“I am a refugee”, an exhibition by Vesna Bukovec and Widad Tamimi

by EUROM | Oct 25, 2016

The Slovene Ethnographic Museum helds I am a refugee, a series of illustrations by artist Vesna Bukovec and curatorship by Widad Tamimi. The exhibition is presented within the framework of the seminar European Memory in the Making: Refugees and Global expulsions,...

Civil Wars in the Contemporary Era

by sergi | Sep 29, 2016

  In line with the contemporary narrative about the causes and consequences of current and past conflicts, this year’s Walter Benjamin Lecture Session, Memory and Exile of the University of Girona will held the seminar “Civil Wars in the Contemporary...

“Srebrenica: Memory of a Genocide” is presented in Tesanj

by sergi | Jul 9, 2016

In the frame mark of the 21st Anniversary of Srebrenica genocide, the Museum of Tesanj is presenting the exhibition “Srebrenica: Memory of a Genocide”, produced by the European Observatory on Memories and the Solidarity Foundation of the University of...

Museums and Cultural Landscapes: building up a Cultural Heritage

by sergi | Jun 5, 2016

Full report on the conference available here. Every three years, ICOM’s General Conference gathers the international museum community around a theme chosen by museum professionals. This year’s conference in Milan will include the Annual Conference of the...

Las Ventas: the history of a women’s prison (1933-1969)

by sergi | Oct 20, 2015

Curated by Fernando Hernández Holgado, this exhibition aims to reconstruct the history of the women’s prison of Las ventas (1933-1969), in Madrid. Created as a flagship project of the republican penal reforms, with Victoria Kent named the first woman director of...