Memory
Podcasts
Curating Europe’s Memory: A Conversation with Simina Bădică about the House of European History
In this episode of Open Space(s) series, the Review of Democracy brings to your attention one of Europe’s most ambitious cultural institutions: the House of European History. Founded by the European Parliament in 2017 in Brussels, this unique institution explores Europe’s past from a transnational perspective and provides a platform for debating shared memory. The House of European History curates exhibitions, fosters debates, and research the shared European histories.
30.06.2025
Podcasts
Shaping the Culture of a City: A Conversation with Bohdan Shumylovych
In this episode of Open Space(s), the Review of Democracy focuses on Lviv, where the Center for Urban History offers a unique institutional model at the intersection between memory, space, and digital innovation. Founded in 2004 and located at 6 Bohomoltsia Street, Lviv, the Center for Urban History has become a vital node in public history and digital humanities. It defines itself as a hybrid institution with a hybrid audience.
20.06.2025
News
Eighty Years Ago – Eighty Years in the Future
Eighty years after WWII, the Netherlands can no longer rely on the war as a moral compass for today’s challenges. As global crises reshape our world, we must reflect on how our skills, networks, and past experiences prepare us to act or stay passive in shaping the future.
22.05.2025
News
Memory as a Battlefield: The Second World War in the Italian Public Debate
Eighty years after WWII’s end, Italy remains gripped by a battle over its wartime memory. As historians lose ground to politicized narratives, far-right forces reshape public discourse, recasting aggressors as victims and challenging the legacy of the Resistance in a deeply polarized cultural memory war.
20.05.2025
News
A Clash of Revisionisms
The remembrance of the Second World War has shifted significantly in recent decades – and even more dramatic reinterpretations appear to be underway in our current moment of drastic uncertainty.
7.05.2025
Nested Stories of Persecution: Ari Joskowicz Discusses the Asymmetrical Entanglements of Jews and Roma in History and Memory
In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Ari Joskowicz – author of the new book Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust – discusses the ways Jewish and Romani histories have been entangled and what motivated him to write a relational history of the two groups; illuminates why he considers it essential to explore the conditions of knowledge production and how to try to avoid reproducing injustices; shows what it has implied in concrete setting that the stories of persecution of one group of people have been nested within those of another; and reflects on what has truly changed in memory culture and what new dialogues could be pursued in the future.
5.06.2023
It is a mistake to see the Eastern vision as undemocratic. Peter Verovšek on European memory
In this conversation with RevDem editor Kasia Krzyżanowska, Peter Verovšek — author of “Memory and the future of Europe. Rupture and integration in the wake of total war” — discusses the importance of foundational stories for communities; explains the influence of personal experience on the European integration; shows differences in remembering the past in West and East Europe and ponders on the consequences of Russian aggression on Ukraine for the European memory.
3.09.2022
