Art Is Political: Is Documenta Afraid of the Global South?
In June 2022, the international art exhibition, Documenta, opened to visitors in Kassel, Germany, only to be quickly mired in controversy over one of the […]
Memory
Vergangenheitsbewältigung: What Living in Germany Taught Me About Dealing with the Past
This article was originally written for Yossi Bartal’s course, “Seemingly Inseparable: Reporting and Debating Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Racism in German Media,” at Bard College Berlin. […]
Why Right-Wing Appropriation of Commemoration Harms the Fight against Anti-Semitism
This article was republished from the Berliner Zeitung with the author’s and publisher’s permission. We the invited speakers of Hijacking Memory: The Holocaust and […]
Russia, the Dutch Far Right, and the Politics of World War II Remembrance
In the days and weeks following Russia’s February 2022 invasion and military occupation of Ukraine, scholars with expertise on the region weighed in on the […]
Putin and the Weaponization of the Memory of World War II and the Holocaust
In the days and weeks following Russia’s February 2022 invasion and military occupation of Ukraine, scholars with expertise on the region weighed in on the […]
My Ukraine Is Not Yet Lost
In the days and weeks following Russia’s February 2022 invasion and military occupation of Ukraine, scholars with expertise on the region weighed in on the […]
On Ukraine, Putin, and the Realities and Rhetoric of War
In the days and weeks following Russia’s February 2022 invasion and military occupation of Ukraine, scholars with expertise on the region weighed in on the […]
Media Round Up
In the spirit of collaboration and information sharing, we would like to draw attention to the wonderful compilation of sources already curated by Serdar Günes, […]
Ends and Beginnings
In the summer of 2021, scholars of 20th century Germany, Black Studies, critical theory, and the history of empire weighed in with reactions to a […]
Refusing the Extended Hand
In the summer of 2021, scholars of 20th century Germany, Black Studies, critical theory, and the history of empire weighed in with reactions to a […]
