Venue: Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 8, Raum 05 Esther Möller is co-organizer and speaker of the conference. This international conference explores the relationships between empathy, education and society in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe and its transnational connections. Perceiving empa-thy as the capacity to put oneself in someone else’s shoes and to share his or her feelings and experiences, the conference pursues two goals. First, it strives to examine the social and cultural institutions across Europe that functioned as “schools of empathy” and to question their effects on community building as well as on social me-chanisms of inclusion or exclusion. Second, it aims to analyze the groups and individuals that served as “educators” as well as the educational practices they developed. Conveners: Esther Möller (IEG/München), Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Hamburg) & Katharina Stornig (Giessen)