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. Basilâs Cathedral and Kremlin. March 1925 | Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Deutschland âLenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live!â Vladimir Mayakovsky Much has changed since the …
Hrant Dink Site of Memory Oriol LĂłpez 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 Turkeyâs pro-democracy demonstrations. The venue, which bears the enigmatic name of âTwenty three and a halfâ, is …
Adrian Kerr, Curator of the Museum of Free Derry, the Bloody Sunday Trust project to create a museum in the Bogside to tell the story of the civil rights and Free Derry eras in the late 1960s and early 1970s from the point of view of those who were most involved in and affected by …
The Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers Carlota SĂĄnchez 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 …
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 GonzĂĄlez, Historian, project manager at the EUROM Cover picture: El silencio de otros (2018). Directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar. Produced by El Deseo. 95â | ©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 …
Aleksandar Jakir, University of Split, Croatia, Department of History Cover picture: Monument to the Revolution (1967), World War II memorial in PodgariÄ, Croatia, one of DĆŸamonjaâs 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 …
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 …
Celeste Muñoz MartĂnez, Lecturer in the History of Africa, University of Barcelona Cover picture: View of the room Rituals and Ceremonies, MusĂ©e royal de lâAfrique centrale | © MRAC, Tervuren, photo Jo Van de Vijver In 2006, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair caught the world by surprise when he issued an unprecedented apology for …
Anne Hertzog, Assistant Professor in Geography University of Cergy-Pontoise, France