How to Address the Loss? Forced Migrations, Lost Territories and the Politics of History: A Comparative Approach in Europe and at Its Margins in the Xxth Century

The book addresses the way European societies deal in the long term with the memory of territorial loss, associated with events as traumatic as forced migrations. It analyzes in a comparative perspective the emergence of a new approach to collective memory and memory culture, which includes all forms of public representations of the past.

Anne Bazin is associate professor of political sciences at Sciences Po Lille, where she is director of the Master's program in Advanced European and International Studies. She works on post-conflict reconciliation as well as transitional justice.

Catherine Perron is assistant research professor with tenure at Sciences Po, Centre for international Studies (CERI) in Paris. Her current research focuses on politics of history and memory in Germany and in Central Europe in relation with forced migrations.