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.
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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
Srebrenica. No one beleived us
Emir Suljacić, Director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre
East Germany. Part of Germany since 1990
An essay by lko-Sascha Kowalczuk
Memory-Works: On Memory, Ethics & Architecture
The construction of memorials and museums all over the globe seems significant in the sheer vastness and magnitude of their number, as well as in the significance that these sites of memory may have in, and for, affected communities.
Cultural Memory of Yugoslav Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War [1]
During the Croatian War of Independence, the Croatian Army and military police had occupied the barracks, which were then handed over to the city of Rijeka and finally transformed into the university campus that opened in 2011. Since then I have heard rumours that a monument to the Spanish Civil War had once been located on the site of the former barracks, but the building of the campus had completely changed the landscape and all my efforts to track down information on the possible existence of a monument were fruitless.
The use and abuse of memories of the working class in 21st century Britain
Since 2010, the public memory of the working class has become more conflicted. The notion that ‘they’ are reactionary bigots has been strengthened by the result of the Brexit referendum of 2016. Most journalists overlook that many affluent residents of southern, rural England, voted to leave the European Union. They focus their ire on the deindustrialised areas of northern England – constituencies which also helped give Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party a landslide win in the 2019 General Election.
Lenin’s Mausoleum: A Haunted House on Red Square [1]
Siobhan Kattago, PhD, New School for Social Research of the University of Tartu Cover picture: People queue in front of the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square, in the background St. Basil’s Cathedral and Kremlin. March 1925 | Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Deutschland “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live!” Vladimir Mayakovsky Much has changed since the …
Memorial Monuments as Hangovers of the Socialist Yugoslav Past. By A. Jakir
Aleksandar Jakir, University of Split, Croatia, Department of History Cover picture: Monument to the Revolution (1967), World War II memorial in Podgarić, Croatia, one of Džamonja’s best-known works | Plamen at Serbian Wikipedia In all modern societies, monuments play an important role in the process of construction of the historical or collective memory. During the …
‘Hashtag Memory Activism’. Online Commemorations and Online Memory Activism. By O. Fridman
Orli Fridman, Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) & School for International Training (SIT) In these times of new media ecologies and hyperconnectivity, hashtags have become an integral part of our everyday communication. The hashtag symbol (#) is often used as a way of marking a conversation on social media platforms. Hashtags can function like …