Theme: commemoration and remembrance

• Facing a Difficult Past? The Yser Tower in Dixmude, Belgium External publication

  Publication date: 16/11/2016

  In this article Maarten van Alstein discusses the pacifist message of the museum at the Yser in Dixmude. By presenting the First World War as senseless violence and horror, the museum hopes to induce in visitors an awareness of the ... read more

• Excavating a hidden past:’ The forensic turn in Spain’s collective memory External publication

  The book Excavating Memory gives an overview of historical and sociocultural approaches to memory as a contested social practice in the present rather than as a passive recollection of the past. Lore Colaert wrote a chapter on forensic exhumations as ... read more