Emeritus Professor Mario Carretero’s guest lecture: Teaching Colonization as a Challenge in History Education

The multidisciplinary theme Cultural Memory and Social Change (CMSC) and Centre for Research on Learning and Instruction (CERLI) are jointly organizing an open guest lecture on 26 November 2026. The subject of the lecture is Teaching Colonization as a Challenge in History Education. 

This lecture aims to address a number of important questions in relation to how to teach colonization to develop the skills needed to reflect critically on the past within both formal (schools) and informal (museums, exhibitions and other venues) educational settings. A video (15 min.) about the teaching of internal colonization in South America will be presented and discussed, in the context of a research project about this topic funded by the Spencer Foundation. 

Programme: 

(On-site event only)

• 14.15–14.20: Welcome words and short presentation of the lecturer 
  University Lecturer Marjaana Puurtinen, University of Turku 
• 14.20–15.20: Guest lecture: “Teaching Colonization as a Challenge in History Education” 
  Emeritus Professor, Research Fellow Mario Carretero, Autonomous University of Madrid and FLACSO-Argentina 
• 15.20: Coffee (1st floor lobby)

Warmly welcome! 

Mario Carretero was born in Morocco, where life offered him a blend of cultures. He is Emeritus Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Research Fellow at FLACSO-Argentina. He has carried out extensive work on history education. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as from Harvard, Stanford and La Sapienza (Rome). His work has been translated into five languages. He is currently leading a project for the Spencer Foundation in the USA on teaching about the indigenous past in Argentine Patagonia and also a Horizon UE project (www.making-histories.eu). His Instagram is @mariomcarretero.