Issue #1: Editorial

By Jordi Guixé i Coromines, Director After the publication of EUROM’s first book, Past and Power: public policies on memory. Debates, from global to local (Edicions UB, 2016), it is my honour to introduce the first issue of our electronic magazine: Observing Memories. This publication aims to regularly reflect the transnational, multidisciplinary and active work …

The unspeakable. Feminine resistances: The figure of the republican women in Carolina Astudillo’s documentary cinema. By Laia Quílez Esteve

  Laia Quílez Esteve Universitat Rovira i Virgili Originally published at the Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies. Volume 8, Number 1   Born under Chile’s totalitarian regime and currently living in Barcelona, filmmaker Carolina Astudillo returns to her home country with Lo indecible (The unspeakable) to recover the story of Gabriela Goycoolea. As in El gran …

Perseverance and Place: A Review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. By Zina Precht-Rodriguez

By Zina Precht-Rodriguez Columbia University student and EUROM fellow (2017) Cover picture: A statue of Thomas Jefferson hovers over the illuminated phrase, while a black figure hovers in the background.   The arduous struggle throughout history between the legal recognition of equal rights for African Americans and the actual implementation of these rights ironically resembles the …

Re-Use of Nazi symbols in Germany after 1945. By Stefanie Endlich

Stefanie Endlich Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) Cover picture: Imperial Eagle with Swastica at the “Führer’s Building” in Munich; picture taken in the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (picture: Stefanie Endlich   Right after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, …

Memory, a hinge between past and present. Elizabet Jelin is interviewed by Laura Mombello.

Senior Researcher of CONICET and Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences UNGS-IDES, Elizabeth Jelin holds a PhD in Sociology and was awarded in the Houssay Prize for a Lifetime Achievement in Social Sciences in 2013.  She has been Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and member of the Academic Directory of that institution. …

History will liberate. By Pavel Tychtl

Pavel Tychtl Representative of the European Commission There are two stories that illustrate well the many complex issues connected with memory. Both of them are linked to one place with a very specific role in the memory of the 20th century. The place is the concentration camp of Buchenwald and the first story is from …