Art Is Political: Is Documenta Afraid of the Global South?
documenta, the world’s most important international exhibition of contemporary art, has been held in the German city of Kassel every five years since 1955 and […]
Memory
Why Right-Wing Appropriation of Commemoration Harms the Fight against Anti-Semitism
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung We the invited […]
Russia, the Dutch Far Right, and the Politics of World War II Remembrance
Since the most recent phase of Russia’s eight-year-long conquest of Ukraine began in late February 2022, much of Europe has mobilized politically against the Russian […]
Putin and the Weaponization of the Memory of World War II and the Holocaust
Much of the commentary so far on the Russian attack on Ukraine has focused on the intertwined historical and contemporary contexts of the Soviet Union […]
My Ukraine Is Not Yet Lost
I first went to Ukraine in March 2003 to visit my mother’s hometown of Buczacz, now known as Buchach, and to undertake preliminary research in […]
On Ukraine, Putin, and the Realities and Rhetoric of War
After I wrote the blog post below, I realized that while it reflected some of my thinking as a historian, it was in no way […]
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
All we are are the stories we tell. — Leroy Little Bear It has been a little over three weeks since Geschichte der Gegenwart (GdG) […]
Refusing the Extended Hand
Allow me some genuine modesty: I come to you not as an historian but just as as an unspecified writer—albeit one obsessed with history, and […]
Stones Can Talk Back: Vergangenheitsbewältigung Revisited
The German Catechism, as laid out in Dirk Moses’ essay, was not always as binding as it now seems. Not long ago, in 2017, Benjamin […]
