Summary #6
Summary of the 6th issue
Author: EUROM
Legacies of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Europe: Time for a Continental Reckoning?
Marie-Louise Jansen. Director of Contested Histories Project, Institute for Historical Justice & Reconciliation, Euroclio–European Association of History Educators
In the wake of the 24th-February Russian invasion of Ukraine: geopolitics, history and memory
Georges Mink. Emeritus Director of Research in the Institute of Political Social Sciences at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (ISP-CNRS), European Civilization and History Chair, dedicated to the memory of Prof. Bronislaw Geremek (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland)
Talking about Rose: Justice and Memory in Chad
Reed Brody, Human rights lawyer and author of To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.
The History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo
Elma Hašimbegović, director of the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, take the readers on a VIP tour to this unique institution
Argentine memory for the world
Alejandra Naftal, Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, writes about it nomination process for the UNESCO World Heritage List,
The failed subject. Democratic Historical Memory in school textbooks
La asignatura pendiente. La memoria histĂłrica democrática en los libros de texto escolares Javier DĂez GutiĂ©rrez and Enrique Javier. Madrid: Plaza y ValdĂ©s. 2020. Reviwed by David González, project manager at the EUROM Although the book in front of us saw the light of day in 2020, it is the outcome of many years of …
An indelible tribute: inscribing the names of the victims of Franco’s regime in history
Vanessa Garbero reviews the collective book “To Die in Madrid (1939-1944). The Mass Executions of Franco’s Regime in the Capital City”, edited by Fernando Hernández Holgado and Tomás Montero Aparicio
Finding friends in glass houses
On 3 August 2021, Nuraini Juliastuti and Carine Zaayman visited the exhibition “First Americans: Honouring Indigenous Resilience and Creativity” at the Museum Volkenkunde
Guatemala. The infamous laboratory of the United States
Gustavo Meoño Brenner is a key person in the armed conflict and the transition to peace in Guatelama