📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Remembrance Week in Rome is part of a wider list of activities within the frame of the European Project Chapter: Chellenging Propaganda Through Remembrance. The project gathers 25 representatives of organisations from 9 countries - Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Catalunya and Bulgaria. Since 2014 Europe is facing the worst humanitarian crisis of refugees since World War II (WWII), the majority of them fleeing from Syria and Libya, while the economic crisis has been causing cuts to social inclusion, education and healthcare programmes. An in-depth analysis shows that current propaganda roots in methodologies and tools developed under totalitarian regimes.
💼 What the programme involves
Participants, supported and guided by the Remembrance Messengers, will implement different activities aimed at going in depth into the following key words/topics:
- Remembrance.
- Propaganda and media
- Nationalism
- Hatred of the enemy
- Grassroots media
- Pacifism
- Counternarratives
A Set of Infographics will be created on the basis of the researches participants will realize during the activity, focused on 10 specific topics:
- Fear
- Propaganda
- Gender
- Freedom of speech
- Nationalism
- History
- Normalization
- Youth
- Social Frustration
- Hate crimes
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be hosted in the social hostel of Casale Garibaldi in the venue La Città dell' Utopia. They will sleep in common (female/male) rooms, three people in each room, in order to guarantee phisical distance. There will be provided beds, mattresses, sheets and blankets. The bathroom will be on the same floor and shared by all the volunteers.
📍 About the location
Fiumicino Airport, Ciampino Airport, Termini station, Tiburtina station in Rome
⚠️ Requirements
Participants are required to bring to the Remembrance Week every material (soft and hard), pictures, fanzines, presentation, testimony that can give a contribution to the debate and to the research realization, according to the topics enlisted above.
ℹ️ Additional information
The project aims to cast a light on propaganda before and during WWII, focusing on its role to enforce the concept of “enemy” - from national and ethnic groups to political opponents and social groups. Moreover a special attention will be given to the role of grassroots media and peace organizations in challenging propaganda through innovative communication methodologies and tools.