Rick Derderian, author of North Africans in Contemporary France: Becoming Visible, as well as numerous articles on immigration and memory in France, has recently launched a podcast series called Realms of Memory. In this series, Dr. Derderian explores how countries confront the past, the benefits they gain by doing do, and the dangers that arise when they fail to take up this challenge.

Listen to the first episodes:

• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil: conversation with Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin.
• Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s Memory of the Asia-Pacific War: interview of Akiko Takenaka, author of Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar.

And stay tuned for…:

• Conversation with Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, winner of the 2021 MSA First Book Award with his book The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan.

Episodes are available through all major podcast apps.