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# Theme 3: Histories and Memories **Introduction: History and memory, distance of justice** **A - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND MEMORY** * How to differentiate what is related to history and what is related to memory? * Memory and history are two different approaches to the past. * M...

# Theme 3: Histories and Memories **Introduction: History and memory, distance of justice** **A - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND MEMORY** * How to differentiate what is related to history and what is related to memory? * Memory and history are two different approaches to the past. * Memory responds to victims, * History is about knowledge and truth. * Justice helps societies to deal with conflicts and learn from them. * Justice selects events, punishes those responsible for crimes against humanity, and this is now part of international law. **In what sense does society give meaning to the past? How is this understanding constructed?** * What does society learn about itself from the past? What is the meaning the society gives to past events? Are there values or events that are prioritized or forgotten? * Memory means to remember, a story, a subjective representation of the past * The memory of an event is what gives meaning to the present. **1. Memory**