Interview with Michael Rothberg Cover picture: Michael Rothberg Photographed by David Wu, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Michael Rothberg is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Working in the fields of Holocaust, trauma and …
Marcello Flores, Historian, professor at the UniversitĂ degli Studi di Siena, and Carlo Giunchi, cultural manager Cover picture: Souvenir shop in Predappio main street | EUROM It was recently announced that the mayor of the town of Predappio had decided to use a large disused building, the former Casa del Fascio e dell’Ospitalitá, as a …
This issue of Observing Memories represents the consolidation of a high quality multidisciplinary journal which explores the past from a permanent trans-European and international perspective. With each issue published, the Observatory’s reputation has grown and we are delighted to present our latest edition, published just after the exhumation of the dictator Francisco Franco from the mausoleum of the Valley of the Fallen. The removal of Franco’s remains is an important step for democracy both in Spain and in Europe. It means that we can now begin to consider this place of terror from the perspective of heritage and culture – perhaps even as a tourist destination, once tribute has been paid to the memory of the thousands of victims buried there illicitly by the dictatorship.
Summary of the second issue
Cover picture: The crypt diplays reconstructions of the memorial cycle by Josef GlahĂ© , first shown in in 1950, and incorporates Expressionist motifs depicting the horrors of war | M. Groppe, 2010, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg By Kirsten John-Stucke, Director of the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg The Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle that was built at the beginning …
Nikro, Norman Saadi; Hegasy, Sonja (Eds.). Palgrave, 2017 By Tsjalling Wierdsma, Master Student on Heritage and Memory Studies, University of Amsterdam. Fellow at EUROM (2018). The Social Life of Memory: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco, edited by Norman Saadi Nikro and Sonja Hegasy, is part of the larger Palgrave Studies in …
Belavusau, Uladzislau; Aleksandra GliszczyĹ„ska-Grabias (Eds.). (2017) By Tsjalling Wierdsma, Master Student on Heritage and Memory Studies, University of Amsterdam. Scholar on practice at EUROM (2018). The volume Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (2017), edited by Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra GliszczyĹ„ska-Grabias, integrates various accounts by both lawyers and non-lawyers and approaches memory laws …
An exhibition that aspires to spread the history of a place as cruelly unique as Auschwitz | Picture: David González, EUROM. By David González Vázquez, Assistant professor at the Department of Applied Didactics of the University of Barcelona, project manager at EUROM September 2018, Madrid. The second extension of the Exhibition “Auschwitz: Not long ago. …
The Stalin Museum in Gori (Georgia)| Picture: Oriol LĂłpez, EUROM By Oriol LĂłpez Badell, coordinator of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), University of Barcelona’ Solidarity Foundation. The region known as the South Caucasus comprises the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. All of them became independent states in 1991 with …
Picture: Horst Hoheisel, Die Tore der Deutschen, 1997, lighting display on the Brandenburg Gate. By Horst Hoheisel, Artist Aleida Assmann, who will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade together with her husband Jan Assmann this year (14 October 2018), has chosen one of my works (1) as the title image for …