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...
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...
Episode 16: Turkish and Kurdish Memories of the Armenian Genocide
The beginnings of many nations are marred by traumatic histories. This is certainly true for Turkey. The modern Republic...
Episode 15: War Memorialization in the Philippines
After fleecing billions of dollars from the Philippines, torturing and murdering thousands during the period of martial law, Ferdinand...
Episode 14: Memory Activism in Israel-Palestine
Just as Israeli-Palestinian relations reached a new low in the early 2000s, memory activists in Israel embraced a strategy...
Episode 13: Victims of Commemoration in Turkey
A few months after his Justice and Development Party or AKP won Turkey’s general elections in 2011, then Prime...
Episode 12: Memory and Violence in Syria
Through her research on Syria, SOAS, University of London Professor Salwa Ismail argues that violence needs to be understood...
Episode 11: Remembering the Asaba Massacre in Nigeria
In October 1967 Nigerian federal troops slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians in the town of Asaba. Elizabeth Bird, anthropologist...
