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The article offers information on the conference "Historiography and History Education in the South Slavic and Albanian Speaking Regions," organized by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, the Institute for National History and the Institute of Spiritual and Cultural Heritage of the Albanians in Skopje, Albania, from June 3-4 2015. Topics discussed include the analysis of history textbooks, family and household structures, and urban development in Pristina, Serbia.

The article presents a report on a conference on film and history, convened in Munich, Germany, on June 21, 2013. Topics of discussion included the representation of history in documentary films, films as historical sources, and the use of film in history education. These topics were discussed from the perspectives of both historiography and film-making.

The article reviews the conference "Empirische Geschichtsunterrichtsforschung," held in Essen, Germany, from September 4th to September 9th, 2012, presenting empirical research regarding methods of history teaching. Topics included a proposed methodology for assembling a bibliography of the field, a Swiss pedagogical project including the video release, Geschichte und Politik im Unterricht (History and Politics in the Classroom), and an evaluation of pedagogical methods currently in use alongside proposals for new methods.

The article presents a report from a February 13-15, 2014 conference on history education for doctoral candidates hosted by the Lehrstuhl für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte und Didaktik der Geschichte history department of the Universität Köln university in Cologne, Germany. Topics of presentations delivered included the relationship between textbooks and the actions and life choices of the students who use them, regional differences in the portrayals of national socialism in British, Austrian, and German textbooks, and the educational theories of German history teacher Jörn Rüsen.