Memory plays a crucial role in shaping international politics and society. The past is never simply past, but is continuously mobilized and contested in the present to legitimize and advance political agendas. Thus, engaging with memory is a highly political matter: Who is remembered, where, how, and by whom? Who mobilizes which memories, for what purpose, and with what effects? This course explores how collective memory is actively deployed as a political tool in international and domestic politics today. Throughout this course, we will examine the various ways in which historical narratives are brought into the present moment to shape political discourse, and we will study the political and social contexts in which memories are constructed, maintained, and mobilized. Students will critically engage with theoretical and empirical debates around various aspects of memory politics through sites and agents of knowledge production, activism, and practice. The course is structured in thematic sessions, each focusing on specific dimensions of how memory operates in contemporary politics. We will analyze how collective memories and erasures are strategically mobilized, how critical knowledge production challenges historical narratives, and how practices of commemoration function as political interventions or as tools for conflict transformation. Moreover, we will focus on how imperial and colonial memories shape current domestic and international politics and how they are contested. This course encourages students to critically analyze the politics of memory and equips them to understand and engage with how historical narratives and memory shape international politics