Article about Hungarian Politics and History by Visiting Professor Casanova in El País

October 25, 2011

Current Visiting Professor to Central European University - Department of Political Science, Julian Casanova (Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza) has contributed an important article about Hungary to the paper El País. The article explains how the harsh realities of Hungarian history divided the people and how politicians use history according to their interests and for their own benefits. Describing the circumstances of the creation of the Mememento Museum and the House of Terror, the article introduces to the Spanish-speaking public the difficulties of confronting the traumas of Hungarian history. A respected voice in Spanish journalism, Professor Casanova is member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Historia Social and member of the Advisary Board of The International Journal of Iberian Studies (Bradford, England) and Cuadernos de Historia de España (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and is also Visiting Professor in several and prestigious Universities of England, USA and South America. The article (in Spanish) can be found here.

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