizer: University of Siegen, Department of History in cooperation with the ZfsL Siegen.
Conference venue: Center for Practical Teacher Training (ZfsL Siegen), Hammerwerk 6, 57076 Siegen
Program of the conference
Friday, February 7, 2020
from 14.30 Registration / welcome coffee
15.00-15.30 Welcome & introduction
Trade, power, capital: Historical dimensions of economic activity
Prof. Dr. Noyan Dinçkal, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, PD Dr. Astrid Windus (Siegen)
15.30-16.00
Trade, economy (and power?) in the Neolithic using the example of a lakeside settlement
Dr. Miriam Sénécheau (Freiburg)
16.00-16.30
Everyday, economic and social history in the Greco-Roman papyri
Dr. Patrick Reinard (Trier)
16.30-17.30
Workshops
17.30-18.30 Presentation of the results of the workshops
19.00
Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday, February 8, 2020
09.00-09.30
Cooperation among merchants in the Middle Ages
Prof. Dr. Ulla Kypta (Hamburg)
09.30-10.00
Labor and capital: The plantation economy in the Americas (18th and 19th centuries)
Prof. Dr. Klaus Weber (Frankfurt/Oder)
10.00-10.30
Globalization - theories, models, case studies
Prof. Dr. Peter Fäßler (Paderborn)
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.00
Workshops
12.00-13.00
Presentation of the results of the workshops & final discussion
13.00 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Region and extracurricular places of learning
Friday and Saturday, February 2 and 3, 2018
Wendener Hütte / University of Siegen
Program of the conference
Friday, February 2, 2018 (Wendener Hütte)
Region - extracurricular places of learning - economic forms
from 14.00 Registration / welcome coffee
14.30-15.00 Welcome & introduction
Region and extracurricular places of learning
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Matthias Weipert
15.00-16.00
The Wendener Hütte as an extracurricular place of learning. Didactically commented guided tour.
Monika Löcken
16.00-16.15
Coffee break
16.15-16.45
Understanding history. On the special demands that general knowledge teaching places on the didactic preparation of the extracurricular place of learning.
Rouven Hallwaß
16.45-17.15
Siegerland hill farming and sustainability. Resource-conserving recycling management in the region on the upper Sieg in pre-industrial and early industrial times.
Dr. Thomas Bartolosch, Daniel Groth
17.15-18.15
Workshops
18.15-18.45
Presentation of the results of the workshops
18.45
Return journey to Siegen
19.15
Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday, February 3, 2018 (University of Siegen, Lernwerkstatt Lehrerbildung)
09.30-10.00 Welcome and summary of the results of the previous day
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Matthias Weipert
Region and extracurricular places of learning: Approaches
10.00-10.30
Cultural history of the region
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Reulecke
10.30-11.00
Region - extracurricular place of learning - school: The EL-DE House
Barbara Kirschbaum
11.00-11.15
Discussion
11.15-11.30
Coffee
Pasts: Exemplary topics
11.30-12.00
1848/49 in the region: Exemplarity and methodological elementarity
Michael Guse, Dieter Pfau
12.00-12.30
Roman and Germanic encounters - Haltern and Kalkriese as examples
Prof. Dr. Helga Scholten
12.30-12.45
discussion
12.45-13.30
Lunch snack
Pasts: Memories - Places - People
13.30-14.00
ZEIT.RAUM Siegen - Exploring regional places of remembrance with schoolchildren
Matthias Opitz
14.00-14.30
"Our greatest in Siegen-Wittgenstein". Space - Identity - History. A relationship to the regional culture of remembrance
Dr. Jens Aspelmeier
14.30-15.00
The fascination of the round number: Historical-cultural search for traces of Siegen's city anniversaries in the archive as a place of learning
Dr. Katrin Minner
15.00-15.15
discussion
15.15-15.30
Coffee break
15.30-16.15
Workshops
16.15-16.45
Presentation of the results of the workshops
16.45-17.00
Conclusion
17.00 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Gender constructions. Gender in history lessons
Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23, 2016
University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus
Program of the conference
Friday, January 22, 2016
from 14.30 Registration / welcome coffee
15.00-15.30 Introduction
Gender in history teaching
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Astrid Windus
15.30-16.00
'Man-women' and 'woman-men': Non-dualistic concepts of gender and sexuality in indigenous cultures
Dr. Sabine Lang, Hamburg
16.00-16.30
"The right to have rights": Human rights in a gender-historical and not only Western European-centric perspective
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Siegen
16.30-17.30
Workshops
17.30-18.30
Presentation of the results
19.30
Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday, January 23, 2016
09.00-09.30
What does peace have to do with gender? Ideas of war and peace in the 20th century
Dr. Kerstin Wolff, Kassel
09.30-10.00
Nationalism, the nation state and German identity in the 19th century
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Schraut, Munich
Coffee to go
10.00-11.00
Workshops
11.00-11.30
Networks between the early modern Islamic and Christian states - Venetian women at the sultan's court
Prof. Dr. Markus Koller, Bochum
11.30-12.00
Young men as miners in South Africa in the 20th century - a topic for history lessons?
Dr. Rita Schäfer, Essen
Refreshments
12.30-13.30
Workshops
13.30-14.30
Presentation of the results and final discussion
14.30 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Sensory perceptions in history.
Friday and Saturday, January 23 and 24, 2015
University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus / Am Eichenhang 50 / 57076 Siegen
Program of the conference
Friday, 23.01.2015
from 14.30 Registration / Welcome coffee
15.00-15.30 Introduction
Sensory perceptions in history as a subject of history teaching
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Astrid Windus
Visual perceptions
15.30-16.00
Imagery and affect. On the sensual perception of the visual in history
Prof. Dr. Melanie Ulz, Osnabrück
16.00-16.30
Peace orders in iconography - the example of Venice in the 16th century
Prof. Dr. Arne Karsten, Wuppertal
Olfactory perceptions
16.30-17.00
Olfactory perception as a source of history. Examples from the 16th to the 19th century
Dr. Peter Arnold Heuser, Bonn
17.00-18.00
Workshops
18.00-19.00
Presentation of the results
19.30
Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday, 24.01.2015
Architecture
09.00-09.30
Heavenly splendor and human scale
Dr. Beate Löffler, Duisburg-Essen
Acoustic perceptions
09.30-10.00
The sound of the factory. On the connections between city, industry, environment and noise around 1900
Dr. Heiner Stahl, Siegen
Coffee to go
10.00-11.00
Workshops
11.00-11.30
"Open your eyes!" Dealing with gangsta raps in the classroom. Historical and empirical analyses
Prof. Dr. Alexander Cvetko, Trossingen
11.30-12.00
War suffering in 1645 and chauvinism in 1914 as a musical listening experience - the "Krieges-Angst-Seufftzer" by Johann Hildebrand and the overture "Aus ernster Zeit" by Felix von Weingartner
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hanheide, Osnabrück
Coffee and snack to go
12.00-13.00
Workshops
13.00-13.45
Presentation of the results
13.45-14.00
Final discussion, summary and outlook
14.00 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
The First World War in history lessons. Borders - crossing borders - medialization of borders
Friday and Saturday, January 24 and 25, 2014
LVR Industrial Museum Oberhausen / Hansastraße 20 / 46049 Oberhausen
Program of the conference
Friday, 24.01.2014
from 13.00 Registration
13.30-14.30
Guided tour through the exhibition of the LVR-Industriemuseum
15.00-15.15
Welcome
Dr. Walter Hauser, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Astrid Windus
15.15-15.45 Opening lecture
War without borders? The First World War in computer games
Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz, Siegen
15.15-16.00
Coffee break
Section 1: War on the border
16.00-16.20
Fronts and new borders in the mountains - political and everyday aspects of (South) Tyrol 1915-1918
PD Dr. Margareth Lanzinger, Vienna
16.20-16.40
Poland in the army of the German Reich 1914-1918 or where and for what did the soldier Stanislaus Katczinsky actually fight?
Dr. Pascal Trees, Munich
16.40-17.00
The Self and the Other: The Case of Alsace-Lorraine from a Cultural History Perspective
Junior Professor Dr. Anne Kwaschik, Berlin
17.00-17.20
"Pardon is not given" Life and suffering of the population in the Belgian-German border region 1914-1920
Dr. Herbert Ruland, Eupen
Coffee to go
17.30-18.30
Workshops
18.30-19.15
Presentation of the results
20.00
Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday, 25.01.2014
09.30-09.40
Introduction (Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Astrid Windus)
Section 2: Crossing and shifting borders
09.40-10.00
Crossing borders as an economic opportunity? Expansion strategies of German heavy industry from the German Empire to National Socialism - Saar-Lor-Lux and Upper Silesia-Poland-Russia in comparison
Dr. Stefanie van de Kerkhof, Mannheim
10.00-10.20
The internment of Gustav Kronfeld in New Zealand. Diaspora experience and transculturality of German-Tongans during the First World War
Prof. Dr. Reinhardt Wendt, Hagen
10.20-10.40
War and gender
Prof. Dr. Regina Schulte, Bochum
Coffee to go
10.50-11.50
Workshops
11.50-12.30
Presentation of the results
12.30-13.30
Lunch
Section 3: Medialization of borders
13.30-13.50
Medialization of the trench as a border
Dr. Bernd Kleinhans, Schwäbisch Gmünd
13.50-14.10
Maps as visualization and fixation of borders
Prof. Dr. Ute Schneider, Duisburg-Essen
14.10-14.30
Presentation of the project "Tracing 1914 in the museum"
Kolja Pilarek, Dinslaken
14.30-15.00
War for children (keynote speeches, presentation of materials)
- "Maya the Bee" - a bestseller for children and soldiers.
Dr. Jens Aspelmeier, Siegen - Le Tour de la France et de l'Europe - Lessons for children (1877-1916)
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Siegen - "War Horse. The First World War in the modern British children's book (1082, Michael Morpurgo) and its cinematic adaptation (2011, St. Spielberg)
Prof. Dr. Anja Müller, Siegen - War and the question of boundaries in modern computer games - materials
Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz, Siegen
Coffee to go
15.15-16.15
Workshops
16.15-17.00
Presentation of the results
17.00-17.30
Final discussion, summary and outlook
17.30 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Experiencing history in the museum
Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26, 2013
Ruhr Museum / Zollverein A 14 (Shaft XII, coal washing plant) / Gelsenkirchener Straße 181 / 45309 Essen
Program of the conference
Friday, 25.01.2013
15.15
Welcoming remarks (Ruhr Museum, University of Siegen, Landesverband Museumspädagogik NRW e.V.)
15.30 Introductory lecture
History in the museum
Heinrich-Theodor Grütter, Director of the Ruhr Museum
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.00 Introductory lecture
Cultural education, qualities of the museum as a place of learning
Prof. Dr. Gisela Weiß, HTWK Leipzig
17.00-18.00
discussion
Brainstorming: Experiencing history in the museum
(Moderation: Dr. Jens Aspelmeier, Michael Guse, Angelika Wuszow)
19.00 Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday, 26.01.2013
09.30-10.00
Introduction (Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, Dr. Astrid Windus)
10.00-10.25
Environment and industry
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, University of Freiburg
10.25-10.50
Objects of everyday culture
Dr. Andreas Ludwig, Director, Documentation Centre for Everyday Culture of the GDR
10.50-11.15
Disembodiment: Museum representations of clothing, body and gender
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Mentges, TU Dortmund University
11.15
Coffee break
11.45
Impulse tours in the Ruhr Museum on the environment, industry, everyday culture, clothing-body-gender
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.30
Workshops
14.30-15.00
Presentation of the results
15.00
Picture stories. Photographs in the museum
Dr. Sigrid Schneider (Head of the Photographic Collection of the Ruhr Museum until December 2012)
15.20
Archaeology and museums - from research to presentation
Dr. Charlotte Trümpler, University of Frankfurt
15.40
Coffee break
16.15-17.00
Impulse tours in the Ruhr Museum on picture stories. Photographs and archaeology
17.00-18.00
Workshops
18.00-18.30
Presentation of the results
18.30-19.00
Final discussion, summary and outlook
19.00 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Environment and climate in history lessons
Friday and Saturday, January 27 and 28, 2012
University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang
Public opening lecture by
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behringer (Saarbrücken)
Climate History, Witch Hunts and the Industrial Revolution. A new view of Europe in the modern era
Friday, January 27, 2012, 3 p.m. c.t., Room AE-A 101-103
Interested parties are cordially invited.
Program of the conference
Friday, January 27, 2012
3 p.m. c.t.
Opening lecture Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behringer (Saarbrücken)
Coffee and tea break
16.30 - 16.45
Sources for the introductory lecture
16.45 - 17.45
Workshops on the topic and sources of the introductory lecture
17.45 - 18.45
Presentation of the results
19.30 Opportunity to have dinner together
Saturday 9.30 - 17.00
09.30 - 09.45 Introduction
09.45 - 10.30
Teaching environmental history
Indre Döpcke, Oldenburg
10.30 - 11.00
The symbolism of the Nile flood and elephant hunting in the ruler's self-portrayal in ancient Egypt
PD Dr. Sabine Müller, Kiel/Siegen
11.00 - 11.30
Climate determinism in the context of colonial history
Dr. Franz Mauelshagen, Essen
11.30 - 11.45
Coffee and tea break
11.45 - 12.30
Workshops on the topics and sources of the lectures
12.30 -13.30
Presentation of the results
13.30 - 14.00
Lunch break with snacks
14.00 - 14.30
City and river
Prof. Dr. Dieter Schott, Darmstadt
14.30 - 15.00
Between fantasies of feasibility and apocalypse: Environmental history of the Soviet Union
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Siegen
15.00 - 16.00
Workshops on the topics and sources of the lectures
16.00 - 17.00
Presentation of the results Summary and outlook
17.00 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
Religious dimensions in history lessons
Friday and Saturday, January 21 and 22, 2011
Parish Hall St. Joseph, Weidenauer Straße 28a, 57078 Siegen-Weidenau
Public opening lecture by
Prof. Dr. Peter Blickle (Saarbrücken)
"The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants of 1525. The hinge between the Peasants' War and the Reformation."
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 3 p.m. c.t.
Interested parties are cordially invited.
Program of the conference
Friday, January 21, 2011
16.30 - 19.00 Religion and social order I
16.30 - 16.45
Religion and freedom: Reformation
Prof. Dr. Peter Blickle, Saarbrücken
16.45 - 17.10
Religion and gender
Prof. Dr. Gisela Mettele, Jena
17.10 - 18.15
Workshops on the topics and sources of the introductory lectures
18.15 - 19.00
Presentation of the results
Saturday, January 22, 2011
09.45 - 10.00 Introduction
10.00 - 13.00 Religion and social order II
10.00 - 10.25
Religion and class: India
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Rothermund, Heidelberg
10.25 - 10.50
Religion and "Race"/Ethnicity: Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism
Prof. Dr. Christoph Nonn, Düsseldorf
10.50 - 12.00
Workshops on the topics and sources of the introductory lectures
12.00 - 13.00
Presentation of the results
13.00 - 13.45
Lunch break with snacks
13.45- 18.00 Power and religion
13.45 - 14.10
Christian foundations of medieval lifeworlds
Prof. Dr. Dieter Geuenich, Freiburg
14.10 - 14.35
Islamic revolution in Iran
Prof. Dr. Henner Fürtig, Hamburg
14.35 - 14.50
Coffee and tea break
Wars/armed conflicts and religion
14.50 - 15.15
Conquest of America
Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky, Hanover
15.15 - 15.40
Palestine
Dr. Achim Rohde, Hamburg
15.40 - 16.30
Workshops on the topics and sources of the introductory lectures
16.30 - 17.30
Presentation of the results, summary and outlook
17.30 End of the conference
Teacher training / Conference
European perspectives in history lessons
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Senate Hall of the University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076 Siegen
Program of the conference
Introductory lectures 10.00 - 11.00 a.m.
Ancient History: Prof. Dr. Theodora Hantos
Medieval and Modern History: Prof. Dr. Raphaela Averkorn
Modern and Contemporary History: Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz
11.00 - 12.30 Workshops on the topics and sources of the introductory lectures
12.30 - 13.00 Presentation of the results
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
Introductory lectures 14.00 - 14.45
20th century: Prof. Dr. Frank Becker
Eastern European history: Prof. Dr. Jan Kusber
14.45 - 16.00 Workshops on the topics and sources of the introductory lectures
16.00 - 17.00 Presentation of the results, summary and outlook