Visit of the guest scientist Tatjana Louis, 15.06.2022-15.07.2022

Visit of the guest scientist Tatjana Louis, 15.06.2022-15.07.2022

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Louis is Professor and Head of the Department of Languages and Culture of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá - Colombia). She conducts research on the development of historical consciousness, the creation of historical meaning, and the teaching and learning of history. During her month-long stay in Berlin, we conducted a series of internal workshops in which we evaluated the categorization of historical consciousness that we had previously used. Likewise, we developed new categories to measure the empirical work with memory images. The categorizations of the two theoretical components of our research are particularly important for the analysis of comments on social media as well as for the analysis of the interviews. For historical consciousness, in particular, we worked with the six concepts in the book "The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts" by Peter Seixas and Ton Morton (2013) and adapted them to our research questions. In the process of categorizing memory images, more theoretical and empirical challenges arose, which can only be solved through concrete examples. We also exchanged ideas about the programs of the seminars we developed within GUMELAB. By doing so, we want to increase university students' awareness of the topics and results of our research. This stimulates discussion on how history can be taught with telenovelas and series in the classroom.