Józef Niżnik is Professor and the head of European Studies Unit at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Warsaw. His work contains over 90 major publications in Polish and English in the area of philosophy, sociology of knowledge and European integration.

• Contents: Józef Niżnik: The Social Instruments of European Memory – Jay Winter: Places and Traces – Bertram M. Gordon: «Defensive Architecture» and World War II: The Maginot Line in Memory and Tourism – Sílvia Correia: Forgotten Places of Memory: First World War Memorials in Portugal, 1919-1933 – Helen E. Beale: Resonant Commemoration and the Trope of the Wall: Time and Memory Echoes in 20th-Century French Resistance War Memorials – Julia Winckler: War, Memory and Photographic Traces – Marjorie Gehrhardt: Walking Reminders of the War: The Case of Facially Disfigured Veterans – Karina Dilanian-Pinkowicz: Visualizing the Armenian Genocide: Photographic and Cinematographic Representation – Vicky Davis: Memory for Sale: Local and National Interpretations of Brezhnev’s Malaia zemlia – Urszula Jarecka: War Tourism in Poland and Germany – Karen Shelby: History, Memory or Propaganda: The Great War, the Martyred Soldier and 21st-Century Flemish Politics – Petra Svoljsak: Slovenian Historiography and Collective Memory of World War I in the First Yugoslavia (1918-1941) – Katja Škrlj: «Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning» or Landmarks: the Case of WWI Memory on the Border of Slovenia and Italy – Małgorzata Karczewska: Cuius regio, eius memoria. World War I Memorials in the Territory of Former East Prussia, Now within Poland – Małgorzata Włoszycka: Representation of the Memory of Jews in Physical Space as an Element of Polish Identity. A Case Study of a Town in Southern Poland – Jana Burešová: «From a Far Away Country»: Some Aspects of Czechoslovak Cultural Life in Britain During WWII – Barbara Szacka: Memory of War and Sex Differences.