CMCS researcher, Amy Brouillette on Memory Politics in Hungary

July 17, 2014

Foreign Policy magazine reports on the controversial monument in Budapest's "Freedom Square" (Szabadsag Ter) that is, ostensibly, meant to honor victims of the German occupation during WW II. CMCS's Amy Brouillette and OSA's Gwen Jones are quoted:

"The government is redoing history, redoing the cultural markers," says Amy Brouillette, a researcher at the media studies center at Budapest's Central European University. "That's the sign of a real regime change."

You can read the full article here.

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