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The European Union and Memory. Volume 1: European Integration Outside-In KU Leuven
Tracing the evolution of the use of the past across time, the chapter suggests that EU memory politics emerged gradually as a by-product of political attempts at hitting moving targets: from building self-legitimacy and European identity, to supporting restorative justice efforts. First, the chapter examines the emergence of the unification project, arguing that the past of the Second World War was imbued with transformative values. Thus, ...
Back to the future, forward to the past: Croatian politics of memory in the European Parliament KU Leuven
© 2017 Association for the Study of Nationalities. This paper discusses the way in which a post-conflict European Union (EU) member immediately after accession both shapes and adapts to EU memory politics as a part of its Europeanization process. I will analyze how the country responds to the top-down pressures of Europeanization in the domestic politics of memory by making proactive attempts at exporting its own politics of memory (discourses, ...
Primary fatty amides in plasma associated with brain amyloid burden, hippocampal volume, and memory in the European Medical Information Framework for Alzheimer's Disease biomarker discovery cohort. Flanders Institute for Biotechnology KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
Cultural Memory in Eastern European Women's Life Writing: Agency, Persistence, Legacies KU Leuven
If it is true that we are living, as trauma theorists have been considering for decades, in what Shoshana Felman (1992) called an “age of testimony”, where Life Writing with a traumatic core has become one of the main literary forms, this is happening because of a perceived “crisis of truth” that started even before the digital era. The paradox that shores the fragments of memory work against the ruins of a monolithic notion of historical truth, ...