The Return of Suppressed Memories in Eastern Europe

The Memory Studies Special Issue “The Return of Suppressed Memories in Eastern Europe: Locality and Unsilencing Difficult Histories” (15:3, 2022) includes peer-reviewed articles by Roma Sendyka, Violeta Davoliūtė, Margaret Tali, Asja Mandić, Mischa Twitchin and Shelley Hornstein. The issue grew out of the symposium “Prisms of Silence” at the Estonian Academy of Art in February 2021. It advances debates around the return of suppressed memories in Eastern Europe in the wake of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine and conceptualizes the role of locality in these debates. The authors speak from different perspectives and include objects from different fields ranging from everyday life to performance, architecture, literature, visual art and documentary film. In case you are interested in reading any of the articles but lack access to them, please feel free to be in touch!