TRAVERSO, Enzo (2019) Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, pp. 415 [original title. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory. Columbia University Press, 2016] Ricard Conesa, Historian, project officer at the EUROM Enzo Traverso (Gavi, Italia, 1957) is a well-known figure to scholars of historical memory and readers of this journal. The most recent issue of Observing Memories contains …
Cinema David González, Historian, project manager at the EUROM Cover picture: El silencio de otros (2018). Directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar. Produced by El Deseo. 95’ | ©El Deseo The documentary The Silence of Others (2018) describes the personal and collective struggle in Spanish society to denounce and prosecute the crimes of the …
Nikro, Norman Saadi; Hegasy, Sonja (Eds.). Palgrave, 2017 By Tsjalling Wierdsma, Master Student on Heritage and Memory Studies, University of Amsterdam. Fellow at EUROM (2018). The Social Life of Memory: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco, edited by Norman Saadi Nikro and Sonja Hegasy, is part of the larger Palgrave Studies in …
Belavusau, Uladzislau; Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias (Eds.). (2017) By Tsjalling Wierdsma, Master Student on Heritage and Memory Studies, University of Amsterdam. Scholar on practice at EUROM (2018). The volume Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (2017), edited by Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, integrates various accounts by both lawyers and non-lawyers and approaches memory laws …
An exhibition that aspires to spread the history of a place as cruelly unique as Auschwitz | Picture: David González, EUROM. By David González Vázquez, Assistant professor at the Department of Applied Didactics of the University of Barcelona, project manager at EUROM September 2018, Madrid. The second extension of the Exhibition “Auschwitz: Not long ago. …
The Stalin Museum in Gori (Georgia)| Picture: Oriol López, EUROM By Oriol López Badell, coordinator of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), University of Barcelona’ Solidarity Foundation. The region known as the South Caucasus comprises the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. All of them became independent states in 1991 with …
Picture: Frame of Festive Spaces. Video and text by Kristina Norman, artist The video performance Festive Spaces (2016) was originally commissioned by Annely Porri for the exhibition Silence. Darkness. – If we know what was, do we know what will come? The show was on display at the Tallinn Art Hall in autumn …
Laia Quílez Esteve Universitat Rovira i Virgili Originally published at the Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies. Volume 8, Number 1 Born under Chile’s totalitarian regime and currently living in Barcelona, filmmaker Carolina Astudillo returns to her home country with Lo indecible (The unspeakable) to recover the story of Gabriela Goycoolea. As in El gran …