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. …
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 …
James E. Young Ph.D., Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English and Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Founding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (UMass Amherst) Adapted from The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) In April 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation …
Henry Rousso Senior researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps PrĂ©sent (CNRS, Paris) Version reviewed and corrected by the author For an extended reading check also: Rousso, Henry. Face au passĂ©. Essais sur la mĂ©moire contemporaine, Paris, Belin, 2016 The need to understand the past and provide a collective representation of history is anything but …