Abstracts Archive

The literature on political socialization does not adequately address how family history memories affect political views. Yet, the narrative psychology literature does clearly show the importance of family narratives for identity construction (McLean, 2016). This paper explores the nexus between fam...

In the 1970s, the first Brazilian researches on television fiction emerged and telenovelas (it is not American soap opera) became the main object of academic productions. In cultural studies, the question of national identity is a current point. Telenovela is not a national creation, but Brazilian p...

Memory is for the future. Can there be a bright future with dark memories of the past? Does the black of the skin entail the dark in the future too? In Toni Morrison's words, "definitions belong to the definers, not the defined," implying that the future can always be re-defined and re-modelled in n...

The Confederation of the Political Prisoners of Czechoslovakia (and of the Czech Republic since 1992) was formed in 1989 as the biggest association of the former political prisoners from the 1950s. After the Velvet revolution the former political prisoners fought for public recognition on several le...

The memory wave that has been impacting social sciences also resonates in the field of Kurdish studies. As my fellow scholars increasingly focus on the rights' movement and seek justice for Kurds, I aim to explore the relationality between the Turkish state violence against Kurds and the counter-res...

In November 2012, the Board of Education of Howard County, Maryland approved a proclamation that expressed "profound regret that the Howard County Public School System maintained segregated and unequal public schools both prior, and subsequent to" Brown v. Board of Education. The proclamation descri...

With the one-hundredth anniversary of Fascism's seizure of power approaching, the time seems ripe for reconsidering how Italian culture negotiated the legacy of its totalitarian past. The current dominant paradigm, supported by major scholars of Italian Fascism, contends that Italy has proven un...

Scholarship surrounding the incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians (Nikkei) during the Second World War has largely focused on the wartime incarceration and the events that led to the Redress Movement. Minimal research has explored the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian comm...

The global rise of populism in the contemporary world (Mudde 2004, Moffit 2016) and the recent historical museum boom in Poland, are related to changing discourses about the postwar European past (Judt 2006, Ochman 2013) and redefining national collective identity (Gillis 1994, Zubrzycki 2006). 'Pop...

Acts of protest often serve as memory checks, summoning responses that plead for a more just society. Protest and memory, a sense of right and wrong, are linked in a collective conscience. A shared sentiment of ethics propels human rights defenders to demand equality. This dynamic, one that seems to...

Research on the transmission of war memory is of great significance for sociology and psychology, memory studies, particularly for understanding the post-war social and psychological context of family memory, i.e. family dynamics and the nature of coping strategies. This project will consider speci...

Histories are increasingly mediated in virtual reality, computer games, web-based digital environments and interactive museum exhibitions. Many of these new, highly immersive digital media obliterate the act of mediation and offer a personal, felt connection to the past. The omnipresence of affectiv...

Memoria, arte y trasmisión intergeneracional. Prácticas artísticas con estudiantes en espacios de memoria en ArgentinaEste trabajo se propone reflexionar sobre el problema de la transmisión del traumático pasado reciente argentino a las nuevas generaciones y sobre ...

Documents influence how we interact with collective memory in complex ways. In this paper, I argue that the ways individuals and communities relate through documents lends support to an intersubjective view of collective memory. I also contend that documents help to explain flexibility in collective...

After centuries of marginalization, women's writing has long been absent in the Taiwanese literary history, including that during the Japanese colonial rule. Following the 1987 termination of martial law in Taiwan, a canonical series of Taiwanese Authors Corpora (1991) brought together into publ...

The main aim of this research is to show how the concept of home and its relation to memories was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to reflect on how the quarantine led to a variety of new experiences, which themselves led to the a new perception of space. The project focuses on the wor...

I take as my starting point the idea that the practice of genealogy is itself a mnemonic palimpsest, enabling faint traces of the family past to become visible in the present, thus enabling them to live on into the future. Using extracts from interviews I have conducted with two British people resea...

The symbolic and emotive power of memorials is important for the structuring of post-violence societies and their political narratives in the international discourse on genocide and mass atrocity. At these sites and in discussions with various memory actors, the term 'authentic' is frequently used t...

Spain's transition to democracy, broadly defined as the period between Franco's death in 1975 and the arrival of a Socialist government in 1982, has often been lauded as an example of good leadership and successful political development. For the better part of four decades, the changes that Spain un...