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 …
Ricard Conesa SánchezHistorian and project officer at the EUROM “It ends up being an exhibition where you don’t really know if it is about history, art history or aesthetics. It does not come from any of these disciplines and it comes from all of them at the same time”. This is how Núria Ricart, a …
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 …
Marta Marín-DòmineWriter Cover picture: Jorge Semprun at the set of Apostrophes, 1984. Foto: Cordon
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 …
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 …
Ana Paula BritoProfessor at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the Institute of Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Cover image: Mother of Ana Paula with her daughter. Brazil, 1989. Personal collection. After the Covid-19 pandemic and the profound grief caused by the loss of …
Jenny WüstenbergProfessor of History and Memory Studies, Nottingham Trent University Cover image: The empty pedestal of the statue of Edward Colton in Bristo. Picture: Caitlin Hobbs, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons In the past few years, the question of what societies should remember and how it matters has shifted squarely into the spotlight. In …
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 …
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 …