European Memories of Mass Atrocities (EMMA): EMMA - A Collaborative Research Project on the Politics of Memory in Europe after 2004

Description

Application submitted to the Danish Council for Independent Research, the Humanities (DFF2) Fall 2015.The collaborative research project European Memories of Mass Atrocities, EMMA, will through a series of case studies in East and Central Europe, in Russia and in Scandinavia analyse the interplay between the Holocaust as the paradigmatic European memory and national memory politics, and how other major historical crimes, in particular Stalinist crimes, have been addressed and dealt with in Europe since 2004. EMMA is a collaboration between scholars at DIIS, Aarhus University, Copenhagen University and the Royal Danish Defence Academy, headed by Senior Researcher Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, DIIS

Coordinator of the collaborative research project, applicant.

Period	1 Aug 2015 → 31 Aug 2018
Held at	Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark