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Application for the Georg Arnhold Conference 2026

MEMORY, TRUTH-TELLING, AND RECONCILIATION IN EDUCATION:
NAVIGATING EQUITABLE FUTURES
 October 27-30, 2026
at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute
in Braunschweig, Germany

 

General information about the Georg Arnhold Conference

This year's Georg Arnhold Conference will take place at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) in Braunschweig, Germany. The conference brings together early-career scholars, senior researchers, and practitioners from around the world. It will offer an interdisciplinary and international platform for participants to engage in meaningful discussions, critically examine key issues related to this year’s theme, strengthen research networks and collaboration, and support critical reflection to inform future research and practice.

The Georg Arnhold Conference primarily welcomes applications from academic experts, post-doctoral scholars and doctoral candidates from the humanities and social sciences, particularly education, media studies, history, political sciences, international relations, geography, sociology, law, and anthropology. Practitioners working for international organizations and NGOs with experience and valuable insights in the relevant fields are also welcome to apply. Applications from students enrolled in a master’s program and recent graduates with a master’s degree will be considered in exceptional cases.

Part of the conference is a workshop organized and facilitated by the Airbel Impact Lab, which is the research and innovation arm of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). During the workshop, participants will learn how humanitarian teams use human-centered design to translate research into practical, scalable solutions. Through a hands-on working session, participants will apply these principles to their own projects—identifying where real-world constraints limit impact and developing actionable, testable approaches to address them. Overviews of each portfolio’s strategic focus with examples of potential projects fellows may engage with are outlined on our website.

Submission information

Your Application must be received by June 21, 2026.

This application form consists of 4 sections:

  1. Personal Information and Institutional Affiliation
  2. Application for the Conference
  3. Application for a fellowship with the IRC
  4. Additional questions and comments, including a declaration on the use of AI tools

This application form does not require any documents to be kept ready for upload. However, it is recommended to prepare paragraphs for some sections and then copy them into the respective fields. Make sure you adhere to the specified word limit in each section. Otherwise, the text may not be transferred entirely.

The following questions ask for more detailed answers:

Section 2: Application for the Conference

  • Abstract of your presentation (300 up to 500 words)
  • Biographical note in text form (up to 250 words)
  • List of publications (if applicable up to 5 titles)
  • Motivation for your application to the conference (up to 150 words)

Section 3: Application for a fellowship with the IRC
If applicable, elaborate on your motivation for your application and answer the following questions.
(up to 250 words per question)

  • Why are you interested in participating in an IRC fellowship? How would it further your research and/or career goals?
  • Please specifically describe your role in both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis on previous research studies.
  • What innovative interventions are you interested in exploring from a research perspective and what would be their significance in humanitarian contexts?
  • Describe the tools for data cleaning/manipulations and analysis with which you are familiar.
  • Describe how you have addressed problems that have occurred in real world research, such as sampling bias.
  • What experience do you have writing research papers and other products? How would you approach sharing research for different audiences?

Most of the questions in this form are mandatory. It is possible to jump back and forth in the form and to save an intermediate state.

There are 26 questions in this survey.

Privacy policy

Data privacy policy of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute for the Georg Arnhold Program

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) treats applications confidentially and will only store and process personal data of applicants to the extent necessary for the purpose of selecting candidates for the Georg Arnhold Conference and in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the German data protection law.

The GEI will archive application documents for one year (except for the application documents of the successful candidates for the summer conference). Unless instructed by an applicant to do otherwise; such documents will then be destroyed in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. More information on www.gei.de/en/privacy-policy.html Applicants for the Summer Conference have the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of their personal data at any time as well as to ask to review and edit their personal data; in such cases, they are requested to contact the program coordinator at arnhold@gei.de. The GEI reserves the right to publish the name, citizenship, academic title, field of research and current institutional affiliation of the successful candidates.

 
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