Memories united in diversity?

Anne Wæhrens

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Abstract

During the 1990s the memory of the Holocaust became the negative core event (Diner 2003) for the European Union (EU). The Holocaust has turned into a symbol of a diseased past for which the EU is the cure. However, since the eastward enlargement of the EU the memory of the Holocaust has been challenged by the memory of Soviet Communism. Thus, when the EU-members from the former Eastern Bloc entered the EU they brought with them their memory of another diseased past. A past for which the Western members of the EU seems to have little
understanding.
OriginalsprogDansk
Publikationsdatomaj 2012
StatusUdgivet - maj 2012
BegivenhedTowards a Common Past? Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Europe - Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sverige
Varighed: 14 maj 201216 maj 2012

Konference

KonferenceTowards a Common Past? Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Europe
LokationLunds Universitet
Land/OmrådeSverige
ByLund
Periode14/05/201216/05/2012

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • EU
  • Holocaust
  • erindringspolitik
  • Østeuropa
  • Vesteuropa

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