Book Review: Jill Jarvis, Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021) by T. S. Kavitha

“…Jill Jarvis’s book Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony is a promising contribution to the flourishing research being done in the field of Memory Studies, that is challenging the Western and in this case the French politics of testimony from the postcolonial point of view. …”
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Introduction: Transnational Memory and Traumatic Histories by Joseph Ford

“…Memory studies has moved from the cultural collective, rooted within the bounds of the nation state, to the transnational or transcultural, which in recent years has come to account for the circulation of “memory cultures” in an increasingly complex, globalised and violent world. …”
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Introduction: Transnational Memory and Traumatic Histories by Joseph Ford

“…Memory studies has moved from the cultural collective, rooted within the bounds of the nation state, to the transnational or transcultural, which in recent years has come to account for the circulation of “memory cultures” in an increasingly complex, globalised and violent world. …”
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Att skapa ett forskningsprogram om Tid och Minne by Hans Ruin

“…It combines philosophical interpretations of time and chronological frameworks with cultural memory studies and research in the medialization of time, in a uniquely interdiscplinary endeavour. …”
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Response to Serafim Seppälä by Catharina Raudvere

“…Key themes discussed include increasing efforts to convey divergent positions in a conflict when contemporary memorial sites are planned, as well as recent contributions within the academic field of memory studies, placing emphasis on local narrative and agency rather than institutional religious and national frameworks.…”
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Variants in SNCA Gene Are Associated with Parkinson’s Disease Risk and Cognitive Symptoms in a Brazilian Sample by Clarissa L.C Campêlo, Fernanda C. Cagni, Diego de Siqueira Figueredo, Luiz G. Oliveira Jr., Antônio B. Silva-Neto, Priscila T. Macêdo, José R. Santos, Geison S. Izídio, Alessandra M. Ribeiro, Tiago G. de Andrade, Tiago G. de Andrade, Clécio de Oliveira Godeiro, Regina H. Silva

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Americanizations of Holocaust Memory and Museum Aesthetic Experience by Karolina Krasuska

“…It argues that using the concept of “Americanization,” as it is employed in American Studies in Europe and in Holocaust and memory studies, respectively, is instrumental in analyzing the museum experience and as such may contribute to the debates on POLIN and its representation of memory.…”
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Places of memory and memorial culture of the Russian province in the 19th – early 20th centuries: historiography and sources by Olga A. Sukhova

“…The choice of methodological tools is associated with the theoretical constructions of memory studies, revealing the nature of commemorative practices, historical representations, and the temporality of social life. …”

Memory and Culture—Notes on the Concept of "Memory Cultures" Within Cultural Studies by Nina Leonhard

“…Thus, the shortcomings of memory studies, from a cultural perspective and understood as an interdisciplinary, multidimensional research program, become visible. …”
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“Hungary 70”: Non-remembering the Holocaust in Hungary by Andrea Pető

“…Analysis of memory studies is usually focusing on processes of remembrance, looking at the actors, sites, processes, institutions of remembering. …”
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<b>Memory in Caryl Phillips’s novel <em>Crossing the River</em> (1993)</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i1.8830 by Susanne Pichler

“…While the first part of the paper discusses theoretical and methodological issues in memory studies, the second part deals with an analysis and interpretation of the novel, which, it is hoped, provides interesting insights into Phillips’s multifaceted use of (the concept of) memory and what it entails.…”
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Místa paměti v digitálním prostředí || Sites of memory in the digital environment by Čeněk Pýcha

“…An important part of the paper is a theoretical and methodological discussion based on the concepts of media and memory studies.…”
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Heritage and the Post-Socialist City: Social and Cultural Perspectives by Maciej Falski, Linda Kovářová

“…Concluding remarks draw attention to the intersection of memory studies and politics, as well as the issue of (dis)continuity, which is crucial for the stability and security of societies on the one hand, and for efficient change on the other. …”
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Konstrukce paměti sedmihradských Sasů by Tomáš Drs

“…Anderson, A. D. Smith) and memory studies (M. Halbwachs, J. Assmann, P. Nora).…”
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ERECTION OF MEMORIALS AT THE MASS GRAVES OF THE «KOLHCAK VICTIMS» IN NOVOSIBIRSK AND TOMSK: POLITICAL ORDER AND DIALOGUE WITH TRADITION (1920S – 1930S) by E. I. Krasilnikova

“…Methodologically, the author relies on the theory, known in Western science as «memory studies». It is concluded, that the ideological values of these monuments gradually changed during the period between the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War.…”
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Loss, Desire, and Wisdom in Nostalgia Narrative of Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House by Bruce Dame Laoera

“…Scholarship fields, especially in history and memory studies, have broadly utilized the notion of nostalgia. …”
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The Intelligentsia and the Holocaust: Dispersing the Image by Katarzyna Chmielewska

“… This paper in the field of cultural memory studies addresses the workings of memory, or more precisely – a politics of memory whereby the image of the intelligentsia and its role in the Holocaust vanishes from the collective consciousness. …”
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Atentát na Heydricha ve filmu Anthropoid. Globální a lokální recepce minulosti || Heydrich's assassination in film. Global and local reception of the past by Jaroslav Pinkas

“…In this particular case, the relationships between global and local memory are illustrated and some memory studies theses are verified.…”
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„Jen je škoda, že víme, jak to s Husem dopadlo.“ Šestisté výročí upálení Jana Husa v české vzpomínkové kultuře || "It's a shame we know what happened to Hus." The six hundred years... by Kateřina Sixtová

“…The author analyses different media used for commemoration of Jan Hus from the perspective of Memory Studies.…”
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"Forward and Not Forgetting" - How do Workers' Memories Impact International Solidarity? by Martin Seeliger

“…Collective remembering in multinational corporations is a field at the intersection of social memory studies and organisational science that has so far been widely neglected within the academic community. …”
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