As part of the mini-symposium on Resurrecting the Future, papers in this session are linked by the notion that the “pastness” of the past is continually reproduced and reconfigured through a variety of embodied practices in the present. Such practices may be strategic or intuitive, commemorative or critical, recuperative or obliterating, anxious or playful, but in every case they interrogate and expand upon dominant cultural, religious, and political visions of Europe’s future. Papers explore parodic performance art in post-social Bosnia, historiographical engagements on the part of Spanish converts in considering Spain's Islamic past, the revival of Alevi “folk” music in Germany and Turkey, the reconfiguration of a Middle Eastern Christian liturgical tradition in the Netherlands, and the public recuperation of Spain’s Jewish past.