Time to Remember

Memory is not just an individual, private experience but is also part of the collective domain. Individual people remember their history but not under circumstances chosen freely. The human memory gives room for the interaction between individual and social experiences and for the competition between individual and cultural memory. Our perception of the past is always influenced by the present and our perception of the present is always influenced by the past. The talk will discuss the interaction between image and perception and between history and memory. We will examine various examples of figurative representation of historical events from the European history of the last 150 years and draw some conclusions on the historicity of memory and its implications and consequences.