A visual culture, a visual conference On May 7th during the Human Rights Nights film festival for which I have been working these first months of…
Reflecting On European Meta-Memories
CC0 Public Domain On the 5th of June 2018, the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) and the House of European History (HEH) jointly hosted EUROM’s…
Holland, MI: Dutch Kitsch?
Holland, MI, is one of the largest Dutch settlements in the United States. Founded by Albertus Christiaan van Raalte in 1847, the town used to…
Yellow Ribbons, Multidirectional Memories, and Typical Catalan Sandwiches.
(By Ghim Boseong [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons) While sitting in a café, enjoying a cappuccino and a sandwich of which I had…
Remarkable Records at Heritage Hall
“Verzint eer gij begint! Een hartelijk woord aan mijne landgenooten, over de in ons Vaderland heerschende ziekte genaamd: Landverhuizing” [“Look before you leap! A friendly…
Unforgettable? A New Law in Poland Set to Disrupt Holocaust Heritage
By Anna Gay How do you deal with a dark past? Do you accept that it happened and move on? Do you take into account…
Things behind the Lion Dance in Hong Kong
As most of my foreign friends know, I come from Macau. But actually I am a new immigrant in Macau, I only lived in Macau…
The return of the fig leaf: let’s not get naked
Performance artist Deborah De Robertis was being silenced during her lecture in the Brussels museum Bozar on censorship and the image of women in art.…
Western Archaeology Museums: Contextualization or Justification?
Yesterday I visited the Niniveh exhibition at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. It was an amazing collection of reliefs, statues, cuneiform tablets and other…
Closing the gap? On Belgrade’s audiovisual storytelling
“I think I preferred our apartment with the door closed.” — mumbles Srbijanka Turajlić (1946-) at the end of the documentary The Other Side of…