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How Pharaohs Became Media Stars: Ancient Egypt and Popular Culture
Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing (2024), vi, 250 pp.
"The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called popular or pop culture (cinema, genre
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History’s Future: EVZ Foundation Shapes Digital Culture of Remembrance
Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2024), 20 pp.
"Forward-looking EVZ projects in the spirit of Culture of Remembrance 4.0 use innovative tools and techniques at sites of remembrance and persecution to link the digital with the analog space. This can open historical layers, make the invisible visible, and appeal to new user groups. Digital exhibit
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Gewalt und Gedächtnis: Globale Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 236 pp.
"Wie prägen Erfahrungen von Gewalt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Mirjam Zadoff nähert sich der Frage, welchen Stellenwert kollektive Gewalterfahrungen im Gedächtnis verschiedener Gesellschaften einnehmen und wie diese Erfahrungen bewältigt werden. Sie gibt Einblicke in europäische und außereurop
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The Fragility of Freedom: Online Holocaust Denial and Distortion
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism (CCOA) (2024), 37 pp.
"The antisemitism landscape, including Holocaust denial and distortion, had shifted so drastically since October 7 that previous assumptions and understands now demand re-examination. In the run up to Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, this research compilation by members of the Coalition to Counter Onlin
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Versöhnungstheater
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 173 pp.
"Die im demokratischen Deutschland etablierte Erinnerungskultur gilt vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern als ein Erfolgsmodell, auf das sie mit einem gewissen Stolz blicken können. In der Tat war es ein langer Weg von der weitgehenden Verdrängung der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen bis zu ihrer ö
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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.
"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn
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In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 281 pp.
"This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their past and shape their future. The main objectiv
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Aber ich lebe: Vier Kinder überleben den Holocaust. Nach den Erinnerungen von Emmie Arbel, David Schaffer, Nico Kamp und Rolf Kamp
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 175 pp.
"Es gibt kaum noch Zeitzeugen des Holocaust. Die letzten erzählen von ihrer Erinnerung als Kinder in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten und über die Verfolgung und Ermordung ihrer Familien. Um diese Erinnerungen vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren, haben die Zeichnerinnen Barara Yelin, Mir
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Violent Past: Teaching Manual
Key Guides
Phnom Penh: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (2023), 103 pp.
"This manual offers ideas on how to discuss a violent past in an active manner. The manual mostly focuses on methodology: how to make learning about the past interesting for learners. There is less focus on the specific content of the past. To spark learner’s interest in the (violent) past, it is
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Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung
Berlin: De Gruyter (2023), xv, 590 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Grundlagen, Schwerpunkten und Perspektiven der Beschäftigung mit kommunikativem Erinnern und medialem Gedächtnis. Damit erschließen seine Beiträge das Feld kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Erinnerungsforschung und verknüpfen es mit komple
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Dealing With the Past for a Peaceful Future? Analysing the Effect of Transitional Justice Instruments on Trust in Postconflict Societies
International Journal of Transitional Justice, volume 17 (2023), pp. 303-321
"Can dealing with a history of violent conflict through transitional justice help to rebuild social trust? Addressing three gaps in the current literature, we (1) analyse the effect of transitional justice on social trust, thereby going beyond the predominant focus on renewed violence; (2) use novel
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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xvi, 400 pp.
"Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal defi
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Really?! Sophie Scholl on Instagram: An Analysis of the Journalistic Discourse
Journalism Research, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 6-31
"This paper examines the journalistic discourse on the Instagram project @ichbinsophiescholl, initiated by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). The project is based on a fictional premise in which the resistance fighter Sophie Scholl uses the social media platform Instagram during t
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Collective Trauma
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31
"If a society does not come to terms with horrific atrocities of the past, tensions may fast escalate into new strife. People must know the truth. The causes of violence must be spelt out and the perpetrators must be named. Otherwise, a new sense of mutual trust cannot grow. Such trust is needed for
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Comunicar el pasado: La memoria y sus mediaciones
Salamanca: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones (2023), 144 pp.
"Comunicar el pasado. La memoria y sus mediaciones ofrece una mirada al debate contemporáneo de la memoria desde el campo de la comunicación y busca comprender la relación que, como sociedad, tenemos con nuestro pasado. Esta relación es dinámica, a menudo conflictiva y contradictoria, y está s
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Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 226 pp.
"This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are no
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The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2023), x, 168 pp.
"The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order t
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Education Agenda: NS-Injustice
Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2023), 44 pp.
"The Education Agenda NS-Injustice started in autumn 2021 with two certainties: Firstly, the survivors are passing away; there are few chances today to meet eyewitnesses who can tell us first-hand about the atrocities committed by the National Socialists. Secondly, we are increasingly entering conte
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