Twentieth Century in European Memory

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, PhD (2008) teaches Balkan Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Tea’s research focuses on the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, cultural memory and identity politics. Vice-chair of EU’s COST-action “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe” (2012-2016). Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, PhD (1992), professor, head of the Centre for European Studies at Lund University in Sweden and chair of EU’s COST-action “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe” (2012-2016). Her research focuses on nationalism, identity and collective memories in Eastern and Central Europe.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: On Transcultural Memory and ReceptionBarbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Astrid ErllPart 1: Actors and Practices in Transcultural Transmission and Reception2 Cross-Border Collaboration and the Construction of Memory Narratives in EuropeSara Jones3 The Polish Elites’ Struggle for Recognition of the Experience of Communism in the European UnionZdzisław Mach and Magdalena Góra4 Answering Back to Presumed Accusations: Serbian First World War Memories and the Question of Historical ResponsibilityIsmar Dedović and Tea Sindbæk Andersen5 Beyond Local Memories: Exhumations of Francoism’s Victims as Counter-discourse during the Spanish Transition to DemocracyZoé de Kerangat6 Double Victims and Agents of Change in Europe’s Margins: Estonian Emigrants Sharing ‘Their’ Repressive Soviet Past in the NetherlandsInge MelchiorPart 2: Content and Media in Transcultural Transmission and Reception7 Commemorating a War That Never Came: The Cold War as Counter-Factual War MemoryRosanna Farbøl8 Jews and the Holocaust in Poland’s Memoryscapes: An Inquiry Into Transcultural AmnesiaSlawomir Kapralski9 Neither Rupture nor Continuity: Memorializing the Dawn of the Space Age in Contemporary Russian CinematographyNatalija Majsova10 Literary Mediation and Reception of Memories of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the Republic’s Flag’Daisy Neijmann and Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir11 The Italian Hall Tragedy, 1913: A Hundred Years of Remediated MemoriesAnne Heimo12 How Does This Monument Make You Feel? Measuring Emotional Responses to War Memorials in CroatiaVjeran Pavlaković and Benedikt Perak13 Transnational Holocaust Memory, Digital Culture, and the End of Reception StudiesWulf KansteinerIndex