Video: The Unspeakable. By Carolina Astudillo
Author: EUROM
Summary #1
Summary of the first issue
Issue #1: Editorial
By Jordi GuixĂ© i Coromines, Director After the publication of EUROMâs 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 Astudilloâs documentary cinema. By Laia QuĂlez Esteve
 Laia QuĂlez Esteve Universitat Rovira i Virgili Originally published at the Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies. Volume 8, Number 1  Born under Chileâs 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 …
The House of European History: A reservoir of the diversity and complexity of the memories of Europe
Interview with Constanze Itzel, Head of Unit at the House of European History  Cover picture: Constanze Itzel at the House of European History. © European Union 2017 – Source : EP The House of European History opened its doors to the public on May 6, 2017 with the aim to to encourage citizens to …
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 …
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument in San Francisco. By Marina Garde
Marina Garde Political scientist and Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) âWhat we have created here is an antidote to amnesiaâ Peter N. Carroll, historian Nine years ago, on March 30th, 2008, a national monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was unveiled in San Francisco. Forty feet long and eight feet high, …
Aljube Museum. Musealization of a «difficult heritage». By LuĂs Farinha
LuĂs Farinha Director of the Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom  The Aljube Museum appeared four decades after the fall of the New State, as a result of an awakening from an apparent amnesia of an authoritarian regime that imposed censorship on the thought and creativity of millions of Portuguese people, that deported them and …
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 (UniversitĂ€t der KĂŒnste Berlin) Cover picture: Imperial Eagle with Swastica at the âFĂŒhrerâs Buildingâ 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. Â She has been Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and member of the Academic Directory of that institution. …