The Rivesaltes Camp Memorial: the institutionalisation of a memoir

Céline Sala-PonsDirector of the Camp of Rivesaltes Memorial Nicolas LebourgHistorian, expert in the history of the Camp of Rivesaltes Cover picture: Rivesaltes Camp Memorial. ©HuguesArgence In 2015, the Rivesaltes Camp Memorial [MCR in French] was inaugurated in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France, several kilometres form the Franco-Spanish border. This inauguration marked the patient construction of …

Air-raid shelters in Barcelona, the legacy of underground resistance

Ana SánchezJournalist and photographer, specialising in cultural communication and historical memory Cover picture:  Factory 14 shelter © Ana Sánchez From 30 March to 30 July, galleries 3 and 4 in the former La Model prison played host to the photography exhibition Barcelona’s 1,322 air-raid shelters. It is the product of a research study that made …

Günther Domenig, architecture as mediation

The case of the Third Reich Congress Hall in Nuremberg Dominique TroucheAssistant Professor in Communication and Information Sciences at University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier. Author of Les Mises en scène de l’histoire, Approche communicationnelle des sites historiques des Guerres mondiales, L’Harmattan, 2010 Cover picture: View of the reception of the footbridge. Documentation Centre on …

Interview with Patricio Guzman

Cover image: Patricio Guzmán, 2013 Giza Eskubideen Zinemaldia – Festival de Cine y DDHH. Picture by Argazkia /Iñigo Royo CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Chile’s coup d’état, the death of Salvador Allende and the beginnings of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Your three-part documentary …

Patricio Guzmán, memory or life

Nancy BerthierProfessor at the Sorbonne University (Chair of Visual Arts of the Hispanic World) and director of Casa Velázquez Cover image: Patricio Guzmán during the shooting of The Cordillera of Dreams (2019). Promotional image. It is not an easy task to talk about Patricio Guzmán in just a few words; nor would it be in …

The bright future of memory

Olivier WievirkovaHistorian, Faculty member at the École normale supérieure de Cachan Cover image: Japanese Embassy in Seoul and watched from behind a bronze statue of comfort women. Sakaori, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The memory of the Second World War clearly remains very much alive. To give just one example, the conflict triggered in …