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Podcasts

Postcolonial? – How Does the House of History Confront Europe’s Colonial Past and the “Colonial Matrix of Power”? Part II

This second part focuses on the links between the main themes of the exhibition and the history of European integration; asks whether there might be a risk here of offering a dichotomous and too moralizing reading of history; and considers what a thorough rethinking in the light of colonial history of how to be European today would imply – and what might be most in need of revision in the House of European History itself in accordance with that process of rethinking.

9.07.2026

Podcasts

Postcolonial? – How Does the House of European History Confront Europe’s Colonial Past and the “Colonial Matrix of Power”? Part I

This spring, the House of European History – a flagship museum of the European Parliament – has opened a temporary exhibition under the title Postcolonial? that features unique artworks, historical objects, and personal stories.

2.07.2026

News

Indonesia’s New Order within Global Empire: An Arena for the Battle of Capital’s Managers

Postcolonial Indonesian political history cannot be understood fully without situating it within the shifting postwar American empire. The emergence of the New Order (1966-1998) at the juncture toward neoliberalism and the financialization of commodities while under technocratic developmentalist aid determined particular elite relations as managers of empire .

3.06.2026