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letsplayhistory.bsky.social
"EuroWarGames. The history state and future of professional and public (war)gaming in Europe", ed. Fred, Riccardo and me, is an anthology of articles about #gamestudies, #memoryculture, the merging of euro- and #wargame mechanics in #boardgames, #PME & more.

My author/editor copies just arrived! 🎉
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
jansueselbeck.bsky.social
#Falstad excursion with PhD researchers from #Greifswald today. #NTNU #Trøndelag #Shoah #MemoryCulture
May 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
college-uaruhr.bsky.social
See the full programme here and register by 25 November:
www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

Thanks for sharing @romanistikverband.bsky.social &
@fidromanistik.bsky.social

#HispanicStudies #Romanistik #MemoryCulture
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
transcript-verlag.bsky.social
How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/

@snf-fns.ch 
#MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica
Das Buch-Cover von »Troubling Archives« auf lachsfarbenem Hintergrund.
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
letsplayhistory.bsky.social
4 hours remaining! Can we push it to 300 supporters?

#EuroWargames #wargaming #wargames #PME #COTS #boardgames #gamestudies #memoryculture #skystorian #history #Europe #Kickstarter @nutspublishing.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nut...
December 3, 2024 at 2:07 PM
jettepleiger.bsky.social
Eröffnungseinladung "Nie wieder! Gegen das Vergessen der NS-Verbrechen" am 11. Oktober 2026, 18 Uhr in der #Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. #niewieder #erinnern #memoryculture #erinnerungskultur #noafd
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September 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
letsplayhistory.bsky.social
As this was recently discussed (once more) in the analog and digital gaming spheres, here's a just released very good video by Spartacus Olsson of TimeGhost on the Clean Wehrmacht Myth.
#memoryculture #wargaming #wargames #boardgames #gamestudies #hoi4 #wehrmacht #ww2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D5q...
How Allied and Nazi Generals Created the Clean Wehrmacht Myth - WW2 Legacy Special
YouTube video by World War Two
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November 24, 2024 at 3:06 PM
lbilondon.bsky.social
How do former German Jews in Israel and non‑Jewish Germans negotiate the memory of a shared, fractured past?

Find out in our latest Meet the Fellows interview: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

#MemoryCulture #Yekkes #LBILondon #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #JewishHistory
June 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
uhgs.bsky.social
Today’s seminar featured Ivo Plsek with another fascinating presentation of his ongoing project, "Narratives in Bronze: The Children's War Victims Monument in Lidice". An insightful exploration of history and memory. 🖋️📚 #Lidice #HolocaustStudies #MemoryCulture
December 5, 2024 at 2:24 PM
deborahcole.bsky.social
President Steinmeier will travel to Tanzania this week to mark 1 of the bloodiest chapters in German colonial history, the brutal suppression of the Maji Maji Rebellion in which an est. 200,000-300,000 people died
- AFP via @faznet.bsky.social #memoryculture www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
October 29, 2023 at 10:03 AM
letsplayhistory.bsky.social
The book unites articles on various #wargaming related topics & different perspectives, covering gaming, #gamedesign trends, #memoryculture, professional military education #pme and more! I'll post small snippets of all included articles over the next few days to give you an idea of what to expect.
November 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
baltic-peripeties.bsky.social
„Wehrt Euch!“ - Public lecture by Dr Kristine von Soden (Schwerin) today in Greifswald.
Topic: The rise of seaside anti-Semitism on the Baltic Sea in Wilhelmine Germany.

All interested parties are welcome!

#balticperipeties #publiclecture #memoryculture #germanhistory #unigreifswald
May 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
koerberhistory.bsky.social
⏳🎮 One week left to apply for the XR History Award 2026!
We’re looking for XR projects rethinking how we tell stories about the past.
🏆 €2,000 + exhibition at A MAZE. Berlin 2026
👉 Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
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#XR #OpenCall #MemoryCulture
January 27, 2026 at 6:25 AM
serdarguenes.bsky.social
Memory debates: Erinnerungskultur, Holocaust, Historikerstreit, (Post-)colonialism

Artikelsammlung

#germancatechism #catechismdebate #memoryculture #holocaust #colonialism #historikerstreit #erinnerungskämpfe #erinnerungskultur

serdargunes.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/a...
Memory debates: Erinnerungskultur, Holocaust, Historikerstreit, (Post-)colonialism – Artikelsammlung
For hints and recommendations on other sources: (→ Kontaktformular): Hinweise auf weitere Quellen sind erwünscht (→ Kontaktformular): Other debates: Re-Lektüre Historikerstreit (igkeiten)…
serdargunes.wordpress.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:45 AM
stefschaefer.bsky.social
End of summer feels great this year bc #PROOFS. More on Ladies in Arms and Mary Todd Lincoln coming soon 🔥#flotus #memoryculture #cowgirls #druckfahne
September 4, 2023 at 1:19 PM
literatureview.bsky.social
“People die twice — once in the grave, and once when forgotten.” A powerful #GraphicNovel on Spain’s silenced dead and the weight of memory...
#booksky #GraphicNovel #History #Remembrance #FrancoDictatorship #Spain #HumanRights #MemoryCulture #Comic #ArtAndResistance
literatur.review/en/reviews/c...
"People are only really dead when nobody thinks about them anymore" * | literatur.review
The graphic novel "El abismo del olvido" by Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa is an astonishing educational piece about dealing with mass graves in Spain
literatur.review
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
serdarguenes.bsky.social
Memory debates: Erinnerungskultur, Holocaust, Historikerstreit, (Post-)colonialism

Artikelsammlung

#germancatechism #catechismdebate #memoryculture #holocaust #colonialism #historikerstreit #erinnerungskämpfe #erinnerungskultur

serdargunes.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/a...
Memory debates: Erinnerungskultur, Holocaust, Historikerstreit, (Post-)colonialism – Artikelsammlung
For hints and recommendations on other sources: (→ Kontaktformular): Hinweise auf weitere Quellen sind erwünscht (→ Kontaktformular): Other debates: Re-Lektüre Historikerstreit (igkeiten)…
serdargunes.wordpress.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
deborahcole.bsky.social
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Tanzania on Wednesday expressed his "shame" at crimes committed during Germany's colonial rule and pledged to raise awareness of the atrocities in his own country #memoryculture sg.news.yahoo.com/german-presi....
November 1, 2023 at 10:25 AM
letsplayhistory.bsky.social
Let's take a look inside #EuroWarGames!

Volko Ruhnke sheds light on the rise of Spanish #wargaming conventions.

Giuseppe Tamba describes the Risorgimento of the Italian #wargame community.

The #Kickstarter runs until tomorrow, Demcember 03. #gamestudies #boardgames #memoryculture #skystorians 🗃️
Screenshot of a page from the book "EuroWarGames", the chapter's title reads "Bellotas. The Rise of Spanish Wargaming". Screenshot of a page from the book "EuroWarGames", the chapter's title reads "The new Risorgimento of the Italian Wargame". Table of contents of the book "EuroWarGames". Table of contents of the book "EuroWarGames".
December 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
rbrandis.eu
Wrote a short text on industrial memory culture on Piranha Bytes' Gothic and ELEX series for the Historical Games Network.
Possibly the start of a bigger study on the games and their adaptation of German industrial history :)

#gamestudies #gamedev #Gothic #ELEX #history #ruhrpott #memoryculture
Industrial Memory Culture in Fantasy Games: Remnants of the Ruhr in the Gothic and ELEX Series | His...
The study of history in digital games related to memory culture often focuses on games that directly address a specific historical period or topic with the goal of increasing players’ understanding ...
www.historicalgames.net
September 17, 2023 at 2:23 PM
lbilondon.bsky.social
New Event Series by the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin: Backing Up History

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/exter...

#GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #JewishHistory #AcademicResearch #LBILondon #MemoryCulture #SocialMedia #BACKUPderGeschichte
September 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
textundblog.eurosky.social
#OpenAccess: Ukraine's Many Faces

A multidisciplinary collection of articles by leading experts in the field examining the role of #Ukraine 's diversity from the early modern period to the present.

www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...

#Identity #War #MemoryCulture #CulturalHistory
Olena Palko / Manuel Férez Gil (eds.) Ukraine's Many Faces Land, People, and Culture Revisited
September 9, 2024 at 4:10 PM
college-uaruhr.bsky.social
📅 CONFERENCE: 8–9 May
Cultures of Memory, Amnesia and Misprision: Germany, the US and Beyond

Does #MemoryCulture promote a healthy #democracy? Can the USA learn from Germany’s experience of “working off” the Nazi past? This conference takes a comparative perspective on practices of commemorating.
A collage combining photos of two memorials: the "Garden of Exile" at the Jewish Museum Berlin and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama, USA
April 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
timesca.com
Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Russia’s scaled-back Victory Day parade highlights how Central Asia is increasingly marking wartime memory on its own terms https://ow.ly/TAbO50YWApg #VictoryDay2026 #History #Geopolitics #CentralAsia #MemoryCulture #PostSovietSpace #Russia
No Tanks on Red Square as Moscow’s Victory Day Pull Fades in Central Asia - The Times Of Central Asia
Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9 is set to be more restrained this year, with tanks, armored vehicles, and missile systems absent from Red Square for the
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May 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
college-uaruhr.bsky.social
#FellowFriday: Meet @ryanlor.bsky.social, Asst. Prof. of #HispanicStudies at the Univ. of Birmingham (UK). During her #fellowship, she is investigating Spanish #MemoryCulture with Prof. Zepp-Zwirner @unidue.bsky.social.
Learn more about her research & motivation in this Q&A (LinkedIn): t1p.de/b6lum
Collage with a portrait photo of Lorraine Ryan and a quotation: "I am enthused by the idea that my research can make a difference, deepening both the public and academic understanding of issues that are socially pertinent, like memory, gender and immigration."
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 AM