Albanian-language history teaching is provided in five countries in south-eastern Europe, each with its own national school curricula whose needs and requirements the teaching has to take into account. Textbooks and curricula in this subject are accordingly diverse; some books used in schools are translations of the textbooks provided for the majority-language population in each country(where this majority language is not Albanian), whereas curricula are prescribed at national level in Albania itself and in Kosovo. The differences in perspectives on historical events from country to country poses a challenge to textbooks and curricula, raising the questionof whether and how these divergent points of view and historiographies can be reconciled to one another in history teaching.

In response to this challenge, the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, based in Braunschweig, Germany, is to hold a conference on this subject on 7 and 8 November 2013 in Prishtina, to which we would like to invite historians, teachers, textbook authors and decision-makers from government ministries and publishing houses to detail and discuss their views and findings on the issues.