2016 was a watershed year in which naked racism emerged from the shadows to take centre stage in public life in the West. That June, the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union succeeded, and some five months later Donald Trump won the US presidency. Both campaigns were fought on openly xenophobic platforms [...]
Partners in confronting collective atrocities e.V. is a German non-profit and charitable society. It benefits from a special status, granted by the German tax authority, which allows it to issue tax certificates to its donors, which can use these for tax deduction purposes. PCCA is also exempt from paying corporate taxes. These privileges are granted and [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since the last Newsletter from March 2018, PCCA has had two important events: Dear Colleagues, Supporters and Friends of PCCA! This year will be marked by the remembrance of the war, which began 80 years ago in 1939 and ended in 1945. We have probably all followed the news accompanying the [...]
Letter of Chairperson Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since the last Newsletter from March 2018, PCCA has had two important events: We have organized another PCCA conference, directed by Louisa D. Brunner in Den Dolder in the Netherlands, August 30th – September 3rd 2018 under the title: “Exclusion, Resentment and the Return of the Repressed. Europe [...]
by Dr Allan Shafer - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Socioanalyst, Melbourne. Accompanying a Special Exhibition - Registered, persecuted, annihilated: The Sick and Disabled under National Socialism, the Jewish Holocaust Centre of Melbourne, convened a workshop on the 9th December 2018 on the theme “Registered, Persecuted, Annihilated: The legacy of the Nazi persecution of people with disabilities”. This theme corresponded well [...]
Dear former participant of the above mentioned conferences which were organized by PCCA, we write this letter to you in order to encourage you to become a supporting member of PCCA. “We” are a group of already existing supporting members of PCCA, who are convinced that the work done by PCCA and during their conferences is [...]
by Louisa Diana Brunner - PCCA 2018 Conference Director This conference was the 11th conference in the so–called Nazareth series of the Past in the Present and the 7th conference since PCCA was established in 2007. This project started nearly 25 years ago. This conference was built on the previous ones and especially on [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since the last Newsletter from March 2018, PCCA has had two important events: We have organized another PCCA conference, directed by Louisa D. Brunner in Den Dolder in the Netherlands, August 30th – September 3rd 2018 under the title: “Exclusion, Resentment and the Return of the Repressed. Europe in a Globalized [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since our last Newsletter from August 2017, several events have taken place that are important for PCCA. First, we had our annual meeting of the board of PCCA. The specialty in this meeting was related to the fact that this meeting took place ten years after the founding of PCCA as [...]
Ernst Sillem Hoeve, Den Dolder, The Netherlands Thursday 30th August – Monday 3rd September 2018 by Louisa Diana Brunner - Conference Director PCCA has a long standing tradition in applying Group Relations methods to study the legacy of the past in the present, from the tragedy of the Holocaust to today’s enmities and conflictual societal issues [...]