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European CoE Pestalozzi workshop, September 19th – 23rd 2011

Focusing on the theme "From Division to Diversity: Educational Challenges related to Past and Present", 19 participants from 16 different European Countries, most of them teachers and teacher trainers, shared an intensive cooperative experience during the one week workshop at The Falstad Centre.

Exhibition 2011: Soviet prisoners of war in Norway

The Exhibition is now closed in Oslo, but re-opened at the Falstad Centre May 8th 2011.

The Falstad Centre has produced an exhibition on assignment of The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The exhibition opened at The Norwegian Armed Forces Museum, Monday 26^th of April 2010.

HM King Harald and President Dmitrij Medvedev were present at the opening ceremony.

The exhibition catalogue is printed in Norwegian/Russian and Norwegian/English.

See photos form the exhibition.

For information contact: dr.Marianne Neerland Soleim
Phone +47 95 94 73 87 marianne-neerland.soleim@falstadsenteret.no

See the President's official web site

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Exhibition 2011:

With their own eyes
Falstad prison camp photographed by prisoners, local inhabitants and German personnel

A prisoner smuggled a camera into Falstad prison camp.
An SS officer collected memories in his own photo album.
The camp's neighbours photographed themselves side by side
with prisoners and their families.
Three views from three different perspectives.

What do their photographs tell us about what they saw,
with their own eyes?

The Exhibition can be seen from March 10th – August 14th 2011. The photos can also be seen at at Flickr.

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NEWS archive:

10TH–11TH NOVEMBER 2011: THE PAINFUL HERITAGE - Materiality and multi-vocality. International workshop Programme to be published in week 35. See programme

International symposium,
Painful Heritage:

Cultural landscapes of the second world war, was arranged at The Falstad Centre, 11th-12th November 2010.
See brief report here

Painful heritage is an interdisciplinary research project of NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet and Falstad Center, financed by The Research Council of Norway. Visit www.painfulheritage.no.

NEW BOOK

The book contains presentations from the symposium ”Prisoners of War and Forced labour – histories of War and Occupation”, held at Falstadsentereret 20.-21. of November 2008. The contributors are from USA, Poland, Austria, Israel, Russia, Finland, Britain and Norway.

For more information/orders contact Marianne Neerland Soleim.

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Falstad Kunst 2010 opened on Sunday, June 6

Falstad Kunst (Falstad Art) is a series of temporary public art installations at the Falstad Centre in the rural community of Ekne, 80 kilometres north of Trondheim in Mid-Norway. The artists Anna Baumgart (Poland) and Darko Stojkov (Serbia) are now working on their projects for Falstad Kunst 2010.

See the exhibition catalogue Falstad Art 2010 here (in Norwegian and English).

See catalogue Falstad Art 2009

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