CSA 2023
Program and Schedule
Please note: We will continually update the program as it develops.
Vienna
Tuesday, July 4
11:30pm Summer Academy registration opens at the Diplomatic Academy
1:30pm Official beginning of the Summer Academy & welcome remarks from the Centropa team
2:00pm Veteran teacher presentation: What you take can away from the Summer Academy
2:15pm Ice-breaker activity
3:00pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Initial elective meetings: international participants meet and discuss creative projects involving the Kindertransports, Youth Diaries of the Holocaust, Stepping into the Future with Empathy refugee project, and cross-cultural projects, among others (Electives)
4:30pm Screening and brief discussion of Centropa’s Film: Vienna, its Jews and the 20th Century, introduced by Edward Serotta
5:00pm Bus departs to hotel. Those who have not yet checked in will do so now.
6:45pm Meet in lobby
7:00pm Dinner at restaurant nearby
Wednesday, July 5
8:30am Leave for the Belvedere Museum
9:00am Guided tour of the Upper Belvedere focusing on the paintings of Gustav Klimt
10:30am Walk to the Museum of Military History
11:00pm Visit of the Museum of Military History
11:45pm Departure
12:30pm Lunch at the Diplomatic Academy joined by special guests
2:00pm Screening of Centropa's film: Jewish Soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army
2:15pm Historian Philipp Blom on Vienna and Europe, at the turn of the 20th century. Followed by Q&A.
3:15pm Coffee break
3:45pm Marketplace of ideas
4:45pm Reflection session
5:00pm Workshop session: group work on lesson plans and joint educational projects
6:00pm Free evening in Vienna
Thursday, July 6
7:45am Meet in lobby
8:00am Depart for bus tour of Jewish Vienna
8:45am Guided walking tour of Jewish Vienna
10:15am Guided tour of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, followed by time to explore the museum individually
11:30am Depart for conference venue
12:30pm Lunch at Diplomatic Academy sponsored by Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg
1:30pm Meeting with survivors
2:30pm Panel discussion: "Teaching and Facing the Holocaust in Austria" with Hannah Lessing, Moritz Wein and Patrick Siegele
3:30pm Reflection session
3:45pm. Coffee break
4:15 pm Workshop session (Elective)
6:00pm Free evening in Vienna
Friday, July 7
9:00am Deep dive into Centropa's resources and website and Using Centropa’s Content in Your Classroom: a look into our websites on 1938 in Austria, the Kindertransport, and 10 Vienna Stories, along with our podcast series “9 November 1938”
9:45am Teacher panel discussion: "How the Holocaust is taught in our countries"
10:45am Coffee break
11:15am Screening and discussion of Centropa's film The Past is Another Country
12:15pm Lunch
1:15pm Presentation by Ukrainian teachers: "Teaching (Jewish History) in Times of War" followed by Q&A
2:00pm Elective group work
3:15pm Free time to explore Vienna before Shabbat
6:00pm Shabbat service and dinner
Prague
Saturday, July 8
8:00am Latest check-out of hotel
8:15am Buses depart
10:45am Arrive in Trebic. Free time for individual exploration, including the synagogue
12:45pm Buses depart
3:45pm Hotel check-in
4:30pm Meet in lobby. Walking tour of Stare Miesto with focus on 1989 and the Velvet Revolution
6:00pm Free evening
Sunday, July 9
9:00am Meet in lobby. Tour of the synagogues, exhibitions and cemetery of the Prague Jewish Museum
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Lecture by Prof. Michal Frankl "Jews in Bohemian Lands: A Migration History?"
2:30pm Screening of the Centropa film Dagmar Lieblova, From Bohemia to Belsen and Back
3:00pm Reflection session
3:15pm Coffee break
3:45pm Group work (Elective)
5:00pm Free evening
Monday, July 10
7:30am Bus transfer to Terezin Memorial
9:15am Guided tour through the Small Fortress
10:45am Buses depart to Hamburg Barracks
11:00am Introduction to the Hamburg Barracks and reading of Centropa biographies
11:30am Exploring the Barracks individually with list of tasks (boxed lunch provided)
2:00pm Coffee break
2:45pm Workshop by The Defiant Requiem Foundation: Jewish prisoners in Terezin performing Verdi’s Defiant Requiem
4:55pm Buses depart for guided tour
5:00pm Guided tour through crematorium and cemetery
6:15pm Bus transfer to Prague
7:30pm Dinner
Tuesday, July 11
9:00am Reflection session on visit to Terezín
10:00am Meeting with a survivor of the Terezín Ghetto
10:45am Coffee break
11:15pm Regional group work
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Quiz on 20th century European history
2:45pm Elective groups finalize lesson plans
3:30pm Coffee break
4:00pm Presentation of lesson plans
5:15 pm Photo slideshow of the CSA and wrap-up
6:00pm Departure for dinner
6:30pm Final Dinner
Wednesday, July 12
Day of depature