Picture: Frame of Festive Spaces. Video and text by Kristina Norman, artist The video performance Festive Spaces (2016) was originally commissioned by Annely Porri for the exhibition Silence. Darkness. – If we know what was, do we know what will come? The show was on display at the Tallinn Art Hall in autumn …
Summary of the first issue
By Jordi GuixĂ© 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 …
 Laia QuĂlez 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 …
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 …
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 …
Marina Garde Political scientist and Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) “What we have created here is an antidote to amnesia” 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, …
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 …
Stefanie Endlich Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der KĂĽnste Berlin) Cover picture: Imperial Eagle with Swastica at the “FĂĽhrer’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, …