Alice Kim and Vickie Casanova Willis (Chicago Torture Justice Memorials) Ferguson, New York, Florida, Baltimore, Chicago. Everywhere, it seems, [...]
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Vicky Margree (University of Brighton) In 2005 the cultural critic Paul Gilroy warned against the ‘synonymity of European [...]
Read moreThe Breivik Killings – remembering the victims, depoliticizing the crime
Sara Edenheim (Umeå University) The first commemoration of the terrorist attacks on Utøya and in Oslo where 77 [...]
Read moreThe Nakba in Israel: from contra-memory to divided memory
Raya Cohen (archiviomemoriemigranti) One current issue in the role of memory in contemporary Israel is that the events [...]
Read moreThings still fall apart: the politics of memory in Côte d’Ivoire
Nicoletta Fagiolo (Independent Researcher) Photo: A non-violent and unarmed sit-in to block the security forces from breaking up [...]
Read moreRe-branding the Trauma of Slavery, or How to Pacify the Masses with Sites of Memory
Olivette Otele (Bath Spa University) Finding new ways to involve the population in memorial projects was at the [...]
Read moreCurating/Creating, Art/Activism: the Place of Collective Participation
Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton) In a small shop on a side street in Belfast’s city centre an [...]
Read moreConnecting through Creativity: The Power of Stories
Ann O’Sullivan and Jackie Reynolds (Staffordshire University) “Art and literature have been taking human beings on empathic journeys [...]
Read moreGetting Malled in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City
Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University), Marcus Hunter (Yale University), and Kevin Loughran (Northwestern University) As cities struggled in [...]
Read moreWhen concepts cross borders
Signe Ravn (Danish National Centre for Social Research) and Tea Bengtsson (University of Copenhagen) Judging from the 270 [...]
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