Papers

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Francesca Cappelletto, Department of Psychology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Verona, Italy:
Public memories and personal stories: Recalling the Nazi-fascist massacres (pdf)

Jon Elster, Columbia University:
Memory and Transitional Justice (pdf)

Yinan He, Ph.D candidate, Political Science Department, MIT:
National Mythmaking and the Problems of History in Sino-Japanese Relations (pdf)

Elena Ivanova, Chair of the Department of Psychology at Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, and currently at the United States Holocaust Museum:
To Remember or Not? The Memory of the Holocaust as a Part of the War Memory (pdf)

Longina Jakubowska, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam:
Memory-Making Among Gentry in Poland (pdf)

Jennifer Lind, Ph. D candidate, Political Science Department, MIT:
Apologies and Threat Reduction in Postwar Europe (pdf)

Melissa Nobles Political Science Department, MIT:
"To Apologize or Not to Apologize?": Historical Facts and Political Claims in Australia and the United States (pdf)

Roger Petersen, Political Science Department, MIT:
Reconstructing Life from Violent Eras: A Comparison of Émigré and Native Narratives (pdf)

Steve Van Evera, Professor, Political Science Department, MIT:
Memory and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Time for New Narrative (abstract - pdf)

James Wertsch, Department of Education and International Studies Program, Washington University in St. Louis:
Filling in the Blank Spots in History: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Russian Collective Memory (pdf)