Malgorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and is also active in planning the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Department of History and Civilization. Her research interests include the media of memory, especially film, museum, and city spaces, and Holocaust memory and representation.

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Introduction: A European Memory?
Malgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth

Part I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships

Chapter 1. On 'European Memory': Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks
Jan -Werner Müller

Chapter 2. The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanization
Klas-Göran Karlsson

Chapter 3. Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance
Stefan Troebst

Chapter 4. Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics?
Wolfgang Kaschuba

Chapter 5. Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society
Heidemarie Uhl

Chapter 6. Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History
Frederick Whitling

Chapter 7. Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories
James Kaye

Part II. Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts

Section 1. Remembering the Second World War:

Chapter 8. Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe 1945 - 2005
Stefan Berger

Chapter 9. Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-eastern Europe
Heike Karge

Chapter 10. A Victory Celebrated. Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation
Clemens Maier

Section 2. Towards a Europeanization of the Commemoration of the Holocaust:

Chapter 11. Remembering Europe's Heart of Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke

Chapter 12. Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Stanislaw Tyszka

Chapter 13. A Europeanization of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of Europa, Europa (1990) by Agnieszka Holland
Malgorzata Pakier

Chapter 14. Italian Commemoration of the Shoah. The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance
Ruth Nattermann

Section 3. Coming to Terms with Europe's Communist Past:
Chapter 15. Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States
Arfon Rees

Chapter 16. Eurocommunism. Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Péter Apor

Chapter 17. The Memory of the Dead Body
Senadin Musabegovic

Chapter 18. Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe
Kevin Morgan

Section 4. Coming to Terms with Europe's Colonial Past:
Chapter 19. Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France
Jan Jansen

Chapter 20. Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte
Lars Elenius

Conclusion: Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories
Konrad H. Jarausch

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