Episode 05: Rehabilitating the Memory of Stalin in Putin’s Russia
The militarism we see in Russia today has much to do with the rehabilitation of the memory of Stalin. The Stalin of the Great Terror, mass famine, and deportations...
Episode 04: The Great Exodus from China: Memory and Identity in Taiwan
With the Communist victory in China in 1949 nearly one million civil war refugees flooded into Taiwan—the largest out migration from China in the modern era. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang,...
Episode 03: Remembering the Slave Trade in Liverpool
Liverpool was the world’s leading slave trading port in the eighteenth century. How has the memory of the slave trade persisted in Liverpool over the past two hundred years?...
Episode 02: Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s Memory of the Asia-Pacific War
Visits by high level Japanese dignitaries to Yasukuni Shrine have provoked outrage among Japan’s neighbors and unease among its own citizens. Why has Yasukuni become such a lightning rod...
Episode 01: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
How did Germany go from being an international pariah at the end of World War II to a leader of the European Union and one of the most trusted...
Realms of Memory Trailer
From the toppling of Civil War monuments to Putin’s claims about Nazis in Ukraine, memories of the past are everywhere. Realms of Memory is a podcast that looks at...
