Dal giornale "Agos" alla riscoperta del patrimonio culturale armeno in Turchia by Francesca Penoni

“…By means of an interdisciplinary (architectural heritage and memory studies) approach the case study of Kayseri, a central Anatolian city, is presented with specific references to the contributions by Agos and Hrant Dink Vakfı.…”
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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours by Merrington, J

“…Drawing on the conceptual insights of memory studies, I argue that Gregory’s writings and building projects formed part of a single project which he pursued throughout his time in office to restore and rearticulate the relationship of the episcopate of Tours with its past.…”

Remembering Haludovo: The Penthouse Years and What Came Later by Šentevska Irena, Mrduljaš Maroje

“…This paper contributes to a growing area within memory studies which explores individual and collective memories as communicated in the contemporary media. …”
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Memory and Forgetting among Jews from the Arab-Muslim Countries. Contested Narratives of a Shared Past by Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Piera Rossetto

“…In this issue we examine themes which are linked to memory studies and which have witnessed significant development in recent decades due to the strengthening of multiculturalism in the 1980s. …”
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An Analysis of Biographies in Collective Memory Research: The Method of Socio-Historical Analysis by Elifcan Karacan

“…It is argued that commemorative ceremonies, as well as changes appearing in macro-level structures within the time-span of individuals’ life histories need to be included when analyzing biographies in collective memory studies. The article suggests enhancement of the biographical case reconstruction method (Rosenthal 1993; 2004) with two additional stages: analysis of the experienced past with more emphasis on socio-historical transformations; and inclusion and analysis of the ethnographical data collected from collective mnemonic practices. …”
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Black Suffering for/from Anti-trafficking Advocacy by Lyndsey P. Beutin

“…Drawing on collective memory studies, I discuss the political implications of how pasts are used for present issues. …”
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Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory by Ib Bondebjerg

“…Dealing with cognitive theories of film and media and with memory studies, the article analyses how a cognitive approach to documentaries can increase our understanding of how documentaries influence us on a cognitive and emotional level and contribute to the forming of our social and cultural imagination. …”
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Ni víctimas, ni héroes, ni arrepentido/as. Reflexiones en torno a la categoría “víctima” desde el activismo político by Isabel Piper Shafir, Marisela Montenegro

“…In the field of memory studies in Chile, the definition of victim that has become hegemonic is the one that refers to damage caused by state terrorism. …”
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Witnessing Fukushima Secondhand: Collage, Archive and Travelling Memory in Jacques Ristorcelli’s Les Écrans by Benoît Crucifix

“…Drawing on recent trends in cultural memory studies, this paper focuses on Jacques Ristorcelli‘s Les Écrans (2014) as an experimental counterpoint where memory is animated by the author’s use of collage. …”
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Us and Them: A Vision of Heroes on the Move in John McGahern’s Fiction by Radler Dana

“…Personal memories ask for an understanding of what belonging and identity represent for the Irish; immigration has hybrid and fertile links to memory studies, psychology and psychoanalysis (Akhtar), making the immigrant both love and hate his new territory, while returning to the past or homeland to reflect and regain emotional balance. …”
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Post-dictature et livres pour enfants en Argentine by Maud Gaultier

“…This article examines the link between the Argentinien children’s and young adults’literature, known by its Spanish acronym LIJ (Literatura Infantil y Juvenil) and the memory studies, when the traumas of the Dictatorship is evoked. …”
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El silencio fue casi una virtud by Marisa Ruiz

“…Memory studies in Uruguay are mostly based on testimonies and interpretations of the victims of State terrorism. …”
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Religion and the Study of Social Memory by TUULA SAKARANAHO

“…In recent decades memory studies have gained great popularity in the humanities and social sciences, and not without cause. …”
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The Public Life of Images: Towards a Social Ecology of the Urban Gaze. The example of Bologna’s Sacrario dei Partigiani by Olivier Gaudin

“…Confronting this intellectual heritage to contributions of visual, cultural and memory studies, I propose to consider the ecological framing of urban experience as a method for investigating the public life of images. …”
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Mourid Barghouti: The Blessings of Exile by Salam Mir

“…Midnight 's tender poetic images reposition the Palestinian exile alongside other unique voices worldwide within memory studies.…”
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Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis by Joanna Kruczkowska

“…In the article, the components of the project are situated against biographical and historical backgrounds, and within the framework of new museology, memory studies, and the functions of photography and poetry.…”
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Brazilian literature written in German, and its criticism by Celeste Ribeiro de Sousa

“…Nowadays, in addition to the poetic approach, other critical perspectives, such as cultural studies, imagology and memory studies, open new horizons. The encouraging words of Boris Fausto in Fazer a América (1999) must be taken into consideration as well as the support positions of Wander de Melo Miranda in Nações literárias (2010). …”
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Trajectories of memory and glance: a reflection on visual culture by Basia Nikiforova

“…New book “Trajectories of Memory and Glance: a Reflection on Visual Culture” is an important contribution to the field of memory studies, which opens up a discussion about memory and visuality as two significant trajectories within the present world that have caused a culture change. …”
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Novelas originales y americanas by Ulrike Henny-Krahmer

“…There is not the one genre, theme, or style that serves to represent and constitute identity, but there are forms that are specific for each case, a result which corresponds with findings from memory studies on group-defining stories. …”
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Memoria, violencia y utopia en Antzaren Bidea (2007) / El camino de la oca (2008) de Jokin Muñoz, una novela vasca sobre la Guerra Civil by Kortazar, Jon

“…The analysis combines narratology with Memory Studies. It concludes that this is a unique novel in the Basque literary system, thanks to the use of the space – Navarre’s Rivera (river-land area) –, repression exercised on civilian population and ideological depiction of characters. …”
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