Episode 50: Remembering the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona
Spain’s Pacto del Olvido (Pact of Forgetting) was once regarded as the gold standard for how to achieve a...
Episode 49: Forgetting the Victims: The 2003 Heat Wave in Paris
In the age of climate change and global pandemics how do we remember the victims? University of Madison, Wisconsin...
Episode 48: The Anne Frank Phenomenon
How can we understand the extraordinary scope and magnitude of global fame and notoriety achieved by Anne Frank? The...
Episode 47: Memory, Forgetting and the Planet in Peril
Alan Weisman is a journalist and non fiction writer whose focus over the past twenty five years has been...
Episode 46: Remembering Intimate Partner Violence
It was on a train to Siberia that Joy Neumeyer decided to write her story. Despite the distance between...
Episode 45: Joel Waldman on Family Memory & True Crime
Is it possible to understand the suppression of memory as an act of love? In Surviving the Survivor: A...
Episode 44: The Power of Objects from Sites of Mass Atrocities
Objects recovered from sites of mass atrocities have a special significance today. This is because we live in what...
Episode 43: Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning & Accountability
Sociocultural trauma experienced by nations isn’t just the result of unimaginable crimes and horrors. It is the repeated betrayals...
Episode 42: The Perils of Memory
The duty to remember has become a moral imperative in today’s memory culture. But reporter and political analyst David...
Episode 41: Remembering the Lost Counties of Ulster
Partition cast a shadow over the island of Ireland that stretched across the 20th century. Less well known, however,...
Episode 40: The Great Patriotic War and Family Memory in Putin’s Russia
The Great Patriotic War, shorthand for the war against Nazi Germany, has become the focal point of Russian nationalism...
Episode 39: Remembering Europe’s Dictators
From Spain to the Baltic States Europe is littered with sites connected to the personal lives of former dictators. ...
Episode 38: Memory, Storytelling and the National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association, known simply as the NRA, is commonly regarded as one of the most powerful lobbies...
Episode 37: American Memory in the Post-9/11 Era
The greatest democracy in history, a beacon of freedom, a selfless force of good in the world, these are...
Episode 51: Holocaust Distortion in Poland
The Holocaust eradicated Poland’s Jewish community, the largest in the world outside the United States. Of the some three...