Abstracts Archive

Surveying as a method is not very popular among memory studies scholars. At the latest Memory Studies Association, very few papers were based on survey results, the same goes for the Memory Studies journal. The majority of work done in memory studies is focused on the production of memories or their...

The houses we inhabit are important containers of memory. With each new family, the house becomes a different home and these various layers of memory converge to form a dense palimpsest. Houses function quite literally as memory palaces, as a walk through a childhood home will show; each room conjur...

In Shaul Bassi's November 15th, 2019 article, "Waters Close Over Venice" – printed in the New York Times – we are reminded once again of the fragility of memory and of its material trace. Overlapping forces, both global and local, caused record-breaking floods to engulf the city in water: "The f...

The paper discusses the problem of the relation between historical memory and artistic practice, which comes to the fore in practices enacting engagements with multiple temporal scales and "the historical past". Such practices are frequently conceived academically as either simple acts of historical...

In the paper I would like to explore the convergence of literature and history, more specifically: of literary text and non-literary text (historical document in this case). Inspired by Renate Lachmann and the concept of intertextuality as a kind of 'memory of literature', I would like to an...

This paper will explore the convergences between silences and noise present in memorial narratives on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Facebook page.Examining the gaps, or silences, in memorial narratives are an important part of their wider analysis; these absences can tell us just as much as that which ...

The potential applicability of Deleuzian philosophy as an approach to understand the dynamics of memorial cultures has been explored previously (e.g. Parr, 2008) - for the most part this has been done with reference to Deleuze's reading of Henri Bergson's notion of time and memory as this was presen...

The process of constructing a society's memory is relevant to the phenomenon of migration, and the challenges it raises in places where people seek shelter, protection and recognition. Indeed, it is through a shared collective knowledge of the past that groups develop a sense of togetherness and "co...

The subject of the speech is the presentation of the results of research devoted to the role and place of anniversary resolutions of the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland in the Polish policy of memory. The analyzed research material (the content of resolutions, transcripts from meetings of ...

Commemorative journalism offers communication scholars and collective memory researchers alike a unique opportunity to study media memory work: while journalists operate as memory agents mainly within non-commemorative contexts (Schudson, 2014), the rare occasions in which journalists suspend their ...

The paper examines the transgenerational transmission of knowledge in the neighbourhood of a place of mass murder that contains unmarked, uncommemorated mass graves. A study is based on a case of Krępiecki Forest. In this place located near the Majdanek concentration camp the Nazis killed, put into...

Dominant narratives of American History are linear. Popular textbooks used in universities internationally unfold chronologically. They typically begin with Colonial America and end with modern times. Knowledge gleaned from one decade informs understanding of the next. Concluding paragraphs rai...

Ward Manor, an undergraduate dorm at Bard College located in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York is the setting for this multimodal and interdisciplinary ethnographic research which addresses underlying biases present in the creation of historical narratives developed by community memory. Drawing on the w...

This paper examines the local memory practices of the Kurdish activists in Turkey within the critical transitional justice (TJ) theory. In recent years, mainstream TJ has been criticized because of its top-down and state-centric approach.TJ processes have sometimes failed to, at least, contribute to...

Museums have, in recent years, become increasingly aware of the sensitivities surrounding colonial photographs – especially those produced for race research. However, curatorial ethics are difficult to maintain when photos are digitised and move beyond the museum walls. This chapter examines the c...

In WWII the Greek island of Crete was taken over by German forces through a massive paratrooper operation. After the Battle of Crete the Wehrmacht erected a monument to honor the German paratroopers in the City of Chania. After the war the monument honoring the occupator remained there, because the ...

The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games in Moscow: the phenomenon of the tech-nostalgiaOne interesting manifestation of nostalgia for the late Soviet era can be found in the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (MSAM) in Moscow. This museum was founded in early 2007 by three young engineers from Polytechnic U...

Within the past two decades, a recurring narrative structure has appeared in a spate of postcolonial, post-conflict novels that explore the role of memory in transnational human rights/humanitarian work. These novels, which often take place in a country recovering from civil war, consistently bring ...

In 2019, Austrian writer Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since the end of the 1990s war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), intellectuals and journalists repeatedly criticised the writer for relativising and negating war crimes in his work and public statements, as well as for his c...

Wroclaw is one of the largest urban centers of the Western and Northern Territories - areas attached to Poland in 1945. The politically imposed context of the birth of Wroclaw made it impossible for the next generations of inhabitants to get to know and understand the cultural landscape of the cit...

The story of the brutal lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is familiar to most Americans and its inclusion in narratives of the civil rights era is common. His death, and the acquittal of his killers, is remembered as a spark which helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. It is commemorated as an e...