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Episode 24: Remembering the System: Enforced Prostitution by the Japanese Military in Indonesia

The system of enforced prostitution by the Japanese military went unpunished and unexamined for decades after the Asia-Pacific War. ...

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Episode 23: Culture, Urban Development and the Memory of the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea

In May 1980 the city of Gwangju in South Korea erupted in violence.  Shocked by the brutal suppression of...

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Episode 22: Bolsonaro and the Memory of Dictatorship in Brazil

In 1964 the military seized power in Brazil, overthrowing the democratically elected government of João Goulart.  The military ruled...

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Episode 21: Memory Activism in Serbia: Remembering the Wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia

The wars that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia stretched across the 1990s unleashing a level of destruction and...

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Episode 20: Entangled Memories of Partition in Modern South Asia

The partition of British India was a two step process.  First in 1947, Pakistan and India became independent nations. ...

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Episode 19: Remembering Partition in the Punjab: Part 2

What made the Punjab particularly susceptible to violence at the time of partition was that it was one of...

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Episode 18: Remembering Partition in the Punjab: Part 1

The partition of British India was one of the most traumatic events of the 20th century.  The chaos that...

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Episode 17: Memory Activism in Germany

Nottingham Trent University historian Jenny Wüstenberg, author of Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany, argues that Berlin’s Topography of Terror...

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