BOOK: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict. Unwanted Memories
Dasa Duhacek, Professor, political science department of Belgrade University on the book by Orli Fridman (Amsertam University Press (2022)
Category: Review
The failed subject. Democratic Historical Memory in school textbooks
La asignatura pendiente. La memoria histórica democrática en los libros de texto escolares Javier Díez Gutiérrez and Enrique Javier. Madrid: Plaza y Valdés. 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
The Berlin Wall Trail and the Iron Curtain Trail
Michael CramerMember of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019 Recently we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the Iron Curtain in Europe. The wall around West Berlin was 3.60 m high and 160 km long. Its appearance and location changed over the course of time: the …
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park and the Importance of centennial monuments after COVID-19
Los Angeles, located in a region founded on the exploitation of Native Californians by Spanish missionaries and a destination for the Black community during the Second Great Migration, is home to two memorials depicting this great disparity in visibility and historical dialogue — the controversial defaced statue of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra and the memorial park of formerly enslaved and philanthropist Biddy Mason.
The multiple forms of the banalization of the Holocaust. The Memory Monster
In this novel, the author analyses, criticizes and denounces a key feature of his own social reality: the trivialization of the Holocaust through its spaces of memory, and through the various mechanisms of memorial transmission, both in his homeland, Israel, and abroad. This trivialization takes the form of a memory monster.
Transitional Justice in Comparative Perspective: Preconditions for Success
El-Masri, Samar; Tammy Lambert; Joanna Quinn (Eds.). (2020) Palgrave By Luis Ángel Gasca Triviño, Undergraduate Student, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University Fellowship student at EUROM (2020) Transitional Justice in Comparative Perspective: Preconditions for Success, edited by Samar El-Masri, Tammy Lambert and Joanna Quinn, is a volume of individual country case studies …
“Twenty three and a half”
Hrant Dink Site of Memory Oriol López Badell, Historian, EUROM coordinator Cover picture: Atlantis Civilization Room-Photo | Mıgırdiç Arzivyan In June 2019, Istanbul welcomed a new site of memory very close to Taksim Square, the epicentre of contemporary Turkey’s pro-democracy demonstrations. The venue, which bears the enigmatic name of “Twenty three and a half”, is …
Lipa’s commitment.
The Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers Carlota Sánchez Vidal, Historian, University of Barcelona Cover picture: Memorial exhibition | EUROM The small village of Lipa is located in the municipality of Matulji, in the north-eastern part of the county of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, just five kilometres from the border between Croatia and Slovenia. This fact is a defining …