Issue 6 | Apr 2017

A Special Feature on Memory and the Politics of the Past: New Research and Innovation

• Introduction by Nicole Shea, Aline Sierp, and Jenny Wüstenberg

Research

• “Migration and the Shaping of Transcultural Memory at the Margins of Europe” by Emilia Salvanou

• “Tourism and Transnational Memory Formation in Tallinn, Estonia” by Alena Pfoser 

• “World War I and Historical Memory” by Carl Strikwerda

Poetry

• Six Poems by Daniela Danz, translated from the German by Monika Cassell

Fiction

• Excerpt from The Communist by Guido Morselli, translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall

• Excerpt from Seeing People Off   by Jana Beňová, translated from the Slovak by Janet Livingstone

Nonfiction

• Excerpt from History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town  by Filip Springer, translated from the Polish by Sean Bye

Reviews

• Uncountry, a Mythology, reviewed by Poupeh Missaghi

• Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium, reviewed by Alexander Angelov

• Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives, reviewed by Amy Hubbell

• Geopolitical Constructs The Mulberry Harbours, World War Two, and the Making of a Militarized Transatlantic, reviewed by Garret Martin

• West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War, reviewed by Brittany Lehman

• Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging, reviewed by Marten Boon

Commentary

• “Thomas Mann in America” by Morten Høi Jensen

• “Can We Talk? Neuroscientists and Humanists on Memory” by Angelika Bammer

• “The European Union at 60: The Future Will be Brighter Than Many Expect” by Roland Benedikter and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

• “The Contemporary Presence of the Past: Memory Studies in the Council for European Studies and Beyond” by Aline Sierp and Jenny Wüstenberg

• “Remembering the Netherlands During World War II: Diaries and the Role of the Historian in Collective Memory” by Sacha van Leeuwen

Interviews

• “Questions of Identity and Collective Memory: An Interview with Aline Sierp” by Lillian Klein

Visual Art

• Monumenting in the Present, an art series curated by Manca Bajec

Campus

• “The Pedagogy of Memory: A Workshop on Teaching in an Emerging Field at the Memory Studies Association” by Jonathan Bach and Sara Jones

• Syllabus: Migration of Memory by Jonathan Bach

• “Cultural Heritage and the Politics of the Past: An Interview with Dacia Viejo-Rose” by Sherman Teichman

• Syllabus: Archaeological Heritage and Museums by Dacia Viejo-Rose

Editor’s Pick

• German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence, recommended by  Louie Dean Valencia-García

• Ruralité, nature et environnement. Entre savoirs et imaginaires, recommended by Hélène B. Ducros