Remembrance Policies, Borders and Memorial Tourism

Remembrance Policies, Borders and Memorial Tourism

Under the umbrella of the  European project MEFRO, led by EUROM and Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, the consolidated research group ISOCAC of Universitat Rovira i Virgili organizes a conference on the landscapes of war, borders and memorial tourism, focusing...
Memory, Architecture and Public Space

Memory, Architecture and Public Space

Architect Julian Bonder will share his expertise in memorial architecture in a master class in Barcelona and Lyon The students of the MA Urban Design – Arts, City, Society and of the Masters 1 Architecture (Materiality field of study) of the École Nationale...
The Soviet Child, the War and the Holocaust

The Soviet Child, the War and the Holocaust

Today, the voices of survivors and witnesses from the war in the East are those of people who lived through it as children. At a time when researchers and memorial institutions are gathering testimonies of these last witnesses of the genocide and the war, Yahad – In...
Fighting for History and Memory in Portugal

Fighting for History and Memory in Portugal

Professor Luís Farinha (Universidade do Porto) will deliver a keynote speech about the memory of dictatorship in Portugal.  He is the current director of Museo do Aljube, inaugurated in April 2015. This new museum occupies the former prison of the Aljube in Lisbon,...