Events

In his newest book, Henry Rousso, one of the first historians to

have worked on the memory of collective historical traumas,

examines recent developments in the uses and politics of memory

in France, and shows how these phenomena must also be

considered within a broader European and global context. The

stakes are high: the considerable efforts made by modern societies to preserve the memory of historical traumas has not inoculated them against a tragic return to mass violence.

Henry Rousso is Director of Research at the CNRS (Institut d'histoire du temps présent) and teaches in France and the United States. His books include The Vichy Syndrome; The Haunting  Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France; and The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary.