Scholars and practitioners alike have framed the cultural and political transformations in Eastern Europe in terms of a ‘transition paradigm,’ as a passage from totalitarianism toward a horizon marked by the practices of modern liberal democracy. The Cambridge MAW team seeks to advance the state of the art by developing a ‘memory paradigm’ that casts the variety of these transformations as differential responses to legacies and traumas of the imperial, Soviet, and national pasts. In real time (2010-2013), the project explores the dynamics of cultural forms of memory and the interactions of these forms inside and across Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. It offers a new metric for measuring the profound changes that these countries have undergone since the collapse of the Soviet bloc and attempts to come to grips with the hidden obstacles populating the cultural field that can obstruct further and deeper changes.

El Centro de Estudios de Migraciones y Exilios (CEME) de la UNED nace con el objetivo de ser un espacio de referencia para la investigación, el conocimiento y la difusión del fenómeno migratorio histórico y contemporáneo. Aspira, además, a servir de enlace entre las instituciones dedicadas al estudio de estos temas.

In August 1996, workmen disturbed a portion of a mass-burial pit during building work at the location of the Towton battlefield (near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire). At the request of North Yorkshire County Council Heritage Unit, a team of osteoarchaeologists and archaeologists from Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford and members of the West Yorkshire Archaeology Service excavated the mass grave. They recovered the mostly complete remains of 43 individuals from a grave pit which measured 6m x 2m and was only 50 cm in depth. These tightly-packed individuals were recovered through the application of three-dimensional recording of the deposit and its contents, scaled photographs, and in situ sketch drawings. The original appearance of the deposit and associated entangled arms and legs with discrete individuals has been recreated using computer-assisted design software.

Como monumento vivo del pueblo judío al Holocausto, Yad Vashem salvaguarda la memoria del pasado e imparte su significado para el futuro. Establecido en 1953 como centro mundial de documentación, investigación, educación y conmemoración del Holocausto, Yad Vashem es por hoy un sitio dinámico y vital de encuentro internacional e intergeneracional.

The Human Rights Center promotes human rights and international justice worldwide and trains the next generation of human rights researchers and advocates. Three core goals guide the Human Rights Center’s activities: Pursue accountability for mass atrocities. Ensure that needs of survivors are heard. Strengthen the research and advocacy capacities of local and international human rights organizations