Cover picture: The crypt diplays reconstructions of the memorial cycle by Josef GlahĂ© , first shown in in 1950, and incorporates Expressionist motifs depicting the horrors of war | M. Groppe, 2010, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg By Kirsten John-Stucke, Director of the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg The Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle that was built at the beginning …
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 GliszczyĆska-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 GliszczyĆska-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 GonzĂĄlez, EUROM. By David GonzĂĄlez VĂĄzquez, 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 âAuschwitz: Not long ago. …
The Stalin Museum in Gori (Georgia)| Picture: Oriol LĂłpez, EUROM By Oriol LĂłpez Badell, coordinator of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), University of Barcelonaâ 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: Horst Hoheisel, Die Tore der Deutschen, 1997, lighting display on the Brandenburg Gate. By Horst Hoheisel, Artist Aleida Assmann, who will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade together with her husband Jan Assmann this year (14 October 2018), has chosen one of my works (1) as the title image for …
All images by Ana MiloĆĄeviÄ By Ana MiloĆĄeviÄ, a researcher at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the LINES Institute (Leuven International and European Studies). In 2014, the Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg won a competition for a memorial to the victims of the UtĂžya …
Cover picture: Lyon Armenian Genocide Memorial was erected in 2006 in central Lyon, France. It was designed by Leonardo Basmadyian and includes 36 white concrete pieces supported by stones from Armenia. Poems of Kostan Zarian are written on the concrete pieces | EUROM By Georges Mink, senior researcher emeritus at the Institut des Sciences Sociales …
Picture: Plenary hall of European parliament in Strasbourg, April 16, 2013 | Ikars, Shutterstock.com By Markus J. Prutsch, Fellow of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the University of Heidelberg, leader of the international research project Science, Numbers and Politics Introduction One of the most powerful tools in welding political identity is …
Picture: Johan François © European Commission EACEA. Interview to Gilles Pelayo, Head of Unit of the programme Europe for Citizens, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) What is the specific role of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency?  The European Commission delegates the management of some EU programmes to Executives …