This article is part of the special section titled The Genealogies of Memory, guest edited by Ferenc Laczó and Joanna Wawrzyniak This article analyses the wider context of policy conflict concerning public memory of the 1989 events. It uses Pierre Nora's concept of lieux de mémoire in trying to explain why 23 August 1939 has been turned into a European Remembrance Day whereas 9 November 1989 ha...

Adopting an interdisciplinary framework of Memory Studies and Art employing semiotics with a multimodal multimedia character, it is explored how social groups in Colombia memorialise the violence internal armed conflict. The reflection associates victims’ experiences those expressions commemoration remembrance that are narratives embodied visual scenic art. It semiotic landscape memory created ...