“Rewriting History: Who owns the Past?”
May 4 – 7, 2026. Jean Monnet House, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne & Paris, France The Fourth Edition of the School on European Memories addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing European democracies: the growing influence of pseudo-historical revisionism and the instrumentalisation of the past for political purposes. Under the guiding question “Who owns the past?”, the School will explore how history is written, transmitted, appropriated, and sometimes distorted in contemporary public discourse.
The Spinelli Institute also collaborates in the organization of the Seminar by selecting the young participants. Some places are reserved for those who successfully participated in the last edition of the Third Level Seminar in Latina (2026) and the National Seminar in Ventotene (2025).
See the call for participants for the School on European Memories, and apply for this project by the 20th of March 2026:
Organisers: Jean Monnet House – European Parliament, the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), the Young European Federalists (JEF Europe), Istituto di Studi Federalisti Altiero Spinelli. Co-funded by the European Commission (CERV programme) and the commemoration programme Spain in Freedom. 50 years.
