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 WĂĽstenbergProfessor 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 supĂ©rieure 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 …
Georges Didi-HubermanPhilosopher and art historian, lecturer at the École des hautes Ă©tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) Cover image: Butterflies and beetles in the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England. Picture by allispossible.org.uk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons How do we see time? How does time become sensitive? These are …
A conversation between Arnaud Sauli and Ania Szczepanska Arnaud Sauli made the documentary film Sheol in 2022, dedicated to the material traces of the Sobibor extermination camp. By following the work of archaeologists and architects of the museum under construction, the film shows the tensions at the heart of memorial work on the Shoah. His …
By Jordi GuixĂ©, Director of the European Observatory on Memories Introducing our new issue of Observing Memories proves to be quite a challenge against the backdrop of bombs falling near our homelands, the loss of lives among civilians of all ages and the repeated violation of human rights, starting with the fundamental right to life. …
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José Miguel Gastón Aguas and César Layana Ilundain, Navarre Institute of Memory, Government of Navarre