Past Events

International Stakeholder Event, Európa Pont, Budapest, 15 April 2026

The Stakeholder Event brought together educators, policymakers, and experts to reflect on the project’s results and exchange knowledge on countering Holocaust distortion and disinformation. It created an important space for dialogue between research, education, and policy, focusing on the growing challenges posed by Holocaust distortion and antisemitism in both digital and public spheres. Participants explored key insights into contemporary forms of distortion, reviewed the research findings and educational tools developed within DECONSTRUCT, discussed international and local good practices, and shared practical classroom experiences. A central message that emerged from the event was the vital role of education and media literacy in fostering critical thinking, addressing distortion, and strengthening democratic resilience.

For more information, see the programme.

Photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6ycFfqVWqwEmvigK7

DECONSTRUCT Panel: International Conference Discourses in Interaction III, University of Madeira, 30-31 October 2025

Ana Raquel Fernandes and Zsófia Gombár were members of the organising committee of the International Conference Discourses in Interaction, held at the University of Madeira. The conference brought together the Portuguese, Italian, and Hungarian teams, who presented their ongoing work within the project and engaged in productive interdisciplinary discussion. One of the keynote lectures was delivered by Andrea Szonyi, the coordinator of the project.

For more information on the conference, see: https://www.uma.pt/noticias/international-conference-discourses-in-interaction-iii

Book Launch: Kamarád 1943-1944

On October 30, Nelson Bernardo and Luísa Godinho (Memoshoá) presented the book Kamarád – 1943-1944 at the Templo da Poesia in Oeiras. Produced by students from the Quinta do Marquês Secondary School as part of a DAC (Curricular Autonomy Domain) project, this interdisciplinary work aimed to recreate an issue of Kamarád magazine, one of many children’s and youth magazines produced by children in the Theresienstadt ghetto, created in 1941 by the Nazis. Through these magazines, children and young people found a form of resistance and resilience in writing and drawing. The final result of this work was published in a book with the support of the Oeiras City Council. An ebook was also created during the process. For more information, you can access this work through the following link https://read.bookcreator.com/EVBm48ITqtSUIaS2t7DncU1Ylmg1/eW0SprVLQ2WuRkyAWAP1vQ/8ZLCKZhxT3Wlto9gh4COEg. You can also watch the video coverage of the book launch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJsVRcXYN8

Portuguese Research Group Presents DECONSTRUCT Project in Digital Humanities Training Course, University of Lisbon, 4 July 2025

Members of the FLUL Research Group (Zsófia Gombár, Ana Raquel Fernandes, Catarina Xavier, and Maria João Ferro) delivered a session as part of the Free academic course: Oficina de Formação: Novos Contextos para Ensinar e Aprender: As Humanidades Digitais e a Recuperação e Difusão do Património Cultural (30 June – 11 July 2025, online via Zoom) at the University of Lisbon.

The group presented the project DECONSTRUCT, introducing its goals and pedagogical potential. As part of their contribution, they developed an educational blog: https://humanidadesdigitais2025.blogspot.com/ featuring activities and resources related to the project.

For more information, see: https://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/agenda/curso-livre-oficina-de-formacao-novos-contextos-para-ensinar-e-aprender-as-humanidades-digitais-e-a-recuperacao-e-difusao-do-patrimonio-cultural

45th APEAA Conference, University of Minho, Braga, 28-29 April 2025: DECONSTRUCT Project Presentation

The Portuguese team delivered a presentation on the DECONSTRUCT project at the 45th APEAA Conference, held at the University of Minho, Braga on the 29th of April 2025.

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/apeaa25/home?authuser=0

Civil Society Forum on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life, Brussels, 1-2 April 2025

We are pleased to announce that our esteemed colleagues—Andrea Szonyi, Ildikó Barna, Zsófia Gombár, and Ioannis Stylianidis—were invited to participate in the 2025 Civil Society Forum on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life, hosted by the European Commission on April 1-2, 2025.

During the event, they had the opportunity to disseminate information about our ongoing project, contributing to the forum’s objectives of promoting dialogue and creating synergies to combat antisemitism and support Jewish communities across Europe.

For more details about the Forum, please visit the European Commission’s official announcement: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/items/876650/en

A collection of photographs capturing key moments from the Forum is available here: Google Photos.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES VIII, Universidade Europeia – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Tecnologia (FCST), 1 April 2025: Ana Raquel Fernandes’s presentation on the project

Research Experiences VIII, Universidade Europeia. The event was organised at Universidade Europeia to disseminate information on academic research developed by the professors of the university. Ana Raquel Fernandes, lecturer of the Universidade Europeia spoke about the FLUL team’s collective publications and the DECONSTRUCT project.

For more information on the event, click here.

The Holocaust As a Starting Point, organised by the Mémorial de la Shoah in collaboration with EUROM, Memoshoá, and the Government of Cataloni (University of Lisbon, 21-23 March 2025)

The First IWitness Activity on Holocaust Distortion was created in March and tested with Portuguese and Spanish teachers at a workshop held at the International Seminar: The Holocaust As a Starting Point, organised by the Mémorial de la Shoah in collaboration with EUROM, Memoshoá, and the Government of Catalonia, held at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and the Museum of Aljube, 21-23 March 2025. For more information, see https://europeanmemories.net/activities/holocaust-starting-point-2025/

View photos from the event in the Photo Gallery.

RHOSE – Representations of Home Open Seminar 37: Echoes of Be(long)ing and Displacement – Women’s Holocaust Narratives across Memory and Postmemory by Laura Miñano

Date: March 20, 2025
Schedule: 10:00 am to 12:00 am
Venue: School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), Room B112.D
Zoom Link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97795838640

I Jornadas Humanidades Digitais da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 5-7 February 2025

The Portuguese FLUL team of the DECONSTRUCT project participated in the I Jornadas de Humanidades Digitais at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, presenting their research on Holocaust distortion and disinformation. Their talk presented key findings, the role of digital education in combating historical distortion, and strategies for fostering critical engagement with online video testimonies.