Macron announced the creation of the commission in July 2022, at a joint press conference with Cameroon’s long-time President Paul Biya, a move seen as part of Macron’s promises to deal with France’s colonial past. The commission was co-chaired by French historian Karine Ramondy and Cameroonian musician Blick Bassy, who dedicated one of his albums, “1958”, to assassinated anti-colonialist leader Ruben Um Nyobè. Bassy was in charge of the cultural aspect of the commission’s work. The “research” commission was composed of seven French and seven Cameroonian historians, of whom five are women and nine men.
Macron says joint Franco-Haiti commission will examine 'painful' past
April 17, 2025
PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron is to set up a joint Franco-Haitian commission to examine France's past with its former Caribbean colony, but he made no mention of the possibility of reparations that Haitian activists have long called for.
Macron said on Thursday that once the commission's work was completed, it would propose recommendations to both governments.
France-Algeria: First Meeting of the Commission of Historians
Five French historians must begin work alongside five Algerian peers on the colonial period, this Wednesday, November 22, 2023. The recommendation of the (Benjamin) Stora report taken up by Emmanuel Macron is taking shape, but the relationship between the two countries remains extremely sensitive. Read more
Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission to be held in Warsaw ( 10.09.2023)
Early Modern Statehood and Society in the Ukrainian Lands: Forms and Concepts
The annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Warsaw.
The organizational committee of the conference includes Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Prof. Dr. Yvonne Kleinmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), and Dr.Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv).
Conference venue: Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, Pałac Karnickich, Aleje Ujazdowskie 39, PL-00-540 Warszawa
Format: hybrid (online and offline participation possible)
Languages: English and Ukrainian
The German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
For organizational questions please contact:
duhk@lrz.uni-muenchen.de / +49 89 2180-3056
Mutual History Dialogue between Finland and Estonia
Historians Without Borders (HWB) organizes the first Mutual History Dialogue between Finnish and Estonian Historians, which discusses differences, similarities, and challenges of memory politics and interpretations of history in Finland and Estonia. Read more
A German-Israeli Historians' Commission examines attack during 1972 Olympics in Munich"
(09/05/2022) At the memorial ceremony in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, for the victims of the Munich Olympics massacre, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser spoke of deep wounds and agonising questions.
"It’s shameful that it took so long before there was any understanding or reappraisal of the events, transparency about them, or acceptance of responsibility for them,"Minister Faeser said to the victims’ families, who had travelled to Munich for the 50th anniversary of the attack.
The Federal Government supports the victims’ families, who continue to this day to suffer as a result of what happened. "Finally, the events are being thoroughly examined by a German-Israeli commission of historians. This lays the foundation for a new and vital culture of remembrance,"
Faeser said. "It is true not only for this attack, but also for others, that we must treat people whose lives have been dramatically altered by attacks with greater empathy and support."
Read more here
"Common History" or "Shared History"? Progress and Lack of in Bulgarian-North Macedonian Commission, May 2022
After some progress in bilateral meetings was reported in April, now the Bulgarian co-chair declared the opposite to be true. One sticking point is conceptual difference over what history they are dealing with: while Bulgarians prefer"common history" whereas North Macedonians prefer "shared history." "The problem is that our colleagues are trying not to accept the term ‘common history.’When you do not accept the existence of a historical phenomenon that is even described in the Good Neighbour Agreement, because they are not talking about ‘common history’ but ‘shared history’, then there is an escape from the desire to make a serious critical analysis of one's own past. And this is the big problem." - pointed out Prof. Angel Dimitrov. Read more here
Read the April story here.
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