Carola Lentz

is a German social anthropologist and was president of the Goethe-Institut from 2020-2024. She is senior research professor at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.

Articles

Cover for: The future of remembering

Provocative far-right calls for Germany to ‘move on’ from historical guilt miss the point: politics of memory and its practices may transition from contrition to responsible forgetting, but there is no end date to remembering that should accommodate diverse members of society.

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