Shamir Association – Riga Ghetto and Latvia Holocaust Museum

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The Association Shamir is active in the field of the Jewish ethnic identity and Latvian Jewish cultural and historical heritage preservation, research and promotion. It main goal is the promotion of dialogue between communities and ethnic groups throughout integration...

International Committee of Memorial and Human Rights Museums – ICMEMOHRI

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The International Committee of Memorial and Human Rights Museums (ICMEMOHRI) is one of ICOM’s 31 International Committees. Founded during ICOM’s general Conference in Barcelona on 3 July 2001 as IC-MEMO, in 2023 it was re-named as ICMEMOHRI. In a world...

FINROSFORUM – Finnish-Russian Civic Forum

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The Finnish-Russian Civic Forum (FINROSFORUM) strives to promote cooperation between the people of Finland and Russia by supporting civic initiatives for democracy, human rights, and freedom of speech. It is formed by a group of people concerned about the erosion of...

Aarhus University – Uses of the Past

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The past is not what it once was. This is a graffiti used as a title for a book on historical methodology written by a Norwegian historian. The past is a point of orientation for individuals as well as for communities in the present. Memories, material objects and...

The Making and Re-Making of Europe: 1919-2019

by EUROM | Feb 10, 2019

This year’s European Remembrance Symposium is dedicated to the issue of how we deal with, narrate and remember decisive changes in the 20th-century history of Europe, such as the years 1919, 1945, 1989. In an attempt to promote interdisciplinary and...