The EuroClio Podcast 'Past Times - Talking and Teaching History' is a podcast series for and by history educators. The aim of the podcast is to discuss topics and ideas that are relevant for the teaching of history, to inspire each other and learn from some of the great minds that are part of our community.
Dr. Sara Karn (https://sarakarn25.wordpress.com/) joins our podcast to talk about her research on historical empathy, a cognitive-affective process of attempting to understand the thoughts, feelings, experiences, decisions, and actions of people from the past, within their historical contexts. Sara joined the EuroClio Annual Conference in Brussels this year as her dissertation, Perspectives on Historical Empathy for History Education in Canada: Purposes, Problems and Possibilities (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/69847f0834f1ae6a44009723/t/69f0699dc389541154883be0/1777363358627/Perspectives+on+Historical+Empathy+%28Dr.+Sara+Karn%29-+Dissertation.pdf), was nominated to EuroClio's recently launched History Education Dissertation Prize (https://historyandhope.eu/history-education-dissertation-prize).
During her conversation with Andreas Holtberget, Sara also mentioned a couple of her recent articles:
Designing historical empathy learning experiences: a pedagogical tool for history teachers (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article/pubid/Hist_Educ_Res_J-21-6/)
Walking in their footsteps: Historical empathy and experiential learning on battlefield study tours (https://hej.net.au/article/hej10-203-2/)
7 Aug 2026
Episode 42: Teaching Colonialism Through Museums
Historian Brent Geerts (KU Leuven) joins the Past Times podcast to unpack his PhD research on how museums like the Africa Museum in Tervuren, Belgium and Belgium's Royal Military Museum shape the way students engage with colonial history. Geerts discusses the "emotional affective approach" to museum learning, the tension teachers feel between staying neutral and taking a stance, and why classroom visits to colonial heritage sites echo and complicate the emotional weight of history education.
10 Jul 2026
Episode 41: Making Visegrad Histories Digital and educational reforms in Slovakia
Historian, educator, and EuroClio Board Member Juraj Varga joins the podcast to discuss Making Visegrad Histories Digital (https://www.cedin.sk/making-visegrad), a free online resource hub for teaching communist-era history across the Visegrad region, as well as plans for a new Central and East European teacher network within EuroClio. The conversation also covers Slovakia's new history curriculum and the recent controversy over the government's attempt to cancel Velvet Revolution commemorations, and what it sparked instead.
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