This course focuses on how historical memory and ideologies are inscribed in cultural products, and how these can be decoded and analysed. Literature and cinema are seen as privileged forms of expressing historical events due to their representational nature, the symbolic power of language, and their ability to reflect both individual and collective imaginaries. Through graphic novels, films, literary texts, documentaries, and other forms of Αrt, the course examines significant historical and political events that have marked European and Greek society. It also explores artistic forms of resistance to authoritarian and fascist regimes, and the cultural inscription of collective trauma (e.g., the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the Greek Civil War, the military dictatorship).