Historical
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Memory Is Not the Past
History becomes dangerous in two very different ways. Artemis Kechagioglou It becomes dangerous when it is used to cultivate hatred.…
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From Tampa to The Justice Project: When a Crisis Creates a Civic Response
The Tampa affair was one of them. Isla Hera In August 2001, a Norwegian cargo ship, the MV Tampa, rescued…
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200 Years of Photography
The Gaze Is Not Innocent Stefanos Kouratzis On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Photography, from the first photographic…
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Hiroshima at 81: Remembering the Dawn of the Nuclear Age in an Era of Renewed Global Risk
The anniversary of the first atomic bombing serves as both a historical reflection and a reminder of the urgent need…
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Is there a one-state solution to end apartheid in Israel?
South Africa’s transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy suggests that a single secular, non-racist state may offer a more hopeful…
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Greek Australians and the anniversary of the restoration of democracy in Greece
This week marks 52 years since the restoration of democracy in Greece—an event paid dearly by the Turkish invasion of…
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Hiroshima, by John Hersey – A timeless masterpiece of journalism, memory, and humanity
Few books have altered public understanding of a historical event as profoundly as Hiroshima. Eva Alexander First published in 1946,…
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52 Years of Turkish Occupation and Colonisation: Resistance is Life
July 20 marked the 52nd dark anniversary of the Turkish invasion. Eren Ali * The so-called “peace operation”, as Turkey…
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Small States, Great Balance
What the Makarios–Nixon Conversation Still Teaches Us About Diplomacy. Stephanie Raptis Some historical conversations become more valuable with time. Wise…
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Fifty Two Years Later. History teaches that lasting peace cannot be built upon permanent separation
Errare Humanum Est. The Courage to Learn Before History Repeats Itself. Dinos Toumazos Societies endure when equality replaces division and…
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Where Cultures Meet
Civilisations do not grow by remaining unchanged. Angie D. Canell They endure by preserving their identity while learning from one…
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Revisiting the Past to Understand the Present
Reflections on Fredric Jameson’s The Ancients and the Postmoderns Angie D. Canell Few contemporary cultural theorists have influenced the study…
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Why Nations Need Historical Self Reflection
Democracy grows stronger when societies have the courage to understand their own past. Artemis Kechagioglou Every nation carries a history…
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Words, Knowledge and Freedom
The recent tribute to Sevgul Uludag, whose lifelong work focused on uncovering the fate of missing persons in Cyprus, offers…
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Remembering a Landmark Human Rights Judgment
On this day in 2008, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgments concerning the deaths of Tasos Isaac…
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The Long Shadow of State Power: Historical Legacies, Institutional Continuity and Democratic Resilience
Democracies are strengthened not by forgetting history, but by examining it honestly. Dinos Toumazos Across the world, democratic societies increasingly…
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