Issue 50 | February 2023

A Special Feature, Decolonizing European Memory Cultures.

• Introduction by Katrin Sieg and Hélène B. Ducros

Research

• “Cocoa Beans Do Not Grow in the Swiss Mountains: Swiss Public Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Winds of Decolonial Change” by  Marie-Laure Allain Bonilla

• “‘Bandits Into Militants’: Unlooting and the Legitimacy of Plundered Cultural Heritage Removal” by Cresa Pugh

• “Remembering Early Twentieth-Century Colonial Migrants in Berlin through Performance” by Laura Frey, Vincent Bababoutilabo, and Joel Vogel

• “An Anticolonial Museum” by Ana Sladojević

• “This is Saamiland: An Alternative History of Solovki and the White Sea” by Alexandra Birch

Commentary

• “Decolonial Museology in East-Central Europe: A Preliminary To-Do List” by Erica Lehrer and Joanna Wawrzyniak

• “Conference Dispatch: An Anticolonial Museum” by Emilia Epštajn

Visual Art

• “Shadows of the Colonial Archive,” an art series curated by Hélène B. Ducros

Fiction

• In my Heart by Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng, translated from the Sesotho by Nhlanhla Maake

• Ada’s Realm by Sharon Dodua Otoo, translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi

Interviews

• “Haunting Austrian Archives of Race through Black Feminist Art and Performance: An Interview with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński” by Katrin Sieg

• “Black Maskers of New Orleans in Paris: An Interview with Kim Vaz-Deville” by Hélène B. Ducros

Book Reviews

• British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries, reviewed by Mary Vogl

• Performing New German Realities: Turkish-German Scripts of Postmigration, reviewed by Azadeh Sharifi

• East Asian-German Cinema The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present, reviewed by Olivia Landry

• Europeanizing Montenegro: The European Union, the Rule of Law, and Regional Cooperation, reviewed by Edina Paleviq

• The Hygienic Apparatus Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder, reviewed by Anjeana K. Hans

• Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614, reviewed by Chloé Roberts

• Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work and Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement, 1923-1945, reviewed by Lucas Ramos

• Apricots of Donbas, reviewed by Elizabeth Jones

Campus

• Syllabus: “Decolonizing the Museum” by Katrin Sieg

• Campus Book Review: “The Twentieth Century: A World History,” reviewed by Nick Ostrum

Campus Round-Up

• “Exploring the Role of University Museums” by Hélène B. Ducros

Campus Series: Teaching Genocide

• Campus Interview: “Teaching about the Holocaust in Uncertain Times: An Interview with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” by Nick Ostrum

Editor’s Pick

• The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World, by Karl Schlӧgel

• Uncertainty and its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics, edited by Peter Katzenstein

• Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain, by Rebecca Ingram

• From Reception to Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Poland, by Karolina Sobczak-Szel et al.

• Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand. A Biographical Perspective, edited by Irina Isaakyan et al.

• A Frail Liberty: Probationary Citizens in the French and Haitian Revolutions, by Tessie P. Liu

Cover image: Tomas Colbengtson
Cover design: Hélène B. Ducros