The views expressed in the projects are solely those of the project coordinators and partners and do not necessarily reflect the views of EuroClio, the Contested Histories Initiative or any of its affiliates. Neither EuroClio nor the Contested Histories Initiative can be held responsible for them.
African Changemakers
This Project, in partnership with Leeds University, The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center (JHGC) and Salzburg Global Seminar, builds upon the case studies developed for Contested Histories and translates them into a suite of educational materials used within the JHGC Changemaker Programme (CMP). The CMP is an established programme that draws on historical case studies (e.g. the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda) to develop leadership skills, democratic values, and resilience amongst young people in a range of African countries.
The Early Atlantic Slave Trade in Portugal A Digital Archive of Contested Legacies
The project aims to promote a larger public engagement with the contested legacies of the early Atlantic slave trade in Portugal. Such an objective will be achieved by creating a digital archive specifically dealing with sites where the controversial memory of slavery has materialized in contemporary Portugal. This intervention is also intended to enrich and complicate the debate over the legacy of colonialism and slavery, which has become more and more intense across Europe in recent years.
Cast in Stone. Statues and memories of empire in post-imperial France and Britain
This website is the product of a project called Cast in Stone, which is about statues related to the colonial histories of France and Britain. Many of these statues are, or have been, the subject of public controversies. This website is a free resource with which people can inform themselves about the unique histories of individual statues, the local communities in which they are located, the laws and authorities that govern them, and the divergent ideas about them. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Labex les passés dans le présent, and is jointly led by the Université Paris 8 and the University of Exeter. |
Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the XX Century in Europe’s Urban Memory
To promote and manage the ATRIUM Cultural Route, the ATRIUM Association was founded in June 2013 by the partner of the ATRIUM project (2011-2013), financed under the South East Europe programme. The project highlighted a key element of 20th-century European history: the cultural heritage and memory associated with totalitarian regimes and their particular architectural legacy. The main result of the cooperation between the partners was to bring together different experiences in order to discover shared historical elements.
Dissonant Heritage Action Group
The DHAG was initiated as part of the Urban Agenda for the EU (UAEU). The UAEU promotes urban development through multi-level cooperation between the European Commission, European initiatives, Member States, cities, regions and other stakeholders. It was launched in 2016 with the Pact of Amsterdam and works through so-called Thematic Partnerships. The Partnership on Culture and Cultural Heritage officially worked from 2019 to 2022, with some activities still ongoing. The participating cities and stakeholders discussed common goals, needs and challenges and specified 11 different actions.
Postcolonial Italy. Mapping Colonial Heritage
“Postcolonial Italy” is a bottom up, independent collaborative project that falls into the field of digital public history. The project was launched in December 2018 in Florence by PhD researchers Markus Wurzer (University of Graz) and Daphné Budasz (European University Institute). It aims at capturing and documenting material traces that are visible in the public space and, thus, stimulating a public debate on Italy’s silenced colonial history. Although the Italian colonial empire had been relatively small and short-lived compared to others, today numerous material traces – street names, monuments, buildings etc. – can be found in Italian cities as well as in the former colonies.
MonumentLab
Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art, history, and design studio based in Philadelphia. The organisation is dedicated to advancing justice by reimagining monuments as places for belonging, learning, and healing.