Keynote Speakers

Eckhardt Fuchs is Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute and Professor for History of Education/Comparative Education at the Technical University Braunschweig. He has worked in a variety of academic institutions and served as a visiting professor in Sydney, Umeå, Tokyo, and Seoul. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies and textbook development. He has published ten books and more than 150 articles and chapters on these issues including The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies (2018). He served as president of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) from 2012 to 2015.

Nurit Peled-Elhanan is Emeritus Professor in Language Education, Social Semiotics and Multimodality at the Hebrew University and at the David Yellin Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel. She has studied the various aspects of Israeli discourse of education and has published, edited, and written extensively on classroom discourse, oral and written language development at school, and racism in the Israeli schools and in schoolbooks. She is the author of Palestine in Israeli school books. Ideology and propaganda in education, I.B. Tauris, London. 2012. Her forthcoming book, Holocaust Education and the Semiotics of Othering in Israeli Schoolbooks will be published by Common Ground Publishers, USA. Prof. Peled-Elhanan received several awards for her work, among which is the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights and the Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament. She was the Co-initiator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine from 2009 to 2014.

Peter Gautschi, Dr. Phil., is Professor of History Education at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland, where he is also Head of the Lucerne Institute for History Education and Memory Cultures. His research focuses on history education, public history, and curriculum and textbooks development. Gautschi has developed many educational media as a project leader and as an author, and his publications have been translated into a wide variety of languages. He is editor of the series and journals on Didactics of History and member of scientific advisory boards in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.